Israel has invaded Gaza...

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Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Who TF do you think you're talking to?

Somebody who has never been near or on the West Bank, it seems. If you unaware of Israel's designs on the West Bank, it's certainly due to your own willful ignorance. It seems you believe a lot more than you know.

I fully support Israel's right to exist and its right to defend itself. What I don't support is their tactics, just as I don't support Hamas' tactics. This crisis won't be solved by ensconcing 4 million people behind 30' concrete walls and periodically "mowing the grass."

BTW, the Palestinians on the West Bank had nothing to do with the Holocaust, other than the Holocaust ultimately cost them their homeland. Give it a rest with the Holocaust already. The Holocaust is not a vague concept to me. I lived within 30 minutes of Dachau for 5 years and visited it many times and have visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on several occasions. I also have a son and many Jewish friends living within range of Hamas rockets and several serving right now in the IDF.

Screaming "Holocaust" and "Anti-Semitism" are trump cards that simply don't work for me. They may have in the years before I visited Israel, the West Bank (and Jordan) on several occasions, but they no longer do. These are the screams of a clueless ideologue devoid of a valid argument.