Two bombs went off in Jerusalem

@ProfessorPlum77 Disagree away. I disagree with you. I'm not supporting PLA or Hamas or any terrorist group or action. Neither do I support governments who abuse the human rights of others. Have you worked in Israel? In the Palestinian territories? I have. Do you have any idea of the facts on the ground? If you think that the Israeli government is totally correct in their treatment of the Palestinians you clearly don't know what you're talking about or are just racist and unable to listen to two sides of a dispute. I've been there when the Israeli army tear-gassed a girls' kindergarten in a village unprovoked, for example. It was so normal the Palestinians did nothing.
Every year of my life there have been books, movies, documentaries or other ways of telling the story of the holocaust. They shaped me. What I learnt from that is to care about people like the Jewish people who are not the same culture as me who are being persecuted. That's why I care about both sides in this conflict rather than making horrific and incorrect generalisations about ethnic groups like you did in your answer.

@Abstraction 1. You disagreed with me, first. :) You must be a liberal. I say that because as soon as I oppose your supposedly unbiased viewpoint, you resort to ad hominem tactics.
2. "Palestinians" are Caucasians. I am Caucasian. So much for your remark implying I am racist.
3. You said you were there when the Israelis gassed a girls' kindergarten. How many causalities were there? Were you also there when the "Palestinians" attacked a school bus in Israel in 2008? Two teachers were killed, and five children injured.
4. I don't expect to convince you of my point of view. Your mind is made up. After a while, my patience will run out and instead of answering your posts I will just block you.
5. During a panel between Israeli and "Palestinian" representatives, the Israeli panel member listed a few achievements Israel has made to the world. Then he asked, "What have the "Palestinians" contributed besides suicide terrorism?"

@ProfessorPlum77 I didn't resort to an ad hominem attack. I stated a position that IF you think the Israeli government has never done anything wrong, THEN. Lots of Israelis also acknowledge mistakes by their own government.

@pdqsailor1 What's that expression?

I want to also see if my Papa knows it :D ...here we go!

@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON You want yiddish.. Israel repeatedly thinks "KUSH MIR IN TUCHES" - kiss my ass... BTW I love yiddish...

@pdqsailor1 of course I know very well: My grandparents were (they are deceased) fluent and I think that Yiddish was my father's first tongue (we are born in Latvia).

This is a memory that warms my heart, I heard it all the time back in Riga.
Also when we visited Israel
or when Grandma stayed with us, she and dad would converse, sometimes, in Yiddish.
It's an association of my dad, his mom and his sister and their husband and father.
I really wish I could speak it.

Okay, I will surprise him ... can't wait to see his reaction!

@LizOwen Whose bias are you talking about ?

@LegendofPeza Probably the bias that ignores Zionist terrorism

@ProfessorPlum77 I agree with you.. People do not generally know why Israel exists, what its primary mission statement is... "never again"... then the debates start as to how to best fulfil this... but what has been tolerated up to now has been the regular murders of Israeli Men, Women and children... and it is past time to demonstrate that an ongoing challenge to the primary mission statement will NOT be tolerated... It must end it has to be stopped and a PRICE must be paid a huge price so they have to consider even thinking of such a thing again is far too dangerous to consider...

@pdqsailor1 I agree with you.
There have been times when these suicide murders were worse than others. I think it was especially under Barak, if I remember correctly.

@Ozymandiaz I mean for it to be an escalation a DRAMATIC escalation one that is intolerable.. - the point must be made...the state was re-established on one mission statement - never again.. and the death of a million cuts contravenes the mission statement.. and so a very strong message needs to be sent... that such actions are intolerable... never again means .. NEVER again and not one more Jew is going to be slaughtered...

@Northwest I want terrorism to stop.. and I am saying.. its going to cost them something they value.. and it will be on their hands that they can not live peacefully... So live in peace or suffer the consequences and the consequences have to be DIRE...

@Northwest The attackers VALUE this edifice.. Taking it from them ... well the cumulative effect of all their terrorism has a price to be paid for it.. and it is time to make them pay that price... a STIFF price..

@LizOwen What cost is there to reporting it to the terrorists?

@LegendofPeza There is a substantial difference between police actions meeting armed criminals and terrorism of a young man going to study...