[preacher_man]

You missed the point. It has nothing to do with "kumaya" "let's all make love" or whatever. It's called enlightened self interest. Look at what you are doing and the what the ramifications are going to be. Not what what you think they should be, but what they will be. Like a hydra. If you cut off one head and 2 more come back in it's place. Getting angry and cutting off heads isn't going to help you, it's going to make things worse.

[veronica]

Your outrage should be directed at the terrorists, not the ones defending against terrorism. What Israel is doing is no different than what we are doing. Going after terrorists and terrorist cells. When the Palestinians get new leaders, and give up terrorism, things may change in the Middle East.

[TheLurkerX]

That's the reasoning that's made sure no people that subscribed to a pacifist doctrine ever held power.

[Cold Heat]

Many others shared your views and tried to convince the rest of the world. They were called the Clinton admin.

Obviously it did not work and the reason it did not work is because the real instigators of this debacle are not Iraeli or Palestinian.

When Iran, Iraq, Syria, and others saw the possible end to the conflict they asked their puppet, (Arafat) to refuse the deal! The true fact is that this conflict brings them attention and money, It brings them new warriors to fight in the name of Alah agaist the infidels. It brings them a external sponge that they can direct their own peoples hate toward so that it won't be directed at themselves.

This thing must be handled in it's totality. That is what we are attempting to do.

To reduce this to "tit for tat", is just plain stupid. Worse than that, we have been there and done that before.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Getting angry and cutting off heads isn't going to help you, it's going to make things worse.

If you cut off ALL of the heads of ALL of the terrorists, and ALL of their supporters, it will make things much better! Getting angry is optional.

[Twodees]

Arabs aren't a hydra. Arab nations are worthless as fighters. They don't even defeat each other when they fight. If the gloves come off, Israel can put an end to arab agression once and for all, with a little help from her friends, of course.