Don't stop until Hamas no longer exists.

Who's funding this invasion Madoof?

There are no winners in this conflict. Every Palestinian civilian killed by Israel tips another Palestinian from the more moderate faction, Fattah, toward the more radical faction, Hamas. Silently sitting by the sidelines are the anti-Hamas govts. of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Just another unattended mess left at the end of Bush's term.

Too "Another unattended situation | 9:54 a.m.".

You people need to make up your minds! Your main complaint about President Bush has been that he overstepped his bounds when he went to Iraq to stop what was eventually going to happen there (because they were not threat to us yet).

NOW YOU WANT HIM TO OVERSEE, POLICE AND CONTROL EVERYTHING HAPPENING IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE???

Since when is the President of the United States held responsible for the decisions made by Hamas and Israel?

You want the President of the United State so prevent every bad outcome in the world... But at the same time you complain if he gets involved outside the US.

How is Palestine or Israel a threat to the United States? Yet you think OUR President should get involved and "Attend to this situation"??? That OUR President is responsible for THEIR decisions, their urge to protect their citizens, their politics? The USA and Bush should have interviened and prevented all this???

Admit it... No matter what he does. If he gets us involved or not, if he goes to Iraq or not, no matter what he does you would complain. Why??? Politics!

You are sadly misguided friend; this conflict has radicalised moderate Arabs and Hamas will be a force in the region in future. With Bush leaving the calculated Israeli election linked offensive will have to end. Hamas will claim a victory if it can continue; Israel's second Lebanon incursion was deemed a failure. Israeli politicians are seeking electoral victory on support for anti Hamas military conflict.
The US position recently has become muddled in the eyes of the world. By abstaining in the Security Council US stood isolated from world opinion and half heartedly permitted another week of conflict with verbal support for Israel. israel has since been at pains to persuade that it isn't trying to attack and kill civilians but phosphour shells don't discriminate between women, children, or armed Hamas fighters.

Question for "Re You asked for it "...

Do only phosphour shells not discriminate???

Do the Hamas rockets that have been launched randomly into Israeli civilian populations "discriminate"???

Figures you'd make it sound like only Isreal's weapons are not able to discriminate between civilians and terrorists. Only Israel and their weapons and their reactions are wrong here, right? Hamas' weapons are good and their intentions are just good, right?

You people are so bogus I don't see how you can rationalise your rhetoric to the point that you are comfortable posting it. You really don't even realise how biased you look, do you?

BYW... The Phosphour shells lament is far from original. Posters have been using that as a sympathy ploy in these pages for days now. Get a new shtick!

It's interesting to me that it seems like one of the last biases those on the left feel it's OK to have is "anti-semitism". The left obviously has a thing against Israel and they have no problem exposing this bias every chance they get.

They will fight racism in public, they decry discrimination in any form (in public), but they will protect their right to their anti-semite views to the end.

Everything Isreal does is wrong. Anything any nation does to harm Israel is justified. Any reaction by Isreal to terrorist actions on their boarder must be denounced. Their rhetoric is so obvious.

oh my how I can't wait for the day when there isn't some news of violence between the arab world and israel. Let's just get the world war 3 started so we can put an end to the mess that began who knows how many thousands of years ago and I pray that I'm not around to see it.