Japan urges Israelis, Palestinians to halt use of force

Monday 29th December, 05:51 AM JST

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rajakumar at 12:32 PM JST - 29th December

World is getting better since 1940s, in WW2 war world population got reduced by 72 million .

We have increased populations to almost 6747 millions.This shows the unity capability of today's world to prosper despite some small hiccups, here and there.

Some their richness is skycrappers/cars/nuclear plants, for some poor nations their richness is their solar sun,camels/animals and simple houses. Can say solar sun is better than nuclear plants.

We can increase populations in israel(7.4 million) and gaza palestine(1.5 million), how come world populations today has reached 6747 millions.

We have have the same sun to share, let share earth with all humans as equals under the same sun. Superior mentality,divide and rule is not good policy,all humans are equal,should be able to treat all humans as equals.

Wars are getting less and less in world,it is good progress for all nations enjoying prosperity/progress via peace.

Palestine is poor, there are even poorer nations in world but they still have the richness of peace wisdom, enough wealth and prosperity.

Peace wisdom and prosperity is ultimate goal of all wars and it also caused the end of wars in history.

No nation wants to prolong war and miseries,unless people are being deprived of prosperity,peace and enough wealth in a nation.

The problem is fair distribution of wealth for all citizens, in war zones, in nations.
ptolemy at 06:32 PM JST - 29th December

This just in, both Israel and Hamas have told Mr. Nakasone to "get stuffed".
solarbuster at 06:45 PM JST - 29th December

Until Israel stops behaving like the guest from Hell, Japan can do Little. Israel only listens to one other nation, who like themselves has a twisted belief that pre-emptive strikes are neccessary for peace. This latest attack is just a rush to get in the biggest hit possible before the administration of the other nation changes and stops them. All the other nations along with Japan are just wasting their breath in asking Isreal to stop, they are not going to listen.
adamantine at 06:58 PM JST - 29th December

"...until Israel stops behaving like the guest from Hell, Japan can do Little."

Japan supports Israel. I believe they always have.

Israel has much to offer in the way of technological advances, medical discoveries, cutting edge IT, armaments, anti-terror expertise, etc.

Progress. Japanese like it as much as Israel's American allies do.

Forward-looking Japan and Israel also cooperate on space research, alternative energy research and a host of economic issues.

What does "Palestine" have to offer?
JackBerstein at 09:41 PM JST - 29th December

Japan is much too late. Ages ago, Japan should have urged that Palestinians be treated like human beings, and that Israel follow international law regarding its obligations as the occupying power.
JackBerstein at 09:49 PM JST - 29th December

What does "Palestine" have to offer?

Nothing, but if Palestine was to be restored to its pre-1947 boarder, life would be greatly improved for most of the world.
MikeBarrymore at 10:29 PM JST - 29th December

Japan do the right thing. Condemn the Israeli terrorists, the killers of innocents who make millions live in fear in the MId East.

Japan do it, your standing in the world will go up, by saying the right thing.
sharky1 at 11:10 PM JST - 29th December

I suppose if China fired missiles into Japan everyday, Japan might have a different point of view on this conflict.
OssanAmerica at 12:57 AM JST - 30th December

What does "Palestine" have to offer?

Alot. Everything from influencing the price of oil to the probility of having to deal with terrorist acts. While all US allies which are democracies support Israel the cost of supporting Isarel has gone up considerablt in the 21st Century and a better and permanent solution needs to be found. Perhaps a President Obama will e able to get everyoneto sit down and talk?
LIBERTAS at 02:49 AM JST - 30th December

This just in, both Israel and Hamas have told Mr. Nakasone to "get stuffed". And they weren't so polite either!
rajakumar at 07:34 AM JST - 30th December

This wars in gaza,iraq and afghanistan is getting expensive. It has cost a slowdown in USA/world and loss of more jobs in USA and elsewhere.

The global world trade is annually about 60,000- 70,000 billion before this slowdown in 2008. Israel part in trade is only 164 billion out 60,000-70,000 billion. The expenses for industrial miltary complexes and iraq-afghan wars has acounted for 2,000 billion-4,000 billion of global money. Annually military expenditure in USA accounts fro 1000 billion of global money.

The situations in global financing, also made US loans increase via more bailouts, and which will need US taxpayers to pay the loans for decades.

Price of oil is again going up, with recent attacks in palestine. The world need to be better in influencing good stable crude oil prices. On going conflicts in world can be reduced if world leaders, can talk their way to better influence in getting peace in palestine/israel

Certainly new US administrators/EU/Global national administrators have to find new more dynamic permanent solution to these woes. All parties in conflicts and global finance systems need to debate and talk their way to more better dynamic permanent solutions to these woes.

World leaders need to get into more creative dynamic solutions, to remedy bad decisions taken in handling global political woes and global economic woes.
rajakumar at 07:41 AM JST - 30th December

correction-These wars in gaza,iraq and afghanistan is getting expensive.
JackDorff at 05:01 PM JST - 30th December

This just in, both Israel and Hamas have told Mr. Nakasone to "get stuffed". And they weren't so polite either!

Nice one! They`ve found some common ground.
Badsey at 05:47 PM JST - 30th December

the easiest way to end this war is to cut the money off (Israel and Hamas). Why encourage bad behavior?