Hamas is the only effort with some success in slowing the theft. The Gaza people will support resistance to the theft of their resources, money, and land. The Israelis thought Gazans would plead for an end to resistance by Hamas if they were tortured by brutal war and blockades. The theft could then continue and include the huge gas reserves recently found off Gaza's coast. Well now they have the risk of resistance threatening the project to steal that gas. No one at CNN is ... More »

The official U.S. fiction about Gaza may be slower to change than Time reporting, but good reporting may aid such changes.

Time mag and most media has not thought about law justice or history. The fairy tale the "Emperor's New Cloths" comes to mind

The elephant in the room is Hamas, they connot be trusted in a deal and still have as their mission the eradication of Israel. Until Hamas disavows this mission or the Palestinians develop the courage to vote them out, Palestinians will simply keep dying. The Israelis have shown remarkable restraint, if Hamas possessed Israel's weapons, every Jew in the country would be dead, in prison or gone.

With any luck, diplomats will convince both Israel and Hamas that neither of them can make the other vanish, so they need to accommodate.

Israe, the US and the EU need to accept Hamas as a fact on the ground. Israel has to abandon its idiotic effort to keep the illegal colonies of fanatical Jews splattered all over the West Bank. And get out of the Golan Heights.

Mr Combs--It is chilling the way you refer to the inevitability of Palestinian deaths as if they were being killed by a disease and not as a result of decisions taken by Israeli leaders. As to the trustworthiness of Hamas, the only test of this has been the recent ceasefire, which they adhered to. Israel on the other hand has a decades-long record of not living up to its committments and obligations, both in terms of international law and agreements entered into with Palestinian ... More »

My personal view is that Israel started wrong in 1917 and has exhibited historically heralded bad judgment every since. This is just another incident in the long and nasty relations between Zionism and realty, or religion and reality if you wish. The aphorism is choice is: "You always win on your own territory." and I don't mean territory some sky god gave to you, but territory you already live on. We shall see.

Can Israel decimate hamas and Gaza? A foolish question. However, when your sworn enemy is tossing rockets in your backyard, the logical thing to do is to retaliate. Had the western world and the UN.not interferred ,there might have been an end to Hamas. Whether the western countries realized that Israel was doing the free world a favour at its own expense, who knows. But really,if they did not know, then they were simply being coy. Sucking up to terrorists, achieves nothing.