Uneasy calm in Gaza -11 March 08

An uneasy calm has descended on Gaza.The exchange of missiles and rockets between Israel and Gaza has stopped for the time being. The fragile truce is welcome news after days of fighting that killed more than 120 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Egyptian officials are trying to broker a more formal peace agreement.Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza.

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[hazardasd]

that is what you want to believe. watch a couple of videos on youtube which show how palestinians are treated by the israelis.

If me, my family and friends and even people all around me were being abused and killed by an oppressor for years and years on end, hell I'd strap on a bomb and let loose in one of their cities.

[hotspur2514]

I think that you are just another 25 year old teenager that has done nothing with his life as yet, and finds the anonymity of the youtube comments box a welcome change from the powerless burger-slinging life that you lead.

[hotspur2514]

If Israel wanted Palestinians out of Gaza they would just retake it. What opposition leader are you talking about? I don't think you know what you are talking about. I think your slogan-shouting and demands for proof without sounding the slightest bit embarrassed by refusing to back up just one of the many claims you have made are indicative of your youth and an apparent belief that things in your life should come easy to you.

[PauloGVieira]

"Nobody expects Palestinians to slip into obscurity" - WRONG! This was official Israeli policy in their transfer out of conquered land and is still a position espoused by your slimy opposition leader.

Please prove me wrong.

[incognitoincarnate]

HAHAHA are you kidding me. So chopping off your penis being left with a hole is not as bad as war atrocities?? Don't be fooled by the word circumsion, it is not the cutting off of the clitoris. It is the cutting off of the entire vagina of a child.

[hotspur2514]

Paulo, I'll bet this is the ONLY political outlet that you have even considered, let alone been a "big boy" for. I bet you don't even vote. Nobody expects Palestinians to slip into obscurity. I don't know where you get these fucking ideas from. Holy shit I need time to stop LMFAO! Look, why don't you calm down and de-sloganize your comments, or at least make a point that isn't wild rhetoric. C'mon Big Boy!

[PauloGVieira]

Again I think you will find their problems originated from foreign intervention - as brutal as female circumcision is I would think it hardly accounts for their woes today.

[afrircans1970]

Look at the technique! Rockets and bombs are indiscriminate killers. This is not bravery, this is the killing of the non-combatants. I cannot believe that ANYONE who uses techniques of that nature are anything but COWARDS!

Deep inside, many in Islamic nations find the Palestinians disgusting for using such means. Heroes would obviously stand and fight with rifles, etc.

The silence may one day end. It is often noticed that other Arab nations do NOT want to host Palestinians aside from laborers.

[AbuCihan]

You are a tolerant one, buddy . . . It is not enough that Israel is slowly starving Gaza to death, you'd rather they'd do it swiftly . . . and then, people wonder why Muslims would feel aggrieved and forced to perform suicide attacks. As long as such sentiments persist to exist, Muslims (be they Palestinian or not) will feel frustrated, impotent and forced to resist any way possible, and frankly, who can blame them: down with Israel!

[ElCid4321]

America is giving Israel high exposive bombs for free. America is on the side of Israel. Israel has not even begun to fight. America should give away all of its bombs to Israel and the Israelis should not be afraid to use these bombs. Just 1000 high exposive bombs can flatten all of Gaza. The more Moslems that the Israeli kill the better. Fuck Mohammad and fuck you Moslems.