Hamas hits Israel in unprecedented attack.

[Dan Druff]

I still don't understand the ceasefire rhetoric.

Is the belief really that Israel should just accept 1400 of their civilians intentionally murdered by Hamas, shrug their shoulders, and say, "Okay, time to begin peace talks now"?

How does anyone believe this is realistic for Israel -- or any other country victimized by such an attack?

Honestly I think the "ceasefire" people are ones who believe that the nasty Jews deserved it for all they've supposedly done to Palestinians over the years, so now it's even and they're supposed to get going with the peace process. These dummies still don't see the attack for what it actually was -- a fundamentalist religious group killing Jews because that's what they've always wanted to do.

because for every single hamas member who gets killed, dozens of innocent palestinian human beings are being murdered.

And whose fault is that?

I would say it's the fault of the terrorist-led government in Gaza using its own citizens as human shields.

So what are you saying? Israel needs to tolerate murder of its civilians if the murderers choose to hide behind their own civilian population?

There is always collateral damage in war. This includes the recent US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's sad and unfortunate, but that's what occurs at wartime, especially when one side intentionally hides among its civilian population, believing the other side to be too decent to bomb them there.

Israel cannot let Hamas continue after this. Otherwise, what message does this send to their own citizens? What message does this send to Israel's many enemies and semi-enemies surrounding them?

The Middle East is ruled by strength, not common decency or morality. If you project weakness, you will get crushed.