What I believe is unjustified is that everyone portray Israel as an eternal victim – what is totally incorrect. Jews were victim only during the Holocaust when stupid leaders thought that Jews were cause of disgraces in Europe. Since then, to be more precise, 1948, Israelis know how to defend themselves and so they are not victims anymore.

The main problem is that they have forgotten how did they live at that time and are applying the same punishment they had had years ago.
Weapons will never justify weapons. The best way to manage conflicts is through the words but, as everybody knows, people in that region are too much stubborn to be able to dialogue. The only word they know is "killing". Perhaps it's cultural and we, from West, do not understand this kind of culture.

How long they have been fighting? 60 years or more? So, it's really their culture.
Each one think they are doing their best to defend its people, by killing one another. It's tragically comic.

Greetings from Sao Paulo, Brasil.

It's really nice to learn that you're ready to inform us – from abroad – what's happening in this hot cauldron.
I hope you might give us news without prejudice by telling us only what you see and what is really taking place out there.
Nowadays there's only a few media that bring us news without tending to only one side.
Have a nice job and a happy new year (despite so many conflicts!)

something seems wrong with this comment, I thought Israel had the jet fighters and the tanks and not paletinians, Well I shouldn't be surprised after all this is coming from the biggest failure in the history of our country

This conflict is as tragic as any other, but the collective stubbornness, stupidity and unwillingness to find an acceptable solution, is truly mind boggling.

It appears this region needs a new generation of people, the current lot is disfunctional and keen to demonstrate this almost daily on our TV screens.

People who are playing a numbers game, do not know the realities of war.

First, Gaza is a densely populated territory. Whereas, most of the rockets have fallen on areas that are not (in Israel).
Second, most of the casualties have been terrorists.
Third, in war, there is unavoidable collateral death and injury. This is tragic. But, at least Israel gave advanced warning of its intentions.
If Hamas and others cared for their civilian population they would have sheltered them out of harms way.
Fourth, Israel wants to live in Peace, but cannot stand idly by while its' citizens are at risk and while terrorist organizations like Hamas vow to remove all Jews from Israel by force.
Fifth, Jews are not welcome in every country, as Muslims are. But in most Western and pro-Western countries, at least they aren't targeted on a daily basis by thugs like Hamas, Al Qaeda, Hizbollah, and Islamic Jihad.
Sixth, liberal media outlets nearly always portray Israel as the aggressor. I understand the tragedy of innocents being caught up in the casualty totals. When Jews defend themselves, everyone carps at them.

Imagine terrorists lobbing rockets at the U.S. from Canada or from Mexico. Would the media outlets be so biased then?

From a safe distance you can Imegine the Middle-East as Pasta pot.
But we have missiles every day up on our hads for 8 years.

If one missile had lend on San-Diego from mexican soil half of Mexico
was not exist in three hours.

When missiles land on others it's very nice to make nice articles.

David Bar-Zik
Israel