Poirot < As I mentioned, I've just watched a week or so of Israel slaughtering tiny tots.>

I do not believe there has been one Israeli rocket purposely fired at civilians with the purpose of killing women and children.

Why no mention of Hamas deploying their rocket launchers next door to hospitals and UN 'safe havens'? Why no mention of which side continually breaks the temporary truces or has spent peace time building numerous tunnels to attack the other side? In fact why no denouncement of Hamas full stop. If you would show some awareness that Hamas is the reason the bombs are falling in Gaza, your pleas for mercy from the Israelis might be better received.

You polarise people with your blinkered approach, as do some of the others with opposing views. Unfortunately, because we hardly ever see important Muslim leaders (or Countries) openly denouncing Muslim terrorists, it gives the impression Muslims as a whole are leaving it to the Western countries to resolve, which is something they also don't support.

The Boka Harams and ISIS type organisations need to be systematically wiped off the planet, regardless of which religion they claim to be promoting. There should be no place for barbarism in this day and age.

The problem of Zionism:

"There was a strong element of self-righteousness and
short-sightedness in the early Zionists and they
overlooked the presence of the Arab population and its
significance. They had the self-righteousness of victims
preoccupied with their own victimisation to the degree that
they could not even imagine that they could commit any kind
of injustice to another."

(Amos Oz. 2004)

"Criticising Israel is not anti-Semitic and saying so is vile.
But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international
sanction - out of all proportion to any other party in the
Middle East- is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest."

(Thomas Friedman, 2002).

@Foxy,

Here's a better rending of your quote:

There was a strong element of self-righteousness and
short-sightedness in [modern day Muslims & their camp-followers] they
overlooked the presence of the [infidel population] and its
significance [wherever they come to domionate]. [And] they
[have] the self-righteousness of victims preoccupied with their
own victimisation to the degree that they could not even imagine that they could commit any kind of injustice to another."

What do you call a one-eyed fox? A Slyclops.

Dear ConservativeHippie,

Even the White House has openly condemned Israel's
artillery strike on a UN girls' school in which
sleeping children were killed. Describing the shelling
of the school sheltering 3300 displaced Palestinians as
"totally unacceptable and totally indefensible."
It was one of the worst
mass casualty attacks of the three-week war and the
sixth time a UN school in Gaza has been hit. "The world stands
disgraced, this is an affront to all of us, a source of
universal shame." The Gaza Health Ministry says the
Palestinian death toll since fighting began and the number
of wounded has now risen to over 8295, while human-rights
groups say 80 per cent of the dead and injured are civilians.

Gaza's Housing Ministry's initial estimate on the damage caused
by the Israeli Defence Forces' operations is about $US 4 billion
($4.3 billion) and more than 5,328 buildings had been destroyed.

Since the start of "Operation Protective Edge" 63 Israeli
Defence Force soldiers have been killed.

The statistics speak for themselves in this sad state of
affairs as to who wields the power.

Moderate Muslim.

The greatest oxymoron of all time.

Dear SPQR,

You're out of your league here mate!
Take your colouring pencils and go
sit in the naughty-corner!