to rearm and end occupation but did not to defend gazans--they were smart to hide if they did that as were p.a.'sthey only prove their harmful nature and the need for israel to finish them off next time or before. gazans voted for wrong terrorists.

Thanks for this posting...When are these people in Israel going to wake up to the real facts ? They are living in deep denial ! 10 IDF soldiers killed during the Gaza Op.? Huh, whom are they trying to fool with those numbers ?!Why did they muzzle up their media ? Answer: Because they cannot declare the real number of soldiers killed by Palestinian resistance , plus, they don't wanna declare the enormous damages & casualties they suffered from Qassam/Grad rockets on their towns. Living in LaLa Land ! It's unheard of indeed, Israel gives itself the right to be armed with latest hi-tech weaponry & nukes , while it denies its neighbours to do the same ...By what right ? Why should Israel be allowed to manupilate the whole region if it desires to do so ? Hamas was elected by Gazans, why Israel & the USA cannot live with this fact? Time for Israel to wake & to realize that times are chaning , & things won't be the same again in the Middle East. New powers are rising & others will rise . Live with it or leave!

Which means one of two things. Either they were hiding behind a very thick wall of Women and Children or, they are stating an Islamic Truth (known in the west as Bull S**t)

I consider my G-D holy

Exaktly. The Foolish and Idottic Israeli Politichians deprived the IDF of the Victory. They gave it to HAMAS and the Worldoppinion. Now a second War is needed, to implement Israeli rule over Gaza, acording to, JESAJA CHAPTER 11., vers 14. Orao.

This is so frustrating. You'd think the world would have gotten it by now. Israels new motto: One more rocket and Gaza will be out of its socket josef szmuda

Your fighters are so brave, how come always wear masks????Just as you cowardly hide behind your women and children, you hide your faces too...

only george calls me those affectionate names.

was quoted saying "the zionist entity" right? that's a scoop. yisrael from israel forgot the name of his country, according to your paper. on this basis i wouldn't give credit to what he said in your paper, would you?

Zyriab, You, like others, are unwilling to understand history regarding Israel before 1967. According to the standard narrative of erudite, learned scholars like yourself, the Israelis are Western culture colonizers and the Palestinians are the poor natives who were taken advantage of. Israelis=British/Spanish/Portugese colonizers, and Palestinians=poor Inuits/Iroquois/Cherokee/South Asians, correct? According to your version of history, Israel was a bloodthirsty colonizing invasion force bent on taking land away from natives, and in 1967 it was the aggressor? I'll bet you fantasize about an alternate past 60 years of history where Israel never existed. Where, in your view, Jews took the high noble road and taught us all about how to be a minority in a culture and live peacefully with the rest of the culture. How we should all admire Jewish culture while watching a documentary series on TV about how enduring Jewish culture is, how much Jews put up with. How noble it is that Jews put up with so much, instead of resorting to self-centered self-defense like Gentiles. In such a fantasy, the documentary ends with the narrator waxing poetic, pontificating on how the Jews are so much like the Suffering Servant written about in the book of Isaiah. What a noble fantasy. You fantasize about the last 2000 years of history, about the few pockets in time when the native peoples of Europe or Africa or Asia didn't savagely kick Jews in the gut. How dare Israel assert its right to exist? Israel is an extension of Western civilization, right? That automatically means it is a self-centered, colonizing, dehumanizing, parasitic entity, correct? It upsets you that Israel successfully fought for its right to exist as a sovereign state. You find it unfair that Israel grew a pair of b*lls and defended themselves against Muslims who cannot stand the idea of Jews not being ruled by Muslims. I find your idea of "fairness" or "that's just the way it is" sickening, in the same way I find sickening the idea of excusing a bunch of street thugs (who only resort to a life of crime because of their sad life stories, RIGHT?) who shot a man to death because he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time and looked at us funny".

Will the people of Gaza finally wake up now and see the cowardice and hypocrisy of Hamas and its ilk? These thugs invited in outside agitators like Iran and Syria, armed themselves with ridiculously unnecessary weapons like rockets and missiles, fired them at a very powerful neighbor, and then ran and hid in holes like the rats they are while the Israelis came in after them. This kind of behavior is shameful and embarrassing even among Arabs, who specialize in talking big and running in the other direction when their adversaries react. The number of children who were killed or injured is horrendous, and yet Hamas promises only more bloodshed for its people that it claims to protect. These apocalyptic Islamists should be killed or kicked out of Gaza once and for all, and let the people negotiate a real and lasting peace with their neighbor.

"new powers are rising, and others will rise, live with it or leave" does quebec know it's citizens are suggesting israelis shall be forced to leave their country? you are either a kid who is too obssessed with the codes of conduct in his canadian computer war games, or you're a would be terrorist so filled with hate. a canadian friend of mine said the arabs around us are jelous of israel's success. they are trying to distroy it out of jelousy. what's your story? sounds like you are dying to tell us

It is amazing how irrational Israelis have become. They kill innocent civilians and then boast their power. A war is always among equals. You should allow Palestinians to arm them like US arms Israel and then go for the kill. What Israeli army did in Gaza was merely genocide of unarmed Palestinians who have been barred from even venturing out of such a small territory. It is shame on you Jews and Israelis that you call it war and claim victory.

And the IAF will continue with courtesy calls.

Bingo! You've got it exactly right Dvir. Israel is fighting for her existence, and should'nt be worrying about what other countries think about them. This includes the US. We should be backing Israel 110%, instead of getting in the way. To hell with the stinking politics. When Israel gives those Muslim cowards a pasting, they do everyone a favor. God bless them!