Its unfortuate but again its not out war! Palestine authorities have been unable to stop rocket attacks from its territory into Israel; they are as much responsible for the current crisis as their counterpart.
It is war, or rather a genocide. What do you call indiscriminate killing of civilians? What do you call setting up an apartheid wall? What do you call the consistent land grab that Zionists keep doing yearly?
Hamas are in no way responsible, read history, check up on the facts. Israel's founding fathers were terrorists: they started with blowing up buses, consolates, and remember King david hotel. Ben gurion etc. all these guys were mass murderors, and the most disgusting one sharon who is dead or whatever.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
-- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
Israel-Palestine is no longer a religious but a political dispute. Palestinians enjoy religious freedom even within the boundries of Israel. If they chose to live seperately its their choice. We should and would help them when their freedom to worship the True God is compromised, which isn't the case here.
Enjoy religious freedom you say?
How do you explain the fact that Israel has demolished 1000 + Mosques?
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7680
Israel is a "Jewish" state, yet nothing about it is Jewish. You are right that it is not religion, rather Zionist ideology versus Islam.
And you can note this by that several mass crimes committed by the Zionists against civilian unarmed Palestinians is done on a certain holiday called Purim. baruch goldstein massacred 29 muslims in a mosque on Purim in 94, the massacres by Sharon, and rachel corrie was bulldozered on Purim
Palestinians are second class citizens at best, the occupied territories are disgusting, caste like behaviour, something that perhaps unites the Zionists and Hindus.
"The Case Against Israel"
by Michael Neumann
"a state that has apartheid high court rulings, apartheid policies and apartheid laws is an apartheid state. No way around it."
Jews all around the world disengage from this heinous state, even Israelis. British academics recently started a boycott, followed by Canadian Union and South AFrican union which remembered the support Israelis gave to the racist apartheid regime both politically and in terms of arms. Gush Shalom, Israelis against House Demolition etc.
Jews who refuse to partake in this immoral zionist army:
http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/isr-summary-eng
http://www.shovrimshtika.org/index_he.asp
http://www.seruv.org.il/
http://www.mahsanmilim.com
http://www.cpt.org/hebron/hebron.php
It dosnt really matters if we recognise Isreal or not, the truth is that they exist & have total control of the land.
We recognize Israel's existence, but we do not recognize it's right to exist as it is a nucleus of all evil. How can you even consider diplomatic connections with a state that systematically kills children, that systematically destroys any hope of peace, commits the most violent of crimes in the most mind numbingly procedures? You know in the first intifadha, they broke 20,000 children's bones according to Swedish save the children?
I understand your view, which takes no heed to Israeli actions, rather a selfish move in acquiring military equipment offered by Israel, it is by no means a just move. We have morals I'm afraid, and there are other means of obtaining military technology.
Br. A. Rahman, I agree completely with your post on Secularism.