The entire world has condemned this, but Americans continue to be blinded. Then we wonder why people hate us.
Mr Hope and Change couldn't be bothered from his vacation to pass comment.

Well, its a great way to 'celebrate' Hannakah, I guess

War also provides the opporuntity to ban guns, restrict speech, carry out radical political agendas. Which do you think Obama will opt for?

Further, Hamas rocket attacks and suicide bombings are aimed strictly at civilian targets and result in almost 100% civilian casualties.

Put simply, Hamas attacks civilians and Israel responds by attacking Hamas leaders and fighters.

How do you react?

Well, if you're a liberal, you complain when the folks getting attacked retaliate.

Like Salon's Glenn Greenwald: "[How can we not mention] …the ongoing four-decades brutal occupation or the recent, grotesquely inhumane blockade of Gaza — would find the slaughter of scores of innocent Palestinians to be a horrible and deeply lamentable event." (Shhhh… no one tell Greewald about Egypt's blockade of Gaza; or how Russia reacts when attacked by Chechen separatists. Those standards don't apply!)

Any country but Israel wouldn't elicit so much as a peep from the left for this type of retaliation.

I wonder why.

This crap about Hamas breaking the rules implies that israel has never broken the law, has never applied collective punishment on a group for the actions of an individual, and has always punished the members of its security force that have murderd (yes, murdered) dozens of civilians over the past years.

Besides, what Israel is up to isn't just about rockets in Sderot. It's about the generals who run the country still suffering from narcissistic disorder over the invasion of Lebanon in 2006 in which Hezbollah was not "destroyed" but strengthened. Like anyone couldn't have figured out that would be the outcome.

The problem is that the U.S. has not helped Israel to see reality–here are Israel's options. It can take its colonies and military and go home to Israel and facilitate the Palestinians having their own sovereign state, not a system of three cantons surrounded by Israeli roads, the military, etc. OR it can absorb the Palestinians over which it rules today in one state and give them citizenship.

What cannot go on is the status quo in which Israel has been enabled to run amuk by the U.S. administrations who are too tied to Israel's interference in domestic politics via AIPAC, JINSA, and Israel's considerable public relations work in the U.S. via its embasseys.

What also cannot continue is the West's double standards–that Israel can get away with ignoring UN Resolutions and international law under cover of the U.S. while the U.S. insists on throttling other countries that do not follow the UN Resolutions it believes in has created more ill will toward the U.S. and not just in the Middle East than anything else that America has done. It's the double standard that is now biting us in the you know what.

Israel's actions are hastening the day a nuclear device will be detonated in Tel Aviv.

The leaders of Hamas and Israel both gain tighter grips on power when violence breaks out. Until the common peace-loving people vote out/remove their belligerent leaders, Israel and Palestine will spiral downward.
It will take profound courage to take the first steps toward peace unilaterally. Peaceful leaders often meet violent ends by people within their own country.