I agreed with you 100% and I could understand losing innocent lives and i repeat again war is not the solution but Israel choose to have war when they can avoid it. May the Israelis people come to their senses and urge their PM Olmer to stop the war for the sake of their loved ones. The Lebanese are in the same situation when they are all homeless and lost a lot of their family members.

Please shut up!!!! i think you dont know want you are talking about. If you know the history of Lebanon and Palestine then you know why all of these things is happening. People want justice and peace and the Israelis is not giving them the rights and that is why the Israeli are living always in fear and unsecured. You want the war to stop tell the Israeli Government to give back the Palestine their right, land and the Lebanon their land and their illegal captured thousands of prisoners serving more that 15 years in their jail then you will have no war!!!!

People like you are the one will kill a lot of innocent lives. who wants to see more blood and killings instead of finding a solution to stop it. People who are smart will think smart and Israeli have the choice to stop the war but they choose not too and you are with them. I wish you are in the Lebanese people place and feel what is like seeing people being killed around them and live in terror every second and every minutes. You are really selfish person and you dont know what you are saying so please dont make things more ugly then it were already Dummy!!!!!

You are the one who are dummy and dont know what you are talking about. Hisbollah is not representing Palestinian they are Lebanese and they are for the Lebanon. They are members of the Parliament thru' legal election so they are part of Lebanon. You ask why the Palestinian hated Israel, you should damn know why because your leaders are selfish people and you take away the Palestinian their rights to live and their land and you ask why!!!! you are also selfish and not only that but stupid!!!!

No you are wrong. I feel sorry for this man and also for his family but you are wrong for saying he is a hero because his death is without a cause. This war is not his war, he will be alive if only Olmer and the Israeli choose to swap prisoners and give the Lebanese their land and the Palestinian the rights and there will be no war. This war is not for the rescuing of the two soldiers but for the zionist leaders who wants to conquer the arab regions like Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and they will not stop until they get want they want!!! Israel have to choice to stop this war and they know how to do so!!!

Why they are enemies to Israel only...why ask yourself. It is common sense and you know why. Look for a while at the pictures on the news or on the net and compared the killing numbers of people in Lebanon and Palestine and to the Israel. Who have the big numbers and who are well equipped with high tech weapons and dont forget Israel is the most strongest military in the Middle East compared to Lebanon and Israel and you said that Lebanon and Palestine are animals? Wake up and think smart and look with your eyes!!!

I find it puzzling that people would be surprised at the death of someone who went into another's backyard with the express purpose of killing them. Did you people think that his intended victims would fail to defend themselves?

Has your anti-Israel little self forgotten that Israel did not choose the location for this war, and that those you so conveniently claim are "intended victims" are actually Iranian and Syrian bought and paid for terrorists who were sent into that back yard (Lebanon) with at least a portion of the Lebanese government’s blessing for the sole purpose of engaging Israel in this war? I have no doubt that Yotam’s family knew the risk he was taking, but sometimes you just have to take risks, no matter how heartbreaking the results, if your entire country is to survive. Israel’s enemies keep starting these wars and despite losses like Yotam, Israel keeps winning them. So, I guess God is on Israel’s side after all.

If by anti-Israel you mean I believe that foreigners, including our govt made a mistake in giving someone else's land and homes to another group of foreigners (European Jews) and perpetuate that mistake by supporting the only nuclear rogue state in the mideast, yes I am. So this war started many, many years ago, and it wasn't the indigenous people of that region that started it. As far as winning, they can't stop a poorly funded, ill-equipped militia with the finest weapons US taxpayers money can buy. Mostly they're murdering civilians, including many children (Iranian imports?) while most Israeli casualties have been soldiers. Maybe God's taking a day off?

I remember Yotam as a tenth and eleventh grader on Kibbutz Bet Hashitah when I spent a year of high school in Israel. At a time in life when male adolescents are wild and crazy, especially kids who know they have to go into the army, Yotam was always good. He didn't brag or lift himself up above the others. He was just a good kid who treated us "foreigners" with respect. Such a loss really makes me mourn the evil of terrorism. Here is a man protecting his family, community, and country. If only the Hezbollah terrorists would just leave Israel alone, then the war would stop! If not, then there will be such loss of life until Israel asserts its military strength to crush Hezbollah. It looks like it will only be through this military means for morality to prevail. I still hope that Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and the Lebanese people will change their violent, radical-Islamic ways to bring about peace.

1. No one "gave" the Jewish people anything. The Arabs agreed to take the decision to the League of Nations; they just didn’t like the way the vote turned out. Contrary to what you may or may not have been told or read, Jews have inhabited the Palestinian Territory continuously for more than 3,000. Even after the Roman Empire attempted to disperse them and renamed Israel in order to humiliate them and even after the Arabs, Ottomans and then the Arabs again tried to cleans them. For the record, more Jews lost their homes and property when they were run out of Arab states after 1948 than Arab-Pals lost in the transfer. The big difference was that the Jews didn’t sit around claiming victim status, living in ghettos and waging war over it for 60 years, they built a country. 2. Israel is by no means a rogue state. Just because it doesn't bow down to and assimilate with its neighbors doesn't make it unworthy of being a state or defending itself. 3. The hezzies are not nearly as poorly funded and ill-equipped as they would like the world to believe. But as the saying goes, it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings and Israel has not even come close to losing this war yet. 4. Yeah, I've read and heard all about all those so-called innocent civilians getting killed. You probably don't want to go there with me though because I don't even like Hollywood; so Pallywood and Hezzywood really make me gag. Oh, and God never takes a day off.

I'm sure the people who lost their homes didn't agree, but the peasants rarely if ever have a say. "In June 1922 the League of Nations passed the Palestine Mandate. The Palestine Mandate was an explicit document regarding Britain's responsibilities and powers of administration in Palestine including "secur[ing] the establishment of the Jewish national home", and "safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Mandate As for gagging, my reflex is triggered by our congressional prositutes total capitulation to the Israel lobby and a terrorist state. As for opinion held by many Americans, I can only recall H.L. Menecken's chestnut about no one ever going broke...and Heinlein's advice about how to be a responsible citizen: find out what the average person thinks...the vote the other way: you'll rarely go wrong. :)

I lived on Kibbutz Beit Ha'shitah for 6 months as an Ulpan student, in 1991. While I do not remember Yotam, specifically, I mourn his loss. I only pray that the Lotan family - and the entire Beit Ha'shita, and Ein Herod communities - find comfort among the mourners of Israel. May his memory be for a constant blessing.

Neither one. You are the one who are stupid and naive coz you cant figure which is right and which is wrong. You cannot tell the truth even it bite you in the Ass!!!