how is it your homeland?????. where are those people who lived there 50 years ago? israel is an illegal state, brought into existent through gurella warfare against the british at the expense and demise of miilions! black mailing the UN,,you are still paying the price of stealing , ethnic cleansing..keep it up!

#21 you said: "I will repeat what I commonly say, " I am to young to know what happened in the past, but that doesn't matter. Since I was born, I have seen nothing but Isreal bombing innocent people." Only a Fool would make such a statement ignoring the past saying it does not matter. Only a lunatic would repeat such statement. See what happens when they stop teaching history! God of the Bible was BIG on saying REMEMBER!!! Do this in REMEMBRANCE!!!!! Apparently, the rumor that Seattle is becoming more and more the home of the lunatic fringe is true.

The truth is that 'Palestine' is no more real than Never Never Land. (Unlike Israel which has been around for thousands of years as 1 billion Christians and Jews believe) The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jew, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power. Palestine has never existed before or since as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

that's what Olmert is a yes man.

You've swallowed nothing but lies. You would not know truth if it stared you in the face.

Dear ak: Read the Bible. And by the way: 60% of the so called palestinians are descendants of immigrants from arabia who came to the Land of Israel in the 19th century, looking for jobs with the fluorishing Jewish community .

STATE + STATE on Jewish land ??? WHY ?????

Olmert's regime is guilty of the most base Perfidy against the Jewish People and the State of Israel since the state's founding. Had he and his incompetent cronies not so humiliatingly bungled the confrontation with Hizbullah, Israel might still be left with some scraps of credible deterence against the evils of Islamofascism. Now that the West knows that what was once the vitality of the Jewish state has been spent, and her poltical resources squandered on pigmies, the West turns her back. If ever the Jewish People and the Jewish State needed a messiah, now is the time...I pray for some supernatural intervention to save Israel from the most base and disgusting leadership I can remember ruining the country for the last 25 years. Why O Israel have you not thrown these bums out of power?

its only a diplomatic horizon if the other side is capable of giving something in return - and the palestinians are not.

Wonder how long G-d will suffer defiance, stupidity, and spiritual blindness to prevail, before He once and for all will replace the suicide-minded Israeli leaders with leaders of stature and competence, willing to enter the Torah-way as the solution to the problem!

Israelis have been hoodwinked. This was all pre-planned by Rice, Bush, Livni, Olmert and Abbas. It smells like the so called "cease fire" & resolution 1701. What is this about??? Propping up losers. who looses? All Israelis

Israel, the US, and a small list of countries are in this fight together. Our weak leadership has allowed the UN dictate our ground operations. Our leftist media has been allowed to call our soldiers war criminals, and give aid to our enemies. Our leftist leaders have gave hope to our enemies, hindered our armies ability to fight, and prolong the conflicts. We need strong leaders who are willing to do what is necessary to put an end to this madness.

With all due respect to my country and as much as I love her, we do not have a corner or the monopoly on "right decisions." We have our own brand of asshattery, and before I'd take us as a "how to" example for anything, I'd wait for the outcome, just in case. When we screw up, it's usually big. But that goes with the territory. When we do it right, it's usually big, too. We do, however, love to tinker, and that's not just with cars or lawnmowers. We tinker with everything, and that's where our State Dept. comes in. We don't perceive it as tinkering and we certainly don't see it as messing with other people's lives. It's more this total, American conviction that "there just has to be a way to make this work." It's our 11th. commandment: If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. And once that agenda has been set, it's off to the "let's keep no stone unturned" races. If and when it looks as if something is, in fact, simply not "fixable," we tend to go mental and call on the UN. We don't expect anything from them, but it puts the pesky problem on some collective, other front burner for a few weeks, months, years, and we get to tinker with something else. Maybe Olmert and Livni are picking up the habit of tinkering. There is one consolation in all of this: At least, you know you've tried.

To justify bombing innocent people in the name of History, is the mark of a true lunatic. I simply refer to the act of forgivness, which is something that God speaks more of, then remebering history. Only a fool would say someone is a fool, and that they are not. In the face of God, we are all fool's. I would say Seattle is the last home of God, for it us who speak forgiveness, us who speak honesty, us who speak out against oppression. We are the only city in US who drove WTO out of our city. We did a peacfull demonstration and won.

why doesn`t olmert resupply them with better rockets and even more artillery.