TAKE IT FROM ME YOU ISRAELIS
Obama is not and will not be a friend of Israel.
Any person who want do the following will never be a friend of Israel.
1. To depart Israel from Jerusalem a capital of jews for more than 3000 years
2. To create another country within the Israel border.
3. To support people who did not recognize Israel.
Whether he like or not Obama will not suffice Arabs unlimited demand.
Whether you give East Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Golan heights there will be No peace.
What Arabs wants is total destruction of Israel state.
You Jews in America where is your voice. Rahm Emmanuel where are you? You keep quite in Ahasuero palace during this time of you country crisis.
OBAMA MUST PAY FOR WHAT HE IS DOING.

Maceoin,

I take it from your position in regard to the Palestinians that you do not believe occupied or colonised people have a right to freedom?  By your criteria the Chinese are in the right in occupying Tibet; the Russians in occupying Chechnya; the Americans in occupying Iraq; the Indonesians in occupying Irian Jaya and of course, the French, Poles, Russians, Danes etc. had no right to resist their occupations by the German troops?

Israel was established on Palestinian land. Israel is a coloniser and occupier. The Palestinians live in a series of concentration camps. I take it you also support the use of concentration camps. Luckily most people do not.

And as to Hamas and 'terrorism,' well, Hamas is the elected government of the Palestinian people. Israel's first two prime ministers were former members of gangs which used terrorism to establish Israel. And the difference would be? Well, the difference is that the Israelis used terrorism to invade, occupy and colonise and the Palestinians use it to free themselves from occupation and colonisation.

Which one do you think could argue mitigating factors in a court of law? Right again, the Palestinians.

How many generations will have to suffer until Israel admits to the wrongs inherent in its foundation, pays compensation, makes redress (returns to UN mandated borders, the only area they might make a reasonable claim to) and finally sets the Palestinians free.

I'm also guessing, by your criteria the American Indians, Australian Aborigines, Canadian Indians and Eskimos and New Zealand were all terrorists because they resisted occupation and colonisation?

I want to say that the difference between palestinians and Israel is that palestinians openly willingly and gladly target Jewish people: kids or adults (with bombs, axes-hitting kids with them) and that is freedom fighting.According to your logic alquaeda is also right-by killing innocent people- on purpose. You are simply wrong. And by the way, you compare Jewish "terrorist" acts before and during establishment of Israel to palestinians? Did Israelis blow the little kids of thr Brits? Of course not. Or maybe they axed them? That's not freedom fighting and you know it.

This is what Benny Morris wrote about an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear programme:
"... if the attack fails, the Middle East will almost certainly face a nuclear war — either through a subsequent pre-emptive Israeli nuclear strike or a nuclear exchange shortly after Iran gets the bomb."

So this serious historian advocates the use of a nuclear weapon by Israel. If Israel's leaders, who are probably even more hawkish than Morris, have a moment of irrationality, I'm afraid they might indeed use a nuke.

It is the most dangerous because Israel is a rogue state which has clearly shown it will attack anyone at will, regardless of the consequences. Israel also has nuclear arms and any State which has used military force against a captured and colonised indigenous population and against its neighbours is dangerous.

In its 50 years of occupying and colonising Israel has become an increasingly unstable nation using State sanctioned terrorism against the Palestinians in increasingly venal and murderous ways. The 'sanity' level in Israel is sinking fast and it is doing so in a nation which is prepared to do absolutely anything to hurt the enemies it continues to create.

The other factor is that the US is Israel's ally and therefore likely to be drawn into any insanity which Israel creates. One could argue that Israel does not do anything without US approval but that may not be the case. Even if it is the case it is dangerous.

Israel is threatening Iran. Iran is a sovereign nation just as Iraq was but Iran is not Iraq. It is an organised, stable nation with a powerful military and a very large population. It can fight back in ways the Iraqis could not and the Palestinians cannot.

Israel is desperate to attack Iran and for the safety of the world we can only hope it does not. There is the potential here for a conflagration which could incinerate much of the Middle East ... ironically it would be Israel which is most likely to be utterly destroyed ... But it would be a war which killed millions, crippled oil supplies and therefore the world economy; polluted the earth and created more misery, suffering and hatred than we have perhaps seen.

What on earth do you think would happen if the Israelis were able to actually destroy anything nuclear in Iran? Chernobyl, Four Mile Island????? and what do you think would happen if the Iranians in retaliation managed to hit any of Israel's nuclear weapons? Death, destruction and ghastly suffering in magnitudes far beyond anything from Chernobyl.

And there are people who do not think the Israel-Palestinian conflict is the most dangerous in the world?

Sure, Israel is threatening Iran-after Iran openly states that Israel should be wiped off the map. Would Israel should do, just sit there and wait until Iran aquires nukes and uses them? According to your logic yes, But according to the logic of a rational human being or Israel in this case of course not. Another scenario- lets say Iran would have nukes and Israel did not( Iranian president said that Iranians will nuke Israel knowing that Iranians will be nuked as well-that is sane?), Iran would use them. The "insane" Israel is not doing that and was not doing that even against countries like Iran. If you want to be fair-compare my logic with yours, and see who makes more sense.