I am so sorry for the loss of your son. He gave his life so that his fellow Jews could live. He a brave handsome man. Be proud. But you're right. Bomb from the air first. It's what the USA does. And it's what the IAF is for. Who cares about the UN and the bad press. They'll curse us regardless. Fight hard and fast. And forget about "convergence." That's just insane at this point. Shalom

"the mother and father of this IDF killed in combat in GAZA wants the Air Force to kill thousands of poor palestinians." No you moron...they want to kill the savages who continue to fire rockets into Israel. You people were supposed to stop that nonsense when Israel pulled out of Gaza and you didn't.

They bigst problem of the IL society and what you alway read here is, someone is willing to send his tanks and destroy the Palestinian (Gaza Strip/ West Bank) by his bulld'zer, otherone is willing to send the tanks to Gaza Strip and kill the Palestinain by F16 or Apache or whatever. They forget, that the Palestinain have become immune against all such killing. They forget that the price, to keep the Palestinan under occupation, is very high, you have to make more pressure on your PM & Co. and pull out from the "shtakhiem" and give the Palestinian their right... Have they forgetten how many Palestinain were killed today???? Start alway by yourself! Regards, J.

Gabrielle would NOT make such a statement! Sometimes, people falsely use my name and Gabrielle's name. They are lying disgusting imposters. They make comments that we would NEVER make!

This grieving mother and father need to realize the truth behind their words. The regime does NOT give a rat's behind about the boys and girls they send into battle. All the evidence supports these facts. Most recently in 2002 during the offensive in Jenin the Sharon regime allowed our dear children to go house to house to search for terrorists. Why? To SPARE the 'civilian' death toll from enemy populations. Furthermore, Shkedy just last week stated that he would not allow the IAF to fire a missile onto a terrorist launching a rocket if he was holding a child's hand. Therefore, one must conclude that enemy children are more dear to the regime than the Jewish children fired upon in S'derot etc. Time and time again from the courts on down, the regime has protected the enemy-from within and without-at the expense of Israel's Jews. So when these grieving parents 'attack' the regime for not protecting their son, they are right on target. Furthermore, what the hell does the regime care if more and more weapons are stored in Gaza, when they themselves (and their coddled offspring, think Olmert's wayward sons) are NOT sent into action to face the consequences?

Air force should be used. No Israeli life should be put in danger. palis are animals that really don't want peace.

I will sound callouse no matter how I try to soft soap this so I will not try . I will get to the heart of the matter. We say we do not negotiate, yet , the moment we did not bring devestating retribution for the kidnapping,...we negotiated. Now we have lost one son trying to save the other. I will not harangue the IDF on the fact that the arabs were able to dig a tunnel right under our noses, that debate is for the IDF command to address at a more opportune time. Hamas will gladly take a few more lives by holding out the release carrot, as long as we are willing to hold back. You have a dozen Hamas set aside, bring devastation on Gaza, and if they execute the captive,...we execute the dozen Hamas.

you are a cursed people.

Just how many innocent women and children have been killed as a result of qassam rockets?? He suggests killing thousands of innocents purposely, so that some invading soldiers are not put at risk??! Does this guy know how a legal war is to be fought? There's a difference between combatants and non-combatants.

Israel suffers continual terror attacks from global jihad. Under U.S. pressure, Israel ACCEPTS continual war, rewarding her enemies! 10,000 Gaza Jews were punished for not being Muslim. Jewish land and thousands of greenhouses and hundreds of farms of the hated infidel Jews were confiscated and given to Muslims. Muslim mobs celebrated by desecrating and destroying Gaza synagogues. Impoverished jobless and homeless Jewish refugees are forced to pay mortgages on their destroyed homes! Israel's surrender of Gaza brought terrorists closer to major Israeli population centers. Arab missiles now fire on Ashkelon, previously not within range. Sderot's mayor charges Israel has abandoned Sderot. Which cities inside the green line will be abandoned next? Happy terrorists fire rockets on Sderot, just as terrorists were allowed to fire thousands of rockets and mortars on Gaza's Jews. Terrorists and massive amounts of weapons pass freely through the Gaza-Egypt border. Rockets are fired daily from ethnically Jew cleansed Gaza, which has been transformed into terrorist training camps and a GLOBAL base for terror! The response of terrorist enablers, U.S. EU, and UN, is for terrorists to duplicate this success in Judea and Samaria. Another wicked crime against humanity is demanded. The cruel ethnic cleansing of Jews punished for not being Muslim, rendered jobless and homeless; their land confiscated and given to Muslims. Giving Islamists military advantage over a tiny, weakened Israel reduced to an INDEFENSIBLE 6-10 miles wide at her middle ENABLING CONQUEST OF ALL ISRAEL. Will Israel fight back when it is too late, when Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and all Israel is under total attack from Islamists, with reinforcements from throughout the Muslim Middle East and beyond?

Whilst American soldiers fight and die in Iraq, we have lost our freedom in America. Drastic changes are taking place in America. U.S. schools, hostile to Christianity and Judaism, are aggressively promoting Islam. Part of article from: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36118 JUDICIAL JIHAD Judge rules Islamic education OK in California classrooms Dismisses suit opposing requirement students recite Quran, pray to Allah December 13, 2003 © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Requiring seventh-grade students to pretend they're Muslims, wear Islamic garb, memorize verses from the Quran, pray to Allah and even to play "jihad games" in California public schools has been legally upheld by a federal judge, who has dismissed a highly publicized lawsuit brought by several Christian students and their parents...the suit was filed by the Thomas More Law Center against the Byron Union School District and various school officials to stop the use of the "Islam simulation" materials and methods used in the Excelsior Elementary School in Byron, Calif. The World History and Geography class in question is part of a curriculum being taught to seventh-graders all over the state, and is included in the state's curriculum standards required by the state board of education. Although the standards outline what subjects should be taught and will be included in state assessment tests, they don't mandate how they're to be taught. In the three-week course, Excelsior teacher Brooke Carlin had students assume Islamic names, recite prayers in class, memorize and recite verses from the Quran, and had them simulate Ramadan fasting by going without something for a day. The final test required students to critique Muslim culture. The Islam simulations at Excelsior are outlined in the state-adopted textbook "Across the Centuries," published by Houghton Mifflin, which prompts students to imagine they are Islamic soldiers and Muslims on a Mecca pilgrimage. The lawsuit also alleges students were encouraged to use such phrases in their speech as "Allah Akbar," which is Arabic for "God is great," and were required to fast during lunch period to simulate fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. "While public schools prohibit Christian students from reading the Bible, praying, displaying the Ten Commandments, and even mentioning the word 'God,' students in California are being indoctrinated into the religion of Islam..." The Islamic indoctrination of America's school children is a major victory in the war for global Islamic conquest.

You say that we should “…talk to the leadership of the Palestinians” but that would be of no use. You say that we should “…start by releasing young Palestinian children and women from Israeli jails, stop stealing land … so all our IDF troops will feel safe.” I am very sorry for you; you have been lied to by your leaders who only want to use you as a bomb, and you have believed them. They LIE! IDF troops will not be safe; no Jew will be safe. They said, “land for peace” so we gave them land, and they use it to kill our children. They were given money to feed their own children and they used it to buy bombs and rockets and for their own pleasure. As the grieving father said, “These barbarians are sending Qassams to Ashkelon? What is the aim of these Qassams? To kill children and women and innocent civilians.” They have said themselves that they will not be happy until we are ALL dead. You can not talk to such people. Do some research. Learn what they have done to their OWN people so that they would be WILLING to be bombs for them. You have been LIED to.

OUR BLOOD IS CHEAP

be horrible. Don't give them the opportunity to kill more of us. Send in the air force and forget about world opinion. It is and will always be against us. How many of us have to die for people to learn!!! From yesterdays article: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271767,00.html I wrote #5: 5. Good luck IDF but I don't like it If Olmert/Peretz had any guts they would just send in the air force. This is asking for trouble with those savage terrorists and for the world to declare another "Jenin massacre." Jenny (07.05.06)

i do assure that you desereve all what happened because you must leave gaza, west bank and all palestine. i confirm to you we will not hurt you after that.

Condy Rice is wrong but she is not a whore and such language is not necessary.

the sooner we do it, the better off we all will be!

The Israeli government prefers to risk the life of its young men rather than solve the problems using its sophisticated military equipment? Isn't this a betrayal of the parents who entust their beloved children to the state? The world is laughing at Israel regardless of how much they bash it. The truth is that any other country would have dealt with its enemy in the harshest manner and if Israel did so, regardless of the condemnations, deep down they would know it is just. At the moment the Israeli leaders are feeding the cancer. Thats not the way to eliminate it! My heart bleeds for the fact that Israel is at the moment being led by spineless self promoting individuals.

Aveer what planet are you on.. the blame falls on Hamas. rockets have been launched with high regularity as if their had been tacit approval. This latest episode just shows the mistake the palestinian people made in electing a known terrorist organization....

we all can be proud of Yehuda. He's a real jewish martyr killed by arab terrorists. But despite that fact, I agree with his mother: Gaza Strip must be pounded by heavy artillery fire, or air bombings. That's the only way Palestinian to understand the message.

How many Palestinian Fathers are frieving for their lost sons ? M.

I agree completely with the father's sentiments. Send the Air Force. Who are we protecting at the expense of the Israeli soldiers? The citizens who voted in Hamas? Those women who brag that their children will become suicide/homocide bombers? Why put the IDF soldiers in this danger? Chemical, biological, suicide bombing has all been threatened by Hamas, by Islamic Jihad, by ...etc. and etc. I can hardly stop counting the number of Arab terrorist organizations delighted to wreak their havoc of death and destruction. Send the IDF. Let them clear the path.

Be aman and take it like a man. wa..wa.. I lost my som wa..wa.. shut up and be a man

to defend themselves against this brutal Jewish terror troops, then it becomes a fair game.

created EVIL as much as he created good. You are a disgusting miserable mistakenly-called-human-being

Maybe it's time for you to leave or to stop shooting rockets and executing terror attacks.

Soldiers are a legitimate target and I say that as an Israeli. He's a legitimate target while the Palestinian civilians, no matter what their views are, aren't. We can not allow ourselves to moraly degrade ourselves to undiscriminately bomb civilians. The way the posters here cripple over the fall of the soldier is insane. One day you want the IDF to enter the Gaza strip and the other you want it to bomb it (and it already bombed it, just not indiscriminately as you offer). Same thing with the left wing, one day it wants Israel to stop the bombing from the air and now they want the IDF out of the strip and to renew the bombings. Don't promote your political agenda over the blood of this soldier. Stop being so spineless, the soldier was killed in a legitimate and neccessary operation that was conducted to keep the security and peace of Israeli civilians. Rest in peace brother, your blood wasn't spilled for vain.