Does the U.S. Want a Ceasefire in Gaza?

It's simple and reflects how our politicians are out of sync because the master-minds in Israel got little bit off sync. Give them a day or so until they get new orders and sound bites to announce. Man, this is sad when human lives mean nothing for the sake of political gains to some a party in Israel. This is all done in preparations for the coming elections in Israel. Solution is simple stop the bombing and then sit on the table to discuss peace with your neighbors. Don't ask the victims to sit down and take the beating and surrender to your will... they will not surrender but I am sure they will negotiate peacefully if you are interested.

No, I think we should support Israel to continue pressure until there is regime change in Gaza

Our government is ok with expanding settlement activity and keeping the Palestinians in their cages between checkpoints.

Do u thing this will bring peace faster ?
That's disgusting ...
No more comment !

There were people featured on ABC news
recently for having an orderly protest
against what Israel is doing in Gaza.
Where were these people when the
rockets were being fired into Israel?
Let Israel do what has to be done to
defend themselves and get off of their
backs.The United States does not own
Israel.

All politicans are blackmailed with illegal surveilance done by the Anti Defamation League in favor of Israel. If you dare to stand up to the Israel lobby, you will be attacked, slandered, and impeached or not reelected... if you are LUCKY! (Former Rep. Paul Findley spoke out against this YEARS ago!) Does it bother ANYONE that a foreign country can do surveilance against OUR representatives in congress, and blackmail them to enact policy in favor to that country and to the detriment of our own??? Stop, THINK, before you answer that question, and ask yourself what the HELL are we doing in the middle east??? Oil is only HALF the equation!

The united states needs to regain their moral high ground after these miserable 8 years under the Bush administration. This means that they cannot continue to be complicit in israels contiinued war crimes and needs to begin to extricate itself from the grip of Israeli political machine here in the us.

It is clear that Israel is going to exploit the remaining 20 days of Bush's term and the blank check it will provide to butcher innocent women and children because they fear that an Obama administration will not have the tolerance for this sort of criminal behavior that exists in the status quo. We can only hope that Obama will not continue the same cover in the UN for Israel and that they will be forced to finally obey international law.

The Bush administration has no standing with Hamas and Israel will not listen until it is good and ready. Until the new Obama administration comes into office, we should stay on the sidelines.

Whatever standing the US might have had was wasted when Bush declined to include Hamas in the ME peace talks.

Would you allow rockets to be launched against you? Of course not, you would have your country defend you and your family at all costs. I understand you don't like the casualities of the palestinians, but that is not the fault of the Israelies. This is the fault of some really stupid palestinians.

One can only hope that Hamas comes to its senses and stops antagonizing its neighbor. Maybe Bush can go out with one positive -- that positive being putting an end to Hamas terrorism. Hamas needs to stop hiding behind women and children. Israel needs to protect its own men, women, children just like Hamas SHOULD be doing.

Beto-
The US has as much pull with both Hamas and Israel as they are willing to exhert. Israel cannot continue without the US support - financial, military, and political - that has been flowing unconditionally since JFK was president (with a few notable exceptions).

The fact that the US simply allows Israel to act with impugnity illustrates the level of depravity that exists in this and previous (Clinton ) administrations here in the US.
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We need an America first policy and that means cutting Israel loose and letting them face the concequences of their policies and actions rather that shielding them from international law by using it's security council veto and making America into the chief enabler of war crimes.

I am truly shocked that the commentators here are not running the world - you seem to have the answers. What a load of crap - sit on these websites and moan and gripe. Wowie-zowie. The US loves to sell weapons. Lot's of weapons, more than anyone else in the world. Isreal buys lot's of weapons. Do the math. If you are an American here, and you voted for ANY incumbent, EVER, then look in the mirror for the trouble. Look hard and long. this too shall pass...

The u.s initiated a democratic voting plan in palestine, Hamas won, but because you dont like hamas you introduced sanctions how flawed a foreign policy a time will come when it will come down to the fast loss of support for isreal even in America and guess what where are they going to turn to, Iran?

Some of you folks can't be real. You amaze me. You get mad when someone walks in your yard or bumps your car. If Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, was indiscriminately launching over 200 rockets into your backyard during a wedding reception or your kid's birthday party, would your naieve opinion change any? I hope so. I don't want the world to know how simple-minded a lot of Amnericans today are.

Just a reminder....Hamas was fairly elected by the people 2006. They are not an army. They probably don'T have any weapons (EXCEPT HOME MADE PATHETIC ROCKETS).....so funny when the media spin presents them as a strong force.
Hamas is strong...Israel beats them...so...Israel is sooooooo strong.
Go Bush mentality...
Uh by theway where is the stong Iraqi WOMD?

Launching a missile into the sovereignty of another state is an act of war. Israel has absolutely no obligation to be in any way measured, "restrained" or "proportional" in its response. Furthermore it's unreasonable to expect them to avoid hitting civilians, since the palestinians voted Hamas into power, and Hamas targeted Israeli civilians. If the Israelis were to nuke the gaza & kill every living thing in it, my only concern would be the radioactive fall-out & its effects on Israel. We ourslves nuked Hiroshima & Nagasaki. How would the British foreign minister feel about poor palestinian civilian casualties, if Hamas had been lobbing missiles into London? War is hell. But that's what this is.

WHAT GUARANTEE IS THERE ROCKET ATTACKS WONT STOP? - OF COURSE THEY WONT STOP AS LONG AS HAMAS CONTINUES TO NOT RECOGNIZE THE EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL AND HAS IN ITS AGENDA THE WIPING OUT OF ISRAEL. WONDER WHY PEOPLE FORGET THE ABOVE. ISRAEL WILL STOP ALL ATTACKS AGAINST ANY ARAB NEIGHBOUR ONCE ALL OF THEM RECOGNIZE THE EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL. SIMPLE.

KDOG, Hitler also was elected. So you elect a party that wants to exterminate Israel and Israel has to make peace with someone who eants it wiped off the map and also indulges in rocket attacks true to their word?. We need to apply some perspective.

>Just a reminder....Hamas was fairly elected by the people 2006. They are not an army. They probably don'T have any weapons (EXCEPT HOME MADE PATHETIC ROCKETS).....so funny when the media spin presents them as a strong force.<

Now let's see... They were elected to power by the palestinian people and they engage in acts of war against their neighbors. That makes them either an army or a state-sponsored terrorist organization.

Under precedent of international law, the distinction is irrelevant. It makes the Gaza Strip a war zone & essentially means the Israelis can do whatever their little hearts desire to neutralize the threat, including reasonable collateral damage in the civilian population.

I hope the Israelis bomb the gaza into the stone age & do it before the hamas-endorsed US president takes office in 3 weeks.

Uh yea the reason Hamas was bombing Israel in the first place is because ISRAEL came and stole their land, rounded them up, and quarantined them in a tiny strip of land and cut off their access to food and medicine. Hamas is a liberation effort. Know the facts before you judge people. If the Jews are so upset about the Holocaust why would they go and do the exact same thing to someone else a couple years later?? Jeez. Israel is a terrorist state.