It's unfair to blame this mess exclusively on Israel. How is a sovereign nation supposed to react when terrorist organizations who call for its destruction constantly fire rockets into is boundaries? One only needs to look at history to see that Israel has been under attack from its surrounding nations for decades. The way to judge Israel would be to examine the peace treaties it has made and honored with Egypt and Jordan, which have resulted in security for all three nations. Fact is, when Israel has partners it can negotiate with, the necessary sacrifices have been made for the sake of lasting peace.

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

Whatever your sympathies, do you think this latest military action might be designed, like 9/11, to give our government reason to ACT? And to disrupt the coming elections?........Just a paranoid thought.

Israel so far has not recognized a plestenian state, yet palestinian have to recognize israel without preconditions, which might include the illegal settlements israel has all over the palestenian territiry. More over, how can a country be divided into two entities (Gaza and The west bank) divided and surrounded by another country, and yet be sovereign? These things defy logic.

Check out this website about Palestine - Israel conflict.

www.ifamericansknew.org

Murder most foul. The genocidal state of Israel first fenced, then starved, and is now brutally murdering the hapless people of Palestine, shooting them like fish in a barrel. And the United States actively supports this nefarious and despicable country in its killing spree by giving it enormous aid and diplomatic support. None of the presidential contenders (McCain, Obama or Clinton) has the courage or good judgment to oppose this iniquity. Like the saying goes, "tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are."

The Bottom line being Isreal is a Nation the Palestinians are a People a race of people specifically. No matter the actions of individuals, taking punitive and outright indescriminate measures aginst a people, specifically people of a particular race is Racism at its worse.

So one day Moses came down the mountain to the camp of the chosen people the Israelites and saw the orgy of gold and rape and human sacrifice that was taking place and smashed the tablets and spanked the chosen ones. Obviously the lesson was not learned. Today modern man including the modern Israelites celebrate all of those things that we were supposed to stop. Greed,envy,vanity, pride,etc. A man is supposed to work for a year or steal to buy a shiny rock to prove to his lady that he loves her. If she persuades him that his love is huge he will even go into debt to the money changers to buy a bigger shiny rock. Then she will go to work and show her shiny rock to all of the other girls. After they all oooh and aaah they will think of their rocks and go home and tell their husbands that they do not love them enough and so they will be looking around for a new rock buyer and the hey with the family. The most expensive restaurant the largest limousine, the largest shiny rocks, the biggest church,etc. These are the things that are important. People with no homes and no education and no health care are not important. We've come a long way baby.

Dear Israel....You are sick people to applaud the killing of innocent children.

Killing and oppressing people will only accomplish one thing and one thing only, more determination to be free from your terror, in this case Israeli oppression. The aggression against the Palestinian MUST STOP whether you like or not. And once the PalestinianS get their freedom and respect back, the only thing you will have is your hate. I feel sorry for you, the Palestinian people are fighting for a cause, their freedom. What are you fighting for, nothing. Maybe your cause is to be safer by getting more atomic bombs or more tanks or maybe finishing YOUR big Berlin wall. None will make you safer. Look in the mirror before is too late.

How odd that the United States would feel so deeply the plight of the Iraqi people that it would invade the country, yet it sits idly by year after year watching the Palestinians suffer. Who decides those worthy of liberty and those not?

The interests of AIPAC are certainly strong within the American neocon movement, but it is also

well represented within the DLC as well. The Likud Party of Israel is the neocon's fascist brother

on the world scene and fascists seem inevitably connected to the Military Industrial Establishment.

Having these war whores running your government is not the way to peace and being manipulated

by their fear and loathing is not the way to find justice for all. We can only HOPE that Israel can find

their own Obama who has the machismo and intellectual brilliance to lead his people to peace.

Hold on, people. This is NOT the real thing! It's an Israeli Defense Force wargame code-named "Operation Warsaw Ghetto."

Israel's closest trading partner in the 70's and 80's was apartheid South Africa ... not really ironic since they had so much in common ... when the mid-east oil spigot finally runs dry , Israel will fold.

Israel almighty power was defeated by the resistance fighters in Lebanon, which know as Hezballah. Soon Israel will be defeated by the courage of the people of Gaza.

Right now the people of Gaza are teaching the rest of us a lesson in courage and steadfast resistance against the injustice. God bless the freedom fighters in Gaza and elsewhere.

Israel's ethnic cleansing continues, fueled by the belief that the death of three of its citizens grants it asylum from civilised norms. It does not. It will be held accountable for its actions by a war crimes commission.