Even during the last ceasefire the blockade was still in effect so it is not as simple as you suggest.

How about screw companies that want to do business in a local area without following local laws?

Does your same logic apply to columbians who want to sell crack in the US? That is just the good all free market too isn't it?

Yup, that is the point. You do not have to actually HIT the incomming nuke, as the effects of nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere cover such a huge area. Like I said in my post, the outcome you describe is a far better one for the US that a nuke landing on Washington or New York.

Hamas probably try and bolster their numbers by counting all adults as being serving members :)

Their not allowed to repair the buildings as concrete is on the list of goods that Israel prevents from being imported:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

You seem to ignore that Israel is STILL doing this now though. The IDF tears down hundreds of Palestinian homes each year in the name of punishing those involved in terrorism, and the dept of agriculture builds more and more Israeli settlements. You might do it more slowly now, but the end result is still that Israel is expanding and taking more and more land.

Do you actually want Israel to be the size of this map?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

The problem is that other people live there now and they have a right to carry on living there.

The Palestinians who have their houses pulled down each year to make way for more Jewish settlements probably said that too. That is the real problem, until Israel stops expanding on land that is being stolen from others around it this conflict will carry on.

No, 20 were children. The number of civilians is more like 53 according to this article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israe...

Star wars to me actually made sense (although maybe not in the way it was pitched to the public).You could use a small nuclear device to screw up a much larger nuclear device while both were at very high altitude. Ok, you are going to cause a shit load of nuclear fallout to come down but hopefully that will be somewhere else like over the atlantic, pacific or mainland Europe. Either way, better a bit of fallout than an actual missile targeted at Washington or New York.

The things about Iron Dome though, is that the rockets they are trying to hit are basically crap. The rockets might have a decent range but they have no way of targeting them so they generally do sod all apart from scare people. Hamas have been launching them for days with no real effect in the latest conflict but even if you go back years they have very rarely killed or even hit anyone. Israel on the other hand kill hundreds of Palestinian civilians every year with their very advanced military hardware, often provided by the US for free.

Don't get me wrong, I think the launching of rockets randomly against the civilian population of Israel is utterly wrong, but the reality seems to be that both sides are quite happy to kill civilians on the other side its just that Israel is much better at it.

Maybe, the people of Gaza should all just up and leave so that Israel can have its promised land. It's not like then being there is stopping Israel building new settlements anyway and with the US always backing Israel there is no chance of that changing.

Hey, I am not advocating any sort of violence against you for your opinions so I am tolerating them. I respect your right to be led by those that pay the money into brainwashing you rather than try thinking for yourself, that would be too difficult.

And I don't think this of everyone who disagrees with my own viewpoint, even those who are on the right wing side of the political spectrum. I do think that most people I see espousing smaller government on here though are not actually very well informed on what exactly government does, and why it is a bad idea. I also think that most of them do not really every try to make an informed judgement by reading about things from a wide variety of political perspectives in order to come an informed decision.

Lol, if you lived here you would realise that is far from the case. Right wing parties did well in a few recent european elections, but they did NOT win enough votes to form any sort of majority government. Most of Europes current government is pretty centrist, certainly compared to the US.

You seem to completely ignore that governments are elected and therefore accountable to the people. That fact that the US political system is shit and unrepresentative does not mean every countries government is so in most of Europe the view that governments should be reigned in is not so widespread as the governments there do a better job.

Corporations on the other hand answer to nobody apart from their own profits. Therefore it is entirely right that government does its bit to push them in way that their aims (making money) are aligned with that of society.

(Americans need not reply to this post, since most of you seem to be brain washed by the shit you see on your own pro-unrestrained capitalist propaganda that tries to pass itself off as impartial news).

Are you really not able to see a difference between your examples and running a tor exit node?

Let me spell it out for you: ISP's are selling you a service but tracking you in order to make sure any people using their network for anything illegal can be traced, a tor exit node is designed to let people be anonymous and untraceable. The judge made the assumption that anyone who wants to be untraceable to law enforcement must be a criminal, which is actually not such a huge stretch.

Castro was just trying to get some insurance against a US invasion. The US has a history of invading places in south america just because they didn't like the leaders, even when the people we wanted to put in power in the place where total scumbags. We preferred scumbags we could manipulate with arms deals and money to anyone who the people might choose. It is a miracle that Cuba survived to be honest.

Personally I also think it is also partly because the CIA got their nose bloodied there by Castro back when they preferred US mobsters and business to be in charge over anyone who might actually represent the local population.