Whats the problem here? Are you troubled why "people of conscience" do not condemn terrorism? The suicide bombers did not land in Israel from outer space. The explosive belts might as well carry a label that reads "made in the Greater Eretz Israel."

I don't know what you mean by that, Gio.

I have difficulty in understanding his comments also. I don’t always get the "jokes" he's attempting to make. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

If it's supposed to be kept separate why do you have a pic on your profile that I don't understand. It's a pic of a man carrying a sign that says, "Free Palestine is code for kill the Jews".

I don't know anybody that wants anybody killed.

Children and civilians got what they deserved?!

I talked to a fake.

I sure didn't get that one.

There are Muslims who support Jews and Jews who support Muslims and Christians and Atheists on each side of the issue. The dividing line is ignorance and intolerance which has no religion. But radical Islamists like Hamas fall squarely in the ignorant and intolerant group.

That comment was based on profiles on this thread and the usual suspects.

The suicide bombs are the mutant flowers of Israel's brutalizing occupation, springing from the seeds of the 54-year-long dehumanization of Palestinians. They are the ghosts of your brutality coming back to haunt you, the mementos of your war against memory.

The massive and deliberate destruction of Palestinian civil records in the West Bank in the last weeks is but the most recent chapter in a war against Palestinian memory that began in 1948, with the annihilation of 400 Palestinian villages. But you seem to learn nothing from history, indeed from your own history: ghosts always return, each time more violently.

THEN EXPLAIN THIS TO ME: What should the Israelis do? They are being attacked and killed every day. They warned Hamas and the Palestinians for SIX FREAKING MONTHS that they would respond. What more could they have done? Under what conditions would you have them protect their own people?

There is a 1:25 ratio of Palestinians killed to Israelis.

You didn't answer the question.

I see people that live in a place called Israel and they just happen to be Jewish. I'm not looking at the religion of either side.

Why are you looking at what religion they are?

Why?

Because the only reason I can think of why people would deny them the right to protect themselves is because of their race. They have every right to exist as a country. They have every right to defend themselves, or at least they should. They are the same race as their neighbors: Semetic. So I am forced to believe that it is because of their religion (the only factor that seems to separate them from their neighbors) that people oppose their rights to self defense.

So I ask you again: Why would you deny Israel the right to protect her people? What more should they have done before they retaliated? Why responsibility do the terrorists and Palestinians bear in what is happening in Gaza?

So you are saying that the Palestinians have no right to occupy their own homeland because they are of Arabic descent primarily and are Muslim?

The Palestinians are the aggressors. They have committed war crimes in Israel for the past six months without retaliation from Israel until recently. If the number was 1:1000000000 it wouldn't matter. They have commited three war crimes as defined by international law: 1) Attacked Israeli civilians, 2) Used Palestinian civilians as human shields, 3) Tried to destroy a UN member state (Israel). Their suffering is both regrettable and entirely avoidable.

Told you winx!
Now you have him stuttering. He cant think of another answer!

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The Israeli's should be living under this flag spidey!
They should call themselves Palestinian!

There is no moral justification of suicide bombers or rocket attacks on civilians. Such arguments to justify activities which are universally recognized war crimes in time of war are completely morally bankrupt. Think about what you are saying!

You cannot compare checkpoints or land disputes with blowing up a bus filled with people. But in your comment above you attempt to justify it.

Even the cautious and pro-Israeli The Economist saw clear evidence of war crimes. U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen described the devastation in Jenin as "horrific beyond belief," and said it was "morally repugnant" that Israel blocked humanitarian emergency workers from entering Jenin for 11 days. Israel is still blocking rescue teams, while Perez is pondering whether to send Roed-Larsen home with a note to his parents or merely revoke his weekly allowance. The undiplomatic words of the Norwegian diplomat, but not the undiplomatic reality these words refer to, really hurt Israel's highly evolved moral sensibility.

Having agreed to it earlier, the government of Israel is now blocking the UN fact-finding mission to Jenin. The problem, according to Israel, is that too many of the members have "humanitarian" experience, and might not understand the requirements of warfare. It is easy to imagine the people and the resumes Israel would want to see instead: maybe a few Latin American death-squad leaders; or Lt. William Calley, whose experience at Mai Lai could prove invaluable in determining what is and what isn't a massacre; or perhaps the French General Paul Aussaresses, commander of the 1957 French paratroopers' attack on the Casbah of Algier. To top it all, war crimes connoisseur Madeleine Albright, or even Henri Kissinger, could provide moral leadership, as well as much needed verbal elasticity. As long as there is balance.

No, I didn't say that.

What I did say is that Israel has a right to defend itself.

The area in question was 66% non-Jew / 33% Jew when Israel was formed by the UN. The Jews were given 1/5 of the land (60% of the land given to them was desert) and the non-Jews were given 4/5 of the land. The non-Jews were given all of the sea ports and almost all of the developed land. The Jews accepted the deal, the non-Jews did not and dedicated their lives to the destruction of Israel. That's the history, I'm sorry that it doesn't line up with what you want to believe, but you can research it for yourself. The Jews have every right to be there, just as the Palestinians do. The Palestinians simply had to take their land and be their own nation state. The two state opinion has always been on the table, they simply refuse to accept it. When Bill Clinton tried to broker a two nation deal, the infitada started, resulting in the deaths of many innocent Israelis. Once again, sorry if you can't accept the facts, but those are the facts.