punishment." He surely will not come back alive by patting them on the head and saying, "nice terrorist, just wait and we will send your killers back to you."

chose that what you got, you chose org that was declaired terror org by the UN so you chose war I call it shooting your own foot and cry about it when you r hot headed and don't think rationaly that's what you get.

Do you mean like the collective punishment inflicted on Germans in the massive Allied bombing raids during World War II? Do you mean like the collective punishment inflicted on Japanese when the United States dropped not one, but two atomic weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively? Do you mean like the collective punishment inflicted in any number of cases since? Get a grip. War is hell. The Gazans are getting exactly what they wanted; they did, after all, infiltrate Israel's borders for purposes of suicide bombing attacks, thus causing the borders to be sealed. They persist in firing missiles into Israel, thereby inviting severe retaliation. What would you have Israel do? That said, I remind you that Gaza has two borders: one with Israel, one with Egypt. And that Egypt's border has been hermetically sealed for years. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

Hamas created a multi-million dollar weapons smuggling business and perform terror for hire while living conditions in Gaza deteriorate. Hamas has their priorities and creating a functioning, self-sufficient society is not one of them.

Isn't it one thing to hate what your enemy stands for, and fight the battles that need to be fought - but another entirely to wish for ever increasing despair and misery on an entire people? Defend your standpoint by all reasonable effort but a lot of these comments are plain scary. Every nation has its women and children. There is no 'they' which means every single person in Gaza. There are the crazies and there are the passengers. Collective punishment doesn't make Gazans succumb, it makes them crazier. Israel has a serious racist malignance festering and a cultural change is required lest you become what you despise. Frightening, but true. Wake up Israel, the moral high ground is slipping away. Clapping your hands with glee at a report like this is sick.

You are a perfect example of defective Moslem logic. I will try to make this simple for you since you obviously can't handle cause and effect complex logic. 1. Gaza overwhelmingly voted for Hamas. It is part of their name if you understand Arabic. 2. The Hamas Charter begins: "The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)" 3. Look at almost EVERY terrorist attack in the world from Abu Sayaf in the Phillipines, to Mombai, to Bali, to Madrid, to London, to 9/11, to Amman, to Sinai, to Beslan, and on and on. What do they all have in common? Answer: Radical Moslem Terrorists murdering innocent civilians and children. See the following for the text of the Hamas Charter. http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html

collective guilt for aiding, helping, harboring, encouraging, participating in terror. you can't do all that and there be no price. gazans make conscious, free choices and, therefore, must accept the consequences. what's wrong with that (unless you are also ok with supporting terror)?

all humans are not equal when they want to kill us because we are jewish!