>>>>yes the rockets are terrorism and should be stopped but Israels response is appalling.
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>>>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.
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>>No thats not whaht I'm saying.
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>>I don't think the founders of Israel would be very proud of the way it behaves today. Israel has a clear choice how it uses very accurate weapons and it has chosen to inflict heavy civilian casualties to teach them a lesson. Probably the Hamas terrorists are largely untouched and will be back.
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>I agree. They can go house to house and weed the bad guys out risking their life and those of the civilians that are willfully or forcefully inhabiting these homes. Either way Isrealis can't win in the eyes of the world, like you.
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>BTW: North Korea is now beating their war drums too.
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>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_tension
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>Ok. prez. Obama your up to bat. Show us what you can do.

The Israelis can't win because they keep using the same old policies.

They could try getting all settlements out of the West Bank and opening up the borders of Gaza and the west bank to allow trade and some sort of economic revival there.

If you give a people nothing to lose you end with very dedicate terrorists who have nothing to lose. Israel has proved this very well over the last 40 years.