Nah.

The Israelis are picking up where the Turks failed. There probably trying to provoke Syria and start a war. Exactly the same as the Turkish military did dew weeks back.

Jeez. B Lowe you really do hate Israel, is there anything you don’t blame the country for?

Nope, most of the nutters on here are conspiracy believing anti-semetic left-wing looneys! Whatever Israel/The US/UK do will be wrong & they’ll back extremists like the Taliban or Hizbollah or Iran just because they oppose “the west”. They were all supporters of Ghadaffi when he was in power.

Bit of a difference between a guided missile and a warning!

Still, hard to blame them.

That’s strange for such fantastic propaganda there’s always a constant anti isreali bias one the comments here you can’t just turn that around with 80 plus rockets being fired one isreal they have a right to defend themselves

@Joe; why, is it wrong to criticise a country that is occupying, killing and systematically humiliate an entire population? 4 people injured in Israel means several killed and dozens wounded in Gaza! Time to force Israel to respect the 1967 borders!
If there any country that is constantly looking for a new war, it’s Israel!

Send a flotilla ya clown.

If the Palestinians were not Arab/Muslim no Arab/Muslim country would give a shit about them. If the Palestinians were Christian fundamentalists the far-left (West) would not support them either or just simply not care about the conflict.

Gaza is targeted by Israel because rockets are fired into Israel on a daily basis aiming to murder civilians. The West Bank & Fatah have realised that the only solution is a 2 state one & have recognised Israel & stopped terrorist activity. Hizbollah & their supporters need to cop on to reality.

Reginald. 27 Israeli citizens have been killed by rockets fired from Palestine in the last 11 years. 1400 kids from Palestine alone have been killed in the retaliation. But u’d probably say that its justified, yeah.

Derek, the reason for that is because the Israelis protect their civilians with shelters & warning systems while the cowards of Hizbollah hide behind their civilians, firing rockets from schools & hospitals & hi-jacking ambulances to transport “militants” & executing any citizens of Gaza that criticise them.

I knew u’d try to justifiy it. Have a day off Reginald, its the information age, not the ignorance age.

Ignoring the facts & insulting me for telling the truth reflects badly in you Derek. I’ve travelled extensively in the middle-east & have huge sympathy for the Palestinian people, their worst enemy isn’t Israel but their own leaders who use them as cover for their ideological war v Isreal.

I’m against killing and war of any kind, but it seems very simple me: if Israel stops occupying Palestine, the support and funding for those rockets will fade.
As Israel refuses to acknowledge the Palestinians right to their homeland as per the UN recognised borders, they can expect the rockets to keep on coming.

Reginald, i see your quite passionate about what the international banks are doing to our country and many others in the west, so i can tell u there is not one iota of difference between the forces that are behind whats going on in the Middle East and whats behind our debacle, at the top there is none. These people couldn’t care less about any people in any nation but without nations they are nothing. They keep the people in the west sweet by giving us just as much as they have to while using our blood and labour to swallow up the opposition around the world. Its a lot more complex than that but just remember that when your critizing whats going in Ireland and then defending these people when they inflict it on others.

Not really Mark, Hizbollah want a Sharia islamic system controlling all the middle-east, it’s in their “constitution” & won’t stop their violence until Israel is wiped out. How do you negotiate with that?

& Derek, there’s a huge difference. I mightn’t be a fan of this govt but at least they aren’t intent on murdering me because of my religion.

There will always be a core that believes Israel shouldn’t exist, they are the true anti-Semites. However, that doesn’t justify Israeli occupation and continuation of the settlements and as long as that continues and that Israel is trying to wreck negotiations, they can expect the extremists to gain support.
It’s not the Palestinians who are to blame, they are fighting for freedom and against what starts to look more and more like genocide!

Government? They ain’t doin nothin but taking *advice* and leading a nice comfortable life and collecting a pay cheque. U think a bunch of teachers run our economy. Think thanks, ECB and so forth run our country amd they are all the same. And the reason they are whacking on the austerity is that it gives them excuse to tear up the social contracts in Europe so they can have more for themselves. And they’ll get it because what they realise is the people in the west are a bunch of dumb obedient workers.

Good point B, but completely off topic.

Someone here mentioned the 1967 borders, well what happened to them – In case you forgot it was a coalition of Israels friendly neighbours that ganged up to attack Israel and lost what was the then occupied (by Jordan) Judea and Samaria. 120 rockets fired at southern Israel in 2 days were meant to kill, hardly the Israelies fault if they are capable of defending against most of them.

I’m confused. Did someone say he shouldn’t be? Or are you using the fact that some Palestinians have committed acts of terror to justify the eradication of the entire population?

The people of Syria would welcome any attack on their government’s military right now.

How do u know that waffler, have u been there. If the majority of the country supported, what in the reports of journalists i trust like Robert Fisk says, is a invasion of foreign mercenaries,the so called revolution would have been over long ago as the army would have desserted en masse. But it ain’t. If you recall the ex head of Nato Wesley Clarke saying that the plan was to take out Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and then Iran after 9/11 because they had a execuse to do what they wanted, then it is quite obvious what is going on. They f**ked it up in Iraq and were found out so they lost the will of their own people. So they came up with a new plan, Arab Spring. A few fake revolutions in countries that didn’t matter while flooding the countries that did with huge weapon supplies and merceneries. The post nation global warmongers that are behind this don’t give 2 sh*ts abould any of the people in these countries. They care about money and power which comes with controlling the black gold and its pipelines. People need to take a day off and stop listening to certain media and governments spouting off the same lies over and over again. How much evidence do people need to realise whats really going on. The bigger the lie, the more they believe. And the Golan heights belongs to the Syrian people, not those savages running Israel in the background.

I doubt it. If this were an excuse to invade they’d be in Damascus by now. It’s probably exactly what it looks like: A bunch of soldiers loosing their way and firing over a border they thought was somewhere else.

Also, Derek, I agree that there’s some shades of grey to uprisings like this, and there’s definitely foreign involvement, but to say that the whole thing is a CIA plot is stretching it. If there were no Syrians involved it would be a bit obvious.

Course there is Syrians involved, i am no fan of Assad but what u gotta realise is all the different factions in Syria and how peace has been kept between them but now u have crazy fundmentalists taking over who will create new enemies for the west to fight in the coming years. Also its not hard to create revolutionary conditions in countries if u control the commodities on the stock market.

Why would they provoke Turkey? It’s just a case of soldiers in the fog of battle losing their bearings. Why does every little thing always have to be part of some great big conspiracy?

Druze are Muslim, not Christian.

Sorry, point !

So basically you’re as small minded as they are

Well by you’re standards then all the nutcases, racists, and morons who post on the Journal would represent the Irish people. Would all the anti-Semitic comments on the Journal represent the Irish people as Jew haters? What a moronic comment.