Obtuse - Comments

I'll say this again. We stood back for a good while now, while Hamas kept firing missiles at us. We couldn't wait longer so we attacked. Last time we did this it kept them quite (they still launched missile attacks but a lot less) for a couple of years. This time we are going in harder and hopefully it will keep them silenced.

Hamas are hiding their ammo supplies and leaders where other citizens are, just so they can say "20 kids killed" and so on. Not only that, but the media are falling for their lying. Will post more about that after school.

I understand that neither side is innocent. However, are Israel's actions horrific? I would say that there actions now are more justified than their non-offensive methods of curtailing attacks. The difference between Hamas and Israel is that Hamas attacks the public at large on purpose, Israel on the other hand attacks places that are likely to be used against Israel and people who want to harm Israel and its citizens. Hamas knows how to play the system, they stay in areas that are full of innocent people to ensure that if they are struck the news story will come out that Israel has killed X amount of people. Israel's attacks are by no means and are far from the best, they do it on the basis that they are protecting their soldiers etc because a ground offensive would be more likely to attack the threats of Hamas but of course that will put Israeli soldiers at a greater threat.

I'll go back to the original question though, what's the likely outcome of all of this? Nothing. It will reach a height, probably now or in a few days (I don't see it lasting much longer than that) then it will calm down a bit more and it will happen all over again in about a year or two.

I just noticed Tropico 4 was down to £6.20 on Steam and the reviews were generally favourable. So whilst I wait an hour for it to download, has anybody here played it and able to tell me if its any good?

His problem is he sees in black and white (insert joke here about how everything was in black and white when he grew up) if Israel are bad then in KM's head Palestine must be good.

Do you think you could have a debate without trying to provoke people?

This is why people don't take you seriously.

Ya, I live in the North but news keep on reporting about where the missiles hit and all that.

Also live about 30 minutes from one of the biggest Air Force bases in Israel so all you hear is the constant sound of fighter jets flying lower than usual.

Are you not fearful of being bombed or even killed, or do you live far enough away from the areas Palestine are bombing? I'd be shit scared if we and the North started firing missiles at each other!

Both sides are suffering but if the Hamas kept quite, none of this would have happened.

Those are exactly the sort of missiles we are shooting down daily. Many were already taken down.

We went in and attacked because that is the only way to stop them from firing missiles at us. Last time we went in and did what we did it worked, until they started firing a mass amount of missiles at us. We don't usually attack them but when we do we do it well and we do what has to be done. We kill the people from the Hamas, we destroy ammo supplies. Sadly, they keep putting the innocent on top of those places.

Hundreds of missiles have been fired at us every day for a good while now, so yes, we do have the right to defend ourselves. We have people that get killed, just a lot less because we are ready for these kind of things.

Most of us see this from only one point of view. Being an Israeli, it is hard for me to defend Palestine, especially when I keep hearing about missile attacks. So why don't you guys try and look at it from different perspectives? Both sides are suffering but if the Hamas kept quite, none of this would have happened.

Can't believe the mess Hughes has made at QPR. I like him, but he's gotta get sacked, simple as that. It's surprising though because I can't stress how good of a job he did here, he turned us into a very, very good side. Thought QPR would have really pushed on this season. If he does get sacked, which surely he will, I don't know where his next job would be.....he'd probably have to drop down a division or even look abroad.

Why are Hamas firing missiles into Isreal so? Just seems as if Isreal's missiles are more accurate.

The type of rockets Hamas are firing are not the ones you shoot down with a missile-defence system.

Israel are responding entirely disproportionally as per. I expect a ground invasion to take place in the next week or so.

So we finally know who was responsible for winning the Premier League title for Manchester City last season.

Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic, one of six people in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje, who claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary in 1981.

Devout Catholic Roberto Mancini says she became the crucial difference between his City side and Fergie’s United during the run-in, after he visited the visionary, and she kissed his forehead:

“She smiled at me, looking straight into my eyes. Suddenly, she moved towards me. I had no doubts anymore. Then she kissed me on my forehead. I explicitly felt the sensation of a physical contact with someone I had never met in my life before,” he said.

Wow, no need to be a fucking arsehole about it.

It's hardly the nicest news to receive.

I love it when people use the "I have black friends so I can't be racist" line. I don't have any black friends.

Well it seems Hamas sent a rocket to blow up the Israeli parliament today. So I'm guessing not great.

Shitting in the shower is frowned upon in most circles.

Apparently that was the best explanation an Irish hospital could come up with when a woman died after they refused to abort the dying foetus inside her.

Read and prepare to facepalm.

Rodgers has just rubbished the rumours pretty emphatically in his press conference today. All it probably is is that City have looked at Suarez as a potential target.

"Ireland is a Catholic country"