My sympathy goes out to the poor occupants of Gaza. Their leaders are totally focused on importing arms and installing rocket launchers in the midst of residential neigborhoods, instead of addressing the economy or welfare of the people of Gaza. The Israelis evacuated Gaza in 2005, leaving the Gazans to govern themselves. The Gazans voted for Hamas, a party which is only interested in war against Israel. Gazans have been fed a steady diet of war cries and hatred with tunnels to import missles but Hamas has installed no air raid sirens and no shelters, preferring to sacrifice innocents to the inevitable outcome of rocket launching.

Israel is the size of Vermont, but nearly receives the most U.S. financial aide of any country in the world. They treat some of their citizens unequally. They build walls around certain populations. They steal their land. And they are trying to starve the Gazans..Oh so familiar is this process: build a wall around people, and force them to starve. Think Lodz, Warsaw. I no longer wish to support Israel with my tax $$. If they are such an advanced civilization as Mitt Romney claimed, then they should be able to make it on their own. Can they is the question? I stand with the millions of fair-minded Jews here in the US and in the middle east...Desperate people do desperate things. http://alicerothchild.com/ Z

Yet ANOTHER clueless Israel hater, who can't be bothered to look into the history of Israel and the Palestinians since 1948. Who stared the 1967 war, the 1973 war? Who murdered 11 Israel athletes at Mucich in 1972? And who cheered and fired guns in CELEBRATION when America was attacked on 9/1/2001? The Palestinians, who also cheered when Hezbolla fired rockets at israel, and when Sadaam fired Scuds. ALL at Israeli civilians. Back in the 197o's Palestinians had JOBS in Israel. Then they sent SUICIDE BOMBERS. The Palestinans killed their Golden Goose.

How ironic it is that the Gaza ghetto, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, is the focus of US and Israeli disdain.  The comment "rockets are fired  from heavily populated areas"is nonsense.  There are no open areas in Ghaza!

This is shameful treatment of human beings by a rightwing Israeli government and the US has looked the other way.

As is always the case when ideology triumphs over reason the innocent suffer.  Naturally there will be those who prefer to say this one started it or that one started it or this one is more guilty than the other.  But to the child caught in the crossfire whether Israeli or Palestinian it really doesn't matter much who started what. 

Ms. Roy writes an article on what amounts to selecive vision of man and many will find she has failed to pick out the appropriate villian.  The fact is all of us are the villians.  Who pressures the US to do something solid, tangible to correct the situation.  Where are the Palestinian people pressing for an end to the nonsense, the Israeli's pressing for an end.  In a world of ideology, zealotry we find masses of people force fed stupidity and slogans and false promises of heaven on all sides.  The children, they are merely collateral damage. 

Always we humans as political creatures look first to who is at fault and second to a solution.  Forget the first and you might well find the latter.  However with so much ideology, zealotry and belief in their own righteousness I don't see any breakthroughs in the near future.  So children on both sides will die and both sides will pray to their god and know they are right and both will fail to see what is wrong right before their eyes. 

And, by the way, I and millions watched, in horror on TV in 1972 when ABC "Wide World of Sports" announcer Jim McKay told the World "They're all GONE!" ..On that day, Where were YOU?

…All reasons why Hamas should recognize Israel's rights to exist. It’s really not all that complicated Ms. Roy. Recognize Israel. But Hamas just can't do it. How can they when they're entire platform is driven by their hatred and commitment to destroying Israel. There could be peace, but a stubborn Hamas won't take two simple steps. First, recognize Israel's right to exist -- a few words that would go a long way and two – and this requires no action at all -- stop firing rockets into Israel. I also notice that you failed to mention Egypt's blockade of Gaza. Was that just an accidental omission or is that Egypt’s blockade is acceptable but not Israel’s because, well, it’s Israel. Obviously you’re aware of Egypt’s action so I’ll go with the latter. I find it quite interesting that rarely is Egypt disparaged for their suppression or lack of assistance to an Arab brother, but Israel is incessantly disparaged for just defending itself against a malevolent terrorist group. In your next postulation try limiting the bias and using more neutrality.

I think, as Jeff Jacoby pointed out the other day in his op ed, when he referenced the Hamas charter: “Our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave,” avows the hate-drenched Hamas charter. Success will not come, declares Article 7, “until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!’”.  Perhaps Ms. Roy this is why Israel is, and rightfully so, so vigilant when it comes to securing their own borders and making certain that their self-identified sworn enemy, and radical, extremist faction, is kept in a most limited state. 

Slaves will revolt.  They always have…eventually.  And then the masters will condemn them for doing so and punish them self-righteously.  One can win the battle but lose the war.  One can win a thousand battles and still lose the war.  One can win the war…and still lose the war.  Look at World War One.  Because those that had the power to create a real peace in 1919 did not use that power wisely, another 60 million people had to die in World War Two.  But there was no telling the Frenchman in 1919 that there could ever be peace with the Hun.  This situation is as depressing as it gets.  If Israel thinks going back to the 1967 borders is intolerable, wait till they see what the alternative is.  And it will not be “peace in our time.”

Sara Roy's opinion piece "Where's our humanity for Gaza?" is filled with
inaccuracies and is written from a one-sided perspective that ignores reality.

To frame the picture in a context that Ms. Roy might be able to understand,
Palestinians were firing hundreds of rockets into Israel, finally precipitating
eight days of Israeli retaliation; there were 140 Palestinian fatalities, an
unfortunate but extraordinarily low number for such a conflict, reported in
often-graphic detail by journalists and NGOs alike.
By contrast, there have been over 35,000 deaths in Syria’s civil war, to which
these same self-proclaimed humanitarians pay little heed.

During the fighting Israel continued to supply electricity, food, water and other
assistance to Gaza's civilians in order to minimize their distress. 
Contrary to the malicious accusations of Israel’s critics, including the bogus
profanity of “genocide”, the only disproportionate response in the recent
fighting was that of journalists, NGOs and politicians who consider any Israeli
military success inherently unfair.

May I remind Ms. Roy that Gaza is not "occupied" by anyone other than the Gazans themselves.  Their misery is self-inflicted; the 7800 acres of agricultural land that
Israel abandoned when they left Gaza in 2005 were destroyed by the Arabs
within a week.  As for the blockade, what sane country would open its borders unconditionally to a neighboring people who have proven in word and deed that
they mean to destroy it?

This author is well qualified to tell us of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It is hardly surprising that rockets would be fired when, from the other side,  tanks and additional weaponry have invaded their land and destroyed their livelihoods and environment.  Of course, they fight back in any way they can. As of now, the two state solution has not materialized. 

The brutal Israeli occupation of Gaza created Hamas. What other response could Palestinians afford? Their population is being brutalized by the embargo of all of life's essentials. In what universe does a people embrace their occupiers? There will be no peace until Palestinians can achieve self-determination and freedom.

The humanity of Gaza is constantly punished by its own leadership.  Israel has the right and responsibility of protecting itself and its citizens.  When Hamas--and other Arab "leaders"--decide to accept Israel's right to exist in its own homeland, you can be sure that Gaza's economy and people will thrive.  The refugees, in Gaza, in the Palestinian Authority territories and in Lebanon are the product of their handlers.  Don't blame Israel.

Another "Israel's the bad guy" essay that adds nothing, no new ideas, no new insights, not even a fair and balanced analysis. Thanks for another waste of space. Remind me why I still pay for this rag.

It is not about our Humanity... That is the problem... Stop blaming us... It is their humanity, Their war, their people... Lay blame where it should go...  Let's fix our own problems first... Those who want to stay violent it is their business, not ours... 

A government (Hamas) that espouses hate, revenge and murder isn't paying much attention to the needs of its citizens. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Hamas welcomes Israeli retaliation because the deaths of Palestinians (especially women and children)generate sympathy for them and criticism of Israel.

If anyone is curious about the Charter of the elected government of Gaza, Hamas, here is a link to the Hamas Charter: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html Reading that Charter, would anyone believe that Hamas would ever truly negotiate a true peace with Israel, regardless of the economic cost, or the lives lost, of its own people?

The author writes "The Gaza Strip is now in its 46th year of occupation [...]" without telling us who she thinks is "occup[ying]" Gaza. If she mean that Hamas "occupies" Gaza, having first taken over by force of arms from the Palestinian Authority, and then run elections the fairness of which is at the very least questionable, she may have a point.

But if she implies that Israel still "occupies" Gaza, she hasn't noticed that Israel withdrew from Gaza several years ago -- a withdrawal followed by thousands of rockets raining on southern Israel.

More likely, the Globe's editors aren't paying enough attention at what they allow to appear in print. We expect more from them.

"Kitch"  I would simply state this premise.  We all understand what Hamas represents.  I'm quite sure you can find zealots who will say they are the saviors of the Palestinians, but they are no more worth listening to than those who say Israel is blameless for its current situation or that the UN and the western powers did not lie to the Arabs in both wars.  It is simple enough to blame or point out the faults, never mind faults, purely ludicrous positions taken by some Muslim Imam's and some Arab political leaders.  But one can also easily find terrorism, bad policy, massacres in the Palestine camps during the wars, plenty of extremist acts by the Israeli's.  But it serves no purpose.  It does not lead to solutions nor peace. 

The author of the article whether she is biased towards the Palestinians or not raises an important question.  the UN, the US step into eastern Europe to impose a peace, they step into Libya to impose a peace, they try to step into varying African states to impose a peace, but where is the push to impose a peace upon the Middle East.  Are we saying we are impotent?  I don't think so.  No what we are saying is we do not wish to impose a peace upon Israel.  To frame a peace, to gurantee borders, to say an attack upon one or the other is an attack upon the US or that the US will treat any agressor with a rapid and violent response.  Sixty years and the guarantee is unofficial.  So the question is indeed where is our humanity?

Sara Roy is morally bankrupt so-called academic who is an apologist for the Hamas regime that violently took control of Gaza. The rulers of Hamas lack humanity as they have imposed an extremist Islamist program that persecutes women, gays and lesbians, and Arab Christians. How can I forget, Hamas also want to murder all of the Jews in the State of Israel and beyond. Where is the humanity of the Hamas regime? It does not exist. The Palestinians within Gaza can blame Hamas for bringing violence, pain and destruction to Gaza. The terrorist Palestinians in Hamas have chosen to utilize their ample resources (including very generous aid from Arab Countries and the EU) to wage a war against the Jews rather than to help educate, clothe, feed, and advance their own people. Sara Roy can sit in the comfort of her plush office at Harvard while she gives cover to the Hamas regime that grinds the Palestinians into a dead-end. Sara Roy is a typical armchair revolutionary. She has no skin in the game. What does she care if Palestinians suffer at the hands of their extremist leadership? Not one bit. What a hypocrite. In closing, Ms. Roy fails to note that Gaza is under the repressive occupation of Hamas. Israel evacuated Hamas many years ago and is now paying the price as the genocidal Islamists launch rockets at Israel from behind the cover of women and children.

Yes where is the humanity? To paraphrase Golda Meir, peace can only come when the Palestinians love their children more than they hate Israelis. Maybe oversimplification some might say, but there so much truth in her simple statement. When Hamas proclaims in its charter their aim to annihilate the Jewish pigs and when it teaches its children that Jews kill Palestinian children in order to drain their blood and use it for ritual purposes, where is the humanity? And by the way, does Roy have any admonishments for a culture and body politic that has resulted in 30,000 Arab deaths in Syria?

I applaud Ms. Roy for her insightful op-ed. It provides the Globe's readers with a healthy dose of reality. In so doing, Ms. Roy strikes a much needed blow against the Israeli matrix which the Israeli government, AIPAC, Israel-Firsters, Zionists and their supporters and the American Main Stream Media ("MSM") have long foisted upon the American public--a matrix of lies and deceptions designed to convince Americans that the I/P conflict is the opposite of objective reality, a place where everything is turned upside down, where right is wrong, and the aggressor the victim. Curiously, not a single person here who attacks Ms. Roy's position addresses the relevant facts presented in her piece. Rather, in an effort to prevent those facts from permeating the Iron Dome which protects and preserves Israeli matrix, they resort to ad hominem attacks and irrelevant arguments which in no way address, much less refute, the facts in Ms. Roy’ piece. If one were to rely solely on the negative posts here and the American MSM, one would never even know the two most basic facts about the I/P conflict which must be recognized in order to have any hope of a reality-based discussion of the situation: that Israel is engaged in an expansive and brutal blockade of Gaza and in an illegal occupation of the West Bank. Like Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren stated a few days ago, the people attacking Ms. Roy’s piece would have the world believe that the blockade’s sole purpose is to prevent weapons from being smuggled into Gaza which would be used by Hamas in an undying quest to destroy Israel and that all the Palestinians in Gaza need do to end the blockade is to recognize Israel’s right to exist. If that were the case, the blockade would be limited to weapons and not extend to many foodstuffs and the materials needed to rebuild the homes and economy which Israel has destroyed--both before and after the evacuation of Israeli settlers from Gaza. Nor would Israel have found it necessary to calculate the absolute minimum numbers of calories and nutrients needed for the Gazans to sustain their bodies’ life functions and then tailor the blockade to insuring that that minimum not be exceeded. These same posters, like the vast majority of the MSM, cannot even bring themselves to use the factually accurate term “OCCUPATION” to describe the reality on the ground for Gazan‘s fellow Palestinians in the West Bank. Rather, they attempt to deny readers and other Americans of an indisputably critical piece of information against which all else (that is actually reported) must be read. Despite its dismal world ranking in terms of free press (Israel is ranked only 93rd in the world in terms of freedom of the press), one only has to read the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz or any of a number of other Israeli newspapers to discover Israel’s relentless drive to expel the Palestinians from their land, its brutal treatment of the Palestinians, its denial of equal rights to Israeli Arabs, and its inhumane blockade of Gaza. Reading Israel’s own newspapers one will see how Israelis themselves recognize the brutality of the Occupation (although most don’t seem to care) and the serious erosion of fundamental rights within Israel itself. (One will also see the multitude of articles and editorials where Israelis themselves characterize Israel as barreling headlong towards fascism.) Once the brutality of the blockade and the existence of the Occupation is acknowledged, the falsity of virtually every attack on Ms. Roy’s piece becomes much easier to see. First, is the claim that the Palestinians, especially Hamas, do not want peace with Israel. In fact, Israel has been offered peace in exchange for compliance with international law many times and repeatedly rejected it. For example, in the mid-1970s the PLO endorsed a comprehensive peace with Israel in exchange for a full withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. Israel rejected it. In March 2002, the Arab League proposed not only peace but normal relations with Israel in exchange for an end to the Occupation and a “just solution” to the refugee problem. That offer was be re-extended on many occasions, every time rejected by Israel. Why all of these rejections? The whole world knows, except apparently the United States, that Israel has never wanted peace-NEVER-unless that peace gave them every inch of the West Bank. Although not reported in the American MSM and history books, this fact has been acknowledged repeatedly by Israel’s leaders: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister: --“We must expel the Arabs and take their places and if we have to use force to guarantee our own right to settle in those places--then we have force at our disposal” (1937) --”I support compulsory transfer. I do not see in it anything immoral…The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making that happen, such as war” (1937) --”I favor partition because when we become a strong power we will abolish partition and spread throughout Palestine.” --”Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. --”Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves…we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.” Menachem Begin, Israel’s 6th Prime Minister: “The partition of the homeland is illegal. It will never be realized…It will not bind the Jewish people. Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it and forever” Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister from 2001-2006: “It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is no Zionism, colonization {sic} or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands” “Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours.” And, in accordance with its leaders’ statements, Israel’s extremist government, which is equally (if not more) extreme than many radical Islamist governments, is gobbling up Palestinian land at a record pace with no apparent intention whatsoever of giving it up. Also repeated by some posters is the false assertion which has become a mantra within the Israeli Matrix, that the Palestinians refuse to accept Israel’s right to exist. The truth: Over 20 years ago, the Palestinians joined the international consensus which calls for two states based on the 1967 borders, a shared Jerusalem and a just solution for the refugees. Fatah recognized Israel’s’ right to exist and renounced terrorism in 1988. Hamas has also announced its willingness to make peace with Israel along its internationally recognized borders. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh told both Newsweek and the Washington Post “if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, then we will establish a peace in stages.” Other more minor statements made by the negative posters are equally lacking in validity such as the claim that Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with Hamas which allegedly is simply a “terrorist” organization bent on Israel’s destruction. Aside from the fact the Palestinians, whether in Gaza or the West Bank, have the right to self defense, including violent resistance to an illegal occupation, the claim overlooks the fact that Israel was born in part on the terrorist acts of its founding fathers, acts of terrorism so brutal as to make the worst of Palestinian suicide bombing look like child’s play. Many of these “terrorists” went on to be honored by Israel by being elected Prime Minister. Most enlightening is former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s statement, in speaking about the acts of terrorism committed by his own people when fighting to end the British occupation of Palestine: “Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat…First and foremost, terrorism is for us part of the political battle being conducted under the present circumstances, and it has a greater part to play…in our war against the occupier [the British]”. Another false assertion is that the Palestinians bring up their children to believe that their greatest goal is to kill Jews and eliminate Israel--just another reformulation of the claim that Palestinian children are taught in their schools to hate Jews. To address this oft-repeated claim, Congress commissioned the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information to convene a team of professional educators. Their conclusion, stated in a 2003 report: “[The Palestinian] textbooks do not incite against Israel or against peace” and “the overall orientation is peaceful despite the harsh and violent realities on the ground…Religious and political tolerance is emphasized.” Similar conclusions have been reached by the prestigious George Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Hebrew University’s Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture. Again, in the Israeli Matrix the truth is turned upside down. Outside the Matrix--in the real world--a study of 124 Israeli textbooks by a professor at Tel Aviv University concluded that “over the years, generations of Israeli Jews [have been] taught a negative and often delegitimizing view of Arab” and an “inferiority in comparison to Jews.” And, in an article entitled “Learning all the wrong facts”, Haaretz reporter Akiva Eldar cites numerous studies concluding that many Israeli textbooks not only dehumanize Arabs. But are entirely devoid of the word “Palestinian.” Many educational materials often fail to distinguish Israel from the Palestinian territories with some official Israeli maps including Israeli settlements but exclude Palestinian towns, even those within Israel. The complete disdain and hatred of Palestinians is also supported outside the schools. For example, Rabbi Yovadia Yosef, one of Israel’s top religious and spiritual leaders who Prime Minister Netanyahu consults with regularly and who receives a salary from the government, recently sermonized: "Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel." "Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat." "With gentiles, it will be like any person - they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.” Yosef has also publicly espoused the belief that under Judaic law it is permissible to kill Palestinian children based solely on the belief that the child might someone grow up to harm a Jew”. Ms. Roy’s detractors also attempt to justify Israel’s action vis-à-vis Gaza on the grounds that the most recent escalation of violence was allegedly precipitated by Hamas’ escalation of rocket attacks on Israel. In a November 20 article posted on Mondoweis.com, the author asks the important question “How did the [last] cease fire unravel?”, then goes on to set forth “ the chain of events, which followed a ‘lull’ of sorts over the previous couple of weeks”: · Nov. 4: Israel killed a mentally ill Palestinian walking near the Israeli-imposed “no-go zone” inside the Gaza Strip -- an event that triggered a rocket from Gaza into southern Israel, which did not cause any deaths or injuries. · Nov. 8: Four Israeli military tanks and a bulldozer entered Gaza, fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been playing soccer by his family’s house. · Nov. 10: In retaliation, two rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, and an anti-tank missile injured four soldiers, when it hit an Israeli army jeep that had crossed over into the territory. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported the killing of five more Palestinians, four of whom were civilians – including two soccer players age 16 and 17 and two young men (18 and 19) who ran to the scene. Forty-nine others were wounded, including 10 children. · Nov. 11: Amid talks of a truce, six more Palestinians (all but one were civilians) were wounded and another was killed by both air strikes and troops on the ground. · Nov. 12: With Israeli air strikes continuing, two rockets from Gaza hit Israel. · Nov. 13: After two mid-afternoon air strikes, news services announced a truce had been agreed-upon. · Nov. 14: Israel ignored the nascent truce and assassinated Hamas military chief Ahmad al-Jabari. (It is questionable whether Israeli officials ever really wanted a truce. As Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies wrote in The Nation: “Earlier this year, on the third anniversary of the Gaza assault of 2008/9, Israeli Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told Army Radio that Israel will need to attack Gaza again soon, to restore what he called its power of ‘deterrence.’ He said the assault must be ‘swift and painful,’ concluding, ‘we will act when the conditions are right.’ Perhaps this was his chosen moment.”) A fact not known by most Americans, who see Jabari as merely a leader of “terrorists,” is that Israeli activist Gershon Baskin confirmed that Jabari was engaged in peace settlement negotiations with Israel. In fact, he was due to send Hamas’ version of a draft agreement to Baskin on the Wednesday evening before he was killed. It’s worth asking: Did Israel intend to torpedo those efforts? The rest of the story is tragic history. Jabari’s killing triggered Operation Pillar of Defense, and it continues to unfold. “It is overwhelmingly Israel that kills first after a pause in the conflict,” writes Kanwisher, who analyzed the entire timeline of killings between Palestinians and Israelis from September 2000 to October 2008, to determine if there was a historical pattern. “Seventy-nine percent of all conflict pauses (during the study period) were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining 13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day). In addition, we found that this pattern -- in which Israel is more likely than Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause -- becomes more pronounced for longer (ceasefires). Indeed, of the 25 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24, or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than nine days.” The lengthy discussion above will undoubtedly be attacked, not by addressing the FACTS stated, but rather by unfounded claims that this poster is “anti-semetic.” To those charges, I can only respond by pointing out two things: (1) “anti-Semitism” is a prejudice. As with any prejudice, it rears its ugly and ignorant head when one PRE-JUDGES a person or group based on “who” they are (i.e. a Jew), rather than judging the person or group based on their actual actions (i.e., his or their actions vis-à-vis the world). The overwhelming majority of people that are summarily labeled “anti-Semitic” by Israel’s supporters are not PRE-judging Israel. They have formed their judgments based on Israel’s actions. And, although we can debate all night what adjectives are appropriate to characterize those judgments, “anti-Semitic” is not one of them; and (2) even assuming (incorrectly) that this poster is anti-semetic, that characterization is wholly irrelevant. What matters are the FACTS about the I/P conflict. The possibility that a judge who convicts a Jew of murder may be anti-Semetic is irrelevant if the FACTS show that he committed the crime. Ah, but why let the FACTS get in the way of such character attacks or permeate the bubble of the Israeli matrix. Fortunately, thanks to Ms. Roy, among others, the Israeli Matrix is beginning to crack. Americans are waking up and starting to see the grand deception which has been perpetrated by Israel and its supporters--in particular, the American politicians and media which have until recently been totally complicit in that deception. I fear for what may happen when Americans finally realize the extent of the deception and the criminality of Israel's actions. Let's hope, at least for the DIASPORA'S SAKE, that those so justly enraged will be wise enough to differentiate between those that supported Israel's criminality and those that opposed it, between those that helped build the Matrix and those that sought to expose it, and between those that willfully kept silent and those who did not know any better.

"Kitch"  I'm shocked.  I've never seen you so obstinate regarding a subject.  I have never considered Hamas anything other than what it was and I have never considered Israels policy other than what it was.  What is it with you and this love affair with Israel?

Those whose homes are destroyed and who are denied their basic human rights, food, medical, supplies will always fight back, and be therefore characterized as terrorists. They need our help, not the hatred and blame we see in many of these responses.