Israel has re invaded both southern Lebanon and the Gaza, they are not even trying to get out of the west bank and the Golan Heights rarely gets mentioned.

If someone set up a home in my back yard I would not accept it, why should the Palestinians and Lebanese accept Israeli's in theirs?

Remember how we here in Australia whined about a few refugees who might set up in our back yards? It didn't happen and was never going to - but we would not tolerate it if they did.

Why does Israel have the right to keep stealing arab land?

Marilyn,

That's the same thing Jews are facing.. Israel is their home, their garden. Why do Arabs come and claim their land?

It's not rocket science to understand?

I agree 100% with the article.

Israel's right to defend itself? I'm really sick of hearing this propaganda! It's just an excuse. Israel is an aggressor. It does not defend, it attacks.

I'm also sick of hearing that Islam is inherently evil and all Muslims wants to destroy the non muslim world! Perfectly orchestrated propaganda. Kinda reminds me of Nazi Germany when the Jews were constructed as sub-human by those who planned to mass exterminate them.

Israel's actions can never be justified. Not just because there's proof that their claim to land is false but on the grounds that they have wrongfully stolen land from the Palestinians, have violated that many UN resolutions and laws, and have continuously discriminated against both Arab Israelis and Arabs in the occupied territories. Not to mention that Israel won't stop until it has succeeded in obtaining it's "rightful land" from the Nile river to Iraq. Iraq check, Lebanon check, Syria, Iran. See a pattern? All roads lead to Damascus. Total control.

This is why terrorist organisations and Arab countries want Israel wiped off the map. Don't believe otherwise.

The two kidnapped soldiers was a bid by Nasrallah to stop Israel's onslaught of the Gaza strip. I congratulate him for trying to help the Palestinians. The rest of the world is very much aware of the fact that 2 soldiers does not a justified war/invasion/bombardment maketh.

The only thing I disagree with is this: the problem won't be solved if Israel simply retreat back to the pre-1967 borders. There are too many people who are pissed off and who want some kind of compensation for all that Israel has put them through.

Zionists appealed to Britain (WW1) and claimed they could help them win the war by bringing in the US. In return Britain was to award them with Palestine. Whether it was a "real country" or not, the fact remains that the Jews were dumped in the middle of a Muslim population and was told to "defend itself".

yep. That's all Israel has done since.

fleurette

Almost half of the Jewish population of Israel is not from Europe but from Egypt, Iraq, Yemen etc. They left for Israel because of ill treatment by the Islamic countries which many had called home before Mohammed was even born.

For example before the Balfour declaration the Jews in Egypt were denied passports. In Iraq a number were hanged in a public square on trumped up charges. And their ancestors were in Iraq (once called Babylon) for at least a thousand years before any Arabs arrived.

Do you deny them the right to live in freedom in their own region?

fleurette

Almost half of the Jewish population of Israel is not from Europe but from Egypt, Iraq, Yemen etc. They left for Israel because of ill treatment by the countries which many had called home before Mohammed was even born.

For example before the Balfour declaration the Jews in Egypt were denied passports. In Iraq a number were hanged in a public square on trumped up charges. And their ancestors were in Iraq (once called Babylon) for at least a thousand years before any Arabs arrived.

Their numbers roughly equalled the numbers of displaced Palestinians. They too lost their homes. I am all in favour of compensation but let it be both ways.

Do you deny these people the right to live in freedom in their own region?

When my little niece (8 years old), says to me, “uncle Kevin, turn the telly off. I don’t like watching the war”, I say to her, “For every one of you, I bet there are thousands of children in each of these countries, currently troubled with killing each other, that wish they too could just switch it off”.

What do the children caught up in all this really think? They certainly can’t understand – their minds are still young and open and empty. How unfortunate we continue to fill them with horror. New minds that should be looking out on to the wonder of the world, not the horror caused by grown men with no sense other than their desire ‘to win’.