What you people have to realize is that if you want to critizize Israel because of what they are doing right now, you only have two avenues of approach. Either critizize them on legal grounds or moral grounds. "You are violating the pals human rights when you shoot them or rubble their houses", "you occupy territory that does not belong to you", "you murder and torture palestinians" etc etc. These are all examples of legal accusations towards Israel. As I tried to point out with my post about the legal aspect of this conflict, this is not as simple as some people want.
Now judging from the replies to that post, it looks as if no one wants to maintain that Israel is in violation of international law.
That leaves you all with only one approach left...the moral one. While Israels actions might not be illegal, they might apparently be considered immoral by some.
But as you all know, the concept of morality is extremely subjective. You are very quickly reduced to arguing around personal opinions. And we all know that opinions are like prettythangholes, everybody's got one.
It is really amusing to see some people argue that the Israelis are just as bad as the pals in this conflict. Let me just say that I disagree with that opinion of yours.
On the one hand you have terrorists (by definition) strapping bombs on themselves, blowing themselves up, targeting civilians..mostly women and children. They use whatever means they can get in order to kill as many as possible, and they explicitly target women and children. They snipe at 10 month old babies, they back dictators such as Saddam Hussein, they are backed by terrorist organizations and rouge nations. If they could, they would kill every man woman and child in Israel.
..they cheered on 9-11.
On the other side you have the only other democracy in the region, acting (apparently, since no one wanted to argue about it) within the boundaries of international and national law. There you have soldiers and police officers trying to stop the terrorists from detonating yet another car bomb, stop yet another suicide bomber from killing another bunch of women and children. There you have one of the best intelligence agencies in the world, doing everything in their power to stop the terrorists
...these are the guys that help the US war agains terrorism every day.
Let me just say that I dont understand your morals here when you side with the pals, or when you think both sides are just as bad.