Will this increase or decrease the likelihood of terrorist actions in America, Europe and the rest of the world?

If you were a member of a family murdered in this conflict, would you be seeking revenge?

Should Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert, be tried for war crimes if or when this conflict comes to an end?

What will the price of oil be in 4 weeks time?

5898 - the syrians tried that .... shame their arab friends and neighbours don't take a proper robust stance instead of hiding in their tents

Israel is occupying the West Bank illegally and taking more and more land in that area.

The occupation of what is currently called Israel is another matter.

there you go again!
your comment that israel is acting reprehensibly in encroaching further and further on the west bank has much validity ..... whether israel should have any presence there at all is more of a grey area, but this pavlovian rubbish the occupation of what is currently called Israel that you always manage to tag in somewhere, just destroys any sensible argument that you may be propounding

will you ever learn?
i fear not

The Israelis are facing a tough quandry.

Another military intervention? The last one proved effective for only a very short while before the missiles started raining in again.

A political solution - Demolish settlers houses and pull out? In the hope that Hamas will see sense? They tried that a couple of years back in Gaza too - and it was a disaster. Resulted in more attacks rather than fewer.

A blockade on ports and borders to prevent raw materials for rockets from getting in? That's been in place for years and seems entirely ineffective.

It pains me to say it but I think they have no option but to take the military option again. Maybe even take back the part of Gaza that they handed back. And I'd expect them to go in harder than last time, regardless of how disproportionate the world's media will paint it.

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It is not Hamas that is firing the rockets. They would be quite happy for the rockets to stop.

cynic your posts are very good and true .
if i was the israelis i would go in and empty gaza
after i gave them notice that the next rocket we would send over hundreds of rockets but big ones

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i would personally much prefer to undo the damage already done by the anglo american tinkering and unrecognise israel as per pre 1947 when israeli terrorists bombed the british out of palestine and then grabbed all the land for themselves forcing millions of palestinians to live in refugee camps which still exist today!

hay . and i do not believe in a god ,
so would have no regrets israel must
stop them like tonight i would noot allow them
to sleep at night

Look at my post 5880. Several prominent Israels have also said that if they were Palestinians then they would be firing rockets as well.

Former kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit's father Noam said Wednesday that if he was Palestinian he would try to kidnap IDF soldiers.

Schalit, who is running for a Knesset seat with the Labor Party, paraphrased former Labor leader Ehud Barak, who shocked many people when he told anti-Israel activist Gideon Levy in a 1998 interview that if he were Palestinian, he would have joined a terrorist organization.

“We also kidnapped British soldiers when we were fighting for our freedom,” Schalit said in an interview with Channel 10, referring to pre-state Zionist paramilitary organizations during the British mandate.

sorry, but who cares what you cut and paste .... you could find far as many nutters who would say that given half a chance they'ld drop a few bombs with anthrax spores on the palestinians

TANKS - try to differentiate between what i write quite seriously and what i write in jest ..... also, perhaps read the whole of the post :-) .... btw, i assume your nags are still running

Cynic,

Sometimes, I find it difficult to differentiate between you being serious and jesting.

Mind I find it difficult to take you too seriously.

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What I am struggling with, is that "international law" allowed the change of ownership of land to those of Jewish beliefs, without consent of the landowners of the period, but will not accept that those bequests are not written in stone, and if “international law” deems land belongs to a previous owner, it is not returned.

But, perhaps I am a little suspicious of the reasons for the bequests in the first place.

A pity Balfour didn’t have the gift of foresight.

is pakistan a legit country?
how about mongolia or tibet?
closer to your favourite area - how about iraq?
or at home - wales? scotland? should ireland be a single entity?

Was Palestine a legit country ?

i intentionally avoided that question as it just panders to certain loonies on this thread - not necessarily including fred!

Was Palestine a legit country ?

Finders keepers ?

see above .... and no

perhaps ask yourself (and others) what criteria do you use to determine whether or not a country is "legit"?

One or more legs.

cynic yes still on the track . but a nice day .
today i am having 100 pounds ew on fox appeal at 16.1

fred - i trust you are not a pander, unless you have some very pretty girls on your books :-)

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