I'm all for people defending themselves, but there's a line at which it's just outright ridiculous. At the moment Israel is so far past the line that there is no line anymore, it has become a point.

NO NO NO , u have to see the BIG picture first

Iraq had MASSIVE destructive weapons and mmmmmm probably OLIVE OIL? it's good for health u know so terrorists should not have it

I'm dissapointed in u , why don't u see the big picture , WHY??

Because the government said otherwise.....

@ Vlad

I disagree, Gaza given the chance would easily go even more beyond that line. Problems need confronted early and swiftly. Look at the Nazis before WW2. The Nazis were pushing their luck, but the people accepted it and therefore Britain and France did nothing to stop Hitler when he was weak.......causing millions of deaths in WW2. No-one thought Hitler was doing too much wrong, but they were wrong. Israel could be saving their bacon for all we know.

I know you did not just try to equate Hamas with the Nazi Party... They are so different in their strategies that it's just ridiculous. There's not a SINGLE general similarity between the two.

How many times do you have to see multiple videos of Hamas saying with their own mouth: "We use women and children as human shields because we welcome death" before you guys get the picture? I mean seriously, you can't really be in denial that badly? Civilians die because Hamas wants them to die! They use their deaths as PR.

Next, stop treating Israel like they are war mongers. Hamas started the war, and when the UN called for a cease fire, Hamas said "NO". So why would Israel stop firing when Hamas is the one who refused a cease fire? If "poor" Hamas is so sad over the civilian deaths, they could simply stop firing rockets and guns, and the Israelis would stop as well.

Why doesn't this happen? I'll say it again... HAMAS WANTS THE CIVILIANS TO DIE. They don't care about the women and children, and they are very open about this fact. Secondly, Hamas doesn't want peace, they want to drive the Jews into the sea... so really, what do you expect?

Oh yeah sure. Whenever a 5 year-old procedes to kick me in the shin and then contiues to try and fight me, even after their parent told him to stop, I always proceed to beat the shit out of the kid without holding back anything at all. I found that to be the best solution!

Ok Vlad, back to planet Earth for just a moment... they aren't kicking Jews in the shin.  They are shooting rockets at civilian population centers.   Secondly, they aren't little kids.  They are a blood thirsty terrorist group who's main doctrine is to "drive the Jews into the sea"... and that doesn't mean they want to go for a swim with us.  It means they want us all dead.  

I'll show you just another example of Hamas' value on life and how much they really love the little Palestinian kids:

Oh yes, shooting rockets at civilian centers and all that... And with all their amazing efforts of driving them off into the sea and bombarding houses and what not they only managed to kill 3 Isreali citizens... Damn... let's go kill a 1000 in return! Don't get me arong, Israel should defend itself, but the way it's going about it is childish and outright wrong. They are not right in this case.

^Yep, Comrade is spot on.
Some of the people in this thread would be very influenced by propoganda.
Just because it shows you 1 child suffering on the TV dosen't mean that the fighting is unecessary. For all we know many Hamas militants could of been killed for the sake of that childs life.