Lift The Gaza Blockade – our ad in The Times

good one but how soon b4 we get that conference??

personally i prefer the nuremburg trial solution instead…

No… the Gaza Blockade is a safeguard that has been put in place to protect Israel's borders. Israel has a

right to protect its citizens – Jew, Moslem Arab, Christian & Samaritan from the daily missile attacks that

the people of Israel have endured for the past 8 years… over 6,000 rockets have been fired at Israel from

Gaza during that time… what other country in the world would have tolerated that for so long before

retaliating… And after sharing with the world that they knew the locations of the rocket-fire and the missile

stores which all had families living nearby… with young children that were being used by Hamas as living

shields… Israel warned the world press that unless the bombing stopped, they would retaliate and take out

those rocket bases in a few days. Before Israel took action, they warned the Palestinians living by the

rocket bases that would be targeted, by dropping over 1 million messages in Arabic asking people to move

away for the sake of their families & children's safety. They had plenty of time to vacate the bases, but some

chose to be martyred and despite Israel's 8 years of tolerance, the world's press seemed to support the

Islamic terrorists who use children as human shields.
No we have a similar story – Israel gave proper warning, but the people on the Free Gaza flotilla gave a

negative response… Here is evidence…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOmLP4yHb4
What was more impotant… the mission of getting aid to the people of Gaza or making a political point? I

suggest the latter…
Today in its decision, the High Court defended the IDF action against the flotilla.
Beinish ruled that during the takeover of the Marmara “the soldiers encountered a harsh and violent

response on the part of the flotilla participants on the ship. The soldiers were attacked with knives, clubs,

and metal rods. Attempts were made to snatch their personal weapons and to violently injure them. One of

the soldiers was even dropped over the side of the ship.”
Beinish also defended Israel's decision to block the ship's entry to the Gaza Strip: “In light of Hamas'

control of the Gaza Strip, Israel has take various steps meant to prevent direct access to the Gaza Strip,

including the imposition of a naval blockade on the Strip, which, according to the State's declaration, is

meant to block the infiltration of weapons and ammunition into Hamas ranks which have carried out

shooting and terrorist attacks in Israeli territory for years with the goal of harming civilians.”
“Israel,” Beinish explained, “made efforts to prevent the flotilla from reaching Gaza's shores to violate the

blockade. Among other things, the State offered the flotilla's organizers to unload the cargo carried on the

ship and to transfer the shipment, which was meant to reach Gaza directly through them, via Israel. This

offer was rejected.”
I do not support 38 Degrees decision to be pro-Palestinian when The 'Free Gaza' ships were a deliberate

provocation with pro-Palestinian activists & press on board. When will the media state the truth…
The old Palestine is… 4/5 JORDAN & 1/5 ISRAEL… we already have the 2 state solution. Israel is already

extremely over-populated compared to Jordan.
1. Lets consider LAND MASS of former Palestine in sq km…
http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/world_statistics_…

ISRAEL: 20770 sq km (less than the size of Wales)

JORDAN: 92300 sq km (the largest part nearly Wales X 4.5)

(WALES: 20779 sq km)

Israel was to be primarily for the Jews & Jordan for the Muslims.

JORDAN is BIGGER than Fr.Guiana, Azerbaijan, Austria, Czech.

ISRAEL is SMALLER than El Salvador, with a LARGER Population.

2. So lets look at POPULATION in July 08…

ISRAEL 7,112,000

JORDAN 6,199,000

How about asking WHY the Palestinians are not asking JORDAN to give up their much larger portion of

'Palestinian' Land? No doubt the Palestinians would be able to protest as much as they like against the

Jordanian occupation of Palestine as it is 98% muslim.
The Land of Israel is historically, geographically, demographically and spiritually the rightful home of the

Jewish people – it was not taken by force, but was agreed between Arab & Jew which resulted in the

Balfour Declaration.
I pray for peace. Shalu Shalom Yerushalayim.

We all, I'm sure, want peace in the Middle-East. This is unlikely to happen while Isreal continues to bulldoze Palestinian homes (about 25,000 to date) The building of new Isreali settlements (234, I believe) in Palestinian territory, clearly demonstrates Isreal's intention to dominate the Palestinian people.
Isreal currently has 65 outstanding UN resolutions against its name, not one of which has ever been enforced. The reason they are never called to account for their genocidal acts is very obvious. The State of Isreal is supported by very powerful Jewish/Zionist lobby groups in the U.S., who give $7 million per day in military aid.
Most of what POTTER said in his attempt to justify murder & genocide was rubbish. We are meant to accept the biblical account of the promise, made by God, that the Jews should have a homeland. Because it suits their purpose, the state of Isreal chooses to accept this total hogwash as factual & historically accurate. As it is ordained by God, their use of W.P. (white phosphorus) shells on civilian targets must be okay, despite the fact that Internation Law bans the use of these munitions.
Isreal has absolutely no intention of finding a peaceful solution to the troubles in the Middle-East. Their intentions have been made perfectly clear by their expansion into Palestinian, Egyption, Jordanian & Lebanese territories, their murder of around eight thousand Palestinians, and the wounding of thirty thousand (men,women&children). Small wonder the Palestinians are a little miffed.
European Jews, who were fleeing from the atrocities of Hitler's terrible onslaught, have displaced the indiginous people of Palestine by using flawed religious doctrine as their “fig leaf” of an excuse. Shame on Isreal, and on us for our complicity in their genocide.

POTTER, in his desperate attempts to shift blame onto Isreal's victims, cites the overpopulation of Isreal as the reason for Isreali expansion into regions which quite clearly do not belong to them. POTTER will be aware, of course, that the Third Rheich used the same arguements when they attempted to justify their expansion into Poland, Hungary, Russia, etc. They used many of the same tactics of violence towards, and oppression of, civilian populations.
In the Negrev region of Egypt, Isreali aircraft destroy the crops of farmers, who have worked their land for many generations, and pose no threat to Isreal, by dumping chemicals onto their land.. These people only want to feed their families, but they are in the way of Isreal's expansionist plans. Come on, POTTER, justify that.
It is not Isreal's place to decide which people are worthless, and whose land should be swallowed up by their burgeoning needs. They have been told countless times by the International Community that they are breaching International Laws. Each time, Isreal demonstrates its bloody arrogance, in true Nazi fashion, by ignoring every plea for an end to their disgusting behaviour.
I'm sure that most reasonable people are appalled by the horrors visited on European Jews during the holocaust. The state of Isreal has relied on that sympathy for many years, and has used it as an excuse for its own bad behaviour. Any criticism of Isreal is countered by the claim that those who criticise Isreal are anti-semitic. It has now worn very thin.
The state of Isreal was born out of terrorism, and it continues to this day. Isreali agents have murdered people all over the World, with no respect for borders, or the peoples of other countries. The Jewish lobby in the U.S. & U.K. couldn't care less who gets hurt. They are simply absorbed in their arrogant desire to wipe out any opposition to the state of Isreal. Right & wrong play no part in their thinking. They are extreme Zionists, who happen to have considerable wealth and influence. Without them, Isreal would not exist, and the flimsy biblical nonsense they spout would be treated, as it should be, like Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales. Who, in the 21st Century, can base the rights of Nationhood on the writings of primitive, ignorant and superstitious people, who recorded centuries old “Chinese Whispers”, as a way to explain things to uneducated people, who knew no better?

POTTER, in his sickening attempt to justify genocide, mentioned the “Balfour Declaration”. It appears that he believes that Arthur Balfour's declaration (2nd of Nov 1917) supports Jewish dominance in the region. POTTER has obviously not read the declaration.
Balfour talked of the “Establishment of a National home for the Jewish people, WITHIN PALESTINE”. He did not envisage the Jewish people taking over the whole show. This can be demonstrated by other passages in the declaration, including the following words: “It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may predudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities IN PALESTINE.”
Can POTTER tell us that the Balfour treaty, which he is so fond of, gives Jews the right to murder Palestinians and bulldoze their homes? Is that what he understands by “nothing shall be done which may predudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities” ??? I, for one, would be very interested in hearing POTTER'S re-interpretation of Arthur Balfour's words.

Come on POTTER, where are you? Defend your position. I am ready and more than willing to debate these issues with you. Don't run away.
We could discuss the Stern Gang, Irgun, and the other Jewish terrorist groups who murdered their way into Palestine (from Europe), and went on to be absorbed into senior political and military positions in the Isreali establishment. I have loads of facts and figures, including details of the assassinations of many who tried to reach a reasonable solution to the problem. Of course, the Jewish terrorist's goal did not include the Palestinians.
Would you like to argue these points, POTTER? I can name names, if you like. Let's see if your arguements will stand up to scrutiny, shall we? I'm challenging you to justify your position.

Using British Citizens passports to perpetrate criminal activity was the last straw and Israel has shown just how much the care about relations with Britain by taking that action. However, the blockade of Gaza has become a human rights nightmare. It seems Israel do not listent to anyone anymore but choose to go it alone. Lift the blockade now!

Are you serious or are you being Ironic? Cant work out if you really believe this or your just trying to be controversial. If the former, then I am speachless (dont you have access to news and internet) if the later, shame on you.

A few facts & figures for you to ponder. SINCE SEPTEMBER 2000.
Children killed——— Israeli 124 Palestinian 1,441
Total killed————– Israeli 1,072 Palestinian 6,348
Wounded ————– Israeli 8,864 Palestinian 39,019
Political Prisoners— Israeli (1) Palestinian 7,383

In addition to this, 24,145 Palestinian homes have been demolished to facilitate Israeli expansion, and 223 illegal Israeli settlements have been built in the same period.

Doesn't it make you proud of our polititians, who continue to refer to Israel as an “ally” in the Middle-East? No, I didn't really think it would.

how much time were the Palestinians given to evacuate?

To me it all seemed sudden.

If they knew there were so many civilians populated in that area, why would they drop mass amounts of rockets, bombs etc…? There are many other ways to target specific areas instead of blowing the place to bits.

They even fired on a civilian hospital, there were no militants in that hospital.

Not only on civilian hospitals, but ambulances, homes etc…

Then the blockade is causing a problem since those meds etc… are for civilians who need it.

I understand they want to use a blockade to check for weapons etc… but how long does it take to check a ship? it has been reported less than 20% of the seized supplies got through.

Where did all the other supplies go? if their so quick as seizing ships, then they should make them selves quick in checking the ships and releasing them and to stop firing on the personell on board of the ships.

Adil—– Israel isn't only concerned about weapons getting into Gaza, they do not want building materials to reach the Palestinians. If the Palestinians are allowed to rebuild, it will be even more difficult for Israel to justify their expansion into that territory. If, on the other hand, the destroyed buildings cannot be rebuilt, Israel will claim that the land is not being used, and whack another (illegal) Jewish Settlement on it. They are just hoping that their genocide will be complete before the rest of the world actually does anything about it.
Without America taking positive action, the Israeli's are free to do pretty well whatever they want. Due to the wealth & influence of the Jewish/Zionist lobby in the States, this is unlikely to happen. In twenty or thirty years time, when it is far too late to take action, kids will be taught about the Palestinian Nation in a matter-of-fact, detached and academic way. Politicions will trot out the old “We must learn lessons from this” speech, and the equally tired old line “We must never let this happen again”. Politicians will not learn from it, nor will they prevent it from happening again. The sad fact is that Politics is simply about taking power and retaining power. They are the biggest gangsters on the planet, and it is the ordinary people who suffer.

@ stephenhawkins
Oh dear so many people here do not seem to understand that the area of land that was the Historical PALESTINE equals today's JORDAN & ISRAEL.
(I'm P0TTER by the way and for your info Stephen, I am a grandmother who has been praying for the Middle East region for over 35 years.)
Of course I do not condone or excuse murder of any sort, but I do think that Israel has the right to defend its people, who happen to be 20% Muslim, from the kind of rocket attacks that they have endured over the past eight years… even this week. The Gaza blockade has been put in place by both Egypt & Israel to prevent more treacherous weapons being instilled at Gaza.
There are too many extremely complicated events that have happened over the past century and beyond for me to explain here for Stephen, who clearly knows very little about the history of the PALESTINIAN people, who for your information include ARAB JEWS! ie.Jewish people who lived in the historical Palestine.
Stephen can only seem to argue with hatred by by attacking me and accusing me of being part of the Third Reich reciting Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Stories – when the truth is that as he points the accusing finger at me, he has three more fingers pointing back at himself… which perhaps explains why he has such a bigoted narrow minded view and no understanding at all of the dire situation that we see developing in the Middle East. He would probably have echoed the disgusting Audio Insults from Flotilla “peace activists” aboard one of the pro-Hamas flotilla ships early last Monday morning who can be heard here telling a Navy dispatcher:
“Shut up, Go Back to Auschwitz. We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.asp…
Of course, the Muslims adore Hitler, because he killed many Jews, but they don't like the Turks, because of the Ottoman Empire and because they are not Arabs.
I don't know where Stephen is getting fed all the mis-information he is propagating that is completely unsourced… probably his historical knowledge comes from the newspapers, which have not informed him that EGYPT also has a blockade on Gaza in place – WHY do you think that is Stephen?; HAMAS has still been firing rockets from Gaza into the land of Israel within the last 48 hours; and JORDAN inhabits most of the land that within the last century was called PALESTINE which was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
From a historical perspective it was not the Jews, but the Jordanians who forcefully and violently kicked the Palestinian people out of JORDAN in the early 1970's (are you old enough to remember black September) – so why don’t the Palestinians make claims to those lands today? On 16th September 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to a fedayeen coup d’état to seize his kingdom — resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from Jordan.
For your info Stephen… some of those expelled Palestinians went to the West Bank which has been under Jordan’s rule and others went to join the Palestinian people of Gaza who have been there under Egyptian administration and Palestinian Authority rule since WW2. There is so much to understand about the conflict in the Middle East, but it is a fact that HAMAS runs GAZA and the ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT run the WEST BANK – both work towards the destruction of Israel as a state as well as restoring the “true faith” to the Muslim world.
FREE GAZA FROM HAMAS & THE BLOCKADE WOULD BE LIFTED!
…but that will not happen, because the facts are:
1. Gaza is run by Hamas who were voted into power in .2006
2. Hamas have close links with Iran.
3. Iran is run by a psycho who believes in the immanent return of the Mahdi (these people have diverse beliefs) and who will soon have nuclear weapons, and who has denied the Holocaust, and wishes to wipe Israel off the map.
4. If the Gaza siege is lifted, Iran will be able to ship much heavier military kit to Hamas, who will then use it to rain destruction down on Israel, only with rather more efficiency than before.
5. Therefore, Israel cannot raise the blockade. Ever.
They're stuck with it, or they commit national suicide.
Egypt also sees the serious threat of Hamas and still continues to secure its Gaza border blockade.
It is my belief that lifting the Gaza Blockade would spark a worse conflict given the facts of the past eight years…. the situation is dire and lifting the blockade could open the way for much more sophisticated weapons that could lead to WW3 – that is how serious the situation is.
See this very worrying video that was sent to me by a Turk…it went out on Turkish TV and was translated from an English News interview…
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=12055…
I support Israel's right to defend itself & I pray for peace.

@Simon
It is a well known fact Simon that our country along with many others have spies who use foreign passports or whatever means necessary to fulfil their worldwide missions. All governments operate in this way… not just Israel… Wake up!
Many governments organize counterintelligence agencies separate and distinct from their intelligence collection services for specialized purposes. In most countries the counterintelligence mission is spread over multiple organizations, though one usually predominates. There is usually a domestic counterintelligence service, perhaps part of a larger law enforcement organization such as the FBI in the United States. Great Britain has the separate Security Service, also known as MI5, which does not have direct police powers but works closely with law enforcement called the Special Branch that can carry out arrests, do searches with a warrant, etc. Russia's major domestic security organization is the FSB, which principally came from the Second Chief Directorate of the USSR KGB. Canada separates the functions of general defensive counterintelligence (contre-ingérence), security intelligence (the intelligence preparation necessary to conduct offensive counterintelligence), law enforcement intelligence, and offensive counterintelligence.
Military organizations have their own counterintelligence forces, capable of conducting protective operations both at home and when deployed abroad. Depending on the country, there can be various mixtures of civilian and military in foreign operations. For example, while offensive counterintelligence is a mission of the US CIA's National Clandestine Service, defensive counterintelligence is a mission of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), Department of State, who work on protective security for personnel and information processed abroad at US Embassies and Consulates.
Efforts made by intelligence organizations to prevent hostile or enemy intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against them. National intelligence programs, and, by extension, the overall defenses of nations, are vulnerable to attack. It is the role of intelligence cycle security to protect the process embodied in the intelligence cycle, and that which it defends. A number of disciplines go into protecting the intelligence cycle. One of the challenges is there is a wide range of potential threats, so threat assessment, if complete, is a complex task.
On your second point regarding the blockade, as I have explained in my answer to Stephen Hawkins, it is not just Israel that have the necessary blockade in place… The Gaza blockade has been put in place by both Egypt & Israel to prevent more treacherous weapons being instilled at Gaza.
What other country would withstand being bombarded by rockets and missiles on an almost daily basis for the past 9 years?
Imagine if Scotland were to begin to launch rockets into England every day… how long would the government sit back and do nothing? Then imagine that the Scots boasted that they were launching their missiles from populated areas and using people as human shields.
Would you agree that our government should act to stop the missiles? Then imagine that our government ordered that leaflets be dropped – over 20 million during the week before the attack – these to be released over the rocket-base areas, telling people to get their families away from the rocket-bases and into safe areas… do you think that would be a fair way of dealing with the situation?
That is what Israel did.
People who stayed knowingly put their family's lives in danger.
Hamas are still using people… even children, as human shields and they boast that anyone who dies will have the status of 'martyrs' in heaven according to the Koran.
One life lost is one too many. I pray for peace in the Middle East & suggest you do the same, because war is immanent according to many of the large Islamic nations surrounding Israel.

@ stephenhawkins
Oh dear so many people here do not seem to understand that the area of land that was the Historical PALESTINE equals today's JORDAN & ISRAEL.
(I'm P0TTER by the way and for your info Stephen, I am a grandmother who has been praying for the Middle East region for over 35 years.)
Of course I do not condone or excuse murder of any sort, but I do think that Israel has the right to defend its people, who happen to be 20% Muslim, from the kind of rocket attacks that they have endured over the past eight years… even this week. The Gaza blockade has been put in place by both Egypt & Israel to prevent more treacherous weapons being instilled at Gaza.
There are too many extremely complicated events that have happened over the past century and beyond for me to explain here for Stephen, who clearly knows very little about the history of the PALESTINIAN people, who for your information include ARAB JEWS! ie.Jewish people who lived in the historical Palestine.
Stephen can only seem to argue with hatred by by attacking me and accusing me of being part of the Third Reich reciting Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Stories – when the truth is that as he points the accusing finger at me, he has three more fingers pointing back at himself… which perhaps explains why he has such a bigoted narrow minded view and no understanding at all of the dire situation that we see developing in the Middle East. He would probably have echoed the disgusting Audio Insults from Flotilla “peace activists” aboard one of the pro-Hamas flotilla ships early last Monday morning who can be heard here telling a Navy dispatcher:
“Shut up, Go Back to Auschwitz. We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137887?sms_ss=twitter
Of course, the Muslims adore Hitler, because he killed many Jews, but they don't like the Turks, because of the Ottoman Empire and because they are not Arabs.
I don't know where Stephen is getting fed all the mis-information he is propagating that is completely unsourced… probably his historical knowledge comes from the newspapers, which have not informed him that EGYPT also has a blockade on Gaza in place – WHY do you think that is Stephen?; HAMAS has still been firing rockets from Gaza into the land of Israel within the last 48 hours; and JORDAN inhabits most of the land that within the last century was called PALESTINE which was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
From a historical perspective it was not the Jews, but the Jordanians who forcefully and violently kicked the Palestinian people out of JORDAN in the early 1970's (are you old enough to remember black September) – so why don’t the Palestinians make claims to those lands today? On 16th September 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to a fedayeen coup d’état to seize his kingdom — resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from Jordan.
For your info Stephen… some of those expelled Palestinians went to the West Bank which has been under Jordan’s rule and others went to join the Palestinian people of Gaza who have been there under Egyptian administration and Palestinian Authority rule since WW2. There is so much to understand about the conflict in the Middle East, but it is a fact that HAMAS runs GAZA and the ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT run the WEST BANK – both work towards the destruction of Israel as a state as well as restoring the “true faith” to the Muslim world.
FREE GAZA FROM HAMAS & THE BLOCKADE WOULD BE LIFTED!
…but that will not happen, because the facts are:
1. Gaza is run by Hamas who were voted into power in .2006
2. Hamas have close links with Iran.
3. Iran is run by a psycho who believes in the immanent return of the Mahdi (these people have diverse beliefs) and who will soon have nuclear weapons, and who has denied the Holocaust, and wishes to wipe Israel off the map.
4. If the Gaza siege is lifted, Iran will be able to ship much heavier military kit to Hamas, who will then use it to rain destruction down on Israel, only with rather more efficiency than before.
5. Therefore, Israel cannot raise the blockade. Ever.
They're stuck with it, or they commit national suicide.
Egypt also sees the serious threat of Hamas and still continues to secure its Gaza border blockade.
It is my belief that lifting the Gaza Blockade would spark a worse conflict given the facts of the past eight years…. the situation is dire and lifting the blockade could open the way for much more sophisticated weapons that could lead to WW3 – that is how serious the situation is.
See this very worrying video that was sent to me by a Turk…it went out on Turkish TV and was translated from an English News interview…
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1205574997833&ref=mf
I support Israel's right to defend itself & I pray for peace.

@Simon
It is a well known fact Simon that our country along with many others have spies who use foreign passports or whatever means necessary to fulfil their worldwide missions. All governments operate in this way… not just Israel… Wake up!
Many governments organize counterintelligence agencies separate and distinct from their intelligence collection services for specialized purposes. In most countries the counterintelligence mission is spread over multiple organizations, though one usually predominates. There is usually a domestic counterintelligence service, perhaps part of a larger law enforcement organization such as the FBI in the United States. Great Britain has the separate Security Service, also known as MI5, which does not have direct police powers but works closely with law enforcement called the Special Branch that can carry out arrests, do searches with a warrant, etc. Russia's major domestic security organization is the FSB, which principally came from the Second Chief Directorate of the USSR KGB. Canada separates the functions of general defensive counterintelligence (contre-ingérence), security intelligence (the intelligence preparation necessary to conduct offensive counterintelligence), law enforcement intelligence, and offensive counterintelligence.
Military organizations have their own counterintelligence forces, capable of conducting protective operations both at home and when deployed abroad. Depending on the country, there can be various mixtures of civilian and military in foreign operations. For example, while offensive counterintelligence is a mission of the US CIA's National Clandestine Service, defensive counterintelligence is a mission of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), Department of State, who work on protective security for personnel and information processed abroad at US Embassies and Consulates.
Efforts made by intelligence organizations to prevent hostile or enemy intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against them. National intelligence programs, and, by extension, the overall defenses of nations, are vulnerable to attack. It is the role of intelligence cycle security to protect the process embodied in the intelligence cycle, and that which it defends. A number of disciplines go into protecting the intelligence cycle. One of the challenges is there is a wide range of potential threats, so threat assessment, if complete, is a complex task.
On your second point regarding the blockade, as I have explained in my answer to Stephen Hawkins, it is not just Israel that have the necessary blockade in place… The Gaza blockade has been put in place by both Egypt & Israel to prevent more treacherous weapons being instilled at Gaza.
What other country would withstand being bombarded by rockets and missiles on an almost daily basis for the past 9 years?
Imagine if Scotland were to begin to launch rockets into England every day… how long would the government sit back and do nothing? Then imagine that the Scots boasted that they were launching their missiles from populated areas and using people as human shields.
Would you agree that our government should act to stop the missiles? Then imagine that our government ordered that leaflets be dropped – over 20 million during the week before the attack – these to be released over the rocket-base areas, telling people to get their families away from the rocket-bases and into safe areas… do you think that would be a fair way of dealing with the situation?
That is what Israel did.
People who stayed knowingly put their family's lives in danger.
Hamas are still using people… even children, as human shields and they boast that anyone who dies will have the status of 'martyrs' in heaven according to the Koran.
One life lost is one too many. I pray for peace in the Middle East & suggest you do the same, because war is immanent according to many of the large Islamic nations surrounding Israel.