Typical Paul style he supports Hamas, "BTW, what does Conroy make of the now 1,000 dead Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli death squads. When you start indiscriminately bombing non-combatant men, women and children, I would call you "filth", just I would call those who butchered innocent Israelis, "filth"."

You cannot get your facts right; Israel is not bombing indiscriminately non-Combatants. It has targeted attacks on Hamas strongholds and has warned Palestinians to move South. Israel has every right to destroy their enemy who murdered 1,400 noncombatants/ beheaded innocent babies and shot children and took 164 captives as shields.

"How's it going old cock? Good?"

How boring that has become! SR is like talking clock, wound up by a human when he or she has something to nasty to say. If the human with the key had just copied and pasted the very first post at regular intervals, we would still know everything he/she has to say about people, the world and events.

All of us living safely in Australia should try
not to take sides in this conflict. There's enough
of denial and blaming the other side as it is.
We don't need to add our opinions to this seemingly
unsolveable situation. Attacking each other does not
help. It makes things worse by arousing even more
negativity.

This is not about us. It's about the abused now
becoming the abusers. And that can apply to
both sides. Mediation won't take place until stronger
and more flexible leadership is found. Lets try to
encourage not discourage mediation. As I posted
earlier - and quoted Gandhi -
"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."

Anyone who is not against Hamas in this conflict is obviously a terrorist sympathiser, no ifs no buts if you aren't against Hamas. They also chose to endanger civilians by sighting their concentrations amid civilians.

Appeasement emboldened Hitler, & will do the same today with Hamas. Israel must do a thorough job of eliminating Hamas if it's people are to be safe.

Hasbeen,

Too right. There only two sides to this conflict: Israel and Hamas terrorists. It's one or the other. In wars, civilians get killed on both sides. And in this war, the killing of civilians on both sides is down to the terrorists, who actually started the conflict by killing civilians, not soldiers. This seems to be too hard to work out for the bleating, Richard Head Leftists on OLO.

This conflict has been ongoing since the formation of
the state of Israel. And it looks doubtful that it's
going to end anytime soon. Britannica has a great
deal on all the conflicts and causes for anyone
interested in finding out the history. And once you do
taking sides becomes more difficult.