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Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 15:28 GMT 16:28 UK

Let's fire 200 rockets into your garden and see how you feel about that.

Martin1983

The problem is....

Is it their garden or the Palestinians?

Absinthe m

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 15:19 GMT 16:19 UK

None while israel continues to want to Lord it over the palestinians and the rest of the world allows it to happen

glen, Uk

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 15:16 GMT 16:16 UK

"How much of a threat to Israel are the rockets, there's a better chance of being hit by lightning than being killed by one. It's not a threat to Israel & certainly not a threat to a mythical world peace which doesn't exist." - Farside Alien

Let's fire 200 rockets into your garden and see how you feel about that. They may not be sophisticated weaponry like Israel's, but they're hardly flimsy fireworks either. They can and will kill, and this threat shouldn't be taken lightly or complacently.

[Martin1983], London, United Kingdom

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 15:01 GMT 16:01 UK

The chances for mid-east peace are ZERO if the US and UK by proxie continuously maintain the destabilization of it.

joyce, uk

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 14:58 GMT 15:58 UK

Well, simply put, the Palestinians can't be trusted with a military or with weapons. Not while they fire rockets willy-nilly (remember, that's why Israel attacked Gaza in the first place)

Martin 1983

Well, simply put Israel didn't exactly look too carefully to see if it was bombing UN buildings so we can take it they didn't look to hard when they bombed the Pal's houses.

You can't get Peace at the end of a sword, that goes for both sides.

You get years of resistance and resentment.

Absinthe m

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 14:46 GMT 15:46 UK

"Can someone explain to me why Israel should hand over land it captured in wars waged against her?"
Sean Richards

Israel actually reclaimed some of the land captured in 1948 by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, who by the way had no intention of creating a Palestine. The Palestinians still live as refugees in these occupied lands.

As much as the West wants a 2 state solution, the ME will not accept a non-Moslem state in its midst.

Pritani Speaker, Norfolk, East Anglia

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 14:27 GMT 15:27 UK

Because they lost in '48, they tried again in '67. And '73. And let's not forget the likes of Arafat and Hezbollah and Hamas Martin1983 UK
Nor must we forget Begin, Irgun and the Stern Gang. There is little difference between them. Winning a war will never, on its own, win peace. Building settlements on stolen land will only bring trouble.
The Allies did not populate the Axis countries in 1945 but the Japanese settled Manchuria in the 1930s when they defeated China.

[swerdna]

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 14:24 GMT 15:24 UK

"I think a demilitarised Palastinian state is fine as long as Israel does the same. That would be fair wouldn't it?
Or would Israel not like the idea of being competely unarmed.... Perhaps the Palastinians feel the same way?
Steve E, Wallingford"

Israel is being asked to give up tangible things ie land, defensible positions for an intangible ie recognition, their fear is that Palestine would be base for further attacks, after all Arab countries have trouble keeping treaties with each other

JC, London

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 14:12 GMT 15:12 UK

Seems the arabs are OK with two states after all....just as long as they are both Arab

JC, London

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 13:54 GMT 14:54 UK

Palestine is no threat to Israel and the whole world knows it.
GMB Bristol
Sorry? Was i wrong in thinking the Palestinians had launched rockets at Israel constantly for a year? As the Palestinians are threatning world peace, surely the world should intervene
Nick Lange

How much of a threat to Israel are the rockets, there's a better chance of being hit by lightning than being killed by one. It's not a threat to Israel & certainly not a threat to a mythical world peace which doesn't exist.

Farside Alien, Dark Side Of The Moon

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 13:35 GMT 14:35 UK

The chances of peace in the middle east are exactly the same today as they were three days ago (before the speech) the key factors are the same unreasonable Palestinian demands, for a return to the 1949 armistice lines and the destruction of the state of Israel through the displacement of large portions of the Israeli population
Matthew Shostak, Brighton, United Kingdom

u most be joking right? displacement of pallys u mean, and pally agreed to 1967 boarders no one mention 1949. how naive.

[mikalish], quincy, United States

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 13:27 GMT 14:27 UK

"Israeli settlements are still being built on freshly stolen land. There is no war being waged upon Israel." - [Dave__G]

Freshly stolen? I don't know about you, but I'd say something acquired in 1967, legally or not, would be long stale by now. The Arabs are still trying to finish what they started in 1948 - that is why the aggression has continued to this very day. Because they lost in '48, they tried again in '67. And '73. And let's not forget the likes of Arafat and Hezbollah and Hamas

[Martin1983], London, United Kingdom

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 13:24 GMT 14:24 UK

"If the palestinian state is to be demiliterised, then so must the Israeli one. Simples."

Well, simply put, the Palestinians can't be trusted with a military or with weapons. Not while they fire rockets willy-nilly (remember, that's why Israel attacked Gaza in the first place) and while they continue to teach children in schools to hate the Israelis

[Martin1983], London, United Kingdom

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 13:02 GMT 14:02 UK

To the people of Isreal:

Please know we are dsgusted by the actions of former President Carter in trying to have Hamas removed from the terrorist watch list.

R Leeds

No, sorry, you dont speak for many of us, we still want Israel investigated for it's 100:1 ratio of deaths during the last GAZA incursion.

Israels govt does at it pleases why shouldn't Hamas? They were both elected by their people.

Carter at least wants Peace on both sides, not a land grab and look what Fatah is worth now.

Absinthe m

Added: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 12:11 GMT 13:11 UK

This is something like someone occupies your house, kicks you out of your own house, calls you a thief and yet when you try to get your house back, they call you a terrorist and argues that they have the right to self-defence ~ Salim, Amesterdam

Not really is it ? It actually equates to 5million non-muslims in the area the size of a garage in a mansion. If 250Million over 60yrs cannot evict this tiny, "immensley persecuted family" from their "legally recognised sqatters rights", I'd give up !

[bradlypitt]