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"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

I'll say it again.

Gaza elected Hamas. Their manifesto is a document for continual war with ceasefires for tactical reasons.

Gaza voted for this. I only have sympathy for those that didn't.

No one.....let me repeat that, no one in the west or the middle east is going to get involved between Israel and Hamas.

Edited by Stirlingsays (20 Jul 2014 11.46am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Don't Hamas deliberately place their missile launchers in residential areas (contravening the Geneva Convention)?

What is it that, to my mind at least, makes Israel untouchable?

I don't disagree that Israel has a right to exist, but they are getting away with murder. Literally.

I think that misses the point (assuming, and I may be wrong, you are responding to the immediately prior posts about missiles etc in residential areas). One only has to look on here, as an example, at the difference in the reaction between the "war crime" killing c300 completely innocent people this week in Ukraine (and indeed some of the posts treating it as a matter for jokes)and the "war crime" in Gaza to see that Israel is very far from being uncriticised or "untouchable". In my view, Israel in Gaza at present is the party very much in the wrong and is rightly the subject of much criticism.

But, there have been criticisms on here of Israel for breaching international law as if they alone do it. It seems "both sides" do not abide. So, either we think all should be criticised if they breach it (which is one position people might adopt) or we think its purely a matter of right cause or wrong cause, and so long as its not the bad guys ignoring international law, then we are not bothered.