Originally Posted by fishjoel

Yes, I believe they have shown restraint. They have had their populous subjected to multiple attempts of mass genocide. They have had their populous subjected to suicide bombers. They have had their populous subjected to thousands of rockets. You do realize that the jews were being attacked and killed even before the jewish state was established, right? They were a very paranoid group of people and rightfully so. Look at what they had fled from in Germany and Russia. I'm not trying to justify everything Israel has done, but it's very easy to cast stones when you live in comfort.

Both sides have blood on their hands.

Originally Posted by Mushroom

It was also a huge military-industrial complex. It was also the site of a slave camp. And one of the largest Officer School in the country.

Hiroshima Before the Bombing

Every military base has a large city "chock full of civilians". The Allied powers simply responded in kind when Germany-Japan turned it's attacks towards civilians in doing the same in return.

And look at the history of air attacks. There are numerous attacks that killed more then those 2 did.

And it is hard to have any sympathy, after events like Nanking.

Of course we could have not bombed them, and instead launched Operations Olympic and Coronet. Then we would have had 4-8 million dead, instead of less then 200,000.