Gilad from your post it is quite obvious to me, that you are nice guy or girl. And you seam to be against the murders of civilians. To proof this you show me internet-sites where civilian Israeli`s are killed. But are you aware that the Israeli goverment has killed a lot more palestinians compard to the death of Israeli`s(I am talking about thousands)?
Naturally you who are against the murders of civilians would be much more against the state of Israel, than you are against Hamas.
i honestly hate it when israel kills civilians who are not terrorists!!! it eats me up inside. yes around 1000 jews and 4000 palestinians. dont forget that many of those palestinians included in the death toll were terrorists, including suicide bombers believe it or not(maybe 100 hundred of those palestinians "killed" were suicide bombers). yes otherwise israel does a shocking job of "targeting" terror group members, they do target them, but are not careful enough about truely innocent civilians in the area at the time, as a result the headlines will read, "islamic jihad leader killed in rocket attack, 4 by standers died to" on the other hand these targeted killings arose to combat terror groups who consider children, women and old people to be legitamte targets for attacks. that is the difference, it is a shaky one morally, but still a difference. i myself email the israeli government to denounce any civilian deaths on the palestinian side, i have done this numerous times, who am i?? no one, but i still make my voice heard. a child is a child, a life is life.
would i prefer to see a bomber, bomb maker, gunman or rocket launcer kill 10 people on a bus in israel? or targeted before he enters israel and in the process killing palestian by standers. this is a question i dont find myself facing. the israeli government does, there duty is to their civilians, i can see why they might say it will be yours rather than ours.
i dont apporve of it, who can? but it is a reality. the economy of lives. terrible
The thing about pregnand women, is information I have found in these places: NRK(norways largest or 2nd largest televison channel, it is state owned), Dagbladet(norways 2nd largest newspaper), morgenbladet and BBC.
yes, i'm sure it has happened regretably. i cant say how frequently it has happened, i have no idea, but i wont exploit a lack of evidence like you have in saying it happens everyday and say it has only happened one or twice. facts are important, without them myths are created.
And belive me thousands of homes have been demolished to create kibutzez(sp?), not because Hamas-members have lived there.
i dont think there is one kibbutz in the west bank or gaza. there are settlements in the west bank, i'd like to see them come down( but than i think why, so they attack israel like they did after the gaza withdrawel? but i still would like to see them totally evacuated.),
Zionism is apartheid.
You speak of the jewhs before 1948 who had to fight and struggle. Those are not the jewhs who I am refeering to. Those jewhs were zionist, I am talking about those jewhs who never left Palestine in the diaspora.
you call zionism apratheid, yet when jews from europe legally joined(i'd say returned to) those who had always resided in palestine , they were targetted and hated, to the extent that muslim leaders joinind ranks with the nazis. the jews arriving wanted good relations with the arabs in the area, the arabs wanted nothing to do with the jews.
You talk about the murders of settlers. Those settlers are illigal, maybe I should settle down in your back-garden, you would of course love it.
those settlers are illegal, and should leave the west bank, but i am talking about the brutality of the people that captured them, i am saying the punishment doesnt fit the crime. the pointless murders solve nothing and take a life away that could easily have been spared. when Palestinians show they are willing to recognise israel and stop using unnecessary violence i guarantee you there will be a way forward.
As for israel being the reason for the problems in the middle east? the middle east has a history of violence, arab on arab violence, shiite on sunni violence, muslims vs christians violence. arab on kurd violence.
present day iraq is a perfect example of this. so was the lebanese civil war.
you could say that today wherever there is muslim extremism there is violence. but that is a simplification of the situation, just as the one in which you say israel is the reason for problems in the middle east.
you also seem like a nice guy(;