This blog post itself is an unsolicited opinion (unless it was solicited by your editor). But what enrages me about all of this is that no celebrity mouthpiece seems brave enough to criticize the root of all this tragedy, and that's Hamas. It's easy to look at the horrific images of Gaza and blame Israel, but it's…

Fuck all you anti-Semitic cunts. I'm done with this site, you can all burn in hell.

"Also, could you explain how a missile defense system works against a target with an unknown trajectory?"

If the Hamas had the ability to kill every Jew in Israel, they would. Israel has the ability to squash Gaza, they don't, because they aren't monsters.

If the medics are shooting? Yes, they're fair game. Same with the hospital, if they're using it as a shield to fire rockets indiscriminately.

Israel wasnt occupying Gaza until the current incursion kicked off. They have 'occupied' the land for over a decade.

Israel originally agreed to a partition, Arabs didnt. As recent as the 90's, Israel agreed with it. If you want to use 'historical land owners' claim... the Jews were there before Islam was even a religion..so..

I bet if the US sold/gave Hamas guided rockets they'd use them instead of being forced to defend their beliefs and land with homemade ammunitions. Also, could you explain how a missile defense system works against a target with an unknown trajectory?

There is no point; you have already made up your mind. There is nothing that anyone here can say that will change your mind, or view the situation from the other side's perspective.

I worked with the IDF when I was a crew chief for a US Army missile defense team. Your posting of one-sided defense for Gaza doesn't make you a credible source, at least Israel is targeting, the Hamas are firing unguided rockets indiscriminately.

1948 is when they were declared a state. It does not indicate when they became a nation. They were a nation in modern terms as early as 1914, and had been considered occupied Israel for over 400 years prior, and at the fall of the Ottoman Empire the area was opened up by the British for mass immigration of Jewish…

I think density can be solved the same was as always. Either moving the people or building up.

As Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהוsaid in his press conference: "Israel uses its rockets to defend it's civilians; Hamas uses civilians to protect rockets".

The Israeli government has compensated Jewish settlers from Gaza for their homes, before removing some of them by force. There is no reason to think it would not compensate settlers from the west bank as well should it come to that. There are non monetary concerns about loosing ones home, but the monetary ones should…

The premise that there are illegal settlements can only be built first upon the premise that Israel was created in 1947 on Palestinian land and has slowly expanded during aggression. This is revisionist history at best, and propaganda at worst. (Israel was much much larger than it is today.) I agree that there is an…

I've spent time in Israel and worked with the IDF. If Israel wanted to, it could level Gaza and eliminate the threat of more rocket attacks... but they don't. You mentioned IDF targeting ambulances, it is a fact that Hamas use them to transport (uninjured) combatants around the city. The hospital that was recently…

"Here's the difference between us, We're using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles." - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

I will not defend HAMAS

NPR is no shining beacon of total objectivity, my friend.

For the record, I also tried to compare the death tolls in the First and Second Chechen Wars, but the ranges are so wildly disparate and contended that arriving at what might be considered a "reliable" figure is well-nigh impossible.