This is not PC but I'm so sick of Israel, I'm one of those who used to support it but now I'm almost totally pro-Palestine and it's call for a Palestinian state etc etc. Israel wants to have it's cake and eat it too but it is surrounded by potential enemies and not allies, it needs to tread lightly. When nations do this in Africa they are condemned but noone has condemned what Israel is doing. A$$HOLES!!!!!

the militants are shooting missles into their country, do you know how many jews were displaced after isreal agreed to move off of the gaza strip? hamas is constantly poking at isreal to get them to react and when they do, hamas screams and cries to anyone who would listen. its a political ploy they use to gain international sympathy, but they do it at the cost of civilians.

Nobody's hands are clean when it comes to this. I see them as being like two stubborn bulls ramming their thick skulls into each other over and over until they'll both eventually fall over dead.

FYI, an update - Israel agrees to ease Gaza blockade.

I know how many were displaced but I come from a country where electricity is hard to come by and as someone who has nursed someone in a hospital for over 6 motnhs i know how important electricity is to the ordinary day in day out and there are other ways to get your point across than endangering the lives of sick people. It's really hard for me to feel sympathetic to Israelis right now because of this. And as for Hamas cryign both sides are guilty of crying out and doign silly things politically. Let me rephrase my statement i made before," I am pro-the innocent civilians of Palestine who have to suffer because a bunch of old men can't get along"

thanks for the update freegrace and thank God for that!!! But i'm sure enough damage has already been done.

there are also better ways to get your point across than lobbing missiles at Israeli civilians. it's a complicated situation at this point that is a tad more complex than simple name calling can solve.

The Palestinian-Isreali conflict has a long sordid history - I'm sure this won't be the last problem we see from that region.

The United States needs to stop supporting one side over the other... it's not our responsibility to decide who is right and who deserves which portions of land. When we keep sending Isreal weapons and supplies, we're only feeding the conflict. Sadly, America shares some of the responsibility for the repetitive crisis.

unfortunately, we need isreal. they are a nuclear country (our doing i know) and we need to have allies in the middle east. especially now, we have the same issue with pakistan. we have so much money in aid and weapons that its too late to say, "oops sorry we effed up, you suck now. can we get a refund?"

unfortunately, we need isreal. they are a nuclear country (our doing i know) and we need to have allies in the middle east. especially now, we have the same issue with pakistan. we have so much money in aid and weapons that its too late to say, "oops sorry we effed up, you suck now. can we get a refund?"

what baffles me is how all these nations can trace the source of e-coli to one farm out of possibly millions of farms but they can't nab terrorists. So baffling. i'm just sick of this whole conflict but i'm firmly behing the Palestinian citizens they have suffered the most out of this senseless conflict which could be solved if religious differences and pride were set aside.

Many things would be solved if the West stopped boxing everyone in the region into groups. Yes Hamas is a Militant organization but only 5% of it. The other 95% provides schools, hospitals, social services etc which no one else does in the area. So no wonder they are going to be heroes to the Palestinians and their actions condoned. When the west refuses to accept that Hamas is the DEMOCRATICALLY elected party of choice it misses out in a chance to bring everyone to the table and begin talking. If the West continues to make Hamas the villain of the play, then they'll probably act that part.

Julius very good point.

JC, i understand what you're saying, but technically, the US is not disputing that Hamas is the legitimately elected representative of the Palestinian people. What the US has done is refuse to negotiate with Hamas until they renounce violence as a means and renounce pushing israel into the sea as an end.

I think it's very easy for people who live in "democratic" nations to see black and white only and not grey. It's really hard to understand the reasons or the politics of living in a conflicted nation and how what may seem so wrong to other people seems like the only way. violence seems to be the means to an end and when people are being blockaded it only drives them to side with a cause that they may not have necessarily taken before. Forget what the US says, forget the missiles, just try and imagine no electricity, watching the food you worked so hard for rot, the chaos at the hospitals, etc. US foreign policy is rubbish it's ineffectiveness in all the dictatorships and strife torn areas of th world show how backwards it is. a new solution is needed and the US should not play any part in it. we need the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's of the world to get it right.

I try to be neutral when it comes to this problem, because in both sides there are people suffering, but I have to agree with you nyaradzom2001. Israel is violating so many human rights and someone has to stop them. I've read some reports of Amnesty International about the situation and this is just over the top. This is not going to lead to a pacification, the UN should do more, and also the United States. If these people vote for Hamas is because they give them what they don't have, and Palestinians are living like cattle, in very extreme conditions and people is dying every day. It's true that terrorism is a huge problem, of course, but that shouldn't be the excuse to kill so many innocent people.

Yeah right, Israel cares about causing a humanitarian crisis? Over the past 50 years they have pushed 4 million Palestinians out of their land, bulldozed homes, farms, and people (indiscriminately - see Rachel Corrie), and this is the FIFTH time they're starving out Gaza. I'm all for peace and justice and an end to terrorism, but I cannot blame that .0001 percent of Palestinians who are violent for reacting the way they do - I cannot honestly say I wouldn't do the same if I had no way to escape.