Distressing this. Deeply distressing.
It is shocking what Israel is doing to the Gazans. Absolutely appalling! Just like what they recently did to Lebanon (until Hezbollah gave them a blood nose).

So where are the comments from all you readers of TT?
Doesn’t this warrant a moment or two of your time?

It is no surprise that the Palestinians are losing the propaganda war! How much access do they have to the global spin machine?
When you recognise that the global media is substantially owned by immensely wealthy Jews, how amazing is it that they carry so much pro-Israel propaganda? That is today’s depressing normality.
Add to that the fact that the Zionist government of Israel mounted a massive propaganda campaign to whitewash what they are doing. Tzipi Livni gave direct orders for this. The mainstream media obediently run with the sickening Israeli litany of lies, fabrications and distortions of fact.
It is only through the efforts of independent media, and some Arab media, that we can find the real stories, the real and all too ghastly video, picture albums and graphic printed words to begin to understand the horror of what Israel’s military is doing.
It is time to recognise that the vast majority of the Palestinian dead and wounded are civilians - mostly children!!
It is time to realise that Israel is deploying munitions that are strictly illegal - including testing new US technology that kills slowly - causes the maximum agony!
It is time to call a spade a bloody spade and condemn the Zionist masters of Israel as blatant war criminals. That must be extended to USA - for it supplies the F16s, the Apache choppers, along with their every more horrific ordinance that make it possible for Israel to carry out these atrocities. This genocide!

We can all wring our hands with certainty as to what is going on , It is bloody awful , but who among us has an answer to the mindless actions of “Hamas” who bomb and maim from behind the skirts of their women , the schools, and the churches.
   
    Conducting hostilities in that way is cowardly in the extreme and is almost impossible to combat.
              d.d.

Time for Paul to get a little realism in assessing the Israeli-Gaza conflict.  He seems to have forgotten that Israel is surrounded by countries whose leaders habitually state that the destruction of the Israeli state is their aim.  He seems to forget that Israel and its citizens are continually subjected to rocket attacks from Gaza.  He forgets that the reason so many children are being killed and wounded is that Hamas operates from within populated areas, cynically exposing their own population to danger and then crying foul when a retaliatory missile kills innocent civilians.  Israel has made it clear countless times that it will retaliate by hitting the place from where rockets are sent, as it must if the attacks are to be halted and as we would if Australia was a target.  If Hamas continues its deplorable strategy of firing from within areas where there is a high risk of civilian, especially child, casulaties, then it is Hamas, not Israel, who are guilty of war crimes.  Any civilised person must abhor the use of civilians as human shields in any warfare, anywhere.

Having said that, it may well be reasonable to accuse Israel of being too heavy handed in its approach. Maybe there would have been a better way of eliminating the rocket attacks, although neither Paul nor the other critics of Israel have workable suggestions as to how this might have been done.

Any country subjected to the pressures that confront Israel on a daily basis would eventually be forced to take action. Realist would like to suggest that if Australia, or indeed any other Western country, was being subject to ongoing attacks of the type which Israel endures, we would ultimately loose patience and retaliate. Our response might not be very different from that of Israel.

Don and Realist are shining examples of the success of the mainstream media in conditioning the average global Joe with the Israeli fabrications.
Get real you two!
You are both thinking what they want you to think.

I have a Jewish writer friend who lives in Chicago, USA. He, like many other Jews around the world - including within Israel, who are horrified by what is done by the Zionist rulers of Israel.
If you have the minds to put aside what the Israeli spinmeisters tell you - and consider reality - consider the truth, then by tomorrow morning you should be able to read the latest report from my friend Stephen Lendman. Go to . . . .
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
Look for his essay under the Feature Articles heading at the home page.
While you are at it, take a look at some of the reports at that address on this deeply disturbing subject.

Don and realist, if you can do as I request, then you continue to prefer to follow the mainstream media (subservient to Israel) line, then you are clearly beyond redemption.

What is it about Jew hater’s, ever since I was a child and they were being murdered by the millions I can remember what was said by some.
 
    ” Bloody Jews , killed Christ didn’t they !”
which is one of the prime reasons that I could never subscribe to religion in any shape or form. and all that “realist” has said I back in spades, just wish they had put a name to it, would have shown more conviction in my book.
                   
                      d.d.