Palestinians definitely need better leadership.
Israel is their devil, but in addition to Abbas, there is some suspect things about Hamas(which appeared to help Egypt reseal the border after they breached it).
There should be more pressure brought to bear on arab countries, especially Egypt(which I know from first hand accounts has its own problems--beggers in the street).

Israel and the West are still to blame, but the initial breach shows that Palestinians can do something.

Getting rid of Abbas would be a good first step.
And having better tv representatives.

Replace their leaders with women--that way the west would have a harder time putting the radical face on it like they love to do.

But I admit its hard to do that when you have Israel killing you every day-and the media and governments dont care.
Israel could probably kill 10 000 palestinians and the media would say nothing-but if Palestinians killed 100 israelis they wouldnt shut up about it.

I have seen interviews where palestinian reps are made to admit they are sad over the Israeli deaths--this type of thing should stop.

Israel never apologizes for Palestinian deaths, they are gleeful about them(putting Gaza on a diet).

I dont believe those who say israel reacts because it is paranoid about suicide attacks(they only had to deal with them after Baruch Goldstein massacred worshippers in a mosque).
Their motivation for having children write on bombs dropped on Lebanon is contempt. Contempt not just for Palestinians but for anyone not jewish.

Has Israel ever given a righteous Gentile award for someone who helped those who had nothing to do with jews?

When you speak of zionism you are really speaking of the belief that jews have more rights than non jews.

Things will not change until either the Palestinians have been exterminated or the US becomes an honest broker.

"European governments chose their words carefully, "expressing concern", "calling on Israel to use restraint" and so on. Arab governments were, as usual, distracted with trivialities, protocols and easily lost sight of the crisis at hand. "

"Until Arab countries and nations translate their chants and condemnations into a practical and meaningful political action that can bring an end to the Israeli onslaughts against Palestinians, all that is likely to change are the numbers of dead and wounded. But still, one has to wonder if Israel kills a thousand more, ten thousand, or half of Gaza, will the US still blame Palestinians? Will Egypt open its Gaza border? Will Europe express the same "deep concern"? Will the Arabs issue the same redundant statements? Will things ever change? Ever? "

At least this author is coming to some grips with the fact that it's not just the US but the EU and corrupt dictators of neighboring Arab nations that are NOT lifting a finger. One note that needs to be added though is that those leaders and dictators in addition to the US are actually aiding the zionists running Israel against the will of the people in all those nations. And I know, I'll be called a zionist once again by DCBeltway1, howtool, suhail, manatee, etc ... Funny that they never take on the real zionists such as letto, bligh4, blutodog, etc ...

Terrance Mitchell
Redfield, South Dakota

I have come to the conclusion that the framing of the peace dialog needs to change. In exchange for the recognition of Israel's "right to exist", there has to be a written agreement to recognize Palestine's right to exist as well as a second condition - that existing Palestinian lands will be off limits for any form of settlement. Future agreements about return of lands can be left open, and probably should. But the continuing attempt to drive people off their land is happening under the ruse of security.

Obama will need to be more firm and demand that this condition be met. It is unacceptable to allow a stealth policy of slowly taking Palestinian lands to continue.

Things will change when the Palestinians accept the generous, permanent standing offer from US/Israel: a jackboot in the face...forever.

The Nazis sealed off the Warsaw Ghetto; Israel sealed off Gaza. The Nazis seized the property of the Jews; Israel has never stopped its ongoing theft of Palestinian land and water resources. The Jews tried to resist; so did the Palestinians. If Israel is acting in "self defense," so was Poland. Like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, the Palestinians are being massacred while the world stands by.

Nothing will change for the Palestinians until the governments of the United States, Israel, and Egypt are made to suffer financially. They don't care about our protests, emails, calls, frantic postings on websites. They care about money. If only all the people of the world who care about human rights would boycott ALL products--movies, food, cars, clothing, computers, etc.--made by the U.S. and Israel. If only they would turn a non-violent cold shoulder to all travelers from the U.S. and Israel, so trips abroad would become ordeals of being firmly shunned by the world community. If only all the U.S. businesses abroad like Starbucks and McDonalds had to close because no one would enter their doors. The U.S. and Israel have earned a long, cold time-out. Maybe then things would start to change.

Until then, it is very clear that the United States and Israel have a special dispensation to murder anyone they like, and all the world community will do is pretend to wring their hands.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11583
The Politics of An Israeli Extermination Campaign: Backers, Apologists and Arms Suppliers

another good article....

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11580
Israel's War Crimes and "Change we can believe in"

really, the only thing that would solve this problem is the US helping out by re-activating all the B-52 bombers that were in service during the Vietnam and then Afghan children lilling holocaust, bomb the Gaza strip from 40,000 feet - who would see them? Whatever was left, Israel rolls in on a blitzgrieg of tanks and Caterpillar D-9 armoured bulldozers and pushes what remains of the Palestinians into the sea. - What a turn around eh? Someone other than Israel being driven into the sea?

Billions in U.S. military aid to Israel so that it may pursue its "defense policies" as so eloquently described by its most influential leader:

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
--David Ben-Gurion

Please remember that at it's root, Judaeo-Christianity worships a god of war and plunder.

Walk in peace.

The TERROR of TERRORIST zionist entity can be seen here

http://palestinian.ning.com/forum/topics/the-other-side-of-the-story

petrkrop January 2nd, 2009 2:36 pm: If Israel is acting in "self defense," so was Poland.
Just for the sake of accuracy, petrkrop, the Nazis were German. There was no Ghetto in Warsaw before the Germans invaded and occupied Poland. The extermination of millions Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Russians, homosexuals, communists etc. etc. was carried out by Nazi Germany

double post

What a bunch of cry babies you arab terrorist apologists are. Virtually all of the misery the Palestinias are suffering is self-inflicted. Every time peace has been an option they rejected it, claiming instead their right to drop rockets on Israel. And when Israel finally won't take it any more you whine like stuck pigs, claiming unfairness because:

1.You only used rockets and the Israelis have jet fighters; 2.We've only been able to kill 4 Israelis and they've killed 400; 3. We have a right to drop rockets on Israel because they've got our land, and their right of self-defense is therefore illegitimate;

Do you know how repugnant these ideas are to those of us in the USA? Obviously you don't or else you wouldn't continue to insult us with them. Americans have always loved and respected Israel and always will. And until you understand that, and until you support Israel and renounce your insistence upon her demise, your people are doomed. (And if you don't think they're doomed, do me a favor and turn on CNN right now. In living color you can see what your leaders have wrought for you.)

Bottom line: You wanted this, you got it. You want to stop it, reject Hamas, stop your rockets, and embrace your peacemakers. Even at this dark hour you must have a few left. Are you wise enough to ever do this? Doubtful. Prediction: another 100 years of Palestinian suffering, misery and, yes, whining.

I would guess: yes, things will get better. Humanity is becoming more self-aware, and will eventually rid itself of atrocities like these.

Poor Hamas bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! They've only killed a few Israelis bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! They need our help to eradicate the Zionist entity bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Israel will eradicate Hamas and hand Gaza over to the PLO. The PLO will whine and scream about Israel's war on Hamas while secretly cheering the Israelis on. Hamas is hated by many in the Arab world and is seen as an Iranian proxy force in Palestine. Only stupid western leftists refuse to see Hamas for what it really is a bunch of religious fanatics hell bent on being martyrs.

Oh yea, that's what The PALS need Hamas in charge. LOL! Why not just dig up Hitler. Hamas is a Nazis type organization dedicated to one thing destroying Israel and replacing it with an Islamic State. Fat chance of this happening any time soon. I'll put my $$ on the IDF.

From: Steven Plaut

Subject: The Annihilation of the Terrorists that No One Protested

1. The jets bombed the bejeebers out of them. The ground forces invaded. They at long last suppressed the terrorists, who had conducted a long campaign of suicide bombing and planting bombs, and put an end to any notion that the terrorists and their sponsors would be granted their own state. Many civilians were killed and wounded, yet not a single protest was made against the invasion anywhere.
I am of course referring to the conquest by the army of Sri Lanka over the past few days of the last hold-out city of the Tamil independence rebels. Kilinochchi was the last town held by the Tamil "Tiger" Rebels, considered to be a terrorist group by the United States. With it fell the last Tamil hope of setting up an independent state or even of getting autonomy inside Sri Lanka. The Tamils have their own state inside India but were not satisfied with that manifestation of "self-determination." Kilinochchi, 579 kilometers north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, was until recent months the center of political power for the rebels. Over the years, 65,000 people have been killed in the war with the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile not a single Solidarity-with-the-Tamil-Tigers protest has been organized on a single Western campus or in a single downtown square. Jewish leftist kapos have not taken to the streets to demand and end to the war of aggression against the Tamils. Leftist web sites have not proclaimed every injury of a Tamil civilian to be a Nazi-like war crime and an act of genocide. Eurocrats have not pontificated about how the Sri Lankan response to the terror was out of proportion. The International Solidarity Movement has not sent in protesters from the West to try to defend the terrorists. Communists and fellow travelers have not organized flotillas of boats carrying aid to the terrorists. Israeli politicians have not lectured the Sinhalese of Sri Lanka about how the whole problem is that they are insensitive to the needs of the "Other." Ehud Barak did not demand that the Sri Lanka government enter talks with the Tigers and provide them with guns and funding. Israeli professors did not organize petitions of solidarity with the Tamil suicide bombers. Haaretz columnists have not turned out column after column explaining that the suicide bombings by the Tamils are all because they are under an inhumane siege and hungry. Writers David Grossman, Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua have not produced poems and essays demanding that the demands of the Tamil Tigers be met. Not a single Sri Lankan professor who had a family member killed by the Tamil terrorists has come out in endorsement of the demands of the terrorists. No movement of self-hating Sinhalese favoring a Holocaust of Sinhalese has emerged. Not a single Sinhalese public figure has proposed that Sri Lanka be dismembered and stripped of its Sinhalese symbols. None have proposed a change in the national anthem. None have proposed dividing Colombo and handing over half to the Tamils. Virtually no one knows that 65,000 civilians have died in the fighting and the media have no interest in covering the story.
But then again, Sri Lanka is just not as advanced a country as is Israel..