The saddest part is the whole damn world has their mouth shut as we sit here, enjoying our luxurious lifestyles, while so many are being killed for no reason. I cannot even bear the thought.
Poppy - I have to respond to this, particularly the comment that the whole world is sitting by with their mouths shut.....
You began a very eloquent thread with your viewpoint of what is happening in the mideast...you are an individual part of the world as I am...I am sad and hurting just as you are. People I know are just as upset and concerned....but MY viewpoint is just as valid as yours.

"Anyone who thinks Israel is not being the world's biggest terrorist has major issues, and a biased nature"
This happens to be my viewpoint and it is no more biased as your viewpoint Poppy. Honestly....

I don't like war either....but I am not sitting around happily enjoying my freedoms while the "other" side of the world is in turmoil.

"We cannot even begin to imagine the pain and suffering those people are going through. These people who are being killed are not soldiers there to fight. They are not strong men. They are innocent children. Innocent women. Old men. Innocent children, toddlers, babies."
This is happening on both sides of the war. The news continually shows us videos taken in Lebanon - but these same things are happening down in Israel. Those same innocent children, women, toddlers and babies who are Israeli civilians are also being killed and hiding in fear....enduring pain and suffering also....the awful reality of war. The difference is that the Israeli civilians are not being hit because they have terrorists hiding in their midst.

I agonize as I review history and try to be informed - I try to see both sides, but I do not see in any way that Israel can be described as terrorist. Come on. If I was a Muslim, I would no doubt have my loyalties with my Arab background....and yes I can certainly see the anger at the Jewish Nation......of course...but that view must be made more clear and informed with the awful reality that the Arab countries are home to the biggest terror threat to our world as a whole.

Maybe you don't have the same ties I have with my homeland which is America...I read in another post that you do not have that same pride to call yourself American...but you ARE American. You enjoy the same freedoms that I do and while your loyalty may or may not be what mine is....you cannot deny that what we have in our democratic government is a wonderful blessing.

Please know that the rest of the world is not necessarily being silent. People of all views have to be in agony as you are. I can't get into who attacked who...there is no fair comparison to defending freedoms and wanting the same security for another people (the reasonable people of Lebanon), with a people (Hezbollah, Hamas, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt...) who harbor the evil of terrorism. They simply cannot be compared rationally.