Dear Rhrosty,

Here is your 'precision strikes' at work. Yes I know you will defend this latest carnage, deflect blame from your heroes, call it justified but I do wonder at what point do you stop and reconsidered your position?

“GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel bombed two Gaza City high-rises with dozens of homes and shops Tuesday, collapsing one building and severely damaging the other in a further escalation of seven weeks of cross-border fighting with Hamas.”

“In the past, the military has hit targets in high-rises in pinpoint strikes, but left the buildings standing. Since Saturday, it has toppled or destroyed five towers and shopping complexes in an apparent new tactic aimed at increasing pressure on Hamas.”

http://mashable.com/2014/08/26/israel-destroys-2-gaza-high-rises-as-fighting-intensifies/

This article is baloney. Of course HAMAS wants an end to the blockade, that would give them free scope to import as much weaponry as they want. The starting point is the recognition of Israel's right to exist. That is not negotiable from the Israeli side, nor should it be.

There are two civilisations at war over the same territory and only one can win. Choose sides. I prefer the Jews to the Arabs. The whole thing would never have occurred if the Arabs had agreed to partition in 1949 when Palestine was a mandated territory. They wanted it all and lost. They can't cry about it now.

Hey liar

Seems Israel has capitulated on your demands.
Last night the borders to Gaza were opened to aid and supplies, including building materials and the restrictions imposed on Gaza fisheries lifted.

The peace has now been extended indefinitely on the understanding negotiations for a port and airport for Gaza will proceed.

Wow seems the propagandists are not up with the game or are they bashful because Hamas has gained far more than even they imagined.

Watch the effect that has on the Palestinian's on the West Bank.

Everybody now knows Israel even with its attack forces and atomic bombs is absolutely impotent against the truth and resistance.

And the truth about Israel and it's persecution of the Palestinians is becoming more and more evident by the day.

I always thought the aggressive and militaristic nature of Netanyahu would lead to the curtailing of Israel expansionism in the longer term. I think now Israel might think it wise to return to the 67 borders before the overwhelming passive aggressive nature of the Palestinian's resistance overpowers Israel just as that of Ghandi and the Indians suceeded against the British Empire.

That plus actually wanting peace with its neighbours is Israel's only real hope for survival over the longer term.

Otherwise it will be completely overwhelmed and peacefully wiped off the map.

That is where both logic and numbers work with time against Israel.

@Nutter,

<< before the overwhelming passive aggressive nature of the Palestinian's resistance >>

ROFLMAO

What a joke!

tell me sp

What do you see as the possible future for Israel if it doesn't seek to achieve a just peace in the region? Assess such elements of weight of numbers, logic, time and the rest of the world deciding to look seriously at the plight of the Palestinians.

How much impact on todays settlement do you attribute to Obama and the Americans putting their foot down?

Haven't thought about those things? No? Why not?

Being just plain dumb, indoctrinated, blinded by the trinity of a love of genocide, hate and propaganda couldn't help.

Nutter,

Thanks for that tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

There is now far more at play in the region than some hermetically-sealed Israel-Palestine dynamic. ISIL, for example, and the reluctant need for enemies to co-ordinate against it, even Israel and Iran, eventually. The growing role of Egypt for another: its involvement in combatting Islamism in Libya to its west, and in controlling fundamentalists in the Sinai and Hamas to its east.

Question (perhaps off-topic): can the US (or the world, for that matter) afford to envisage an all-out war between Sunni and Shia ? Seriously. Between Saudi Arabia/Pakistan and Iran, to put it in nuclear terms ? Is the US condemned to have to be the armed referee between these two major players, with Iraq, Syria and - dare I say it - Palestine, being preliminary bouts ?

Yes, it could be a long, hard century.

Joe