What the Gaza concentration camp isn't working. Those tunnels are hard to detect. I find it interesting that Hamas was fostered by Israel to counter the PLO.

Another big lie. Hamas was fostered by Iran to try to create deterrence against Israeli attack - and to compete for leadership in the Muslim world.

Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran have done more to make the Palestinians in Gaza pawns to their fantasy of removing the Jewish state from the Muslim peninsula.

Egypt fires machine guns to keep the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel does more to feed Gaza than anyone else. But it is time to accept the reality on the ground.

There is no two-state solution. Obama should demand Saudi Arabia call off its opposition to Israel and end the state of war.

It is 60 years too late to try to create a Palestinian entity. Time does not go backwards. Face reality and move on.

No Arab state has the come to the defense of Hamas in Gaza or Hezbullah in Lebanon. Neither Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, or Egypt will cede territory to create a larger Palestinian state.

Gaza and the West Bank aren't big enough to constitute a nation state. They have no economy - other than jobs in Israel or welfare from the UN.

Face it. The war is over. Hamas is afraid to fight. All that is left is a propaganda campaign in the media - which does nothing to change reality on the ground.

"Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years. Israel 'aided Hamas directly – the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization),' said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic [and International] Studies. Israel's support for Hamas 'was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative,' said a former senior CIA official."

DrDan2000 - Tell your Israeli friends to stop land grabs for settlement building. Maybe you can convince them to get rid of the checkpoints in the territories. Maybe you can tell them to stop the blockade of Gaza. Until those things happen the nonexistent economy of the Palestinians will be just that, nonexistent. Again, why do our tax dollars fund this cruelty?

I am astounded by one of the comments above that basically denies a Palestinian state.

Israel has repeated its mistakes throughout history (including biblical history) and the current incursion is no different. Israel's actions insure its eventual collapse. Their campaign against terrorists only creates new ones and it is a failed strategy that they want to drown the US in as well.

After you take away a man's home, livelihood, family, children and hope what do you expect him to do? If you give your enemies nothing to lose, should you expect anything but the worst from them?

Ron Paul is correct that Israel acts like our kid brother who spits in someone's eye then runs behind our leg to hide. At some point they have got to learn to fight their own battles and leave us out of it, living with the consequences of their decisions. And by the same token, we can't expect Arabs to love us while Israel uses our weapons to blow up their homes, mosques and schools.

MIguy - Ron Paul was right about this issue. Amazing that he was one of what 5 people in congress calling for a halt to this onslaught in Gaza. To bad the republican masses has neoconservatism stamped all over their you know what.

Reduce aid to Israel. Then they can engage in a fair fight with the Palestinians, who haven't got the luxury of the USA's deep pockets propping them up. Israel would be more willing to work for peace (instead of keeping Palestinians in squalor that breeds terrorists) and share the land (instead of "giving" land while continuing to build illegal settlements on it) if they were no longer the 300 pound bully in the region. Terrorists would stop targeting the US because they oppose our support of Israel, making US citizens safer. Not to mention the US could use that $3 billion/year ourselves right now. Do we want schools bombed with our tax money? How long will we continue to finance their endless fighting with neighbors? The total cost to US taxpayers has been $134,791,507,200 since 1949, or $23,240 per Israeli

To bad we used tax to another politic agenda.

How slick! Bush and Israel are putting another deal over on the American taxpayers before Obama takes office.
He would NOT dare overturn the deal benefitting Israel and tightening the borders on the Gaza and Palestine's concentration camp.
No hope for them.
Thanks Kirit Radia for pointing out that we are footing the bill for more Israeli war crimes.
Taxpayers need to stop all money and arms for Israel.

When there's lightning - it always bring me down
Cause it's free and I see that it's me
Who's lost and never found
I cry for magic - I feel it dancing in the light
But it was cold - I lost my hold
To the shadows of the night

There's no sign of the morning coming
You've been left on your own
Like a Rainbow in the Dark

Do your demons - do they ever let you go
When you've tried - do they hide -deep inside
Is it someone that you know
You're a picture - just an image caught in time
We're a lie - you and I
We're words without a rhyme

There's no sign of the morning coming
You've been left on your own
Like a Rainbow in the Dark

When there's lightning - it always brings me down
Cause it's free and I see that it's me
Who's lost and never found
Feel the magic -feel it dancing in the air
But it's fear - and you'll hear
It calling you beware

There's no sign of the morning coming
There's no sight of the day
You've been left on your own
Like a Rainbow in the Dark

"Hammering out a deal" between the US and Israel.

And the Gazans are the nail.

Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I dont understand

Fools like me,who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep,for their beliefs
Do you kill on gods command?

A country thats divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased,no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand

The end is near,its crystal clear
Part of the master plan
Dont look now to israel
It might be your homelands

Holy wars

Upon my podium,as the
Know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavels bang,uphold the law
Up on my soapbox,a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holler
Than-thou-could-be-messenger of god

Wage the war on organized crime
Sneak attacks,repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die

They killed my wife,and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
First mistake...last mistake|
Paid by the alliance,to slay all the giants
Next mistake...no more mistakes|

Fill the cracks in,with judicial granite
Because I dont say it,dont mean I aint
Thinkin it
Next thing you know,theyll take my thoughts away
I know what I said,now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings

Alot of the post oh here is aginst Isrel i see. thing is that you all havent read the white papers lately and dont even come close to knowing what going REALLY going on over there, What would have us do Let terrious take over everywhere and kill everyone like Hamas is doing at this very second to Fatah. Arabs will kill eachother when they have no one else to kill.That land was given to Israel by GOD himself not the UN who btw is a joke. And nobody else in the arab world wants to let them Hamas and hizbullha to come live in there country because they already know what will happen. Wake up world and kill all the Terrious there NOT freedom fighters.They hide behind women and childern like cowards. Im ashamed of the world right now i really am. Ray

America is broke and going out of business. When will we stop throwing away money on Foreign Aid, with the largest stash going to Israel. Let them fight their own battles.

stop all foreign aid except food

Has everybody forgotten that Israel CREATED Hamas!!! Know your history folks. If there is NO resistance, there is no excuse for occupation. Educate yourselves. Don't be a pawn, and further enable this mass genocide and slaughter of sematic peoples of Arab lands. There is NO excuse for Genocide! EVER!