What should Israel do?

melodious

dayan wrote:

I was not trying to keep you from posting. I was only asking that people not be provocative towards others on this thread.

this is certainly a flip-side of a wooden-nickel comment....

melodious

shiraz wrote:

He is wrong, those are Palestinians prisoners, NOT lebanese. That's why Hizbullah has no right to attack anyone for the sake of them, nor for the sake of its 3 prisoners who sent to Israeli prison after a fair trail.

Hamas was elected by the Palestinians, and even they have no right to achieve that goal (=prisoners) via missiles towards Sderot or kidnapping soliders inside Israeli territory. Israel govt & Hamas should try to solve things out via diplomacy. The problem is both sides chose other ways: Israel got paniced and refused to support a regime who doesn't believe it has the right to exist. Hamas started doing the same old tricks - fire at Israeli civilians smuggle and buy LOTS of weapons instead of helping their voters. In the end, we came back to where we went out one year ago and never wanted to return. Same old spot again

'most eloquently said' could you please define diplomacy? isn't that anootfher word for lies?

shiraz

melodious wrote:

'most eloquently said' could you please define diplomacy? isn't that anootfher word for lies?

Maybe, but I prefer diplomacy than having an actual war out of the blue.