And for whoever asked why people don’t call on Egypt to help Gaza as their neighbours, I think that’s because Egypt aren’t the country that are fencing them in and bombing them?
Egypt may not be bombing them, but you really need to have a good look at a map. Egypt closed the border crossings. Why? Because they don't want the refugees, but even more, they don't want Hamas. Anyone recall what the last bunch of extremists in Egypt did to their tourist economy? Or the ones before that? Egypt may not be perfect, but they definitely don't want to take sides with Hamas. That will destroy their economy, alienate powers they require friendly relationships with, and well... the last time they fell out with Israel they got trounced.
Of course if the British want to absorb the "small boats" of Palestinian refugees???
Ah, you see that's where all the rhetoric takes over, isn't it? From our relatively comfortable sofas it's easy to tell everyone else how they should act. But let's test that theory...
Just a few short weeks ago posters here were queuing up to personally execute a woman convicted of killing babies that were not their relatives, and with whom they had no relationship. Based purely on press reports of the trial.
So what would you all do if those were your beheaded children or grandchildren? Shrug and say that you are just as responsible for their deaths because your country might have done some questionable things in a war against terrorists? And just remember, wherever you are sitting right now, your country has done some questionable things in the war against terrorism. There's an enquiry going on in London right now about the questionable things the UK troops did in Afghanistan. We all have blood on our hands.
But I'll tell you one thing. If those were your children or grandchildren, you wouldn't be listening to or putting reasonable arguments about the past or who was wrong in what way. You would take up the nearest weapon, whether a pitchfork or a semi-automatic, and you would kill every person you thought responsible, whether they were or not. And the problem is that both sides feel like that. Often with reason. But terrorists don't care and they account to nobody. No matter how far Israel goes, it can and will be held to account. Hamas won't. They can't be convicted of war crimes - they cannot declare war. They are terrorists.
Be honest. What would you do?
Hamas do not represent Palestinians. They hold them in fear and thrall. What Hamas feared was the intervention of other Arabic states brokering a form of peace that allowed Israeli's and Palestinians to even begin a dialogue. And that was the reason for the attack, in my view.