• more about #bombing
    CharlotteTrampling: Argh, and might I add that both sides are obscenely adept at the rhetoric of victimhood. Not that they are not victims, but again, it leads nowhere. more »
    HereComesMyBaby: No more to say. more »
    ellaesther: Here's a fact I always like to put out there when people start suggesting that Hamas first accept Israel's right to exist before any negotiations are ... more »
    maude_flanders: Forgive for a really stupid question....how did this conflict start? From what little I understand...Israel initiated this particular response, part o... more »
    Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): Will "Time" also publish Joe the Plumber's account from Israel? (OK, that was horrible, but really, it makes my blood boil.) more »
    Tara Incognita: I want to shake the world's collective shoulders sometimes. more »
    amoureuse est heureuse: You know what's equally terrible? One of my friends was trapped in Lebanon when Israel and Hezbollah decided to have a go at it. She had to hold her c... more »
    JinxyMcDeath: You know what's also terrible? That my uncle and aunt had to tell my little cousin to pretend that the rockets going off all around their neighborhood... more »
    andheartss haz it: I have serious problems with how this conflict is being played out in the news. Israel's hands are not clean in any of this, yet they keep pointing th... more »
    ellaesther: "Darkness cannot overcome darkness, only light can do that. Violence cannot overcome violence, only love can do that" (if I remember my Dr. King corre... more »
    sportz.star: I just wish there was some way to infect logic, rationality and an extra heavy duty dose of humanity into those in charge to make this go away. more »
    Tambo: I can't understand why people want to kill other people. That's ridiculously simplistic to say, I know. I just can't imagine why anyone thinks that th... more »
    Brigit: I'm just filled with despair every time I hear about Gaza. I feel powerless to stop all the unnecessary grief and pain these people are going through.... more »
    Mkp-hearts-NYC: Man. A few people on my facebook friends list keep "donating their statuses" to counting the number of rockets launched into Israel...while apparently... more »
    Scout: and millions "vicariously live while the whole world dies" sadly, sans the popcorn aspect, the 11-year old's quote about how other people watch such t... more »
    stacyinbean: I read this today and almost got sick. Obviously there is no way to know if it is 100% true, but even the idea that weapons like these exist makes me ... more »
    morninggloria: Kurt Vonnegut wrote something interesting about all humor being based in fear- fear of being humiliated, fear of appearing stupid, fear of the unknown... more »
    LucilleMcGillicuddy: What's that old saying? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results (or something like that). ... more »
    MizJenkins: Laugh to keep from crying (or running to and fro in hysterics) right? Makes sense to me. I'm glad they're able to keep the children in good spirits. more »
    Penny: I've had to check out of this mess. It's just too much. I haven't even been listening to NPR. I just hope no more people are uselessly killed. Whi... more »
  • #foreignaffairs

    First Person: "We Are Now Unable To Distinguish Joy From Fear"

    Journalist Safa Joudeh's Time magazine account of the bombing of her family's apartment building in Gaza sent chills down our spines. More »