I am 100% behind you! So is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Believe in the Lord and call out to your Saviour Jesus Christ, He is our only hope. I am praying for all of you.

So be it. Let terrorism be the new legitimate tool of policy by all unhappy groups everywhere. Let Paris, London, Barcelona. NY, LA, Oslo all burn to the ground. I will be cheering with the rest of the 'progressive liberals'. Let's unwind the social clock a thousand years. Fine.

You won't publish this but i must speak my mind. God bless Israel and curse to those who curse you.

Citizens of the world.....realize one thing clearly: the words NEVER AGAIN!! only apply to ONE group of people, and that is the Zionists of Israel. I have seen, time and time again, in different forums, when other holocausts are brought up or mentioned, the discussion is leveled down to THEIR holocaust. I have news for ya, folks....in the 20th century, there were over 100 holocausts that took place; I fail to see why one out of a hundred takes precedence over all others....the chutzpah of it all!! You will NEVER hear an israeli talk about the 20+ million Jews that Stalin killed....why, you might wonder? Because many of Stalins executioners were themselves Zionist Jews....do these people REALLY expect the rest of the modern world to believe that they are perpetual victims of everybody else on planet earth, nobody is as blessed and sacred as they are??? Isn't that a little...um...well.....racist, to say the least? Mr IDF soldier man who started this thread, are you being paid by your governement to come into forums, post on blogs, other websites, to spread the word that your country, is in fact, doing absolutely nothing wrong??? Citizens of the world are indeed waking up to your duplicity, and I must say.....we're not liking what we see or hear.

great article! thank you, rotem!

Stop Massacre, Fight Hamas not children and their mothers

A little bit of truth at last.

that we are 100% correct. Now country in the world would tollerate thousands of rockets fired at its civilians. What took us so long? The UK and the rest of Europe have very large Moslem populations and they are terrified of these people that live amonngst them so for peace and quiet it is easier for them to critisize Israel. But wait until these Moslems gain real power. They will kill the infidels. All christians will be killed if they dont wake up now.

all the palestinian people are my enemy. its stupid and unrealistic to think otherwise.

There wasn't 20 million Jews in Stalin's day just as there aren't 20 million Jews today- the victims were Russians, Ukrainians, and other Soviet citizens.

I am originally from Serbia but fully support the Jewish nation. You have been through a lot and the world does not see beyond the anti-Semitism that seems to be in their genes. Do whatever you can to protect your people! Know that there are Serbs who support your cause!

Rotem Please submit your article to the WSJ or to the Drudge report. People all over the world need to read this. Thank you!! Good Shabbos

Ive tried to get a few posts through to Ynet on a few occassions and all of them have failed so far. Heres hoping this one gets through. Definately, one of the best posts I have ever read on this subject in a long time, but as you can see, the bloodlust is out of control. Oh what a wicked web we weave. I am utterly convinced that most of the posters here, are ex South Africans who had to leave when the Apartheid system collapsed, and they are only looking for another group of 'Kaffirs' to oppress. To the American Jews, who go over to Israel, well even in Israel, they are despised as trouble makers. They leave the US for a few years, go to Israel to 'work the land', swallow a mixture of Biblical lunacy and zionism and believe overnight that its their land and they will kill anyone who gets inn their way and they have the complicit backing from the Israeli Government... They settle in places where they are not wanted, cause major disruption, cause the army to move in to protect them, which then encourages more settlers to move in as it is imperative that every citizen is protected. They get bored, move back to the states and leave others deal with the Crap, and then feel 'good' that they have done something for the advancement of the state of God. This is to all intents a Jewish version of Manifest Destiny. One of a series of Land grabs that have occurred. The sooner the world knows what this is, the better for all citizens of the world.

They just dont get it! Zionism is a failed enterprise. It means war forever, and guaranties long term demise of Jewish presence in the Middle East. The butchery of idf war criminals will not alter the long term outcome. Aliyh OUT!

Gaza has border with Egypt.We rid Gaza of Jews.They are not our problem anymore! If idiots like you don´t like what you see,go wander in another place and go clean your a** in your own mother`s house. You came from somewhere to Australia and are conivent to the kicking out of the indiginous popúlation of there. You are an idiot and should shut up for ever,if possible! Go to a box stage to have your teeth pushed out .The weakest of the world can do it easily since you are a piece of BS!

I am just wondering...how is that there are jews in this world that support the Palestinian cause, and they are plenty trust me! on the othe other hand, you will NEVER find any palestinian supporting the idea of an Israeli state? doesn't this ring a bell in the mind of all of the Zionists out there? The author, Rotem, is scared of a bomb that would, at the best of times, destroy a metre length of asphalt, or slightly damage a brick wall. Rotem, did you ever think how the poeple of GAZA are surviving at this moment? Do you really think that your 'IDF' is fighting a fair war? I don't think so, you and any of your mates would be very stupid to think it's fair, i mean honestly comparing the death of 700+ palestinians in 14 days compared to a couple of injured 'israelis' in many yrs is no comparison is it? Please stop the BS about HAMAS attacking poor women and children in your state, the comparison is unfair. how about the IDF fights a fair game, imagine your zionist troops carrying out a street war against HAMAS, carrying guns only, not aerial or sea support, would they dare? i think not, you know why? because the troops in the IDF are pussycats to say the least, as those who have been fighting in the war with Hizbullah 2006, we saw them crying on your tv screens...SHAME, a state survived by some cowards!

ON YOUR ORDERS!

This whole outrage over this death of a un truck driver is racist at its core. Those who condemn the IDF as targeting this driver are being premature in passing judgement, bigoted in selecting or dissmissing of facts, and ignorent of what happens in battle. Israel is fighting terrorism from a state that freely and knowingly elected a terrorist organization whose platform is the destruction of Jews. No government can stand that does not protect its citizens. Hamas is an evil cancer which should be destroyed. THANK YOU ISRAEL! By shutting down its supply system the UN has made a political statement and shown which nation they support.

1) Israel/Judea is the land of the Jews, Arabia is the land of the Arabs. Thats where you come from. Israel is where we come from even though Assyria, Babylonia, Greece, Rome, Church, Islam, expelled and killed Jews for 30 centuries. 2) No one in Israel clebertaes like hamas celebrates. When a jewish child dies because of hamas, they pass out candy. when an arab child dies we are saddened. God wants all his children to get along, and while God commands not to murder he also commands to guard your life and kill if it means saving our life from our enemies. So you want Israel to disobey God? If hamas didnt shoot behind women and kids like cowards there would be no issues with civilian casualties. 3) I hope nest time there are elections that an overwhelming 70% of Gazans dont vote the child murderers organization into power.

quote/ the truth is ur religion teaches you the art of lying/ close quote. Ibn Shihab said he did not hear that exemption was granted in anything what the people speak as lie but in three cases: in battle, for bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form in order to bring reconciliation between them). (Sahih Muslim, Hadith number 6303-05; see also Sahih al-Bukhari 3.857) Deu 5:20 "'And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You tell me which religion is taught the art of lying?

"In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it -- for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before." - Thomas Jefferson, July 6, 1775

We must live by the motto of David Ben-Gurion: "It doesn't matter what the world will say; all that matters is what the Jew will do". It's that or be destroyed by the court of public opinion.

TO DAVID #1 You sanctimonious Jew hater, your message is a disgusting melting pot of total ignorance and sheer idiocy. Moreover, when your kind of antipodal morons moralize about Israel, your are not only nauseous, you are uttlerly ridiculous. The followiing extract of your national history is just one example of your elevated ethics. TASMANIAN DEVILS IN HUMAN FORM As early as 1804 the British began to slaughter, kidnap and enslave the Black people of Tasmania. The colonial government itself was not even inclined to consider the aboriginal Tasmanians as full human beings, and scholars began to discuss civilization as a unilinear process with White people at the top and Black people at the bottom. To the Europeans of Tasmania the Blacks were an entity fit only to be exploited in the most sadistic of manners--a sadism that staggers the imagination and violates all human morality. As UCLA professor, Jared Diamond, recorded: "Tactics for hunting down Tasmanians included riding out on horseback to shoot them, setting out steel traps to catch them, and putting out poison flour where they might find and eat it. Sheperds cut off the penis and testicles of aboriginal men, to watch the men run a few yards before dying. At a hill christened Mount Victory, settlers slaughtered 30 Tasmanians and threw their bodies over a cliff. One party of police killed 70 Tasmanians and dashed out the children's brains." Such vile and animalistic behavior on the part of the White settlers of Tasmania was the rule rather than the exception. In spite of their wanton cruelty, however, punishment in Tasmania was exceedingly rare for the Whites, although occasionally Whites were sentenced for crimes against Blacks. For example, there is an account of a man who was flogged for exhibiting the ears and other body parts of a Black boy that he had mutilated alive. We hear of another European punished for cutting off the little finger of an Aborigine and using it as a tobacco stopper. Twenty-five lashes were stipulated for Europeans convicted of tying aboriginal "Tasmanian women to logs and burning them with firebrands, or forcing a woman to wear the head of her freshly murdered husba nd on a string around her neck." Not a single European, however, was ever punished for the murder of Tasmanian Aborigines. Europeans thought nothing of tying Black men to trees and using them for target practice. Black women were kidnapped, chained and exploited as sexual slaves. White convicts regularly hunted Black people for sport, casually shooting, spearing or clubbing the men to death, torturing and raping the women, and roasting Black infants alive. As historian, James Morris, graphically noted: "We hear of children kidnapped as pets or servants, of a woman chained up like an animal in a sheperd's hut, of men castrated to keep them off their own women. In one foray seventy aborigines were killed, the men shot, the women and children dragged from crevices in the rocks to have their brains dashed out. A man called Carrotts, desiring a native woman, decapitated her husband, hung his head around her neck and drove her home to his shack."

All the anti israeli posts are full of blatant hatred.How can one reach peace with such people?

My opinions must be built on FACTS otherwise they are worthless. CHAZAK, ISRAEL.

thank you david from canberra

This world citizen knows all that you spoke of. Many people know of the biased view of the main stream media.I served in Lebanon in 1979/1980 and have learned of the circumstances under which your people have to survive. I respect your country and the people who live in it. You are an example to the lazy people of Europe.

Many of us really wish your editorial board followed the lead of The New York Times, and showed a little more decorum and taste and common respect when choosing advertisers and selecting what type of images to allow. The advertisement for screensavers, with its highly-sexualized photo of a woman, reflects or suggests an unacknowledged institutionalised sexism informing or determining your editorial judgement. This is unfortunate at best, and fairly offensive at worst, and it impinges on/suberverts your overall credibility. And all self-respecting newspaper business offices will attest to the fact that you can secure healthy advertising revenue without degrading more than half the world's population.

Nice try, my brother, but, once again, Islam followed Judaism on this one. In addition to your accurate quotation of Deuteronomy about not lying, Judaism also condones "white" lies if they serve the function of peacemaking, and in more or less the same three circumstances you note from Ibn Shihab. In other words, it's considered okay to fib a little bit if doing so helps create Shalom Bayit (peace in the home) and/or helps bring fighting people together so that they may make peace. In fact, Aaron is merited for doing just this kind of thing, and some of us find ourselves wishing that HaShem would send us a modern-day Aaron - a genious in bringing embatled people together in peace.

And it has been working for 60+ 1300 years. Only the truth will stop it. But the cowards take the easy way out. Not to upset islam for fear of more terror. The result, a more powerful, bolder islam and more terror. http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/10/10/getting-the-world-to-hate-israel/