Hamas could stop the Israeli action tomorrow, by agreeing to stop firing rockets into Israel, allow international monitors, get rid of the tunnels, stop smuggling arms into Gaza,stop hiding its military behind civilians, and repudiate its charter to "utterly destroy Israel".
Somehow I don't think this Islamist death cult is going to do any of these things, do you? It is going to keep using the population in Gaza to try to put Israel in a bad light, for its own political gain.
They have done absolutely nothing positive for the people of Gaza. They can't even deal in a civilised manner with their political rivals, Fatah.
I think Israel should ignore the squeals of outrage from hypocritical Islamo-fascists and their western apologists and just smash Hamas as soon as possible.
If Israel really wanted to cause more damage in Gaza, it has the means to do so, but in my view has shown a lot of restraint so far.

Johntas,

White Phosphorus is a particularly horrific WMD.

Despite initial denials it was indeed used against personnel in IRAQ.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4442988.stm

I'll spare you the links that show it's effects on people.

Mac,

Of course I'm serious as serious as the world was and still is after the Nazis Jewish Holocaust.

I wouldn't try to play the *hard done by* card against the Jews man, silly to even try.

meredith,

You haven't answered my questions on the previous post, especially as to why the Palestinans have been presented with the bill for the Holocaust. The Jews weren't the only victims of the Nazis or even the most numerous, the Slavs and the Roma were also marked for extermination,as not worthy of a life or land( rather like the Palestinians today )why not special homelands for the Roma survivors?

" I wouldn't try to play the "hard done by card" against the Jews.." what the hell does that mean anyway? If you have any arguments, please present them. I'll mention one card that has been played far to often, is accusations of "anti-semitism" against critics of Israel,it is rather threadbare and grubby with overuse.

Paying Attention, if only we all knew could it make a difference?

In our fight is against terrorism, "what is terrorism"?

Have we given up our freedom, individually?

If we talk to those who lost their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, and other loved ones in war..... what is it we could discover.... a "Pyrrhic Victory"?

I walked out of five formula mainstream journalism some 25 years ago. I walked out of Marketing, refusing to be the one to find manipulative strategies used to create mis-giuded consumer sales. At great cost to myself, I found I could not promote distortion. Celebrate war over hardship without awareness of the causalities.

In politics; I will not ask you to 'tighten your belt', as tax-payers over spending' allocated to budgets that create the cycle of Conflict - Terror, Fear and Poverty. If war has a place; "We" have abused it's strategy.

I am affirmative, a solider, having seen more in my life, concerning the victims of war, than I would know how to report. What is a true solider?

I am a journalist, having the code that stands square with the eye to see critically. What is a true journalist?

I am a citizen loyal with courage, I see the mirror we create for ourselves and I prefer the truth over the shelter confronts created by a fog glazed glass awash with false based pledges of emotion and displaced denials.

I wont chill out when people are being shot, raped of their future security; because our governments refuse to accept the truth.

Money can not buy me War.

I understand Fair Trade and Exchange, however buying war, marketing 'dog eat dog" partner deceptions to support my own comfort-zone means I suggest; we are economically [least we make the connections], Now - about to pay for it as citizens, by association.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5600677940569035557&hl=en

Our blindness has no excuse.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1237881540722380082&hl=en

My own interest is "what will Ms Hillary Clinton" do about Gaza?

What is the question we need to ask Now and where is Australia to be?

http://www.miacat.com/
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Dear miacat,

Kathleen Christison, wrote on 8 November 2003:

"...the most pernicious aspect of a political
philosophy like Zionism that masquerades as
democratic is that it requires an enemy in
order to survive, and, where an enemy does not
exist, it requires that one be created.

In order to justify racist repression and
dispossession, particularly in a system purporting
to be democratic, those being repressed and
displaced must be portrayed as murderous and
predatory.

And in order to keep its own population in line,
to prevent a humane people from objecting to their
own government's repressive policies, it requires that
fear to be instilled in the population: fear of "the
other," fear of the terrorist, fear of the Jew-hater.

The Jews of Israel must always be made to believe that
they are the preyed-upon. This justifies having forced
these enemies to leave, it justifies discriminating
against those who remained, it justifies denying
democratic rights to those who later came under Israel's
control in the occupied territories."