How Should Barack Obama Handle Israel and the War in Gaza?

What would you have the Israelis do? Tell the civillians in Gaza to jump up and down and shout "Hey! I'm a civillian! Don't kill me!"? What would make the real terrorists, Hamas, not to do the same thing? Israel has been very patient in this issue and is tired of being pushed around. Israel can not help that Hamas operatives are cowards and are unable to fight in front of women children. Hamas fires rockets from schools. Israel bombs the school to show that there is no place that Hamas can hide without receiving retaliation. Technically, the land doesn't belong to the Palestinians either. If we're going to do the "Who's land is it?" debate, then the ultimate answer would be the Canaanites. Next would be the Jews who conquered almost all of Canaan (ancient Palestine). After the Jews, there would be the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks under Alexander, the Romans, the Ottoman empire, and the British who then sold the land to the Zionists (aka Jews). The Palestinians, instead of agreeing to a two-state system, listened to their fellow Arabs (the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Syrians, etc) and attacked the Israelis the day after Israel proclaimed statehood. These mighty countries should've easily wiped out the Zionists in Israel, but they were defeated by a handful of Jews. The US should support Israel because Israel is the underdog. Yes, I know, pretty hard to imagine a country with a well equipped army being an underdog to a group of terrorists. But hey, as you said, "It is a reality." Take a look at Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and other Islamic countries. They are not very happy to have a Jewish state so close to them. Iran's president and groups like Al-qaeda, Hezzbollah, and Hamas really want to genocide the Jews/Israelis. That is something the US can not stand up for or look the other way. I do love this country. But if it can not support its allies or the stomache to go in and win wars, then the country I loved has died. That is the mindset of those in the Revolution. Remember Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death"? This was the mindset of those who faught in Normandy. If we can't fight wars to win, then we might as well give up being a nation for this no will in its people to defend the rights their forefathers fought to secure for future descendents.

Dr. Shade of NC 11:00AM January 18, 2009