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Robert Fisk´s column from the indepenedent:
We´ve got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don´t care any more providing we don´t offend the Israelis.
...As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the Arabs who, as we all know, only understand force.
Ever since 1948, we´ve been hearing this balderdash from the Israelis – just as Arab nationalists and then Arab Islamists have been peddling their own lies: that the Zionist "death wagon" will be overthrown, that all Jerusalem will be "liberated". And always Mr Bush Snr or Mr Clinton or Mr Bush Jnr or Mr Blair or Mr Brown have called upon both sides to exercise "restraint" as if the Palestinians and the Israelis both have F-18s and Merkava tanks and field artillery. Hamas´s home-made rockets have killed just 20 Israelis in eight years, but a day-long blitz by Israeli aircraft that kills almost 300 Palestinians is just par for the course.
... It was Madeleine Albright who once said that Israel was "under siege" as if Palestinian tanks were in the streets of Tel Aviv.
By last night, the exchange rate stood at 296 Palestinians dead for one dead Israeli. Back in 2006, it was 10 Lebanese dead for one Israeli dead. This weekend was the most inflationary exchange rate in a single day since ..
..Is Hamas going to say: "Wow, this blitz is awesome we´d better recognise the state of Israel, fall in line with the Palestinian Authority, lay down our weapons and pray we are taken prisoner and locked up indefinitely and support a new American ´peace process´ in the Middle East!" Is that what the Israelis and the Americans and Gordon Brown think Hamas is going to do?
Yes, let´s remember Hamas´s cynicism, the cynicism of all armed Islamist groups. Their need for Muslim martyrs is as crucial to them as Israel´s need to create them. ...
...announced that "no country in the world would allow its citizens to be made the target of rocket attacks without taking vigorous steps to defend them". Quite so. But when the IRA were firing mortars over the border into Northern Ireland, when their guerrillas were crossing from the Republic to attack police stations and Protestants, did Britain unleash the RAF on the Irish Republic? Did the RAF bomb churches and tankers and police stations and zap 300 civilians to teach the Irish a lesson? No, it did not. Because the world would have seen it as criminal behaviour. We didn´t want to lower ourselves to the IRA´s level.
Yes, Israel deserves security. But these bloodbaths will not bring it. ...And somewhere to the east in a cave? a basement? on a mountainside? a well-known man in a turban smiles.
in full:
http://www.independent.co.uk/o....f-history-are-ignored-1215045.html
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I know you will always want to have the last word.... Go ahead... 
else emotions hit tooo high on this thread.
