Addicting info has put out an article on the Palestinian Israeli conflict. The images are very graphic. but here is the link:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/...
My thoughts on this are below the fold.
I am totally disgusted with Israel and I have been for quite some time now. Israel keeps proving itself to be a brutal war criminal nation (Not that the USA is much better), time and time again. Their bombing of innocent civilians, many of them children, is totally unacceptable.
I'm saddened and angry that such atrocities against the innocent keep getting perpetuated with no real consequences getting mete out for these atrocities.
It may sound harsh, but I believe that Israel should exist no more.
No nation, Israel and the USA included, should be able to get away with the indiscriminate killing of civilians. I don't care that your "trying to protect your people".
Truthfully when such actions are taken, it makes the safety of "your people" less safe.
REVENGE is a powerful motivator on both sides, but someone has to be the adult in the room and say passionately
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
If I had my way:
Neither Israel nor Palestine will be allowed to exist any more.
Instead the area currently known as Israel, The Gaza strip, and The West bank, would become a U.N. demilitarized zone. The Jewish people and the Palestinian people, along with the other minor groups in the region, will just have to be a completely disarmed set of people who will be forced to live together. Perhaps in an uneasy less than harmonious way, but neither side will be allowed to segregate into their own enclaves. Housing will be done by lottery and the housing pattern on any block will not be greater than 51% of either the Jews or Palestinians occupying the block.
Any violence will result in immediate detention of those who caused it, whether it be Jew, Palestinian, Christian, or of any other group.
No money or weapons will be allowed in. Humanitarian food, water and utilities will be allowed only if the need is dire. Otherwise the entire demilitarized zone will have to find a way to work together to secure the basic things it needs.
Now if only the U.N. were capable of doing this.
I can hope, can't I?
END OF RANT.