Hi AC,

I agree with what you say; "The collateral damage on non-combatants, double tap strikes on paramedic and rescue teams and sheer number of dead women and kids equates to war crimes in my opinion, regardless of which side was responsible for the hospital event."

I did enjoy this piece with Pearce Morgan.

http://www.reddit.com/r/friendlyjordies/comments/17bd1pb/comedian_clowns_piers_morgan_catches_him_lying/

Hi Paul,
What we've seen so far may just be the beginning.
Let's all hope that innocent lives are spared from what may yet happen.
If Israel sends ground troops into Gaza, things could quickly spiral out of control.
Hamas didn't start this conflict on a whim.
They have obviously been preparing for it for some time, and they most likely know Netanyahu well enough to anticipate how he will respond.
- Which is probably why he hasn't sent troops in just yet.
It may just be exactly what Hamas wants and has prepared for.
On the other side, it may well be exactly what the US wants as well
- A reason to go to war with Iran.
Muslim nations are on edge, and probably ready for a fight.
The situation has the potential to go real bad, real fast.
Netanyahu is backed into a corner and has little choice but to go into Gaza, I'm not sure he can back away, but doing so may set off a huge chain of events.

Hi SteeleRedux
Nice find, that may be one of the best examples I've ever seen of a guest completely nullifying an interviewers attempt to control and steer a discussion with sarcasm.
It was so good I don't even know where Piers Morgan was going.
He was completely shut down from the get-go.

Dear Critic,

«They have obviously been preparing for it for some time, and they most likely know Netanyahu well enough to anticipate how he will respond.
- Which is probably why he hasn't sent troops in just yet.»

That is not the reason. The troops are using the time to equip, train and make detailed plans. They are also tactically better off to wait a few more days and encounter an enemy that is more hungry, thirsty, tired and depleted of ammunition and battery power, and less civilians too.

«Netanyahu is backed into a corner and has little choice but to go into Gaza, I'm not sure he can back away»

Netanyahu is no longer relevant - he does not control the army.
The Israeli army now wants to go into Gaza and finish the job and nothing Netanyahu says could change that.

Military discipline is now out the window. When Netanyahu came to talk with a group of reserve soldiers who are waiting to enter Gaza, he was openly booed and called "liar". He then just turned around and gave up on speaking with the soldiers. At other times a severe disciplinary action would ensue, but not now when Israeli soldiers who were sentenced for all sorts of disciplinary infringements are being released from military prisons en mass to join the fight.

The Greens and Labor left want to protect these animals. They are morally bankrupt and complicit in these horrors.

"They weren’t hunting for Israelis, much less for soldiers; they were hunting for Jews. Their instructions were simple: kill as many as you can. Nor were the civilian casualties collateral damage: they were the objective. And maiming babies, butchering children, raping women and defiling corpses wasn’t the work of a handful of sadists; they were a pervasive feature of the operation.

At least the Einsatzgruppen – the Nazi brigades who murdered nearly half a million Jews in a matter of months, forcing their victims to stand naked at the edge of mass graves before shooting them through the head – tried to hide their crimes, showing they had some inkling of breaching morality’s fundamental principles. Hamas’s killers did the opposite: they videoed their atrocities and posted them – to howls of joy that echoed from Gaza to Lakemba – on the internet.

Only one word can describe these people: evil. To use the term may seem as anachronistic as speaking of abomination, uncleanness or iniquity. Even the Oxford English Dictionary tells us “evil” has been “commonly superseded, in familiar speech, by “bad”. But exactly as we know good from bad, so we can differentiate evil from ordinary wickedness – and this was it."

Hi AC,

Spot on as usual, the political game is obviously in play and Netanyahu is under mounting pressure domestically from his extreme Zionists allies to act, as well as international pressure from America.

BTW, I was expecting that Old Fart Biden to step off the plane wearing a dressing gown and bed slippers, sipping a mug of coco. He's totally potty!

Now we have the Village idiot trying to give moral fibre and justification to his beloved "Einsatzgruppen"! What a turkey!