Israel has invaded Gaza...

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Had a few rocket rounds fired into what I guess you would call my neighborhood, when I was in Nam. I didn't like it, but I never really hated the Viet Cong for doing it.

I think even at that young age I understood that we were over on their turf fucking with them.

The same thing with 9/11.

I didn't like being attacked like that but I can see where our going over there and fucking with them had a lot to do with provoking it.

What I don't get is how you can be so blind to Israels provocation.

You're doing it again TJ. Your experience in country in Vietnam has nothing to do with what's been going on in Israel since the end of the war. But I guess you're convinced that Israeli Jews hate Palestinians. All the Jews of Israel want is to protect themselves and to be left the fuck alone. They've agreed to cease-fire accords. They've returned chunks of land with the promise that the rockets and mortars and backpacks full of gelignite would end. And it never ends.

But you and I both know, whether you have the cojones to admit it or not...that the day the last rocket or mortar round is fired into an Israeli neighborhood will be the last day of any hostilities between the parties therein. And I would even suggest that the quality of life in Gaza would begin to improve almost immediately if weren't for the fact that the people of Gaza have their miserable existence because of who they've chosen for their leaders. For years...Palestinian Israelis who have the courage to offer it will tell you, "...the hell of Israel is way better than the paradise of Arafat." What Israeli Palestinians fear more than anything is that things will get so bad that their Israeli residency will be jeopardized.