Foxy Quote "I wish that none of us had to take sides.
And yet we do. We choose whose side we're on."

Just because a person writes comments that point out the bad points about a certain side in a conflict does not mean they take the side of the other party.

I have had very little respect for Israel for years after seeing video of there troops hitting Palestinian on the back with hammers to cripple them, as well as the numerous assassinations of people worldwide they have carried out.

Dear Philip S.,

So glad to read that you have a balanced view
point on this controversial problem.
I wish there were more people like you.

Hold a child who has been shot at this fence in your arms, watch it die there,then tell me needless deaths are OK, yes Hamas is a terrorist group, and yes truth is the first victim in the middle east,but some one even said that young lady was shot, in my view murdered, in the cross fire? what cross fire?who ever said those shot had guns? or fired them?murder, in the name of anti terrorism is never OK

Nobody was "murdered". Israel is defending itself from people whose philosophy is that Israel has no right to exist. Enough of the anti-Semitism and yabber about 'disproportionate force'.

Only when it is accepted that the evil rests in the underground hideouts of Gaza and not the streets of Jerusalem, will progress for all parties, particularly the Palestinians, be possible.

Only when Israel and the Palestinians will have
to meet face-to-face, listen to each other's
grievances and negotiate with honesty. Only then
and on the condition that both Israel and the
Palestinian state achieve safety and security will
this conflict be resolved. Neither side has a monopoly
on suffering, but only one party has the power to end
the occupation and to recognise that Israel and Palestine
are historically destined to share the same homeland.
At present Israel's vision is a concrete wall, with Jews on
one side and as many Arabs as possible on the other.

BTW: Criticizing 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.

Dear Belly,

You're absolutely right.

Shooting medical personnel wearing medical uniforms
is considered a war crime by the Geneva Convention.
And shooting a medical volunteer in the chest -
who ran with her arms raised above her head to help
a casualty clearly amounts to murder.