second we are making most of our weapons. third we have nothing to prove to you; we are a democracy, an emerging economy, a success story. fourth why are you in the Netherlands? Is there anything wrong with your country?

You can say the arabs are hiding all you want, but its just guerilla warfare. And the biggest mistake to date by the Israeli government is saying the goal is to topple Hamas. The air strikes killed hundreds, Hamas gained THOUSANDS are supporters. What do you think will happen on the ground? Tanks being blown up, troops killed and kidnapped, snipers everywhere? Hamas is not afraid, lets see how brave the IDF is when people shoot back.

Hamas will be finding each others Head and Shoulders for weeks to come. Go go Golani!

Saying Israel is hiding behind F16's is like saying that to the USA during shock and awe used against Iraq, Germany, Viet Nam or Japan. A democracy like the USA and Israel brings out the best in it's people. Including better weapons. The Palestinians best weapon is the suicide bomber which is obviously depleted with time, blocked by a wall, or when their protagonists are expelled.

In all of the early wars we had no American arms. We beat you and your ugly brothers who had superior British arms and instruction from WW2 officers. Your brothers also had soviet made arms which at times were vastly superior to our capabilities.

trash. What a cowardly, yellow lot you are, hiding among the women & children , hoping for a death in which they die first, before the Israeli can grab you by the neck. Here's to you dying very badly in the midst of your family & folk. You pack of feudal loons have no honor.

Who cares of your false pretexts, Arabs are hidding behind women and children.

Hamas-Islamist-Jihadists should do what they say-fight like men instead of hiding behind the skirts of women and children. And if they can really fight like men, why don['t they march towards the Israeli soldiers waiting for them. Why are they hiding? Why don't they march out with their guns and fight like men? The fact is Islamist-Jihadist terrorists talk with a big mouth spewing craps but they have NO balls.

like those guys who killed jews at the chabad house in india?

GET OUT OF HIDING BUDDY ! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE... YOU ARE A MEN REMEMBER ! AREN'T YOU ?

By being more concerned about Palestinian civilians than the hamas enemy is will cause the death of many more soldiers than if Israel focuse on destroying Hamas and told the world to go to hell. This PR war will turn into another disaster because Israel fights to gain public relations appeal ,a losing battle.

Where were all the Euro Jew-Haters when Hamas was shooting rockets non stop and Israel did nothing? The world is now forced to confront its own hypocrisy and is powerless to stop the action. IDF with free hand to destroy Hamas. Get it down now!

IDF not afraid...the arabs are not afraid too. and because of that we have to live in the bomb shelter and they have to live without houses at all. maybe we all just have to stop this idiotik "war" so anyone would to suffer. what they are not listening to us and we are not listening to the, so the both of the sides just not rght.

Enough already YNet........are you a PAlastinian paper spreading their propaganda or a Jewish news service reporting the truth?

Seriously! Who is hidding? Gaza is 360 km and Israel is scared to invade it. May be it's hard to ride a fighter jet and strike schools and clinics--

laden with bombs, shoot missiles at babies and schools, from amidst babioes and schools. You should say alahu satan hamas because thats what you are. its ironic how religiously evil you are. you are so caught up in lies you cant see clearly.

Hams will loose, like it always had. When your ideology is founded on hate, it always comes back to haunt you !

and assists a legitimate civilian goverment in Gaza to help its people to prosper..... Hamas is using the people in Gaza as a politcal pawn

I am not sure what the opponents consider fighting like men...Lobbing unguided missiles into cities, blowing up restaurants, shooting up plazas, cutting off heads of captives?

Israel is too polite. This should have been done years ago. Hamas won't let their own civilians nor the Israelis live in peace. Israel should go to the very end and wipe them out for the sake of humanity.

Agreed. Lets fight like men. All women and children and non combatants leave Gaza. They can reside in refugee camps in Israel or Egypt. All elderly or other non combatants exit too. As soon as they are out, let the ground war begin. I like the IDFs odds. But at least Hamas will die like men, rather than the cowards they are.

Don't use your own Palestinian people as pawns. Do the hard work of setting up a working society. It's easy to fire weapons. Be REAL men in a REAL battle to improve the living standards of your own people Abu Abir

...or cares? Waste your stupid opinions on muslim sites - not here.

Fight like men? This is coming from a group that targets women, children and other civilans, and hide among their civilans, puting them at risk because of the groups actions. I think we all know who already fights like men

these terrorists are something. They suicide bomb children and they want world attention to see how much of scumbags they are. Yea we all see.

we did fight face to face and el isareal defeate dforces lost teh battle they run away

You forgot to mention their "manly" wife & child beating tradtions -

terrorists don't know how to fight like men, they are animals.