Toxic coal sludge spill in Tennessee, air strikes in Gaza.

[cloudy]

In 1948 750,000 Palestinians were evicted from territory they had occupied for the better part of two millennia.

Been there, done that, didn't get a damn thing out of the deal.

I'm sure this will earn me some flames (bring it on), but I feel zero sympathy for Israel (as a whole). As a country, they've become just as much a bully as we have, if not more.

It was foolish for anyone to think that carving out a homeland, and displacing people as was done would lead to anything peaceful.

 

[rgraham666]

Will you let food, water and power into Gaza if they stop?

 

[starrkers]

Been there, done that, didn't get a damn thing out of the deal.

I'm sure this will earn me some flames (bring it on), but I feel zero sympathy for Israel (as a whole). As a country, they've become just as much a bully as we have, if not more.

It was foolish for anyone to think that carving out a homeland, and displacing people as was done would lead to anything peaceful.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[freshface]

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[freshface]

In 1948 750,000 Palestinians were evicted from territory they had occupied for the better part of two millennia. The resentment starts with that fact and failure to deal with it is why the problem exists today. Killing Palestinians has not fixed the problem in 60 years so why will it now? Any resolution has to recognise the right of Israel and Palestine to both exist and co-exist.

If you're going to talk about the 750,000 Palestinians who left Israeli territory, then you really should mention the 750,000 Jews who were evicted from the Arab nations at the same time. Most of them had been there for the better part of two millennia also. The difference is that the Israelis absorbed their refugees into their society. The Arabs thought that leaving the Palestinians in refugee camps made for a better story.

Agreed that it's going to take both sides to make peace. But as long as the Palestinians want to throw the Israelis into the sea, that's not going to happen. And I have to agree with Grateful Fred. If Tijuana was launching rockets toward San Diego and killing the odd American in his/her home, we would turn Tijuana into a smoking crater. Hamas can make it stop at any time. All they have to do is stop shooting missiles.

 

[Liar]

If Tijuana was launching rockets toward San Diego and killing the odd American in his/her home, we would turn Tijuana into a smoking crater. Hamas can make it stop at any time. All they have to do is stop shooting missiles.

Tijuana is a place. Places do not launch rockets. Neither does Gaza.

Please, do turn Hamas into a smoking crater. You'll find it hard to find anyone who is not ok with that. They are ruthless terrorist thugs. The question was, and is, collateral damage. How many Mexican kids would it be a-ok to kill, because some other people in Tiujana are launching rockets?

 

[freshface]

Tijuana is a place. Places do not launch rockets. Neither does Gaza.

Please, do turn Hamas into a smoking crater. You'll find it hard to find anyone who is not ok with that. They are ruthless terrorist thugs. The question was, and is, collateral damage. How many Mexican kids would it be a-ok to kill, because some other people in Tiujana are launching rockets?

True. But I really don't believe that the US would try that hard to sort them out. A couple of grieving parents burying children who had been playing in their yards and I think the US would do what it took to make the missiles stop. And if that meant giving the residents a deadline before making a smoking crater, then that's what would happen. Name me a country in the world that would sit idly by while the neighbors repeatedly launched rockets that killed civilians. And I blame Hamas for a lot of the collateral damage. Don't use the school as a base for terrorism and then cry because that school gets destroyed. Don't shoot rockets from an apartment complex and then call the Israelis barbarians for hitting the complex. Hamas is the government there right now. They have a choice in the type of war they choose to fight.