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can anyone explain to me what it is that Israel has over the US??...why is it that Israel can get away with just about anything yet other countries would be dragged over the coals for an action like this??

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Money

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Looks like this guy got Tony Soprano'd -- "Bada Bing"

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If Hamas stays out of Israel territory, they would not get shot at. ..........................................Plain and simple.

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How about the murdered children?

I doubt they had ever been into Israel at all....

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Israel needs to move ahead with a two state country.

Yup. Hamas, too. I'm sick of hearing about this.

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Nobody really cares about the Palestinians, not the regular Arabs, not the Iranians, surely not the Israelis, so they get kicked around from all sides, and the rest of the Middle East uses the Palestinians to taunt Israelis, and the Israelis use the poor Palestinians as target practice?? Just a horrible bloody mess with no end in sight.

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What Elbunda said.

The Palestinians with their corrupt leadership are their own worst enemy.

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Israel and Palestine are just awful joints: I wouldn't allow my worst enemy to visit within 100km of either. It seems the people there just live in a constant state of hatred and misery.

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BTW - just saw pictures that the Israelis have killed babies in the latest strike. Dunno if it was targeted against the children's hospital - I guess Israeli tech is very inaccurate - but what a low act.

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Eisenhower said that the Middle East is "one of the greatest material prizes in world history".

So Nostromo, to answer your question, I guess the US regards Israel as "vested interests".

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Even though I do not like Hamas, they did win the 2006 elections fair and square. They were democratically elected. Which goes to show that promoting democracy overseas is a good thing for the US, as long as it is THEIR type of democracy.

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@zichi

While I don't support Hamas, Israel has started a new war against the Hamas and the Palestinians. For every Israeli dead, a 1,000 Palestinians will be killed. Rockets and hand guns on one side. Fighter planes bombs and missiles on the other. This won't be good for the Middle East. A one ton bomb to kill one Hamas leader?

I agree with you on most parts except that what are the Israelis are supposed to do? Have a sit down with Hamas-a group that their mantra is "the destruction of the Israeli state" we all know that will never happen. No one one wants to see dead people on either side, I don't like it either, but what do the Palestinians expect? How many times have we've been down this road? And what always happens? The Palestinians are the ones that started this mess and they know Israel has a zero tolerance for these attacks and its always met with a quick military response. They shouldn't be surprised by the aftermath when Hamas militants try to attack the Jewish nation.

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Iran is supplying Hamas with the rockets to fire into Israel. This will be to distract the world while they take forward steps in their military nuclear ambition.

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Israel is always itching for war. The biggest terrorists in the middle east are them.

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zichi: While I don't support Hamas,

Next will be statements supporting Hamas.

For every Israeli dead, a 1,000 Palestinians will be killed. Rockets and hand guns on one side. Fighter planes bombs and missiles on the other.

Send the memo to the Palestinians. They are the ones who decided to escalate the conflict with their rockets and guns against an enemy with bombs and missiles. Seems that negotiation would be a better strategy, but then again we both know they don't accept Israel's existence so I suppose that won't go very far.

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The whole Middle East situation (and not just involving Israel) is awful. No wonder Aramgeddon is supoposed to take place there. US supports Israel because of large Jewish influence on US political scene (money and voters), for "strategi" reasons and residual guilt about not acting to stop the Holocaust earlier.

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Hamas is basically screaming, "How dare you retaliate against our retaliation?" Are their minds are so distorted by hatred they fail to comprehend cause and effect? I suspect they have cynically concluded that while individual Palestinian lives may be worthless, their deaths may have some political value, in turning world opinion against the Israelis. So the carnage will continue.

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Israel is always itching for war. The biggest terrorists in the middle east are them.

Tmarie - pure nonsense. Isreal happens to be the most successful, advanced nation state in the Middle East. In Arab countries (the current darlings of Western bleeding-heart flower children) violence and corruption are a way of life.

If the Arab people would start fighting for better leadership, problems in the Middle East would b over very quickly.

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Hoser, stealing land, using modern weapons and bombing when they like, killing kids, blockading people in areas so they have no food... If that isn't terrorism, what is?

Indeed it is an advanced state but that doesn't mean they are terrorists and that they don't use violence and intimidation to get what they want.

I 100% agree with your comments about Arabs needing better leadership but that also doesn't mean Israel isn't a terrorist state. And you might want to chat to a few moderate Israelis about this. They think the same as I do - and are rather scared about what is going to happen in the future with all the crazies have millions of kids and refusing to work to study the Torah and wage war...

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Yes, yes Marie. I'm sure Israel go out of their way to kill women and children.

It's that kind of rhetoric which derails actual intelligent debate.

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Indeed it is an advanced state but that doesn't mean they are terrorists

Good point.

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And Marie, defending yourself against constant aggression and attack is not "terrorism". It's defense. Arab leadership use these kind of words to distract people like you away from the acute problems Arab countries face due to their ineptness.

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Arab leadership use these kind of words to distract people like you away from the acute problems Arab countries face due to their ineptness.

I hope that is not what is going to happen with Syria.

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If the Arab people would start fighting for better leadership, problems in the Middle East would b over very quickly.

such a visionary statement... I wonder why no-one else has thought of this solution.... probably becuase there is actually alot more to it including both Israel and the Arabs taking responsibility for their actions...

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Israel could begin with a two state country within Israel and give more equal rights to the Palestinians living there.

Why would Israel split itself up in its own country? Also, don't Israeli Arabs already have equal rights there?

By then the situation in Gaza might be ready for a two state country.

I don't think that would change Hamas' minds. Do you? Leaving Gaza certainly does not seem to have.

Still you are right that both sides need to get their collective acts together. The rest of us have already wasted way too many brain cells thinking about their problems.

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Yes, yes Marie. I'm sure Israel go out of their way to kill women and children.

They don't go out of their way to ensure they don't do they?

And Marie, defending yourself against constant aggression and attack is not "terrorism". It's defense. Arab leadership use these kind of words to distract people like you away from the acute problems Arab countries face due to their ineptness.

And when all those Palestinians who are having their land ancestral land stolen from them illegally retaliate, what do you call it? I call it defending yourself against constant aggression. Israel brings most of the anger and hatred on itself. Heck, besides the US, how many other nations actually support what Israel does? And even then, MANY Americans government officials have voiced concern NUMEROUS times over the land grabs and their level of retaliation.

Again, speak to some moderate Israelis and you might be surprised to find what page they are on. They don't support their government and what it does. Most young adults are pretty messed up after seeing the things they see while completing their mandatory military service. You can find them drinking, drugging and travelling all over to forget it all. All is not well. When will they stop with the land grabs and sit down and actually try and sort things out? Not in my lifetime I'm afraid.

And don't think I believe that Hamas is a victim in all of this. They aren't. They also suck. However, at the end of the day is is the public in Palestine that are the victims of it all.

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Again, speak to some moderate Israelis and you might be surprised to find what page they are on.

Interestingly, while many, if not most, are against the settlements, they were in favor of the retaliation in Gaza a couple of years back. So, I think it is fair to say they support some things and don't others. Like most people.

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tmarie: Hoser, stealing land, using modern weapons and bombing when they like, killing kids, blockading people in areas so they have no food... If that isn't terrorism, what is?

You might want to clarify that you're talking about Israel and not rival factions within Palestine.

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Here we go again.

Finally, after thousands of rocket attacks from Hamas, Israel responds.

And the media, which have been ignoring the Hamas terrorism now reports this as an Israeli "attack". How many times have we seen bias before?

It will be interesting how Obama responds, who has been tatemaeeing about being a supporter of Israel, while helping the muslim radicals in the region for 4 years. E.g. Egypt is now run by the muslim brotherhood, and Hamas enjoys open weapons supply from the Egyptian border.

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tmarie: And when all those Palestinians who are having their land ancestral land stolen from them illegally retaliate, what do you call it? I call it defending yourself against constant aggression

I call it counterproductive resistance, and the statistics are on my side. The Palestinians cannot force Israel to change by using violence. All that will do is force Israel to respond with violence. The only thing that can make Israel change is pressure from the international community. As long as Palestine remains a terrorist state they lose any chance of the rest of the world really pressuring Israel. If they renounce violence, disarm, publicly state Israel's right to exist, and start a process of non-violent protest, the world would start pressuring Israel overnight. A boycott of Israel would stop the tanks in a second, but Palestinian terrorism gets Israel off the hook every time. Even if you believe Israel really is the aggressor and is completely responsible for the violence you need to sit down and think about how you can really end it, and firing rockets and blowing up jeeps shouldn't be high on your list. The Palestinians need the help of others but they've created a state and mindset that no one wants to touch with a 10-foot pole.

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zichi:

" There are thousands of Palestinians living in Israel who don't have the same equal rights has Israeli's "

That is simply untrue. Muslim Arabs in Israel have the same rights as Jewish and other Israelis. (And they abuse them liberally.) The West Bank is a different matter. There, the PA could have had their own state long ago, if they accepted the existance of the state of Israel. But they do not, and thus Israel has no choice but to continue the occupation.

An alternative would be to return the Westbank to Jordania. Unsurprisingly, the Jordanian government wants to have nothing to do with that hornet´s nest.

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America's unequivocal support for Israel, no matter what the excesses, has been a moral disgrace for decades, not just since 2006. Some of the reasons are cynical - money and lobbying groups. Others have been plain bizarre - religious nutcases such as Jerry Falwell in cohorts with like-minded Jewish nutcases stealing other people's land and trying to bring on the messiah and armageddon ( airheads like Reagan actually gave more than a sympathetic ear to this stupidity ). America supported Israel with its illegal land stealing long before Hamas came to power in 2006, and will continue do so with or without Hamas in power.

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Sorry, my post should have started with @nostromo

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@zichi You beat me to it - as usual, well put. It's truly shocking what isn't widely known about virtual apartheid in Palestine.

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There are thousands of Palestinians living in Israel who don't have the same equal rights has Israeli's

As someone else pointed out, that is not true. There is a huge difference between the status of Arab Israeli citizens and their bretheren in the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli Arab citizens are full citizens of Israel.

A Palestinian man marry an Israeli woman can't become a citizen.

True. This is not a good law. However, I read that it came about because of some incidents where people from the occupied territories married only to aquire citizenship and then committed acts of terrorism (bombings) in Israel using their freedom of movement.

the Israeli government had done "little to Not that it makes it any better, but the Israeli government has done just as little to reduce institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country's Israel citizens in general, specifically Israelis of African descent.

The point is moot as Hamas and the present Israeli government do not see eye to eye. In Hamas' case, they wish for Israel's destruction. Kind of hard to move on from a point like that.

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That is simply untrue. Muslim Arabs in Israel have the same rights as Jewish and other Israelis.

They don't, unless they convert to Judaism (and get accepted as converts). Read Israel's Constitution and laws. Jews Arabs have full rights. Non-Jew Israeli have significantly limited rights. If non-Jews were given the Aliyah right, there would be no problem, all Palestinians would be Israeli citizens. And I think that should be that way. Then if some Jews (or non-Jews) want some land or some water belonging to some non-Jew (or Jew), well, like anywhere, like they do in New-York : asks who wants to sell and buy. Scrap all religious privileges, worldwide. They'll go nowhere as long as they have a religion based state.

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If non-Jews were given the Aliyah right, there would be no problem

I just checked the word. Aliyah right is not something given to citizens. It is given to Jews people who want to be citizens. So, if Israel is discriminating, it is against non-citizens in this case, not citizens of Israel. Citizens of Israel don't need the right of Aliyah because they are already citizens.

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tmarie: Super, if you think Palestinians have modern weapons you also shouldn't be posting on this thread.

I can see you've decided to really get to the heart of my comments.

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There, the PA could have had their own state long ago, if they accepted the existance of the state of Israel. But they do not, and thus Israel has no choice but to continue the occupation.

I fail to understand the logic. But that was the point of Germany... Remember, they had to invade the whole Poland because the Poles refused to accept that some inhabitants inside Poland's territory were German and had security issues. Wait I don't take Germany to do a Godwin point, it's because you guys don't know much history. That was the classic pattern of colonisation to say "We own that little territory (my little house in the Prairie), but with those savages (those Indians) as neighbors, we feel unsafe.". So at the first incident : "You see, they attack us ! Let's make war to them." . then they use superior armament to kill or chase them far away and appropriate the whole territory. And once they got one territory, they claim it's "peace" and any opponent is a terrorist, and terrorists are chased (that's how French army, over 70 years, manage to kill half of inhabitants of Algeria. There were always terros starting it !) . Countless countries did it. Like all had a Middle-Age. The Cold War logic was hardly different. But at some point, we pass in a new era, and countries change their ways. But Israel has been in the colonial logic since the late 40's. It's not Israel securing its border as you say. It's totally the case they've moved the borders further using security as a pretext. Israel has not the choice ? That's like saying Japan had not the choice of stopping colonisation of Asia. That's like saying USSR had not the choice of stopping the building of the Soviet block. That said, it's difficult to change a system that defines your nation.

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zichi,

Why are you including me. I admitted there was discrimination. I just suggested there was just as much within the Jewish Israeli community as well. I do think it is unrealistic at the highest level to expect Israel to give up the occupied areas and (how much of?) Israel proper as well. I mean, we can't even get the two sides to agree to peace for land with regard to the West Bank and Gaza. You think Israel will agree to being destroyed? Two things have to happen, and even then I hold out nearly no hope that this will be solved in anyone who is alive now's life time, that is for a liberal government to get elected to Israel and for Hamas to give up its goal of the destruction of Israel and its refusal to make peace with Israel. To tell the truth, there are always enough stubborn people to prevent any progress on either side. I do not think we will ever see a solution. Sad, but true.

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I just noticed. In my post including my comments about discrimination against Israeli Jews, I mistakenly put my comments in quotes making it look like someone else wrote it.

These are mine again:

Not that it makes it any better, but the Israeli government has done just as little to reduce institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country's Israel citizens in general, specifically Israelis of African descent.

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I just checked the word.

Good start, And check the rest, all that entails.

Citizens of Israel don't need the right of Aliyah because they are already citizens.

I didn't say there was only aliyah, but that still matters as they are unable to reunite families, etc. Non-Jews Israeli are in a position that compares with Japan's special residents.

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And check the rest, all that entails.

No, thanks. What Israel does with its own citizens is actually not really related to this discussion. It just confuses the issue. Both sides are wrong. Both sides are annoying. I am kind of sorry I involved myself in this discussion.

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2 million Christians butchered by Muslim in Sudan and Kongo 32,000 Muslims citizens butchered by Syrian gov. against their own people in Syria every body is silence specially the Arabs. not a word from anyone Israel attacking back very carefully military targets and missile storage locations after months of non stop missile attacks from Gaza fired at their south cities without any reason - Israel pulled completely from Gaza and left the territory to the Islamic Hamas "democracy" there

Now we need to think why are we blaming Israel automatically always ? looks like we are all victims of Muslim media brain wash and "human rights" organizations propaganda which are actually the new way for Muslim to gain power over the free world and use the current weak west democracies and politically correctness in order to destroy them from the inside using its own "human rights" "democracies" mechanisms looks like our human feelings and values are being used by murderers without any respect to woman rights/ human right or any rights

look at the blood thirsty Arab regimes look at their actions, their horrible atrocities and look at the contribution of the Islam to the world - only killing blood revenges jihads and so on are their characteristics Jews throughout the history always contributes to science community and they actually initiated and created the human rights change of the free west world. however, since they are different, always have been blamed and persecuted but never actually did any harm - only contribution to the world (look at the Nobel price winner statistics in this link - compare to Muslim Nobel price winners is really tells it all) http://www.thejidf.org/2010/01/jewish-nobel-prize-winner-vs-islamic.html this is not brainwash its statistics you can verify in any source you want

Whatever arabs do - they always get away with it because this is their culture, but most cases are not reported because the media is very focused on Israel - lots of money is invested in this media war

the Arab spring we see now in the middle east and n. Africa is the process of becoming one big dark Islamic power that is already starting to scare European countries that are trapped in their politically correctness the only way to keep your head buried in the sand and to avoid the real issue is to blame Israel - how easy that is what Arab leaders used to do in order to continue their miserable domain in their countries and now Europe are doing that because they assume this will satisfy the Islamic powers inside them which they cannot really defend anymore the outcome is media war in which innocent Japanese (who just want peace probably due to lack of Arab neighbors) are blaming Israel as well How pathetic

Its hard to admit to yourself are brainwashed hypocrite it takes a lot of virtue that most people don't have Try to think about the anger you feel toward dead Palestinian child and compare it to the anger you feel towards dead Syrian child or dead Israeli child if it not the same anger - think hard why it is like that you may come to conclusion that you are brain wash victim but most chances you won't admit it

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Religion. Armageddon. The end.

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Zichi is absolutely right - the 2 state solution is the only solution. The Palestinians are treated like dogs - chained dogs. If you have been to Israel you would have seen how desperate the plight of the Palestinians really is. You might not get the same picture from some of the Western Media outlets, but it's truly a crime - a tragic blight on humanity.

What's even more jarring is you can visit the Yad Vashem centre for Holocaust in Jerusalem which describes in great detail the incredible suffering man can inflict upon his brother, and not 50km is the Gaza strip.

It is absolutely no wonder that Fundamentalist Militantism flourishes under these conditions - with undereducated, unemployed poor, who are subject to crippling and demoralising control by a foreign military force finding an outlet for their frustration and rage.

Israel need to be the bigger man here and stop saying one thing whilst doing another. They need to be serious about peace.

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Dead Palestinian child, dead Syrian child, dead Israeli child, no difference, all innocent and dead before they were brainwashed.

Not anger I feel, but the same deep sorrow, for the children, and for the blindness of humanity, but not sorrow as personally deep as their parents must surely be feeling.

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Both sides are wrong. Both sides are annoying.

I don't think anyone here is siding with Hamas on anything. I do see more than a few posters crying that Israel is the victim which is what the rest of us disagree with. Israel is a terrorist state who refuse to have a two state policy. All or nothing with "them" and its costing lives. On both sides.

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I went to Israel and Palestine this year for about 3 weeks - Israel has to withdraw from the Palestinian occupied territories, and that includes all their settlements. Give Palestine their own state and call it West Palestine - west bank South Palestine - Gaza as Gaza and west bank are completely different and should be different countries. Its just an idea, a solution needs to be found before all of Palestine is taken over by Israel.

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I don't think anyone here is siding with Hamas on anything. I do see more than a few posters crying that Israel is the victim which is what the rest of us disagree with. Israel is a terrorist state who refuse to have a two state policy. All or nothing with "them" and its costing lives. On both sides.

See, I disagree. Which is why I said I was sorry I got involved in this discussion. You claim you are not siding with Hamas, yet you incorrectly claim that Israel does not want a two-state solution. You only claim Israel are terrorists and conveniently leave out Hamas. Shooting rockets at civilian areas is not a terrorist act? Not at all? That fact that Hamas has clearly stated several times that do not want to ever make peace with Israel and that they only want a 10 year truce, which they say they will not renew, in exchange for the West Bank and Gaza does not seem to enter your equation. How can that be?

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-to-abbas-israeli-unity-cabinet-is-a-new-opportunity-for-mideast-peace-1.430224

Netanyahu to Abbas: Israeli unity cabinet is a new opportunity for Mideast peace Netanyahu’s letter to Abbas earlier this week included the first ever pledge by the PM, in an official document, to establish a Palestinian state in line with the two-state solution.

Like I said, both sides are annoying. I am sure one or both of the parties will do something to screw this up again. They always do.

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If I may offer my 2 cents here from the comfort of the fence, I have to say the Palestinian terrorists really are once again proving that Darwin had his shit tight on the natural selection front.

Lobbing the rockets indiscriminately into Israel is like smearing your wedding tackle with fish paste and dangling the lot into the lion's cage.

The outrageous Israeli response is more than guaranteed.

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I admire Israel so much. They protect their people from the attacks of evil terrorists, like Hamas. They go in and are not afraid to take out the terrorists, they have guts, unlike most of the politically correct Western nations these days.

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Personally I dont think that the Palestinians deserve their own State. At least not until they renounce terrorism. Cant see that ever happeneing.

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Slum, if Israel would agree to two states and withdraw from the land they've stolen we wouldn't be reading the kind of news time and time again.

Gee... All the neighbors hate a certain neighbor. I wonder where the problem lies...

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And I'm not siding with Hamas. I'm siding with the innocent people and their families who keep suffering from all of this.

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I wish the worlds richest nation did not provide massive annual aid to Israel as well as turning a blind eye to their nuclear arsenal and over the top military actions. Israel knows that it has nothing to fear from the west and can carry on breaking international law on a daily basis. Israel does not want peace, it wants control and land. The Palestinians do themselves no favours but would a peacefull Ghandi type leaser make headway, i think not.

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tmarie,

I'm not siding with Hamas

Yes, basically you are when you give them a free pass. Hamas does not agree with peace with Israel in exchange for a two-state solution. Why do you insist on ignoring this? There is no deal without Hamas. Israel does agree with a two state solution. Hamas does not. Israel wants peace with the Palestinians. Hamas does not.

How can you be so squarely on one side when that side says clearly they do not want peace? I just don't get it.

I'm siding with the innocent people and their families who keep suffering from all of this.

Both sides are suffering. Both sides, not one side. One side does not agree with peace and has the destruction of the other country in their words, deeds and charter. That side is Hamas. I don't care if they were democractically elected. So was Bush. Does that mean I have to agree with everything he did?

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Something strange about the timing. Why does Hamas start doing this rocket/missile stuff now? They knew Israel would retaliate.

Why do I get the feeling that Iran wants Qatar and Turkey to stop funding Sunni fighters in Syria and start funding Hamas in Gaza. Is Iran pushing Hamas to act in order for Israel to become the focus of attack, taking the heat off Assad's Syrian regime?

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Hamas imposes a pretty hefty tariff on trade across the Egypt/ Gaza border. By some estimates those tariffs come to about half a billion dollars US a year. Additionally, Hamas receives a significant amount of financial aid from its neighbors in the region and sympathizers around the world, with Qatar recently chipping in around 400 million US to the cause. This level of income, to a large degree, is based on two things; discordant relations with Israel and the popular perception that Gaza is living under siege conditions and therefore deserving assistance from the global community.

When relations are more favorable between Gaza and Israel, literally thousands of truck loads of goods pass over the border, in both directions, every month. With medical supplies, fuel, and consumer goods going into Gaza and goods produced in Gaza going out for export and sale to markets in the region and around the world. In fact, Israeli agricultural products and other food stuffs are readily available in the markets of Gaza City. Unfortunately, for Hamas, this cuts into their profit from the Egypt trade and therefore it’s to their advantage to have tension along the Israel border. Incidents like Israel’s recent air strikes and the threat of continuing escalation also increase the level of sympathy for the people of Gaza and subsequently the aid funds increase as well. Essentially, tension with Israel is more profitable for Hamas.

How Hamas is using their substantial income for the benefit of the citizens of Gaza is not really clear. The pictures of poverty and hardship that are shown to the world as evidence of Israel’s inhumane policies towards Gaza don’t seem to indicate that they are spending too much on making their constituents lives any better. It is interesting to note that Gaza City boasts quite a few popular beachside resorts, world class restaurants and luxurious private villas. It is also interesting to note that the real estate market for upscale residences in Gaza City is booming. Maybe that’s where all that money is going. I wonder?

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Wow, thumbs down for innocent people who've been killed, hurt or lost loved ones due to idiots on both sides killing each other. Well down JT readers, well done!

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Maybe one day in the future both Jews and Muslims can live in peace we have to not keep livinging the past!! Keep living in the past and this will continue with hate and violence for future generations!!

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El, you're tarring all Jewish folks by insinuating they all agree with what Israel does. Jewish and Israeli are not interchangeable. Many DO get along.

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If you want to look for an "original sin", look no farther than the Arab League. On the day after Israel was granted statehood by the UN, the seven surrounding Arab nations chose to invade. They lost. Their rash and cowardly action resulted in the Palestinians being displaced.

Since that time, with the exception of Jordan, all other Arab nations have refused to do anything to really help the Palestinians. They are kept in camps, refused citizenship, and basically used as attack dogs. By contrast, the nearly 1 million Jews who were expelled from Arab/Muslim lands were absorbed into the Israeli nation and given full rights.

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And I'm not siding with Hamas. I'm siding with the innocent people and their families who keep suffering from all of this.

all except for the Isreali families, that is.

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Not at all. I feel for the innocent Israelis that suffer from this as well - haven't said I don't. I do however, think the Palestinians are the ones who suffer the most.

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