lobbing rockets is the equivalent of flipping the Israelis off? last I checked flipping someone off didn't kill them, sure it pissed em off but thats it.

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Wow. Some of you come completely unglued when the Indian nation kills more fish or crab than legally allowed or some fisherman kills a wild steelhead when prohibited, but you ardently defend the Israeli nation while they're committing war crimes.

Weird moral compass, I must say.






Disclaimer: Yes, we all recognize that Hamas is also guilty of war crimes.

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The Viet Cong, the American Revolutionary forces, the mujahideen and I had a little chuckle at that one.

ZZZing...

Oh, she's gonna hate that one... LOL!

We've already clearly established, and I believe everyone here agrees, Hamas is guilty of war crimes. But they're not alone.

Why is everyone fixated on the missle count? 1000's of missles result in <20 deaths over a period of years. Israel's response results in >500 dead in a matter of days. That's a war crime. And if you don't believe Israel's intention is the destruction of, and prevention of any Palestinian state, you're being intellectually ingenuous.

Defending Israel's actions are as immoral as defending Hamas'.

ZZZing Zilla!

Hmmmm, let's see. God gave those Ten Suggestions? Directions? Oh yeah, COMMANDMENTS to Moses, a jew, and one of those states "You shall not kill."

It's still just Hatfields and McCoys.

Oh yeah, now that the political theater has died down, I'm glad we could all find something new and worthwhile to argue about

Aunty,

I know what you were trying to say, but I just can't let a pitch like that go by without taking a swing.

What Israel will find out is that the harder they strike back, the less secure their lives will be. And the Palestinians will find out that the harder they try to wipe Israel off the planet, the harder the resolve of the Israelis to prevent that will be.

What I can't understand is why we as Americans feel the need to pick sides.........as it seems to me that both sides of that conflict are all f*cked up and, as usual, it's the innocents that catch the brunt of the aggression for both sides.

I find the whole conflict disgusting and disheartening.

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So Israel is lobbing better, more accurate missles, and thats a war crime?
Palestinians motives are pure whereas Israels are not?

Disproportionate response is a war crime by definition.

Absophuckinglutely.

interest=oil.

A little off base geographically, or put another way, Moses led the jews through the desert for forty years and then took them to the only place in the middle east without oil.

who are we really counting on to keep Iran in check?

Iran in check = U.S.A.

You think anyone else in the world cares about Uncle Sam ?

I am not sure how the U.S.A keeps Iran in check?I know we do not buy oil from Iran,but that in itself has little effect on Iran.China and Europe just take up the slack.Our economy tanking has hurt them more by bringing down the price of oil.

If Iran could wipe out Israel they would.That in itself tells me that they are a tool against Iran and in trying to keep some kind of stability in the middle east.Israel is at war with the same people that would love destabilize the middle east and cut off oil supplies to us.I know that we do not buy that much oil from the middle east but it is sold on a world market.Disrupt the flow out of the middle east and the price of oil will sky rocket.I myself would like to know we had Israel as an ally in the middle east to combat this.

Iraq USED to keep Iran in check...



NO... they wouldn't, IMO. The hardline govt. likes to talk big... but in the end it's just talk. The people of Iran are very pro-western and would like nothing more than to live in peace and prosperity. Plus, HOW would Iran "wipe out" Israel? With nukes? VERY unlikely! By a conquering ground assault? VERY unlikely! There's NO WAY that Iran could establish and maintain the logistics to occupy Israel... AND they know we would NEVER allow it.