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?

LOL, balls of carbide steel required!

Cynic - surely they'd be able to tell from the hook nose and the horns?

perhaps more likely from the fizzing circular sphere that i was preparing to throw at them - though i suppose that would be deemed to be an over-reaction - lol!

Yes disproportionate.

that was the word .... i couldn't remember - lol!

Dementia huh ... apparently people affected by this should go and pummel a cushion.

good morning lickable one! ..... a bit of serious violence against the opposition also works .... the antidote to that sort of thing is apparently an increase of zinc in the diet

Marmite.

don't go that route - lol!

Maybe interesting to the unblinkered.

War propaganda often rests on the myth of eternal enmity: the current enemy must be portrayed as perennially and irredeemably vile. George Orwell aptly limned this mindset in his novel 1984

Interesting article.

http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/when-conservatives-loved-the-palestinians/

A large stockpile of unexploded weapons has disappeared in Gaza, before United Nations experts were able to dispose of it safely, the BBC has learned.

The explosives, including aircraft bombs and white phosphorus shells, were fired by the Israeli military during its recent offensive in the Gaza Strip.

UN officials said they were urgently trying to establish where the arms had gone and have called for their return.

Israel has accused Hamas of taking the stockpile, which was under Hamas guard.

Perhaps the Israelis are stockpiling Hamas with weapons to keep them going!

I give up, Fred - limned has stretched my linguistic capacities, aptly or otherwise.

peasant oh lickable one (whether choc or marmite!) ..... limned is actually to illustrate (as in illuminate a manuscript), but also to describe .... somewhat arcane to archaic!

Peasant with limited grey cells this afternoon :)

rat-arsed again?

I know a new word, I know a new word :)

Edit: nope :P
Ooh edit again: vielen Dank Liebchen ;)

de rien!

Is the present Israeli government made up of gangsters?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE51G1VF20090217?feedType=nl&feedName=uktopnewsearly

Not gangsters, Fred, intelligence operatives. We all do it.

I suppose Hamas is made up of kindly old gentlemen whose only concern is the welfare of the poor Palestinians.

For God's sake Fred, grow up, what do you expect the Israelis to do about a country that has vowed to wipe them off the face of the Earth and is openly setting about acquiring the means to do it.