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I am disgusted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7851545.stm

Okay, yes, the warmassacre may have been triggered by Hamas-aligned/sympathetic militants firing rockets into Israeli territory, but why were they fired in the first place? Because Israel is not recognising the lawfully elected government of an independent state, and is starving Gaza to death. And notice how they timed their brutal assault that left 1300 civilians dead (compared with the 30 killed and injured by Palestinian rockets) to coincide with the end of a notoriously anti-Muslim PotUS's period in office.

The world needs to stand up and tell Israel what's what. Politicians need to grow a pair, and the media need to stop labelling every criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism. Suppose this had all taken place in an ex-satellite state of the USSR, or somewhere in East Asia? There would be a huge outcry at all levels against not the extremists firing a few rockets at their oppressors, but at the vast and looming military machine that has just spent three weeks trying to genocide the inhabitants of a few hundred square miles, after three years of starving them to death.

In my opinion, it is not Palestine, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under Hamas that is the terrorist state, it is Israel.