It has gotten a lot of people's mind off of this horrible economy. No telling what kind of games are being play with our economic system as we focus in on this war. It also has lessened the criticism of our governments and their inability to tackle this economy.What you state is a total possibility.

maybe their trying to make us all hate the jews and start another holocaust?
or were just waiting for Iran.

Originally posted by GondelleX
...or were just waiting for Iran.

Iranians are too smart to take this bate

they didn't do it before and will not do it in the future

and that is what pisses americans and israelis the most

I think Gaza is just the bait to get other Arab/Palestinian countries fired up to attack Israel. The the US will go their defense and the real war of Armageddon will start worldwide. Mankind engineering prophesy, so to speak.

Gaza isn't a smokescreen, it's a catalyst IMO.

Welcome to the Monkey house, It's a brave new World.

Gaza is no smokescreen, Hamas is about to be destroyed. I suppose that not until it is announced that the top levels of the Hamas structure is either dead or in Israeli custody, will the world understand.

This is real life, it is not a game.

We used to have a mortar crew fire a few rounds at us and haul ass.

It grew tiresome, and I hunted them down.

We never got another round from that crew.

Whether they are shooting and missing matters not even a little bit. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

The idea is to stop the shooting.

And if you have to kill every mother's son to stop it, then that's what you do.

Maybe it is an attempt to kill two birds with one stone. We "are" being manipulated and it did not just start 17 days ago. They are masters of deception and no matter how hard you concentrate on the cards the Queen is removed from the deck before you can get your eyes focused. I search the internet looking for answers to explain the world gone mad and if the answer is here I doubt I will find it in time because the madness, manipulation and deception in the world of the internet far exceeds anything that you find in the real world. Your ability to trust is destroyed and doubt dilutes truth. Even here at ATS. This is a one stop shopping place for anyone that wants to make an excuse for any lunatic action and I am sure that if there is a red list that it is directly linked to this website and most of us are on it. To remove any mystery that may be associated with my post: I am not posting anonymously because I fear exposure. I am posting Anonymously because for some weird reason all my attempts to log in under my member name is rejected even after three or four attempts at resetting my name and password. I am sure that it is just a glitch but I can't log in so I am restricted to my two post max for twelve hours. Mystery and intrigue removed.

Originally posted by dooper

And if you have to kill every mother's son to stop it, then that's what you do.

Your bravado is so incredibly tiresome. Get real.

War is not peace. Taking lives is not right. Rambo was a movie.

I'm just making a random guess. Some wealthy nation with stakes in the Middle East wants to fund the end of Israel. For the sake of giving this country a name, lets say Russia wants to conquer Israel for oil that they believe is hidden there. What better way to distract the IDF than to rally the Israelis into Gaza, then send in their own troops while the the IDF is in Gaza. It's just a thought...

The Russians tell Iran they'll give them a nuke for free, if they in turn tell Hamas to kick off against Israel. Attention focussed on Israel, who knows where this may finish, maybe even in Iran itself, does Russia care, does it heck. Russia is being played by Ukraine over gas supplies into Europe, now USA bogged down in ME and Israel diverting attention too, Russia decides to do a Georgia and invades Eastern (Russian speaking) Ukraine and Crimea. If there was ever a time for russia to do it, this is the time.

I didn't brag, I didn't use the term honorable, and I didn't say anything about "cool."

All of those are your words.

I just mentioned feelings based on specific events.

I don't pay much attention to comments from those who either can't, or won't. But the bitterness from lacking personal experience in that arena caused me to reply to you.

Sadly, you'll never realize that in combat, a man can often do more living in thirty minutes than most folks do their entire lives.

Living!

That's what it's all about.

All life is a race, a hide, or a fight.

Those hiders usually taunt or despise the racers and the fighters. Nothing new.