Peter et al, here's what our new President had to say about it:

Published: December 28, 2008 The New York Times
WASHINGTON - When President-elect Barack Obama went to Israel in July - to the very town, in fact, whose repeated shelling culminated in this weekend's new fighting in Gaza - he all but endorsed the punishing Israeli attacks now unfolding.

"If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," he told reporters in Sderot, a small city on the edge of Gaza that has been hit repeatedly by rocket fire. "And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."


I've got a good feeling about this guy


I hope that someday we can put aside our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.