Israel has suffered from rocket attacks from Gaza for the last 8 years. Thousands of rockets have rained on Israel's southern cities and villages. Many Israeli's been killed and the terror that these rocket attacks has caused has made it impossible for Israelis living in these areas to live a normal daily life.  Israel has tried over the years everything without going to war to stop Palestinians firing their murderous weapons. The cost has been high even to the time when Israel abandoned settlements close to Gaza causing a terrible rift within Israel. The Palestinians answer to such an action was to burn the synagogues that were left and to fire even more rockets upon Israel. Israel's painful efforts for peace received an answer of hate and even more terror. The Palestinians chose to vote Hamas in their elections and it was clear that the Gazan Palestinians had voted for more hatred, terror and eventual war. Even so, Israel  searched every path in order  to find a peaceful solution to stopping Hamas's blitz on Israel's south. None have proved successful. After eight years Israel has chosen to go to war, what other country would have waited so long!
I am an Israeli citizen born and brought up in Britain.  I grew up proud of Britain's great history and the courageous words of Winston Churchill  "The people with one voice would say: "You have committed every crime under the sun. Where you have been the least resisted there you have been the most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best." Perhaps it may be our turn soon; perhaps it may be our turn now."

It is our turn now!!!

It is sad for me to hear how the current UK prime minister and his Jewish foreign minister Miliband seem to care more about Muslim public opinion than they seem to care about Israel and her right to protect her civilian population. The British government should listen to the wise words of George Bush and copy his parley. " US president says his country working to reach meaningful truce in Gaza that includes monitoring mechanisms to halt weapons smuggling into territory. 'Another one-way ceasefire that leads to rocket attacks on Israel is not acceptable," 

The ex mayor of London, Ken Livingstone met with Bianca Jagger and other celebrities in the quiet safety of London last week protesting against Israel's "unproportional attack on Hamas". Palestinian rockets have fallen directly on Schools and kindergartens this week. Would these "protesters" have preferred that Israel children had been inside at the time and been massacred in order to "lessen" the difference in number of civilian deaths on both sides!  I would have liked these "brave and wise" celebrities to have met in Sderot or Ashkelon or Ashdod and had their meeting. Maybe if these "angels" had met once a week for the last eight years and had protested against the Palestinians firing rockets on innocent Israel's civilians, this war might have been unnecessary!

This is the time for people all over the world to pray that the war in Israel will end quickly and that the Hamas will realize that the cost of rocketing Israel is so high that it will never do it again. Israel has proved itself a nation of peace but when there is no choice she is prepared to go to war ind order to protect her right to a peaceful existence.

May G-d protect Israel