Israel. Well, we're getting the conflict escalating again. And so far no one has posted anything regarding the evil zionist regime bombing poor neibhours, nor did anyone say evil Hamas is shelling peace loving Israel once again.
I find the current state of things inappropriate, and am fixing it with creation of the current thread!
Isn't it a little early in the morning to be trolling? 
@molang
Well.. It did start, and the forum IS gonna be discussing the topic. And to be honest I was surprised the holywar isn't already on. And well, it is 5 am, I thinka bout time
@Arthur
Woah. Hilarious.
Do you have any oil in Israel? Is there a reason we should care? Next election isn't until four years. 
Is there a reason we should care?
The fact that Hostess Twinkies just went out of business makes more news here in 'Murica.
We watch CNN, History, Discovery, Animal Planet, Bio, and Syfy here. News wise, what I've seen is:
Yet more bombings in middle east.
Yet another guy in power position can't keep it in his pants.
Romney has turned into a child and is boohooing about losing election.
Hostess gone, so Twinkie will be made by another company after Hostess recipe auction.
Nothing worth worrying about. If the US gets involved with the bombing, then we get into another war and no one wants that.
You do care about some pussies though 0.0
Append: we did find some gas though, envy ML!
Come to England! Me and my kin will pay a little out of our salary every month for you to get started, with a 2 bed house in a forgotten city; you can get a job, because you don't need as much per hour as us, which is win++ for greedy bloated employers!
It's great here, come on over! 
You do care about some pussies though 0.0
Nope. After getting bored with the news today I started doing Project Euler, and ending the night on Problem 5. That is how little I care about anything but programming and my family 
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I was just chatting with an Israeli (and a Brit). The Israeli mentioned nothing of a new conflict, though. 
Albeit, it is now 12:30 am and I think he said it would be closer to 7 am his time. Which doesn't seem to match up with the OP. Of course, I know next to nothing about Israel so that might not be impossible... All I know about "Israel" is <3 Ziva David. The actress is apparently Chilean. 
It looks to me like the Palestinians started this (as usual). In my opinion, they get what's coming to them.
Quote from CNN:
Rejecting the idea of a temporary cease-fire Israel had requested because of the Egyptian prime minister's Gaza visit, the militant group al-Qassam -- the military arm of Hamas -- reported on its Twitter feed that it had fired a Grad missile Friday on the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva.
When the ruling government party of a given region has a military arm that lobs missiles at civilians, any responsible government on the receiving end should respond with a lot of force.
I don't think it was fair to divvy up Palestine in the 30's or 40's or whenever it happened just to give land to an ethnic group that didn't even live there anymore; that said, it was 60 years ago. GET OVER IT. It's their land now. Instead of trying to take it, maybe they should try to improve the hovels that they launch rockets out of.
Evil zionist regime and evil Hamas are fighting again. Why can't they put the poor neighbours and the peace loving Israeli in charge instead. One big step might be to ban all male actors from both sides and let the women try for once.
Hamas is going to get spanked, and citizens of Gaza are going to get caught in a lot of crossfire.
We have our feet in too many countries and I doubt the President will send troops to that fight. UN may, but not the President. Last I knew it was just a few years ago where we finally pulled all our troops out of Vietnam, think we still have some in Somalia, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Don't know if we have more elsewhere, but I'm sure we won't be rushing into another possible war so soon especially with us coming off the end of the retaliation war for 9/11.
Sorry to derail but speaking of Twinkies As to what's going on in the Middle East, I'd like to send in Navy Seals but it's not up to me.
We have our feet in too many countries and I doubt the President will send troops to that fight.
Then who will fight for your freedom?
Freedom from being pauperized by the congressional-military-industrial complex?
Those search results portray what's wrong with America today pretty well
When they name things like "Patriot Act" "Freedom Initiative" etc. you know the spin doctors are working overtime.
Then who will fight for your freedom?
By fighting those who threaten our freedom and in my view there have only been three wars where our freedoms would have been threatened; WWI, WWII, and Afghan war due to 9/11. Beyond that I feel the other wars were just the US government forcing their beliefs and sense of freedom onto other countries just to get a pigeon hold in that country for future conflicts to be able to launch attacks out of.
Regarding my view of the conflict, and why did I "run away, while it was 7 am at the time of my last post".
I slept from 8 am until 4 pm eventually 
I'm not in Israel at the moment, which is slightly sad. Not like I'd help anyhow, but I'd love being there during such times. Even though I condemn Israeli actions(not like I support Palestinians, but both sides look identical to me.)
In general, there's no visible start of the conflict to identify who's at fault. There are many people who DO want to just get over it, from both sides. Yet, there's strong social and political force(in both sides) which strives to "get it fair", and due to the fact there are two "fair" points of view, any attempt to make it "fair" from one side, makes it even more "unfair" from the other.
Generally both sides do not attempt to make peace, they just make it "fair" from their point of view. And making it "more fair" looks to me as simple as drawing more "enemy" blood(and attempting to prevent "your enemy" to draw less blood).
Since I consider myself Israeli, some stuff from that POV: Peace can't be achieved with military action: Israel can(and does) from time to time raid its stateless neighbors, takes down a lot of the military stuff that is used to terrorize Israeli people, Israel leaves rivers of blood and thus lust for revenge(not without own casualties of course). It's done over & over for decades, but I doubt it will ever solve the issue completely, as probably each act of Israeli self defense seeds will for more Palestinian self defense/revenge, and everything just starts over, as Palestinian offense is fueled with Israeli attacks. And the combat equipment which is always targeted by Israel can always be repurchased/recreated or sometimes even acquired from Israel for free. Same about fallen soldiers.
Israel has developed & deployed a wonderful instrument, an "Iron Dome" which actually does take down incoming missiles with a very high chance of success. I hope this thing maybe a game changer. Generally, since all the recent Palestinian offense is represented with missile attacks, if Israel does let itself to only use passive(but sophisticated defense), Palestinian will for Revenge, the will of retaking the "own" land may end up exhausted, as their effort would be seen useless. Furthermore lack of results could also damage Palestinian war funding, which would make the peace a lot closer(although it WOULD make the peace on terms perhaps not as pleasant for the Palestinians).
In simpler words, the target for Israeli offensive should be the purpose of war, and not the meaning of war. Then, MAYBE one day there maybe peace. Generally same could be said about the Palestinians, but they are far behind in tech, human development economy & etc', so they may get there a lot later than Israel does. So Israel should attempt something like that first.
The above action won't be possible before majority understands and supports it, and delivers it's point of view to the Kneset(Israeli parliament). So the next decade won't differ from the previous 60 years too much. Hopefully there will be less blood though.
Seems appropriate (though honestly I don't know anything about the parties involved):
I think this short talk about "The middle east problem" is a nice explanation of the situation even though it has nothing to do with Operation Pillar of Defense:
There's more interesting things to watch if you want to be saddened by how warped people's perceptions are on the issues and how effective are Hamas' lies, but most people don't seem interested in the issue so I'll only post this one:
And avoid the more terrible images like a picture of an injured baby claiming to be an Arab baby wounded from Israeli attacks when in fact it is a picture of an Israeli baby that survived Hamas bombing, or videos of Arab children being snatched on the street by Hamas fighters for use as human shields...
then we get into another war and no one wants that.
I'm fairly positive the executive board of Northrop Grumman Corp. wouldn't mind a few more wars.