<<Between 2001 and 2014 - 28 people have been killed by Hamas rockets>>

I wonder how many were injured or traumatized--"trauma studies" are BIG BIG BIG in academia when it relates to such issues as American slavery or Palestinians.

SPQR,

Yes..I imagine many more were injured and many more again traumatised.

Psychologically, it is a real problem.

Israel now has Iron Dome to help.

However, it would be far better if Israel worked toward a solution instead of undermining agreements, blockading Gaza, continuing settlements on the West Bank....etc

Much, much better than rolling into the ghetto they've created and slaughtering the people herded there.

Simple, Poirot - stop the rockets and recognise the right of Israel to exist. Perhaps all else that you say you seek will follow from those two decisions of Hamas.

Joe

Avw
my god still loves you even in you ignorance. The west is based in the philosophies of forgiveness and peace. You seem to not understand that we often err but we acknowledge our mistakes and do our best not to repeat them.

Germany's rise of National Socialism was a direct result of the reparations imposed on Germany after the first ware. After the second war we did things differently.

Our philosophies are often at the centre of our international relations.

Have you read my poetry? Someone in Israel has. Now if I was paranoid or paralysed by fear ...

Lego
You should read the new testament. Christs Sermon on the Mount. He still loves you.
Spqr
Actually like the good Aussie I am I let it go through to the keeper. It was just too wide. Seriously it wouldn't have troubled even the 11th man.

"Stop the rockets and recognise the right of Israel to exist"

A deceitful mantra that is at last, thankfully, being engulfed by a worldwide backlash and not only from the victims.

Well may the German conquerors (temporary, thanks to Allied thousand-bomber raids and millions of marching feet) have whined that the reprisal massacres at Lidice and Oradour-sur-Glane and the Ardientine Caves and many other places could have ceased if the Resistance submen had only stopped taking potshots at the occupying Übermenschen.

All they had to do was stop the Resistance and accept the right of the Third Reich to exist.

And to occupy others' homelands.
And to expand its land grabs daily.
And to protect its hold on grabbed territory.
And to demand the material support of the rest of the world.
And, peculiar to the Third Reich, not to have to compensate anyone for the damage "Aryan" aggression did only a couple of decades ago.

It's not only the voices of the likes of foreign lobbyist David Singer that are bleating with alarm. Google the Washington Zionist think tank Middle East Forum to see how the criminals are running for cover under the non-consulted umbrella of world Jewry. Yup, y'got it. The backlash is "antisemitism, stupid".

‘I will resist the temptation to return your personal jibes. Regardless of what I think of you personally it has nothing to do with the subject at hand. But feel free to continue attacking me personally if you believe it strengthens your claims.’

From the person who posted the following:

‘Frankly, I don't think your reading, if you indeed do any of it, extends beyond radical left wing publications producing the usual Israel hating material.’
Posted by Avw, Thursday, 31 July 2014 7:27:07 AM

‘My reading extends from the Christian New Testament, the Old Testament, the classic Greeks, Romans, Russians, Europeans, the Romantics through the great liberal traditions, the British classics, American classics. I have read all the great moralists from Augustine , Aquinas, Gregory and much of the encyclical literature of the 20th century Catholic church.
I subscribe to the great western Liberal traditions and reject socialism in all its forms. I have read much of the traditions of the literature of the Hebrew and Muslim religions. I have read some Asian literature and have a little knowledge of eastern spirituality.’
Posted by imajulianutter, Sunday, 3 August 2014 6:05:48 AM

‘yet all you can do is boast about the number of (largely irrelevant) books you've read’
Posted by Avw, Monday, 4 August 2014 11:29:08 PM

Don’t you feel even a little hypocrisy avw?

‘Christianity was not denounced by you as a "backward religion", presumably because it preaches to turn the other cheek, which happens to conform to your childish hippie mentality.’
Posted by Avw, Monday, 4 August 2014 11:29:08 PM


And of course not because it underlines our whole western civilisation which you no doubt also find childish and hippie?

Avw we westerners don’t repeat our more stupid mistakes.
You blokes just put your heads down and stupidly keep hitting blindly at the same brick wall.

How can anyone be expected to debate reasonably with your gymnastic performances?