Israel has become its shadow. There’s nothing to redeem. I wouldn’t spend a single American dollar, much less a single American life, in defense of Israel. For what they’ve done to the Palestinian people, they deserve nothing but contempt.

It was a supremely beautiful moment, not because of the terrible carnage, but because of the synchronistic and utterly serendipitous presence of the energies of peace and compassion in the midst of the energies of war and human suffering.

Not that peace would defeat war, because that’s just more war, but that we might hold peace and war together in wholeness and love.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Hamas of having triggered the new bout of violence.

“The United States strongly condemns the repeated rocket and mortar attacks against Israel and holds Hamas responsible for breaking the ceasefire and for the renewal of violence in Gaza,” she said.

BBC

When ethnic cleansing is the goal, there can be no peace…. You cannot negotiate, make deals, or compromise with someone whose sole purpose is to destroy you.

You are correct, but have the parties backwards. There could have been an independent, self-governing Palestinian state at any time since 1948, had the Palestinians and their Arab “allies” been willing to accept the continued presence of Jews in Israel. Before 1967, Egypt and Jordan chose to maintain the Palestinian Arabs as “refugees” in camps, rather than accept them as their citizens (as Israel did for the Jews expelled from other Arab lands). or establish them in an independent state. Instead they chose to use them as a weapon against the Jews. (Not Israel, per se, but the existence of Jews in the area.) It is only recently that the Palestinian government, on paper at least, renounced its demand for the destruction of Israel. Others, including Hamas’s sponsor, Iran, mainatain this as their ultimate goal.

Since 1967, Israel has repeated offered a “two-state” solution, and been rebuffed by the Palestinian “leadership.” Instead, these leaders have waged a continuous rocket and artillery war against Israeli civilians, while their agents conducted suicide and other bombings against the weakest Israeli targets.

Can you name another country in history that has kept its boders open with a neighbor that is at war with them? Has any other country sent humanitarian aid to a country currently shelling them and sending missiles into their territory. (How would the US react if Mexico began shelling San Diego? Consider how we reacted to Iraq which may have had the possiblility of attacking us at some time in the future.)

Couple this with the statements by Hamas that their command posts are (deliberately) placed within civilian neighborhoods, often next to or in hospitals, that they use the Red Crescent ambulances to smuggle guns and terrorists.

Then ask youself which party has not been negotiating in good faith.

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I think full scale ethnic cleansing is the intention, they just plan for it to take another decade. Look how far they have come already…

So, in Isreal, is today the Sabbath, or was that yesterday on that side of the globe?