It would appear that Israel will be allowed free rein.

I used to feel supportive of them. Not anymore though. Not a supporter of Hamas either.

Religion has a lot to answer for.

So does that mean this UN mission has failed then? A quick look suggests they are supposed to be keeping Hezbollah out of the picture and Israeli forces out of Lebanon. All of it wasted, there are over 10000 UN personnel there. Since they first went there in 1978 it seems they’ve been as much use as a sock on a fish.

Good. Some people think they can leave lights and stuff on all day, because they have more money than sense.

Exactly. We need The Belt. Sa-sa ke?

Whilst I understand that, you could argue that that is exactly why both sides need to sit down and talk.

This cannot go on for ever, at some point both sides have to accept violence will never be the answer. What’s happened (terrible as it is) has happened and we can never go back in time to change it.

The only way violence will work is the total eradication of one side or the other. That can never be the right path to go down.

We can all sit here online and say we’ll never talk to terrorists, Margaret Thatcher made a great public speech with that line yet it turns out our government had channels open all the time.

I have no answer as whoever tries to step in usually has their own interests at heart.

UN maybe? Then again others will vote against whoever their current ‘enemy’ is purely because they can. For instance Russia will never back anything put forward by the US, and vice versa.

Both sides or just one? Because if only one side stops that’s called a surrender. And neither of them will accept that.

They both need to stop shooting each other and start talking instead.

I totally agree, I’m not cutting Israel any slack here - their treatment of Palestine has been awful - and if they weren’t so chummy with USA it’d be a different story. But parading mutilated corpses in the streets etc? There’s no excuse. Whatever side you’re on.

Not what I said at all.

Nobody wins here. Parading mutilated corpses and taking hostages is not ‘supporting the struggle’ though.

Hasn’t this always been the case?

Israel has not been a shining example of virtue over the years. I’m not excusing the disgusting actions by the other side, where they are proved true, as some of the pictures have already been discounted, but this would only make Israel come down harder.

I don’t the have an answer, but what ever us happening now is certainly not it.