just as I suspected

Ehud Olmert claims that Israel achieved most of her goals in the 15 day old war. They will more than likely pull out before Obama's inauguration. With over 800 Palestinian dead, mostly women and children, Israel can now sleep at night, knowing that they have created a new generation of anti-Israeli Palestinians. Not only that, but Israel has now tested the banned and horrific substance known as white phosphorous without any international intervention. US and other militaries can study the short and long term effect of this awful substance, which causes the human flesh to burn off all the way to the bone. It's illegal, and it's use constitutes a war crime, but, hey, it's Israel, they can act with impunity. No one has the guts to stand up to them. In fact, I'm sure our own government will study how Israel can effectively act without ever being reprimanded. They must be God's chosen...
What I have trouble understanding is how Christians have become aligned with Israel's cause. Do they not know that Jesus was killed by Jews, Jews that wanted him to die a horrible death because they renounced this "new" religion? What possible benefit is there for Christians? You think you have better access to the Christian sites when Israel is in control of them? Is it not amazing how most Americans suffer from short term memory loss. Back in 2002, 123 Palestinians took refuge in the Church of the Nativity. Israel nearly destroyed the Holy site trying to get to these "terrorists", mostly young men and children. They had cranes positioned outside with metal boxes that held snipers, who would shoot at anything that moved. A negotiation was to take place, and one day Israel just lost interest. Actually, the US finally stood up to them and demanded they abandon this ridiculous post before they completely destroyed the Church. Even the monks inside criticized what the Israelis were doing. But here in the US we got b/s stories about young "terrorists" who were supposedly smoking dope, drinking, and plotting the death of Christians and Jews. Christians never had better access, free from terrorism and fighting before 1967, when Israel gained control of Jerusalem. How easy we forget these lessons in history. Even when the great Muslim leader Saladin conquered Jerusalem, he never expelled the Christians, and even allowed some Jews to remain. That was a far cry from how the Jews ran Jerusalem before being conquered.
History will be rewritten again for this last episode in Israel's history. Some will have to wait another forty years to understand the horror Israel inflicted upon the Palestinians. Even in a time of unprecedented media coverage and technology that allows private citizens to show the atrocities committed against them, Israel has managed to convince the majority of Americans that it acted while keeping civilian deaths to a minimum. If Americans only knew...