Israeli forces advance deep into Gaza urban areas

DEAR ISRAEL :

YOU HAVE A PERCEIVED STEREOTYPE FOR BEING A DIRTY LITTLE COWARDLY PEOPLE.

KICK HAMAS BUTT.

OUR PRESS TELLS AMERICANS YOU WANT A TRUCE AND HAMAS TERRORISTS ARE STILL SENDING YOU ROCKETS.

CONSIDER IRAN IN YOUR FUTURE PLANS; WHEN WILL THEY HAVE THE POWER TO BLOW ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF PLANET EARTH ?

EVERYONE LOOKED THE OTHER WAY WHILE ADOLPH BUILT UP THE GERMAN ARMY.

<< Fascism sees the struggle of a nation or race as requiring the utilization of violence to preserve and promote it such as through the threat and use of political violence against against political opponents or people that fascists deemed enemies of movement itself or their nation or race, as well as the threat or engagement of war against other countries to advance the interests of a nation or race >> ( Wikipedia). Unfortunately, humans are forgettng history and utilize facist policy to promote nationaliies at the expense of humanity. The land of Jesus becomes the land of hatred, violence and intolerance. Learn from animals. They don't kill for nationality or ideology.

How do you think the US would react if, lets say, Florida was bombed EVEN ONCE by Mexico? Now take that and imagine Florida was under constant missile attack for 8 YEARS.
So - how do you think the US would retaliate? in my opinion it will wipe out mexico from the face of the earth. Just like they're wiping out Iraq and Afghanistan.
How would you feel if you lived in a city under constant attack? what would you say to the govermnemt officials that call out peace and truce? when your children can't attend school properly, when people wait at bus stops but never get to board the bus. How would you feel?
And how would you feel if you drove on a road (you payed for with taxes) and suddenly a mob would pelt your car with rocks and stones? how would you feel if your daughter riding in the back seat would get her head crashed by one of those rocks?
How would you feel about not being able to enter malls, train stations, public parks etc without having the constant fear some crazed Islamic extremest would blow up in your face?
How would you feel about sending your 18 year old son to a possible fate of death - not because he chose to enlist to the army but because he has to by law?
If you have no idea how you'd feel about all of the above - come live in Israel for a while. Just to see if you get the feel of it. Maybe then you'd be less prone to call us brutal criminals.

Hamas attacks bus stops, cafes, and markets. Israel attacks Hamas government buildings and field operatives. Regardless of which side is the rightful owner of the area, the specific targeting of innocent civilians by Hamas missiles is cowardly, hiding behind their own civilians when the time comes to pay the price is even more cowardly.

The vituperative tone of the comments posted illustrates the visceral hatred that the supporters of the belligerents have for each other.One shudders to think of the hatred that the belligerents have for each other.And only people with a tin ear can have the illusion of peace here.

MY point is that all this talk of a Jewish or Palestinian "Homeland" is a bunch of crap that someone long ago scribbled on some papyrus to justify a whole lot of things that were wrong then and are even more wrong now.
I don't want to pay taxes to support a bunch of savages -- on both sides, or even on one side -- in their genocide. Saying you are "defending" yourself by dropping bombs on defenseless babies and women who don't even have an army is far more outrageous than firing shoulder-launched rockets at people who HAVE jets and tanks.
They're all mad, and I don't want my taxes to sponsor it anymore. You can find justification in the Bible for genocide, slavery, incest and rape, I don't accept references to the Bible in support of EITHER side. My love for the Bible doesn't close my eyes to the difference between the whole sections of it that are Jewish mythology that even they know are fables and history or reality.

For six decades, the agonizing conflict between in the Mid-east continues with complete disregard of loss of human lives, particularly the poor and the innocence. Each side adamantly if not vehemently argues that it has the right to the territory, ignoring the intermittent pleas of the international community for peaceful co-existence.

One would have wished that in a few days time, the New Year could have ushered in a new hope for the region that gave birth to three of the greatest religions of the world. But, sadly, rockets have been fired from the ground and bombs rained from the sky, eradicating whatever anticipation there may be for a more tranquil 2009.

Has the faith in different religion become one of the main causes of the carnage? To a large extent, the mighty religions shared the same root, teaching love, care and respect. It would be beyond conventional wisdom that sibling squabbles can result in such a lengthy antagonism and bloodshed.

Human beings seem to have been blinded for millennia by self-fulfilling belief and arrogance, thinking that one is always right while others must be wrong. Such selfishness, intolerance and narrow-mindedness contribute in no small way to all the hostilities in human history.

And yet the dark human nature pervades all corners and persistently impregnates the mind. Does the world NEED ANY RELIGION?
(Tan Boon Tee)

When the United States and Britian invaded Iraq I don't remember anyone trying to get "an exact count" of how many Iraqis were killed. In fact, even today no one gives even "an estimated account" of how many Iraqis have been killed. Why is it only when Israel has a war everyone in the media becomes so obessed with how many people were killed?

Israel is a powerful nation with nuclear capability and needs no other nation to act as its cheerleader to that nation's own detriments by gathering more hatred from the arab world. There are so many other nations desperately needing help. Why bother chearleading for the strong? Yes, we can help many other nations

It is doubtful that the new president of the US and his seemingly illustrious team could do anything more or better than the outgoing administration as far as the Middle-east impasse is concerned. Most likely than not, there will be yet another extremely long tussling round of negotiations with hardly any possible glimpse of amicable solution in the near future.

Just a few days after the end of the six-month precarious truce, Israel bombed Gaza (Dec 27) in retaliation to Hamas rocket attacks in the border region. One Israeli died and some 200 Palestinians perished as a result. The Israeli defense minister warned that the nation reserves the right to hit the Hamas again if the latter does not stop its violent act.

An eye for an eye, is this anything new in the near six decades of Middle-east conflict? With each party persistently claiming their rights without the slightest compromise, when will the bloodshed end?
(Tan Boon Tee)