Is E.U. Israel Stance Hypocritical

Carrera

I refer to the fact the E.U. has just condemned Israel for taking out the Palestinians' power generator and leaving the Palestinians without electricity. What a bunch of hypocrites is my only comment.
Don't get me wrong: My point here isn't that I don't necessarily support the decision of the Israeli army to bomb such targets during conflict but let me point out what targets were bombed by NATO in Serbia:
"Special substances (graphite bombs), dropped on the high-voltage mains in the thermo-electric power plants "Nikola Tesla" in Obrenovac and "Kostolac" in Kostolac, caused short circuits and the breakdown of the power supply system. which left Belgrade, the whole Vojvodina, all the towns of the Pomoravlje region, Niš, Kragujevac, Smederevo, Valjevo and other towns without power supply".
http://www.beograd.org.yu/cms/view.php?id=201271
So, maybe the E.U. has a short memory. The problem is the people who are preaching from the moral highground don't practise what they preach and it seems Israel is the only country that has to adhere to strict military standards but it's O.K. for NATO to bomb civilians or civilian targets?
I should add NATO also bombed schools and monasteries in Serbia, deliberately targeting civilians.
The thing is, I'm aware Israel and Russia do overstep the mark but at least they're not hypocrites. Comments?
"Series of heavy explosions in Rakovica, where a large number of people were hurt mainly by broken glass. The building of the Municipal Assembly, Medical Center, school, pre-school facilities and several hundreds of apartments were damaged."
http://www.beograd.org.yu/cms/view.php?id=201271

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Carrera

"My point here isn't that I don't necessarily support the decision of the Israeli army to bomb such targets during conflict"
Hmmm, that reads not so good. I mean, I don't agree any army should cause civilians to suffer when it can be helped and that includes Israel. The point I'm making, though, is that NATO didn't respect civilian life in Yugolslavia yet the E.U. has suddenly assumed a stance of moral superiority. If governments want Israel, Russia and China to respect civilian life during conflict they should at least set an example themselves.
Thousands of children in Iraq have suffered due to war and children in Serbia were also injured or killed. That's my rant for today.

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darkboong

Indeed, NATO were quite happy to bomb the shit out of bridges and power plants, and they never bothered to present a sufficient evidence to support their case for doing so either. Same goes in Iraq, in fact the hypocracy is so deep rooted that I have been unable to convince some Americans that the US Military had in fact attacked power plants, water works, sewage treatment plants in Iraq (let alone Serbia)...

However there is a serious point here. The folks in Gaza have been under siege conditions for a long time and their condition is considerably worse to start with. The destruction of the power plant will have more of an impact because *ALL* their fresh water, heat and light was dependent on that one plant. Gaza is the most densely populated area on the entire planet, so not only is there a far higher likelihood of dehydration in Gaza, but there is a far higher risk of concentration camp type diseases such as Cholera. That could quite easily kill tens of thousands of children in no time flat.

Israel is in effect conducting a medieval style siege on the indigenous people of their land, and I have absolutely no doubt that they fully expect disease and dehydration to severely injure and kill thousands of Gazans.

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