According to figures compiled by the Israel Defense Forces, approximately 800 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel from June to September, compared with approximately 500 during the same period last year.

This kind of mass punishment is counter productive and is used to create more tension and hatred. Israel is a socialist state and cannot exist without an outside entity to provide unity for the population. The whole friggin' situation there is terrible. There are also a lot of unseen and things that rarely get seen in the papers, especially in the US news.

The people in Israel are good people, and so are the Palestinians, their leaders and the political ideology they espouse however is despicable.

Didn't Israel hand over the gaza strip to the palestinians anyway? why would they continue powering it?

guh how is this even so bad? they're keeping important places powered, it's just the houses. THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO CHARGE THEIR CELLPHONES??

guh maybe because it's leaving thousands with no power?? yeah they won't be able to charge their cellphones, but they also won't be able to REFRIGERATE FOOD/MEDICINE? i mean seriously you are blind as shit if you don't see why this is a problem

guh maybe because it's leaving thousands with no power?? yeah they won't be able to charge their cellphones, but they also won't be able to REFRIGERATE FOOD/MEDICINE? i mean seriously you are blind as shit if you don't see why this is a problem

well the people on the gaza strip are relatively new

The Palestinians that have lived there pre-Israel (before 1948) and now...some have ancestors dating back to Biblical times.  You get farmers who have a family farm that goes back generations upon generations upon generations.
In case you didn't know, Palestinians were one of the groups of people who heard Jesus deliver The Sermon on the Mount (according to the Bible).

Also, Jews have been living in Israel since biblical times too. What's more, there have been Jewish colonists in Canaan since 1891 when Theodore Herzl wrote his book "The Jewish State"
They bought and farmed swamp and desert-land into what it is today.

“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

“We must expel the Arabs and take their places.”

It is also very awful that people are being killed by rockets.

The Palestinians that have lived there pre-Israel (before 1948) and now...some have ancestors dating back to Biblical times.  You get farmers who have a family farm that goes back generations upon generations upon generations.
In case you didn't know, Palestinians were one of the groups of people who heard Jesus deliver The Sermon on the Mount (according to the Bible).