nora83: Hamas are not cowards and stop listening to the zionsist proboganda that says so , Hamas is the most brave ever , they are fighting the terrorists and the most modern and high tech army in the world ( sponcered by the USA ofcourse ) , you wanna convince me that every building was attacked in Gaza contained some Hamas members or every school or every one kid who was shot , or burnt , was hiding Hamas member behind him , well !
The Swedish church health centre was bombed to nothing but dust by Israel. Good job, probably the Church of Sweden was planning something gruesome in there, helping giving birth to more Hamas supporters ... (Being sarcastic here, mind you)
Hamas have proven to be the most successful organisation ever in creating innocent martyrs; they do attract a lot of firepower at the moment.
Sad thing is that what Israel is doing now can be very much likened to what US did to Afghanistan after 9/11. Really.
So why would US oppose, they have strongly worked for the right of fighting terror elements away from home ever since, talking against Israel’s actions now would not make sense at all.
So, we can decide here and now, that it would not be in the best interest for US foreign policy to protest Israel’s choice of action.
Then, what does Israel hope to gain by doing this? Erase Hamas? They would not dare to engage in this warfare if it was not safe, and safe it would not be if Hamas had strong support from the countries in the region.
With how much did actually Hamas win the elections? Those are their political supporters; the rest wanted more or less a PLO like government.
Which of those two fractions have most support in the Arab world, who is the least "irritating" to them?
Israel do not count on physical US support for their actions, more likely are they assured by the neighbours that they have a certain leeway to go on as they do.
I will never like what is happening; I am completely and utterly against war where innocent ends up in the crosshair. No matter fraction, faith or colour of the sun. With me in that I think many more stands, and some of them belong to the Jewish faith. Of course they protest, like all of us. It does not answer why what is happing is happening, it only shows that we are first of all humans and everything comes second.