Israel Mourns Teenagers, Strikes Hamas In Gaza
 

It appears Hamas is about to get a serious beat down.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0F521P20140701

Perhaps so, but Israel is playing with fire with all of their West Bank settlements. I spent 3 weeks in Israel in November and traveled into the West Bank as well. I think if I was a Palestinian living on the West Bank, I'd have a lot of (justified) hate in my heart for Israel's settlement policy.

Israel with all its power is compounding its occupation problem.

Build more settlement in the west bank and more settlers have to interact
with resentful people.

What do you mean by "playing with fire?' Are you saying they will be attacked?
I'm curious, why did you go there?

My son works there as a construction manager in support of the State Department's Foreign Military Sales program. We traveled all over Israel with him and went into Jordan to visit Petra and Wadi Rum (both are fantastic, BTW). My wife and I took a Palestinian public bus from Jerusalem's Damascus Gate area to Bethlehem in order to visit the Church of the Nativity. This involved crossing the border wall and going through the checkpoints in the West Bank. I also went there on vacation in ~1983 while I was living in Germany.

With respect to the "playing with fire" comment, Israel's continuing to support further settlements (and looking the other way on the expansion of illegal settlements) is bound to spark outrage among the Palestinians as the Israelis continue to try to annex as much land as possible on the West Bank.

Ah...got it. I hear it's an interesting place to see, but I have zero desire to spend time anywhere in the Middle East.

Israeli settlement policy is dictated by Israeli extremists, who are not
looking for solutions.

Both sides are dominated by religious myths.
Hello member one1 your help is needed here. :D

Israel has a bunch of very interesting and historical sites. That said, Petra and Wadi Rum in Jordan are worth the trip alone. The Jordanians were very nice and pleasant people, BTW - much more so than the Israelis.

We'll be going to Morocco, along with southern Spain and Portugal, in May. My niece, her husband and kids live there as he works as a mechanical engineer in the construction of a big phosphate plant there. The Moroccans are also very hospitable, nice folks, BTW.

In the search for the boys Israeli army has killed innocents. The BBC reported five Palestinians were killed in the search. This is a tragic very tragic event. But until Israel realizes their involvement in the root causes these occurrences will only continue.



Barney

I read "The Strong Horse" by Lee Smith. He raves about Jordan & her people.