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?

We're galloping at full speed toward a situation where Israel will cease to exist as a Jewish state is not remotely the same as saying that Israel will cease to exist let alone that it will become the Palestinian homeland

I may become a bi-national satte as Peres thinks. Just a small step to change the name then.

you are such a total arsehole

"you are such a total arsehole "

Don't turn him on !

36 U.S. rights activists announced they will set sail to the Gaza Strip on board the sequel of an aid flotilla that was lethally attacked by Israeli naval forces in May 2010.

They said at a Monday press conference in New York that they would take part on the Audacity of Hope ship, one of the fifteen slated to join the international aid flotilla. The ship was named after U.S. President Barack Obamas best-selling book.

A friend close to Obama helped initiate the ship in July of last year. At the time, he announced it would carry $370,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.

Members of the European Parliament, other legislators from Europe, and hundreds of peace activists, politicians, legal experts, and media from some 40 countries worldwide are set to join the flotilla.

In a statement released by the European campaign to end the siege on Gaza, activists coordinating the ships have revealed that they have taken an oath among themselves to stand firm against a likely Israeli attack, and they said that this time around Israeli forces would have a difficult task trying to contain the ships.

squawk, squawk,squawk

More dead bodies then if they attack sailors with axes, baseball bats and iron pipes. Serve them right, too.
They've always been able to get non-contraband in after checking by the Israeli Navy or putting in to an Israeli port.
Now they can get stuff in through the open border with Egypt anyway, so if they want to put themselves in harm's way, then they deserve all they get LOL
P L E A S E parrot, do go on one of those vessels and attack an Israeli, P L E A S E LOL

Dear Palestinian Civilian
I want to tell you, from the other side of the divide in which we live, that I care. I care about you, your children, your wife or your husband. I care about your parents, your grandparents. I care about your future and that of your children and grandchildren and generations to come.

I care because I am a human being, a mother of beautiful sons and daughters that I love beyond measure. I care because I know that locked into the future of your family, is the future of mine. I am not stupid. I am not racist. I am not filled with hatred and a desire for revenge. I live on a hilltop that never knew a house before mine was built here. No Arab homes were destroyed to build my beautiful neighborhood; no Arabs suffered its loss. It was a barren, empty hilltop, owned by us thousands of years ago, then the Romans, then the Turks. The Jordanians got it from the British; and we liberated it back to our control in 1967, when the Jordanians refused our request to stay out of the war.

We fight with our brothers, they told Israel in 1967, and they did. They fought, and lost this piece of land, where no one lived, no village, nothing. People came to live here in the mid-1970s and have been building ever since. There are almost 45,000 people who live around me here on these hilltops surrounded by light and desert.

I love my house, with its large windows and the sun streaming in early in the morning. In the far distance, I can just barely see the Dead Sea; closer, so much closer, is the beginnings of the enchanting city of Jerusalem just a few kilometers away. But as much as I love my home and my city, if someone were firing rockets from a nearby house, I would run. I would grab my children and run as fast as I could. This isn't about rights; this is about life.

I cherish my husband and my children above all that I have, all that I am. I would run to the very corners of this country (but no, not beyond those corners). A bit over 2 years ago, the unthinkable happened. My son was serving in the army, as all young Israeli men do, and he was ordered to the border with Gaza.

Over a hundred rockets had been fired at Israel in a single month. The situation was intolerable. He was ordered to fire artillery into Gaza - at pinpoint targets where rockets were being fired at us; where mosques and hospitals were being used to shelter weapons and explosives.

Now again, just two years later, as he predicted when Israel stopped the Cast Lead war, your people are again firing on our cities. This morning - Beersheva; last night Ashdod and Ashkelon. It is impossible. It is intolerable. Even Israel, even Israel cannot withstand this barrage.

Yesterday, rockets were fired and our tank division immediately returned fire at the source of the incoming attack. These mortars and rockets you fire at us are incredibly portable. If we don't respond in seconds, like animals, your fighters will tunnel underground. We fired and hit the launchers, but 12 civilians were apparently also hit. And so I ask - not why you fired on us. I know the answer to that - it is the same culture that allows you to slit the throat of a 3-month old baby and stab a 3-year-old in the heart. It is the culture of the suicide bomber who carefully places himself between families hoping to maximize the dead. No, I know why you fire on us.

I know why we fire back too. We are trying to stop you, to protect our babies, our families. We cannot stand the cruel murder of another Hadass. Our hearts broke and continue to break. No, even Israel cannot allow this. So, I understand why we fired back at the rocket launchers yesterday.

What I cannot for the life of me understand is why your civilians are near the rocket launchers. So dear Palestinian civilians - we will do our best to avoid hitting your homes, unless you allow them to be used as rocket launchers. We will do our best to avoid hitting your mosques, unless you hide explosives there. We will do our best, but the wind and the earth, the inconsistencies of war, make it impossible that we can be accurate 100% of the time.

No, I won't point out the obvious, that your goal is to target our children while our aim is to avoid yours. I won't quote Golda Meir and her now-famous comment that this endless war will end when you love your children more than you hate us. I won't speak of your incredible hatred or your culture of martyrdom and death.

I will ask only one thing. It is logical. It is reality. If you live near a place being used as a rocket launcher, please run away. Please move. There is no other option. We cannot allow you to launch rockets at Beersheva. Don't you realize 185,000 people live there? Ashdod, Ashkelon. No, this is not possible. Sderot has suffered enough. So, Palestinian civilian, if you are truly innocent in this, truly a civilian who loves your family - go to the very corners of your neighborhood. Move away from the rockets because they will be stopped.

My oldest son took part in a war to stop the rockets two years ago. We had a partial success. You continued to fire, but at least it wasn't every day and certainly not a hundred in a month...until now. Once again, your people are attacking. At midnight in Ashkelon; at 5:30 a.m. in Beersheva.

No, we will not accept your people shooting rockets at ours and so all that leaves is an endless cycle of your attacking and our responding. We will do our best but you have a responsibility too. During the Second Lebanon War, which began after Hezbollah crossed into Israel and kidnapped two of our soldiers, our ambassador to the United Nations said something so simple and yet so profound. I offer you his words, please take them to heart.

"Sometimes," Dan Gillermann said, "sometimes when you sleep with a missile, you don't wake up."

I want you to wake up in the morning and see the beauty of the sun, as I do now, as it shines through the thick clouds over this mountain where I live. I want you to live because ultimately, your future is tied to mine and those of my children. But whether you live or die, whether your family is safe or not, depends as much on you and the decisions your duly-elected government makes, as it does on mine.

It is the nature of a government, at least ours, to protect its people. If you want to wake up to the sun tomorrow, make sure you are not near those rocket launchers today.

The flotilla is heading for Gaza because there is an illegal blockade of Gaza ports. They have said that they will not resist in a violent way. The preferred outcome is that Israel will be further isolated. They did a good job last time of setting quite a large part of the world against themselves.

The rockets are being fired at an occupying force. It is armed resistance against a rogue apartheid state. It will continue.

lets get to the true FACTS arabs are only happy when they beg instead of having to go to work . they are a lazy people

Tanker says it how it is.

parrot is a rogue copy and paste robot LOL
that's why he'll never get laid and never stop LOL

the red cross should a shamed of it self feeding and helping these terriorists

shut up tanks :-) ...... you're becoming as daft as a parrot

TEDxRamallah - Khaled Al Sabawi - Keeping Palestine Cool: A Different Kind of Underground Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fD2bMavK8Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Khaled Al Sabawi, a Palestinian-Canadian Engineer, received his degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2006 and later became the first certified Geothermal Engineer in the Middle East. Khaled installed the first geothermal systems in Palestine in 2007 and went on to becoming the Founder and President of MENA Geothermal, a Palestinian green energy business. MENA Geothermal was awarded the National Energy Globe Award in 2008 and is currently installing the largest geothermal system in the Middle East at a capacity of 1.6 MW megawatts at the University of Madaba in Jordan. Khaled was named "One of the World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs" by Global Post and was recently promoted to the position of General Manager of UCI, MENA's parent company and one of the largest real-estate development companies in Palestine.

Palestine, The Play

http://www.nhpr.org/node/29737

Growing up in privilege in New York City, Najla Said attended good schools, battled anorexia, and didn't really know from Muslim or Christian or Jew. In fact, she hung out with Jewish friends and passed for Jewish. Not so remarkable, except when considering that her father was Edward Said.

Said was one of the most distinguished literary critics of the latter 20th century; a trenchant advocate for the Palestinian cause and a staunch critic of Israeli government policy. Said taught English and comparative literature at Columbia for many years, was widely regarded by the left, and was dubbed "Professor of Terror" by the right wing American magazine Commentary.

Saids daughter Najla mostly stayed out his political orbit until her travels to the middle east brought her face-to-face with war, poverty, and her own identity as an Arab-American. An accomplished actress and playwright, Najla Said is now performing "Palestine" off-broadway at the 4th Street Theater in New York City. The memoir in monologue opened last night, and she joined us today from New York.

I suppose you'll get to the point eventually............

That was an unusual reply for you. You didn't call anyone a Nazi.

You're the only nazi here.
fahel is just putting his own side and being a Muslim in Jordan I don't expect objectivity
freddie is just a passe leftie
you're just a parrot and a nazi and beneath contempt, totally mindless

I do have a little respect for fahel, a smidgeon for freddie and merely despise you