More and more people are uncomfortable with Israel's response to the Hamas attack and asking questions about the justification for continuing the assault on Gaza: a four day pause in the fighting will allow more aid to arrive, while troops regroup, reload and go again from Tuesday when the IDF say they'll begin operations in the south of the strip. How are the displaced people from the north supposed to find shelter? Are Israeli forces going to evict them altogether as they seek and destroy Hamas units, reducing the whole area to rubble then telling them to come back and rebuild?
All it does is create more hate for the next generation to avenge the deaths and solve nothing but slake the Zionists thirst for vengeance.
It seems to me it is an 'eye for an eye counting game' - Almost 15,000 Arab, for 1,200 Jewish deaths. I'm sure a spokesman will say Israel has the right to self defence - and they do. But by the same token Palestinians have the right to self determination - which they do not have.
At the UN they have a representative of an 'observer state', and only 138 of the 193 members actually recognise their right as a nation. This must be the forum where their status is changed before negotiating talks for a two-state solution to an eternal problem that will not go away by simply bombing them into silence and complicity with their elected fate.