Reading behind the lines of this piece, I see the following:

1. This is another ploy in Israel’s propaganda machine to cast themselves in positive light as being concerned about minimizing all the collateral damage to innocent Palestinian civilians, which they have been causing through the endless episodes of massacres, the last of which took place a week ago.
2. This is another trick to ask American taxpayers to fund this project, which for sure the Israeli economy will not bear to support.
3. This demonstrates the long term Israeli strategy of continued occupation and suppression of the Palestinian people. They know that Israel’s very existence was predicated on the concept of perpetual wars against their neighbors.
3. If they are willing to spend a little portion of what they spend on militarization on building bridges of peace and conciliation with the people they oppressed, occupied and brutalized for so long, then there might be a hope for peace.
4. By the time they develop few of these so-called “Bionic Hornets”, the relatively small number of what they call Palestinian “terrorists” will become a sea of 300 million freedom fighters, which is the total population of the Arab World, who would be fed up with Israeli terrorism, arrogance and the impotence of their rulers who would be dethroned in a massive revolutionary uprising. Under these circumstances all Israel’s “Bionic Hornets” along with their weapons of mass destruction, including their nuclear arsenal, will all be rendered useless and a waste of treasure!

Israel is the “god of our oil interests,” Sharon? In reality, abandoning Israel would put us in good standing with oil-producing states in the Mid-East. And Felicity, “wars of any generation don’t really settle anything”? You REALLY need to read history, if you think that.

I don’t know the solution to the Mid-East crisis. If it was easy, we would have found it already. But what is Israel supposed to do when they’re attacked? Just sit and take it? They gave up the Gaza Strip - as a peace offering, what has that done for them? Has there been a corresponding move towards peace from Hamas? What would YOU do?

The fact is, attacks on Israel are meant to provoke a response. Their enemies WANT to see Palestinian civilian deaths. That’s the whole point of their attacks. The more “children, mommies and daddies” killed, the better for them. So it’s obvious why Israel is working on weapons designed to hit and kill only their targets.

If Israel doesn’t strike back, their citizens won’t stand for it. It IS a democracy, you know. There’s a lot Israel is doing wrong (cluster bombs, for example), but I DON’T know the solution. And neither do you. It’s not easy, don’t pretend it is. If it were easy, the Mid-East crisis wouldn’t exist.

I always ask myself that to whom this nation belongs to ? To American people or to Israelis ?

We will have to wait, until a time when PEACE cost more than WAR. Based on who’s in control, Kiss your ass good by.

if only this much money and effort was spent on peace!

Build a weapon and a war will be designed and launched to justify it - and its target will design and use a strategy to combat it.

Military experts call the Iraq war a fourth generation war.  Looks like we’re on our way to a fifth generation war. It’s been quite a while since we decided that duels really weren’t necessary to “settle” an argument or pay back an insult and throwing beautiful young men and women off of cliffs really didn’t guarantee rain the next day.

I wonder how long it will take us to figure out that wars of any generation really don’t settle anything either.

As long as the United States is giving about $10 million per day to Israel, they can afford to develop all manner of weapons to continue their reign of terror in the Middle East.  I saw a recent bumper sticker which said “President Bush honors God’s covenant with Israel”.  So where does that leave other Americans and their religious beliefs or absence thereof who do not want to sign on to such a covenant?  We hear a great deal from our government as to the fact that the U.S. has to support Israel because they are such a strong ally.  I believe the real covenant we have with Israel is that they are the god of our oil interests in the Middle East.  They are to be our watch dog to protect the oil supply.  Problem is, they are an expensive and trouble making watch dog. I would greatly prefer to see $10 million a day going to the research and development of alternative energy supplies.

My SciFi dreams come true!  A finely honed tool with lazer sharp precision made for the terrorist state.  No more cluster bombs killing children, mommies and daddies.

But will it cost less than $100 million?