When the USA will say its ok, Israel will strik Gaza. How can you, Israel stoop so low as to deny your Israel brothers and sisters security. You have come down from a moralistic country to a ass kisser big time of the Bush administation. G-d help us all. What if the other shoe was on the USA foot. Would we here deny our citizens security of the upmost agenda. Israel your Govt. has made your the laughing stock of the world. You have lost your grace. But it is never to late. Get rid of your low class and immoralistic govt heads and put in someone that has values and moralistic values. Jacqueline

Instead, * they should fight back only if Israelis get killed. * use some of the Palestinian money to protect Sderot * do Teshuvah. Only Hashem will lead Israel to victory

Doh.. Palestinians get hurt daily women and children are subjected to jewish murder 'by accident' on a regular basis.

B"H I am utterly amazed that the success rate was pinned down at about one in ten rocket launches in terms of identifying cells. Now hitting the cells with paint balls say 9 out of 10 times is not fatal but it make that point that the IDF is actually able to identify the cells properly and provides a reminder to not shoot. Or even taking every cell's picture and publishing it in the local web-block before each rocket fire gets the point down, "We know who you are and how you work." There is not one casualty there, but instead huge progress. But here Peretz gets to blame the defense failings on the cease-fire that he himself initiated by insisting on negotiations versus defence, and then the actual reports of actual defense are minimalized. I have to believe that the lack of defense is actually a political move and that bothers me. What kind of politician would not want to defend the people who count him in? That IS concerning. How would that phenomenon change in the upcoming election?

Thats one step forward in the right direction...one more step and we'll have palestinian flags all over "Israel"

what the hell does he know about military? we need to impeach the whole government now!!!!!!!!! or we will all vanish

1.Why only Israelis? What about other legal people living there? (granted most are Israeli but others are human too!) 2. Not some of the Palestinian money: tap into it until all repairs are completed! Legal - not really but it is just as legal as rocket fire but not as deadly

The gift of Sharon/Olmert that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving. Until there is no Israel left.

Israel has lost its tennacity, and its position of power in this world. Arabs and Muslims now see it as "weak" as we saw with hezballah. The US has to either loosen the leash or stay out of ME affairs. There is no way in hell any other country in the world would tolerate this much terror.

yes, you must take action. you musn't keep talking!

I may be just a guy at a computer but even I can see when Israel attacks the Arabs back, the A-rabs put aside their differences and set off bombs, lob lots of rockets at Israel and hijack the world media. When Israel does not attack back, the Arabs end up fighting and killing themselves. I say let them keep killing themselves (also makes Israel look better in world opinion which is helpful to the cause.)