If...I remember rightly.. Goldstone alleged BOTH ISRAEL and HAMAS committed war crimes.

The author is far to selective for this article to be anything other than thinly disguised anti semitism of the most odious and loathesome kind.

Add in a bit of PC socialism and you have all the tent pegs in for this poor offering of an 'opinion' piece.

Not worth 30 seconds of reading time I reckon.

Arjay, it is so interesting that way back when the Western world allowed Israel to illegally go militarily nuclear, it was Henry Kissinger Minister of State at the time who warned his boss Richard Nixon, that an atomic Israel as the only nuclear power in the Middle East, and with US Jewish influential backing might easily bring on WW3.

One thus right now must ask, Arjay, is there still such a danger?

brushbred,I think the danger is greater now than ever.We have all the economic conditions and more that existed before WW2.

George Bush and Obama have dismantled the US Constitution which makes the climate right for a facist dictatorship.We have Obama's preventative dentention in which suspected terrosists can be indefinitely detained without trial.Now Obama wants to make political assassination legal.

Israel will happily use forged Aust passports to assassinate Hamas leaders.Israel offered nuclear war heads to a South African Apathied Govt,yet tries to get the USA to attack Iran on the meer suspicion of developing one.

It's encouraging to note that with the exception of one apologist, most posts produced enlightened comments.

Particularly since operation cast lead where Israel went too far in retaliation for the annoying Kassam rockets Hamas elements were firing into Settlements and the deafening silence from the US to rein in this Apartheid State, There has been growing support for action in Boycotts,Divestment & Sanctions against Israel remeniscent of the sanctions against South Africa.

Now with a flotilla of relief vessels about to converge on Gaza with relief from the Israeli siege, the world is again watching closely.

Public opinion in the US is increasingly swinging away from support for Israel and the time is fast approaching when the Zioinist regime will be forced to abandon their goal of a Jewish State in favour of a secular state in Palestine ,governing for Palestinians and Jews in a truly DEmocratic State

Israel is an ally of Australia and the US, you stick by your allies. Some of these posts make me sick in their poisonous hatred.

The palestinians demonstrate regularly their views on "democracy"

I wonder how we would react if we had "annoying Kassam rockets" falling on Australias.

That's the point of the rockets isn't it? Terror? So they are terrorists who are not reigned in by a rogue government in Gaza.

So we have the usual apologists for terrorists as ever.

It's interesting that the precautionary principle is a favorite of some people when talking about climate change (i.e. it suits them there) but not for dealing with Iran.

Let's face it, we know they hate Israle, have said they should not exist, are developing long range rockets .. hmmm, what should we do - form a committee, oh yes, that's us, Australians in action.

No, we know they are a threat and make it very obvious they will act if they get a bomb, so let's take them out now, let's not do what the allies did in WWII with Germany. If we don't take out Iran, it will be a disaster, if we do we keep peace in the world, and remove a threat.

There will be mch hand wringing by the usual apologists for terrorists, as ever. (that's what Iran is doing isn't it, threatening terror?) and so what, the usual poisonous terror supporters will find another cause to hate the free world for, nothing new there.

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"Israel is an ally of Australia and the US, you stick by your allies. Some of these posts make me sick in their poisonous hatred."

Where has there been poisonous hatred or support for terrorists? I can only see calls for peace and resolution. It cannot happen without Israel.

Did Israel stick by their friends and allies in forging Australian and UK passports? It is interesting that Israel has not yet forged US passports in fear of ruining their strongest support base - that clearly indicates a conscience that what they were doing was ill-advised.

What about those innocent people whose passports were forged. They were not consulted and had no say. You may think that is justified collateral damage but this is the slippery slope of when someone wants to play God.

This is the problem with the whole Israel/Palestine debate. Instead of courteous discourse it is filled with biased emotional and one-eyed rhetoric.