The IDF should stay out of Palestinian territory unless they are protecting their citizens.

Soldiers are not killed in battle by "terrorists".

Could the Israeli Gov't finally be getting a backbone and ensuring that actions have consequences? I certainly hope so! Give'em hell boys!

the grenade in one of the soldiers' vests was hit by a Palestinian bullet and exploded on his body. Palestinians stationed snipers at fixed posts and provided them with intelligence information on the whereabout of the grenades on the Soldiers' bodies. What Israel intelligence does; stations micro-tanks undercover!

Israel stop stealing land and I bet Palestinians won't attack the IDF with stones.

You have absolutely no idea Rose how very silly you sound. If you knew even a little of the truth you would know it is the Arabs stealing the land. Who have you been listening to? And Rose as for them attacking with stones - Is that how they murdered the 130 Israeli Children I have pictures of - Is that how they shot a car full of beautiful Children and then their Mother pregnant with her little son - Is that how hundreds and hundreds have been killed and wounded by the so called Palestinians. Pull your woolly head out of the sand and at least try to search for truth. You could even try the Bible.

Obama being unreasonable with Israel in a poorly disguised attempt to change the elected government of Israel has given Hamas go ahead to launch attacks that has killed Israeli soldiers. How about US stop endangering Israeli lives. Also US invasion of Iraq upset the mideast balance and empowered Iran which endagers the existence of Israel. Israel is the one as usual getting the thin edge of teh wedge

1. They have their DNA traced to what is know teh west bank. 2. Archeological evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates their people, culture and religion developing as the indigineous people and culture and religion in what is now the west bank. 3. Ancient texts from neighbouring civilisations refer to them as the people in the region. 4. They have been invaded by foreign colonialists. 5. They keep on making agreements in which they give up their land only to have the other side reneg and force another agreement in which they give up more land. The American indians of the middle east are ofcourse teh Jews, over 1 million of which have not ever set foot (nor their ancestors) outside the middle east.

So they are not terrorists but state actors? Of what state? Hamasistan? Does that mean that Israel can act against the leadership and paramilitary infrustructure?

Rose: what the hell are you talking about. This crap happend on land that we GAVE BACK, you Moron!! we gave it back, and these jerks, your heros, still cant stop planting bombs, shooting rockets, etc. Cant you get it through your thick skull that Gaza belongs to Hamas, not to israel, and therefore the Jews are NOT occupying it??????

the arab world quit trying to take what isn't theirs. It's irrelevant that the "palestinians" are the arab-du-jour...the Jews are the rulers of that part of the Middle East. I know it's hard to stomach for the rapid Jew haters on this site and the average arab who is about as educated as a door knob...but so be it. Those are the facts on the ground. Palestine was a fictitious place...most of it now sits in Jordan. That is the arab palestinian land. no more than that.

If you look back to 60 years of jews fighting arabs and vice versa, in a peculiarly painful way, the arabs have helped produce a fighting jew distinct from wwll and prior times.jews needed to evolve that trait which was moribund for 2000 years and resulted in weak defenseless beggar types like olmert, beilin, ben-ami, peres, ramoni, haber, verter, benn and marcus, weak, pitiful jews. The arab crucible has strained some of the cowardice of the jews. The haredi are the remaining sector that need to militarize to eman cipate themselves. Israeli soldiers have to be more rigorous to watch for traps and fakes by hamas who are good fighters. An armed bulldozer should go in second following copters or drones raking the area with fire to remove crossfires. On another subject, listening to tapes of rashid kalidi, it would be useful to know why he doesn't talk about palestine including jordan's land as space for the palestinian state since jordan is a british creation.

war and more dead,no one can stop it when the jewish people wake up to the truth that the pharaoh(the politicians) do not really care about anything and they only think in themselves and trust in the name of the lord to reveal hashem tzion after fighting against the sheker in minds we finally get the messiah and his promised kingdom on earth,trust in the word,trust in the lord of hosts,trust in the rock of salvation,trust in the truth and the messiah will unite you all together in tzion this year.

how about you take a course in history and learn something. had 5 countries not attacked 1 just created the previous day we wouldnt have this problem. the land is OURS. :-)

language they understand.We should send all the palestinians to the west bank,bulldoze the strip and build beautifull hotels and casinos.One less place too fight.

You getting a brain and also getting a real education about life? Inform yourself before opening the mouth.

cause we sure don't need them or want to hear them. p.s. i guess you somehow haven't got some updates or the canadian weather has frozen your brain cause you should know by now that the palis have much more than just stones. haters can go to hell. long live the jewish state.

any talk of Judea (west bank) and Aza (Gaza) disputed territory captured from Jordan and Egypt in 1967, and the original homeland of the Jewish people going back 4000 years.

Well Rose, while I agree that Israel should leave the territories, I believe your thoughts on the Palestinian response to be a bit naive. First off, if by stones you mean bombs, bullets, and other such ballistics then I completely agree with you. Second, when stones are being used, they actually can kill. I'm in Vancouver also, if I came to your house and began throwing stones at you, I bet you would call the police to detain me. Or perhaps if you had a weapon you would use it on me.... remember what they say.. sticks and stones may break my bones. Right? It's elementary almost....

Rose, did these palestinians attack the israelis with stones? If you still think so you must not have read the same article I did. They were there to plant an explosive device and then killed two israeli soldiers with live ammunition. With your smae logic amybe the native americans should start shooting at U.S soldiers or the Spanish should come to Mexico and start firing on them. This lie about alnd stealing is such a cop out just to support terrorism. Apparently thats what you support

Rose, what are you talking about? You must study a different history book. Israel did not steal Gaza or the West Bank. These were terrirtorys that were lost in war. Gaza was a part of Egypt and the West Bank, a part of Jordan. Going back years before, there were not Palestinians even there. So Israel did not steal any land, they won the land in war, and counties usually don't give land back, however Israel did give land back what in return for what? Terrorism and rocket attacks. Do you know why Israel went into Gaza today? Because the terrorists were setting up explosive to be used against Israel. What do you know? Not much..

construction in Jerusalem, they will have to start worrying about Gaza blowing up, and they can already say Good Bye to negotiations of any kind.

israelis calling palestinians terrorists is like racist white south africans calling the native blacks terrorists. eventually they fell.

You don't understand. Pals will never be happy until all Israel has been destroyed. Educate yourself, perhaps go and visit Israel, talk to some locals. It's easy to be an armchair expert. Bet you were one of the ones rioting over disputed native land for the Olympics. Are you native North American or did your ancestors displace the land you live on. Before Israel became a nation, at least the Jews were paying for swampland and desert from absentee Ottoman landlords, and at inflated prices.

Fortunately we Arabs have friends: Goldstone will blame Israel, UN will accuse Israel, and B. Husein Obama will tell Israel to move out of Gaza, except that Israel did so already. Jews cannot live in Raza because we want the country to be clear of Jews and Christians.

It is hard to believe just about anything Israel says these days, so who knows really why Israel invaded Gaza, but Gaza defense forces were certainly justified in shooting at Israelis violating Gaza's border.

The Americans use that all the time 9/11 might ring a bell?

Israel left Gaza years ago, maybe it's time to finish the job.

Only a useful idiot like yourself could expertise of hamas terrorists. Ocams razor will tell a different story. It was just plain blind luck that a hamas sniper managed to detonate the soldier's grenade with a one-in-a-million shot. The proof of the pudding in what masterful fighters your Islamo-nazi criminal heros are is that in followup fighting the Israelis killed 2 more terrorists and still have tanks inside the Gaza border, all without any meaningful response from the "superhuman" Hamasnicks who are probably hiding behind the usual human shields