>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/israel.rockets/index.html
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>>>>>I guess there is more behind this than a warlike spirit. I guess.
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>>>>I wonder if the rockets were landing in WoodStock or Crystal Lake what our government's response would be and what the locals would expect?
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>>>Maybe if you treated Mexico or Canada the way Israel treats the Gaza strip and Wet Bank you'd be getting the rockets. I find that sort of justification doesn't really hold up apart from as convenient sound bite.
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>>I don't see what you mean by "israel treats the gaza strip"...Israel tries not to "treat" at all neither the gaza strip nor the west bank...
>>What you don't hear in the news (particularly in Great Britain where the only reasons i see for what i see there is either a huge amount of pro-palestinians arabs or monumental disinformation ) is that those rockets are sent exactly when parents are taking the kids to schools. This morning, one rocket landed inside a big complex of 3 kindergardens, and by miracle, didn't explode...Then, they sent later in the afternoon, at a commercial center, exactly at the time people leave work and go there for shopping...
>>What happened today is a fraction of what happened almost every day, for the last 8 years. So, in my view, there is no disproportionate reaction to that...There is no disproportionate reaction to terror, other than wiping it as much as possible...
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>Well my view is that the plucky little Israel of 1967 was long ago replaced by the overweight regional superpower Israel of today. BTW those rockets are primitive and capable of little precise targetting unlike the laser guided weapons being dropped by the Israeli air force.
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>yes the rockets are terrorism and should be stopped but Israels response is appalling.

This is what amazes me. I am all for a Palestinian state, but totally against indescriminate bombing. What would you have Israel do? Just lob dumb bombs indescriminantly into Gaza near schools and places when kids and families are coming and going? Just to keep it 'completely even?' That's ridiculous. Wars would last lifetimes as this one probably will.