WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE. WHY DOES THE WORLD NOT SEE THIS? THESE PEOPLE THROUGH BLIND HATRED HAVE BECOME THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY. THEN I ON OCCASIONS MEET SOME OF THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE NORMAL AND THAT PREVENTS ME FROM PUTTING THEM UNDER ONE UNBRELLA BUT IT COULD BE A CASE OF A FEW SPOILED APPLED SPOILING THE WHOLE BARREL AND THUS MUST BE DEALT WITH THIS WAY.

hamas is desperate to stay relevant and stay in power. right now, they have brought destruction on gaza (they didn't need to fire 100 qassams a day into israel last december), and are failing to help their own people or to harm israel. gilad shalit gives them one last excuse to keep the spotlight on themselves, so they're in no hurry to give him up. in fact, quite the opposite, as they demand ever more outrageous ransoms for him. if they conclude the deal, no matter how many terrorists are freed, it'll be over and forgotten. it's time to change the rules. as with pharaoh before them, hamas will only let him go when the very thought of holding onto him becomes unbearable - it took the plague of the first-born to free the children of israel from egypt, and it will take a similar "plague" amongst hamas' leadership to free shalit and to prevent future kidnappings.

UMBRELLA My comments focused on Gaza and not WB or Arabs living peacefully in Israel. On a shopping trip to Nazerth an elderly Arab man in a Kafiya cheerfully greeted me in Yiddish (not know my love of Hebrew and Disdain for Yiddish) and I responded with the appropriate greeting in Arabic. On the way to Sakhnin you will see a 25ft high replica of the Statue of Liberty. There you will also see women driving and teenagers playing peacefully. In Haifa you will see Arab women working side by side with Israeli women in Steimatzky's. While things may not be perfect, Arabs who live with us in peace enjoy a much better living standard than anywhere else in the Arab world. But those committed to our destruction pay an enormous price for their hatred and futility. WORLD The world is run by people who only care about their own interests. You have the maniacs of Iran and Libya. Fortunately USA bombed Khadaffi's house kill enough of his family to shut him up for the most part. Iran is hell bent on their own destruction. The embargo is hurting them and they rejoice for the few "victories" in smuggling arms in and out to Lebanon/Gaza. But the world is uniting against them. The day will come when they launch a nuclear offensive and find out how far they are behind all the other nuclear countries which respond in ways and from places that the Monkey could never imagine. Iran will be destroyed within minutes of their first and last offensive. The rest of the world stood silent in the holocaust and for the most part can not be counted on. There are times when someone must fight for their survival and not bow to what others think.

"You left out the bit where you wanted the IAF to carpet bomb the city/towns/villages/refugee camps filled with innocent men, women and children in Gaza for a day. " Plenty of precedent exists for precisely that. You need look no further than the collateral damage resulting from NATO's bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq. Ten thousand and counting. "Such is your nature for mass murder but heck what do you care about 0.75m children who would get blown to bits, maimed and made orphans?" Your words ring hollow. You have yet to expound upon the dismal fate of hundreds of millions of children who are daily blown to bits in places such as the Congo, Somalia, the Ivory Coast, the Nigerian Delta, to name but a few. I have yet to read anything from you concerning the Kurdish children massacred by the Turks, the Iraqis and the Iranians. You have yet to mention the Christian children massacred in Banda Ace by Indonesian forces. You have never regaled us with your thoughts on the terrible fate of children in the Sudan. Your anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda is well known, "Matty." You fancy yourself a humanitarian, but you're really just a hypocrite hiding behind a folk song. "Trouble is that if the IAF do carpet bomb Gaza to your delight this means that the IDF will have far less innocent civilian to use as human shields to hide behind the next time they mount a ground operation." There is evidence aplenty that it is Hamas that has used Palestinian civilians as human shields. But the problem won't come up -- Hamas' days are numbered. And the biggest winner will be the civilians in Gaza who are doubtless sick to death of being held hostage by leadership that lives grandly in Damascus, enjoying the fruits of what they have stolen from the Palestinian people. Do you support terror and terrorists, "Matty?" Shouldn't you then be right at the front lines in Gaza, holding and cosseting the children about whom you purport to have such concern? For that matter, why aren’t you doing exactly that? By the way – you are ill-equipped to hold forth on my nature and what does and does not “delight” me. Try and keep your responses substantive – insulting me demeans only you. After all, it’s not as if I take you seriously.