This is the time to take advantage of the fact that they are weak; otherwise, they wouldn't be calling for a 'cease-fire!'

While Olmert builds his own bunker, what is being done for the citizens of Israel?

We would not have had over 2000 Kassams fired at us to date. Too little too late. We should go in in full force like any other western country would.

There is no political will and Israel is not extracting a meaninful price - that is all! Russia would stop the kassams within a day or two and Bibi will stop them within a week. Mike P.S. And the Lebanese would stop them too ! And most other countries!

hamas is not weak they have a plan they want to be able to indoctrinate those "people" in the strip. To create a terror state. The people that are weak are the israelies they have no balls to do what is needs to to protect their people. You don't have to shoot 100,000$ missles at them. shoot low yield rockets at their population randomly you don't have to be more catholic then the pope >>> just do on to others ........

Cut the gas, electricity, water. Pull the plug on their radio from the Temple Mount. Make them beg. Make them hurt. Make them cry. But most of all make them mourn lots of dead terrorists.

This news event proves that Ehud Olmert and Condi Rice are correct. We must clean the West Bank of Jews so that all Israelis will be in the range of Kassam rockets! Why should only Sderot children be so lucky?

Amazing how these rockets land "near" a school whenever a bit of propaganda is needed by the IDF. No one sees the rocket but they are "shocked" by the sound. I am not not saying all the rockets are bogus but this one along with a number of others has all the signs of a set up.

did you have a pleasant earthquake? Or was it bogus?

Not bogus. Just that nobody will discuss the One real defense we actually have that actually works.

Bogus missiles?? Are those counterfeit missiles??? A missile is a missile is a missile...Oh by the way, Mr. genious, if i aimed a gun at you and took a shot and missed, would that be a bugus firing???

Every day the magnitude of ignorance and willful blindness to reality exhibited by leftist dimwits, reaches staggering new heights (yes, english antisemitic guy - I'm talking to you, too). You want propaganda? Mozy on over to PMW (http://www.pmw.org.il/) or Memri (http://www.memri.org/) and peruse the myriad of spin, lies and blood libels against Israel and the Jews. Be sure to read about popularized fiction like Muhamed al-Dura, the Jenin "massacre", Qana 1 & 2, etc. See for yourself the great efforts they put into staging these dramatic, but very false, productions. Watch footage of muslim clerics and imams inciting hatred and violence against Jews in response to these and other fabricated stories. Watch them broadcast to millions of brainwashed mohamedans how Jews make Matzohs from children's blood, how we infect them with AIDS, how we kill families on beaches, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Go poke around a bit in these archives, then come back and tell us again about IDF propaganda. Until then, your ignorant, terror-enabling, leftist opinions are as worthless as the subhuman filth with whom you have chosen to align yourself. ============================ From PMW: These distortions are all aimed to convince PA society that Israel has no historical right to exist, and that the Palestinian are the sole owners of the Land of Israel, thus creating hatred for Israel as “thieves of their land”. As an ideology it can be summed up with the words of the Mufti: “There is not a single stone in Palestine that proves the Jewish existence [in the land].” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 15 October 2000] .

What is the response to rockets? the response (and counter-response) has been collective punishment against civilian populations. In both cases the purpose appears to be (and has been stated by many of the ex-military commentators) to inflict sufficient punishment upon the local population to the point of bringing them to pressure their governments to do what we want them to do. In the case of Gaza: the goal is to clamp down on the militant Qassam launchers – and possibly also to throw out the Hamas government But the massive use of Israeli power has probably already crossed the line not only of what might be justified but also of efficacy. The bombing of Lebanon’s infrastructure, the demolition of parts of Beirut and other cities, never mind the destruction of most of the south, and the killing of over 200 mainly civilian Lebanese, have done little to strengthen the Christian and Sunni opposition to Hizbullah. In Gaza, the moderate voices of Mahmoud Abbas' supporters and those Hamas elements who supported the national reconciliation program of the prisoners’ document, have certainly been silenced by Israeli tanks and airplanes, to the advantage of the most militant elements of Hamas sitting in Damascus. The current Israeli response addresses the frustration and indignation of the Israeli public, especially those under fire; it also addresses the tarnished pride of the IDF (and perhaps of the government) under the guise of restoring lost deterrence credibility (which hasn’t worked for many years, possibly decades, if ever. Somehow the Arabs never seem to learn that it does not pay to attack Israel).

When israel still had a foothold in gaza, were these insescent Qassem rocket attacks happening??

Hi Peter ! You're invited to come visit Sderot and hang out in the streets with the locals. Every time the alert goes off (at least once a day, usually several times) you can stand and laugh while everybody hits the dirt or runs for shelter from the bogus rockets. Then we'll take you to the cemeteries where the vicitms of the bogus rockets are buried. Then we'll take you to visit the families of the bogus rockets, where you can tell them yourself that their loved ones were killed by the bogeyman. And to make your visit complete, we'll get you a live "bogus" scud and set it off a few meters away from you and video tape it so your friends can see you prove how bogus they are. Please make sure you have your last will and testament completed and notarized. You might want to arrange in advance for the Kiwi embassy to ship your bogus remains back home unless you'd like to stay in the Holy Land.

Richard, your RAF wiped out entire cities during WWII. Besides what your Brits did all over your empire. Not to mention how much your Irish and Welsh neighbors (having been to Wales myself) adore you. Really, no-one in the UK is is any position to preach to us. Not after your honorable government has been found to fund Peace Now. Put a lid on it, man, and if you can't, well, professional help IS available.

Great idea, mate, that skid mark Morris would do well to spend a day in Sderot. I'd love to chain him to lamp post and watch him soil his trousers when the sirens start going off. As for last will and testament, I suspect someone of Peter's ilk owns little more than a computer, a few posters of his heros (hitler, khomeini, nasrallah, etc) and a highly polished brass swastika. Everything else in his mother's basement probably belongs to her.

we should punish those responsible for the ongoing attacks - and that includes Olmert's government, which has done NOTHING to stop the rockets...so, Ehud - when are you finally going to do what is in Israel's best interest and RESIGN!

'subhuman filth' Untermensch? I've heard that one before . . . now where was that?

...for that lucid demonstration of moral equivalence. As you very well know, the terminology you're asking about can be found in all your favorite books: the protocols, mein kampf and the koran. Happy reading.

Wales and (Northern) Ireland are part of Britain. England is not Britain. Show evidence of UK government funding Peace Now.

You were shouting it from the rooftops a few years back. There, fixed your memory for you!

as I said, the matter is under investigation. It was all over the news last night. As soon as a link is available in English (or is it British?) I promise to let you know. And yes, just like Keren, I heard (not rumours, just the news) that it was the governments of UK, Norway and Finland financing Peace Now.

Well I don't know about your examples as I have not read any of those books but I suspect 'subhuman' crops up in Mein Kampf'. If you use terms such as 'subhuman' you are dehumanising people and making it easier to target them. This is the strategy the Nazis used against the Slavs and the Jews. By constantly calling them 'less than human' it excused their terrible treatment towards them. There is a moral equivalence as to constantly call Palestinians 'pals' or 'subhuman filth' denies their individuality and generalises them. Thus making it easier to deny their humanity and kill them.

Unfortunately, it has already been published in both the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz that the British government, along with the EU and several other governmental bodies have been funding Peace Now. The hearing is to be held on Dec, 31

Reread my original post. It is very much YOUR assertion that I refer to Israeli arabs (these people the misinformed refer to as "palestinians") as subhuman. I happen to have many close friends who are muslim arabs from the "occupied" territories. These people have been in my home and played with my children. I consider them my equal in every respect. The key distinction between them and those creatures I call subhuman - namely, islamic terrorists - is that they respect my rights as a Jew, to live and breathe, and to legitimately reside in my own God-given homeland, Eretz Israel. The type of human garbage that blows up buses and discos, lobs rockets at schools and perpetuates campaigns of genocidal violence in the name of their so-called god share nothing with humanity aside from their general anatomical features. Did you happen to visit either of the links I posted (PMW and Memri)? I thought not. Go see what these cockroaches call us Jews, then come back and tell us in all your leftist hypocricy how it's all our fault because we oppress them so much. All that cognitive dissonance must be very strenuous to resolve, but you seem to be managing ok.

All you talk about is how the Palestinians are suffering and could care less about the whole subject of this article that a rocket hit an elementary school in Israel and sent 10 children to a hospital. I noticed that little insignificant detail didn't quite make it into your post. Apparently that doesn't bother people like you Richard from UK and Peter Morris who calls the rockets "bogus". And you wonder why some people on here think your the very racist you accuse others of being. And Chatich wasn't calling all Palestinians subhuman filth she was only calling the terrorists who are constanly trying to murder Jewish children that. I agree with her.