that hamas knew he was a doctor working in Israel and his daughters we at home in the house and that is why they fired on the israeli troops from inside his house. hamas Knew that they would draw fire from the IDF. hamas must be irridicated at all costs.They are responsibe for his daughters deaths.

Who determines whether a death is a tragedy or propoganda? According to the responses I have read, seems like Israel reserves the right to cry over its dead while the deaths of Palestinians get called propganda.

That is a ludicrous and delusional postulation. But a wonderful example of how convoluted explanations get to support a faulty premise. Thank you for your contribution.

You are wrong in assuming that we want your sympathy and sensitivity. It's the Palestinians who come a-running and a-crying to the world. As to any comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany, you better open a history book before flaunting your embarrassing ignorance in public.

Canada really would offer a return of their humanity. They would be treated as people yet again, and not as detainees/untermensch.

peace missions ..." and their boyfriends in the resistence? The fathers pain is understandeble but what does he know about his daughters that age? Why did they stay? "Armed with love ..." for whom?

Great Wanda! Stay in Montreal where they yell "death to the Jews" and Jooos to the ovens" Yeah, everyone is treated equally unless you're a Jew. You're the one who is delusional. Naive and juvenile. When the Palestinians start treating others with respect they will be treated so as well. When they support genocidal maniacs, they will be fought. And you are their Canadian accomplice.

Even after his personal tragedy he expresses a hope that his daughters are the victims of peace. This barbaric militarism will get us nowhere.

Yes Canada is not perfect but at least every body's equal and everyone has the same chance to succeed in life weather you're Arab, Jew or Asian. Unfortunately, people in Gaza don't have jobs, education, can't travel, and to ad up, Many lost beloved one to Israeli bullets, so what do they have to lose? Does it justify terror? No, does it help Israelis understand? It should If Israel gives Palestinian something to live for, there's no doubt terror would end, but when have nothing and you saw you parents, children, sibling, friends etc.. Die and suffer, you only think of revenge Israel thinks it would solve the terror problem but unfortunately it's these acts that would only generate more and more violence...when will it end?? PS. to #3 Pierre, being an immigrant doctor is very difficult especially in Quebec but English Canada it's not that bad

Honey - I have opened many a history book. Maybe you should try opening one that has NOT been published by a Jewish or an Israeli source. I am not an Arab nor a Palestinian. But the level of brainwashing I see in Israel has me thinking of the good old Soviet days. Luckily, the rest of the world is not brainwashed - if you get any non-Israeli news channels, try watching them - they might challenge your rose-colored spectacle view of the world.

...are treated with respect, and other than some exclusive neighbourhoods in Hampstead and Outremont, we coinhabit the same neighbourhoods. The only racism I have personally witnessed here has been against Arabs and Anglos, and this is nearly always by the police.

Israel is a terrorist state. Almost all Israeli cities lie upon the ruins of former Arab cities that were destroyed in the ethnical cleansing that had to be done for the creation of Israel. That was the only way to get the Jews in the area into majority. Ever since, Israel have had to use its military force to keep the righteous landowners down. Hence, the racism is a fundamental integrated part of the State of Israel. This explains some of the comments above, exposing their views of Palestinian children as completly worthless. Blacks and Jews have already been targets for racism. Now the time seems to have come for the Arabs / Muslims. How come we always have to hate, and how come we never learn from our dark history of hatred? I hope with all of my heart that the Israeli terrorist apartheid regime will vanish and that Jews, Muslims and Christians (amongst others) will share the country as a whole without any disciminating laws, and without any walls imprisoning some only due to their ethnics. For the racist people of Israel, however, this would of course be as unthinkable as the democratization of South Africa was to the white oppressors.

Hamas, Gazans, Palestinians are all terrorists. Go live with them.

I have a very good psychiatrist for you. My God, you must be so ugly inside-out that it even shows in your writing. Marry and have someone love you (if it is possible to love such a nightmare) and get the hell out of talkbacks.

Dear Ms. Ginette, You live in Toronto... Enjoy this beautiful city and SHUT UP. Who are you to come into this forum and say LET THE SOLDIERS DO THEIR JOB. Is your son, by any chance, serving here, or you are just as a frustrated lady as #6?

How come that the advices given to us, or the critics come, most of the time, from people not living here, not fighting here, not helping here. Why don't you come and settle here and help build a strong Israel. You don't live here, you are not citizens here, you are not going to the army here, so why don't you just shut your unwanted mouths.

Of course, what else to be expected from you !!

The doctor went back to his family in Gaza on Thursday to be with his children and was supposed to return to Israel on Monday................ too late to come out of Gaza. Nobody knew, except Olmert, Barak and Livini, that war was going to break out on Shabbat...........

Who works for the UN in Gaza ??? A short look at UNRWAs homepage: UNRWA:http://www.un.org/unrwa/organization/staff.html helps us: "UNRWA employs some 24,324 staff, of whom more than 99 per cent are locally-recruited Palestinians, almost all of them Palestine refugees. ....." The probability of biased and antiisraeli information and behaviour emanating from the UN is therefore significant !!

I can't believe that woman said those things to a grieving father. What a cold-hearted b**tch. The poor doctor just lost his family! Did you hear him grieving? It's raw human emotion, yet he asks for peace. Yet that woman says "what's wrong with you"....maybe she should look at herself and her children and ask "What has gotten into us?"

selves in sederot.

You are pathetic

I am an holocaust survivor. Your comparing Eva to Eva braun is just disgusting. Eva (#48) is more human than you will ever be. Shame on you

Honey, my mother had to hide in a hamper and in an oven (the irony) in the Nazi-occupied Poland, between age 5 to 9. Her entire family (except her mother and grandmother) was murdered and cremated in concentration camps. Her father was shot along with intellectuals and university professors from his hometown when the Nazi army came marching in. Many a Polish family risked their lives to save them. I have not heard of one instance of a Jew or Israeli risking death for helping an Arab/Palestinian. See, honey, I don't need Israeli news to teach me about the Holocaust. I could even write a book or two about what the differences between Israel and Nazi Germany, but I wouldn't count on people like yourself who probably watch only Al-jazeera to pick it up and read it. Because you know ALL there is to know about the Holocaust, don't you honey? And you are generous enough to teach me some.

She refuses to understand what is understandable: that her three sons are perpetuating massacres and killing innocents instead of just fighting proportionally to Hamas. She simply refuses this horrible truth. I understand, in a way, what to understand would mean for her, and for Israel ! Please, look at the reality, before damaging so much the reputation of Israel ! Stop this horrible war, and occupation.

Your libel that this is a perpetual cycle of revenge fails to hold true in so many historical examples. What reason did the Palestinians have to take "revenge" against Jews in the 1920's??? The land was Turkish owned, not Palestinian. The Turks did not fight any Palestinian king (none ever existed) to take the land all those years back. So why was there murder against Jews in acts of sheer terrorism? IDF wasn't around then. Neither was Irgun for that matter, or Haganah. Actually, the latter two came around as a result of "revenge" attacks, but what the "palestinians" at that time were avenging is beyond any of us. The fight then was not about land, or "occupation" and it seems that today is no different. The jokes on you though, because at the end of the day Israel's still here and you're still in Montreal. Au revoir mon ami.

for the israelis people to realize what they are doing ? The comments above are just a shame of hate and racism ! Please first allow journalists there if you don't believe a poor and renowned doctor ! My German Grandmother also told me: during the war, it is not that the German didn't know, they refused to know what their government was doing... Please, open your eyes, and stop this hate ("for whom he voted ?" "Perhaps he was a complice ?" "He was in any case a Palestinnian")... 1200 dead, mostly civilian, is it not enough ? Disgusting