I spent enough time in the middle east to know YOU have NO idea of what you're talking about. You just showed your ignorance girl...

If "the word has to get out" to Americans about Palestine, then don't waste your time posting to an Israeli paper (particularly one where talkbackers have right-wing opinions)?

If we do not get rockets it is because unlike you we abolished the apartheid state a decade and a half ago. And we do not drop missiles on refugee camps on a daily basis like you do nor did even in the times of apartheid. If we had been Israelis we would have probably bombed Soweto from air, land and sea like you do with Gaza and still blame the victims when they protest like you do...

As an American i will be more than happy to have my tax dollars go to Israel so they can fight those scum bags, rag heads bastards!!! The problem with people like you, Susan, is that you think that we are brainwashed. We know what's going on... We knowwhat the goal of the Palestinians is the elimination of Israel. I am sick and tired of those terrorists crying to the world whenever Israel retaliates.

They don't need hope. They need a brain!!! They had their chances and they blew it every single time...

Your argument is very weak if not redicilous.. Should the IDF start launching Kassam look alike missiles into Gaza to make it fair??? A missile is a missile. And if it is targeting civilians it is worthy of the sharpest response from the IDF..Janice, if you robbed a bank and managed to get one dollar only, you are still a bank robber and be subjected to the same judicial process and punishment wether you stole a single dollar or a million!!!

Really ?? Have you been to Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq or is your version of the Middle East reduced to America's colony in the area ??? As for ignorance, no one beats you...

No boy it is right-wingers and settlers like the ones who post here that need to know the harm they are causing and the war crimes they are committing. Of what use would it be to the 99% of the world's population (outside the US of course) who rightly thinks that the US and its baby Israel are the biggest threat to peace in the world ??? The rest of the world woke up a long time ago...

To the refugee camps not only in the West Bank and gaza, but Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc ???

You don't get it Janice. Iran, islamic jihad, hamas,hezbollah want israel into the sea. You lefties in south africa should get suicide bombings in restaurants, buses, schools. You kill us don't think we will have patience for much longer. I am sick of you anti semites.

our rocket will soon reach Sderot leave it or die in it..... Qassam Brigades

good girl. give it to them amy. i love your post... i would marry you just for this post :)

If the palestinians could aim there Qassams better, they would have killed more non-combatant Jews and you know it. Do you think they fire Qassams at kindergartens just because they like to hear things go BOOM?! The penalty for attempted murder is nearly as harsh as for murder, and likewise in the case of the IDF, the penalty for involuntary manslaughter is not as harsh as for attempted pre-mediated murder. Therefore, your reasoning is most illogical and not credible except to like-minded morally challenged fools such as yourself. Sorry, but you asked for it. Re-posted from Ynet talkback Instruction for the , Morally Challenged (11.14.06)

comparison between your country and Israel. Period. So, stop trying to make different perspectives seem morally equivalent. That is the lazy way of avoiding the true facts and complexities of the situation in the Middle East. You have shown by your comments that you know less than nothing about Israeli and Arab politics to compare it to your post-colonial problems in South Africa. The palestinian Arab people who seem disenfranchised to you are not that way only because of Israelis but because the other Arab nations and their own corrupt governments have used them as pawns to keep them disenfranchised. If their "leaders" really wanted a nation alongside Israel, they would have had it decades ago. Eating Arab propaganda has obviously tasted pretty good to you. Most people who want to retain their integrity know when to reject the food they suspect is poison. Too bad you're not one of them.

Yay to you John, I agree with you.

Hey Janice, get your facts right before you post here.

And that dropping missiles on other people's lands will not gain you any acceptance in the region. No wonder that after 60 years Israel has not been more despised than now, and with the racist vocabulary that you use I wonder why it is not more despised.

But if I rob a bank and rob one dollar that is not reason for you to kill me and my parents and my sisters and brothers and aunts and uncles and grandparents and grandmothers which is what Israel is doing. The only ridiculous comparison here is yours

I spent well over a decade in that region, and YES, in all of those places. I'm a U.S. military Vet, and it was my JOB to observe... Where have you been sweety?

Rubber and glue, Amy. We can call the Arabs cowards for relying on their women and children to shield them. But I digress from name calling to a more pertinent issue that you raised: "The Qassams do not help the Paletinian cause." I don't think we agree on the goals of their cause. Personally, I think these Arabs want to chase the Jews out of all of Israel. You probably think otherwise. As you can imagine, if we don't agree on what the Palestinian cause is about, then your comments serve no purpose.

It is true there is no equivalence between apartheid Israel and apartheid South Africa. You are right. Apartheid South Africa did not have power groups or lobbies, or AIPAC to justify each and every Israeli atrocity and war crime. Apartheid regime did not receive military and diplomatic cover from the US, even if in a clear continuation of its policy to promote "freedom" in the world it was the US that put Nelson Mandela in jail. Moreover, the apartheid regime as I said before did not drop bombs in crowded streets in Gaza, did not launch artillery shells on crowded buildings, killing dozens of civilians, like last week, did not drop missiles on vans with fleeing refugees in Lebanon, did not bomb residential neighborhoods. As for the ME I know about the ME much better than you all as I have been to most countries in the area including Israel. So I agree with you there is no equivalence: ISRAEL IS MUCH WORSE !!!

International human rights organizations estimate that since 1967 more than 630,000 Palestinians (about 20 percent of the total population) in the occupied territories have been detained at some time by the Israelis, arousing deep resentment among the families involved. Although the vast majority of prisoners are men, there are a large number of women and children being held. Between the ages of twelve and fourteen, children can be sentenced for a period of up to six months, and after the age of fourteen Palestinian children are tried as adults, a violation of international law

Israel has really shown that it is ready for peace. Beating the world record for war crimes since June 9th, when it massacred a family pickinicking on the beach. And the horrors it has caused since then, 90 per cent of its vitims being civilians. When you kill 1,600 people since June and 90% of them are civilians, that is not a mistake. That is policy. You cannot have peace with a country that thinks its neighbors are untermenschen and that the blood of its citizens is sacred, while that of its neighbors expendable. Unfortunately those who think that peace with Israel is not possible are right and are vindicated more and more every day.

Since June 1287 Lebanese killed 90 % of them civilians plus more to be killed by cluster bombs (21 since the ceasefire) 450 Gazans killed plus 45 others in the West Bank 65% of them civilians 35% of the 65% children under 10 When you kill 90% of civilians in Lebanon and 65% in the territories it is not "shit happens" it is a deliberate policy.