What Happens Next?

The Geneva Convention as well as the UN Charter have resolution that say in effect: land acquired through war cannot be retained. The object was to discourage war. LIke other US Resolutions, 242 for instance, the Jews have ignored this Resolution, yet they constantly complained before their last invasion of Palestine, that the Palestinians did not abide by UN Resolutions; Bush, of course, supported the perverse views.

Launching attacks from the most densely populated area on earth and screaming that civilians were hit in the retaliation is also absurd.

The monstrous conduct of the Zionists in their cruel treatment of the Palestinians in general and the Gazans in particular is nothing less cruel and inhuman. The Zionists claim that they are responding to attacks on them by Hamas. That lie is transparent; the Zionists have killed over 135 Palestinians before this current slaughter. The Zionist government of Israel is the only so-called nation on the face of the earth that utilizes murder as an integral component of its foreign policy - its so-called selective assassinations. The Zionists do everything possible to insure the misery of the population of Gaza: All borders are sealed off, land as well as sea. Often vital supplies are restricted: food, water, fuel. Their apartheid wall insures the complete restriction of their movement and they are subject to the miserable humiliation of having to wait in long lines for hours in rain, boiling sun and other horrible conditions in order to pass through the Zionist-controlled check point.

Both Carter and Mandela have written about the atrocious policies of the Zionists, all to no avail. Sadly, it makes on look forward to the day when Ahmadinejad can keep his promise to erase Israel from the face of the earth. These people are implementing the kind of treatment on these people that compares to their own treatment by the Nazis. They should look into their own history before it is too late.

The monstrous conduct of the Zionists in their cruel treatment of the Palestinians in general and the Gazans in particular is nothing less cruel and inhuman. The Zionists claim that they are responding to attacks on them by Hamas. That lie is transparent; the Zionists have killed over 135 Palestinians before this current slaughter. The Zionist government of Israel is the only so-called nation on the face of the earth that utilizes murder as an integral component of its foreign policy - its so-called selective assassinations. The Zionists do everything possible to insure the misery of the population of Gaza: All borders are sealed off, land as well as sea. Often vital supplies are restricted: food, water, fuel. Their apartheid wall insures the complete restriction of their movement and they are subject to the miserable humiliation of having to wait in long lines for hours in rain, boiling sun and other horrible conditions in order to pass through the Zionist-controlled check point.

Both Carter and Mandela have written about the atrocious policies of the Zionists, all to no avail. Sadly, it makes on look forward to the day when Ahmadinejad can keep his promise to erase Israel from the face of the earth. These people are implementing the kind of treatment on these people that compares to their own treatment by the Nazis. They should look into their own history before it is too late. To bomb one of the densest populations in the world killing many civilians and then claim they did not intend to kill civilians is patently absurd.

How can Americans claim moral superiority when it was Israel who started this war by occupying already occupied lands?
If the Palestinian side got help as good as what Israel is getting from the US, would we insist on defending them? Why? I just don???t understand these religious obsessions and what is making this country commit itself so much to the existence of a belligerent pet-state.

Palestinian people, don't worry, your faforite Hamas and its lovely leaders will survive this storm. Those pitiful dovish Israel leaders started it only wit one purpose - to survive the coming elections. They need you to calm down for couple months, and when grateful Israeli citizen re-elect their parties - they will resume their traterous politics, that it bribing terrorists. They show "restrain" on every step, such as warn your leader to go to bunkers before bombing their houses and goverment buildings. Even 300+ dead Hamas fighters was big surprise for them - who could think that Hamas was so reckless with their rockets, and huge secondary explosions woul;d kill so many terrorists and few civilians around? Don't worry, whatever they say - there will not be decisive ground invasion, it is only for show. As soon as Hamas gets the mesage and agrees for truce for few months and fire only couple rockets a day - everything will come back.
But in 3 months.. Israeli voters will not let fool them again, bring Likud to power, amd then Allah help ypu.

Gazans elected and love Hamas which has been deemed to be a terrorist group by just about every nation on earth.This terrorist group is using the most densely populated area on the planet to launch and sustain attacks on a very powerful neighbour.What happens next is not rocket(qassam)science.

The UN is a pathetic organization. People may praise it from time to time or talk about how it is important to listen to it--but all of that really deals with the ideal of the organization. Just look at Newsweek's top 50 most powerful people: the UN doesn't even get a nod.

The civilians in Gaza deserve to be hit so long as they stand behind an organization that plans to hide behind them while attacking their much more powerful neighbor. The Hamas strategy for defending their people has for a long time been to rely on Israeli forbearance. That's not a strategy deserving of respect.

The israelis have to get out of the west bank settlements and the palestinians have to accept the 95 percent solution that afafat rejected. In the meantime if hamas continues to fire rockets into israel then they have to expect that at some point israel is going to retaliate. it is true that attacks should not be made against the general population, but by the same token bomb making facilities, weapons storage sites, and rocket launches should not be made using the civilian population as a shield.

An interesting perspective and we certainly have to feel some sorrow for the Palestinians trapped in this fighting. However it appears that Newsweek wants us to only feel sorry for the Palestinians and not the innocent Israelis that have suffered from attacks. While I feel empathy for the Palestinians I also realize that it has been the people the Palestinian people have placed into power or allowed to remain in power that have consistently refused to recognize Israel's right to exist and negotiate with them in earnest. How could right thinking persons ever place an organization like Hamas in power? This conflict will never end until the Palestinians put into power a government who will negotiate in earnest. Israel has offered many concessions in the past only to have their hand bitten.

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A little history lesson is in order.

The Arab peoples in the region in 1947-48 chose to heed the commands of the leaders of Trans-Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon when they told them to leave their homes while their combined armies "drive the jews into the sea".

Do you get that sir?

They were complying with plans to commit genocide.

Where is your outrage about that?

The arab countries lost the war they started with the infant nation of Israel and the land that had been designated as the arab nation in Palestine.



There are prices to be paid for war when you lose and theirs was the loss of the lands. If the war had gone the other way, Israel would not exist today and you can be sure that the Arabs would never have given them a foot of land to live on...as Israel did when they cede Gaza..not once but twice to the Arabs in exchange for promises of peace that have yet to be fulfilled.

Those displaced arabs were never allowed to settle in the countries they evactuated to. They languished in refugee camps for decades..and for generations...because the leaders of those countries refused to accept them into their populations because they wanted them to live as martyrs to their causes. They wouldn't help those people build permanent homes, schools or hospitals but they went to great lengths to school them to blame all their woes and miseries on the jews, Israel and the U.S.

You saw in this man's story above the vile methods that Hamas resorts to. He was worried that Hamas would fire missiles at Israel from near his home...making it a target. This is what Hamas does. They fire missle from schoolyards and hospitals, daring Israel to attack their armaments in those locations so that they can use the civilian casualties in the propaganda campaigns.

I do feel great empathy for the Palestinian people because they have been human pawns for six decades and at least 3 generations. They have been used by the rulers and leaders of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, the PLO, Hamas, etc. They are paying the price for other people's political agendas and greed for power.

They will never know peace or have any security until they rid themselves of the shackles of the oppression that groups like Hamas have put on them.. Shackles made of chains of hate.

Golda Meri said it best, "There will be no peace in the Middle East until the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.:

Truer words have never been spoken.

It is a shame that human emotion can so powerfully cloud reason. I find it tragically sad for both sides when people, who have legitimate feelings, are unable to separate direct cause and effect logic and are willing to perpetuate an eternity of conflict. Of course the side that this is more characteristic of will not recognize themselves.