It is time now for Palestinians to do the right thing and get rid of their problem -- Hamas. Until they make a change, their lives will be the same old, same old.

if people will continue suffering from siege, any anti-israel actions will be easy to justify. don't think that they care much when the weserns condemn them. on the other hand, people will never accept throwing rockets if their wellfare life is secured.

The Gazans on whole, are partly responsible for what has happened to them. These are people who, by and large, are not capable of doing anything else, except hate Israel. Too many of them are as delusionary as their backward, violence prone cowardly leaders. It is only in a place as wretched as this, that the leadership could have sold such a beating as they have received as a victory!

quoted as saying... "Our people are too emotional," Bassem said. "Haniyeh just needs to speak at Friday prayers to patch up the damage, and you'll be surprised to see people clapping and cheering him." so we see everyone is either "too emotional a people - how are emotions relative here? short term memory about what hamas did to their own people? full of hatred for non muslims- ie Jews ruling the Jews aboriginal -homeland here? or too afraid to speak out; thats why not one of those interviewed was willing to give their name. The exact same thing occured in iraq when saddam was on the run, but was still in power. here hamas was underground hiding like cowards while sending children to go to school in booby trapped schools, and having militants fire mortars within meters of peoples homes and schools, yet hamas was still in power and Israel pulled a Bush sr and didnt finish the job. Talk about not learning from history.

they send their own wives and kids to be blown up or to use as human shields in war, while they hide in their self created bunkers. If i was Arab I'd be disgusted by this. Im not Arab and i am disgusted by this.

This Reuters article describes the rocket attacks that preceded the Israeli operation as a "pretext" ie. an excuse used by Israel to justify the unjustifiable "withering onslaught that killed 1300 people and wounded 5300 others". Does the editorial staff not read these reports before publishing them or is that the official view of Ynetnews?

Gazans should make the decision now: a country that flourishes and lives in peace or war after war, death, pain and retaliation gazans, please choose peace!

so if it is so important that you shoot your "pencils" at an infinitesimally stronger enemy that will attack precisely because you won't stop shooting your "pencils", then you're dumber than can be helped.

Perhaps you omit a fact, very high similarity between to sides of the war, which is normal to blink at because two sides hating each other cannot think they are the same character. Look at your war In one side Hamas, they can both sacrifice their life and cowardish, they may easily pull a bomb vest they may wear but when confront with an enemy they act cowardish, their war is not heroic and cannot be. The same for IDF and Israel, but IDF is only technologically high copy of Palestinian cowardish, IDF can fly high, bomb from far but cannot confront a brave, a heroic army,like Hizbullah, and terrible failure of IDF, IDF cannot even remove Hizbullah fighters from a single village because IDF has no courage to come face to face with them. Lost enormous number of soldiers. The same for revendge feelings, the same for ... Hamasian religious fanatism almost similar 99% to Jewish zionist fanatism we read here each day from talkback writers. When you try to fabricate such nonse like this Gazan against Hamas, first think similarities with Israel.

"All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts." This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. In an article published by numerous religious Israeli newspapers two weeks ago and run by the liberal Haaretz on 26 March, Rosen asserted that there is evidence in the Torah to justify this stand.

Hamas , a terrorist group that ignores international law,tortured and murdered its Fatah rivals to seize full control of Gaza in June 2OO7.

leftist papers often need to search alot to find wood for their fire due to the obvious situation in israel, and when they can't find enough, they resolve to other means. if a rabbi preaches hate, he looses sympathy from his congregation, people are not stupid , and they know the basics of jewdaism.

Go read in Arutz 7 about gazans being amalek with their behaviour. Whilst they may not be direct decendants their behaviour towards Jews and Israel is identical. So beware Gaza of your fate if you continue with your behaviour you will face certain doom.

Hi Sarah, Yes, we have religious extremists in Israel too, unfortunately. But we don't allow them to have rocket launchers in their backyards. Being a democracy, people are allowed to express their opinions and don't need to hide their identity for this. Palestinians need to build a stable country for themselves. But think about it, in history they never had their own country. Never had a real government, a capital, its own currency, etc... The only "leaders" they had this far are opportunistic people who cared nothing about the people and their fate. Hopefully a visionary will come that will help them build their own country.

This is your opportunity to throw out hamas that has brought nothing but sorrow and destruction to you, nothing but hide behind you and your children, spending your money or weapons of war instead of building you hospitals, educational fascilities and fancy shopping malls. Stand together and get them to leave for as long as they reign in Gaza you will never have a decent life.

"Gazans: Rockets must end", from one man Reuters supposedly interviewed, he now represents all of Gaza? I'll wait for a poll on Gaza. "gave the Israelis a pretext to unleash a withering onslaught" "Pretext" is used by Arab leaders and terrorists, meaning "they wanted to kill us anyway but they found something small to legitimize it", therefore making the rocket attacks seem like a few kids with bottles of vodka. Stop bringing us this gentile propaganda from the mass media, keep your articles independent.

Other opinions said that we must refrain from bombing places where we can hurt innocent civilians . Ok ? You see only one side . We did'nt like this war , but we had NO other possibility . Have you seen Israelis rejoycing with the number of deaths ? Have you seen Israeli mothers sending their sons to be killed ? have you heard this hamas leader shouting : you prefer life , we prefer death .

Has Rabbi Yisrael Rosen been elected Prime Minister of Israel by a wide majority? Because when he has then you can make the comparison, otherwise he is no different from your BNP who actually have more elected representatives than Mr Rosen has.

The jos was not fully done, just as expected by all those the knew this israeli goverment. Let's all raze our glasses to the next round, that will surley come, based on this article and what we know of this fanatic enemy. I hope and pray that that the likud will be in goverment and will after hamas jagular once and for all !!!

Dear Hilla, I think you probably need to reread the history of the Middle East better. Us Palestinians don't consider ourselves different from other arab neighbors. Palestine has been a state in the Arab as well as the ottoman empire for hundreds of years. Anyways, through history we showed to everyone that us arabs are civilians makers. Not only did we bring justice,property, and science to the Middle East but to Europe,Asia, and Africa as well. Build your reading background please.

You guys need to read more from more various resources not just Israeli ones. A very famous newspaper reported that Israel sponsored Hamas at the time of its creation to make the ME conflict a clash of civilizations or religions. Israel now continues to strengthen Hamas and hatred through its stupid policies. Make the Palestinians live in desperate conditions, and dream of peace. This wont work Im afraid. Again I tell you as long as the palestinians see destruction and death and massive human crimes in their cities, there wont be any chance of peace in the region. I hate the killing of civilians on both sides and I talk to people here about it. However, the desperate conditions of Gazans dont let them think properly. Therefore, you guys should understand that weapons of mass destruction as well as money wont secure Israel. What will secure it is friendly neighbors. How long will it take Israel to understand this? Europe understood it along ago and united despite different ideologies,races,languages,etc.

There is no moral equivalence between Hamas terrorists and Israeli soldiers. There is no gray area. There is no point in negotiations. Hamas is a Jew-killing machine. It exists to destroy Israel. What is there to negotiate? When Hamas can't kill Jews, it's perfectly willing to drive Palestinian civilians into the line of fire - old men, women and children. Hamas herds the innocent into "shelters," then draws Israeli fire on them. And the headline-greedy media cheer them on. More about the war with Hamas at : http://xrl.us/bechf2

As Jews: "Purim is not celebrated on the anniversary of the victory against our enemies. Am Yisroel does not rejoice over the downfall and death of its foes. We celebrate Pesach because we were saved, not because our enemies perished, and we rejoice and read the Megillah ...the day after the war, when no one died, but we were saved. For this reason the last day of Passover (when the Egyptians were drowned in the Red Sea) is not a day that we sing praise to Hashem in the form of the entire Hallel prayer (as we do through the rest of the holiday). One reason is because of King Solomon's warning (Proverbs 24:17) that "You shall not rejoice in the fall of your enemy". We do NOT rejoice, we mourn, when we see death and destruction, even of our "enemy". It is naive, however, to think that it can be avoided without causing the death and destruction of our own, and carrying with it the full weight of responsibility for not doing anything to stop it. If Hamas is killing our people and daring IDF to shoot through hordes of civillians to stop them....then we must do our best to avoid civillians, but must still do the job nevertheless, but not gladly. The Palestinians use our finest instincts against us, but we must still maintain those instincts, must not discard them in the face of a laughing evil or we become that very same evil...the instinct to preserve life is Torah, it is truth (don't let any Rabbi distort or pervert it).

... The world around us is sure changing... Ennemies at the gate threatens Israel and its new generation of leaders are indecisive and never finish the wars that are meant to protect the Israeli citizens... Even Israel's supposed allies turn against her... What a sad world we live in...