My feelings mirror Al's, but as someone who has never really understood the level of hatred and prejudice against Jewish people, and is old enough to know the reality of that hatred, I'm firmly behind the Jewish community. I do have sympathy for all innocent people trapped in war torn countries. But when people have been trying to wipe you off the face of the earth for as far back as history goes, then I find myself with special consideration for those people. I'm not old enough to have lived during the haulocaust. But I am old enough to have studied it extensively in school and up to the present. And anyone that doesn't believe that Isreal has the right to defend itself and it's people at all cost, well then they aren't being truthful about what really took place in WWII. Those atrocities can't ever be allowed to happen again, and yet there are so many that it seems would turn a blind eye to it once again.
I am saddened that these cowards are using innocent people to shield their terrorists acts, but I have a very hard time condemning Isreal for defending against these acts. Live through what they have, and then talk to me about a more metered response!