"The 1400 dead, mostly unarmed civilians, and a very high proportion of them children were a price worth paying to stop the missiles.

And it did not achieve that - and the fact that missile launching commenced once more is seen as justification for another war now. "

Abso-bloomin'-lutely!!

"The only truly effective way to stop the missiles is negotiation."

Halle-bloody-luia!

"Hamas are a ruthless nationalist organisation, which has carried out many terrible terrorist actions. In all these ways it is closely analogous to the Zionist organisations who founded Israel in their battle with the British, and with those who opposed their aims."

Agreed, and it's about time Israel developed a memory for other situations than their holocaust victim status. They simply cannot continue to classify any dissent about their actions as Jew Hating.

It is not Jews who are smashing the life out of the dispossessed former inhabitants of Palestine. It is solely the government and military of Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, bombed out of their homes, schools and hospitals, and deprived of the means of making a living, are never going to stop fighting, no matter who governs Gaza.

Up to now Israel have been fighting, first small numbers of terrorists, then the government of Gaza, Hamas. But after this they'll find themselves fighting every Palestinian who can hold a weapon, and it's their own fault.

Don T.