Lets do a body count eh ! Since the start of the year the brave idf iaf have killed over 60 children. Is it more moral to kill them from afar with shells and missiles. Does that make you better people ? All your posts have an ill disguised racism, though Ben is more open about his prejudices. Human rights organisations have attested to the fact that israeli soldiers routinely target children. What brave soldier decapitated the small child in gaza two weeks ago with an artillery shell ? Will he go to jail ? Oh no ! Gz, have you no tv ? Do you just make up the news ?

Don't even talk of Kuntar, unless we receive some signs of life from across the boarders. Mossad chief is right. We must have evidance that our boy's are alive.

These 2 mouthppieces for olmert omit that kuntar will be turned into the new mugniyeh who will kill 100 more israelis for the 2 bodies that are returned. Sharon would have kidnapped some senior hezbollahs for a trade. You want shalit bac, kidnap hanieya and zohar. israelis have to reassess their values which has led to abnormal passivity at times.Haber, an ex idf member suggests that kuntar will go into retirement. No, he will not. Kuntar can be returned after he has an accident.

Another vote for the death penalty! The debate should not be about whether to release prisoners with Israeli blood on their hands, but under what circumstances such prisoners might avoid the fate they deserve. The country club jail conditions also need a drastic overhaul. The idea of prison is to deprive the prisoner of his/her liberty and all the things we take for granted, like being able to marry, father children or earn a degree. Prisons should be there to punish, not rehabilitate. Altneuland Blog Dot Altneuland Dot Info

Sean, I think you're the racist. The IDF has done nothing illegal in attacking areas where rockets have been fired from. In fact, it's their elected government's responsibility to keep their citizens safe from battle zones. That's if you want to go by the Geneva Conventions. You are accusing Israel of creating crimes they didn't commit. That's racism. "Human rights organisations have attested to the fact that israeli soldiers routinely target children." Which human rights orgs. are these?

There is no point in trying to reason with Sean from Ireland. He is nothing but an antiIsrael propagandist who comes on to Israeli websites to provoke other posters in the worst ways. There is no limit to which he will sink to further his antiisrael agenda, his posts here and elsewhere stand out to me as some of the most meanspirted and reprehensible I have read. Sean's hatred for Israel and Jews even extends to Israeli children and babies as well. I won't go into details here,but he has even expressed support and sympathy for terrorists who have brutally murdered other Israeli children too.

It ill behoves a supporter of israel to quote the Geneva conventions to anyone when Israel is in breach of it day in and day out. That means WAR CRIMES being committed daily. Collective punishment =war crime under 4th Geneva Convention. Settlements=war crime under the 4th Geneva convention. I could go on but ive only got the one life. As for who ? Try The international Committee of the Red Cross and Oxfam for starters. By the way pointing out the war crimes of the state of israel does not make me or anyone else a racist. Respect for human rights is the antithicism of racism and if the regime you so readily try to defend were to practise this ,then you would have to spend less time posting in a vain attempt to defend the indefensible.

I'd glad to do this

This idea of "collective punishment" is completely made up. Again according to the Geneova Conventions, combatants who hide behind their own civilian population are responsible for those people. If they don't take responsibility for those lives they can become what used to be called collateral damages. Besides if we're going to speak of "collective punishment" the term describes bombing a bus filled with random unarmed individuals with no military aim other than to kill as many people as possible. Killing people while targeting a combatant is not collective punishment. How are the settlements a crime? The west bank of the Jordan River was Jordanian property and their late king ceased all claims to that land. Why should it go to a ficticious third party? Please show me where either of the two organizations syou named point out Israelis deliberately firing on children. "By the way pointing out the war crimes of the state of israel does not make me or anyone else a racist. " Holding the law up to one group and not another, as you are doing, is a form of racism.

but, why this hasn't been done long time ago?? loosers

If IRAN sneezes, Israel gets a shill, you got it, all this panic is cos Iran is standing upright and will dig you in if you dont behave and leave palestine , hypocrit nation of squatters