About rockets I've also read by the way. That does not change my opinion.

"Have you heard about two Palestinian cousins, 13 and 15, who attacked with a knife a Jewish 13 years old and inflicted grievous wounds?" Yes, I also read about this, and still does not change my opinion. Before proceeding I'd ask you to research how many palestinians have died due to your conflict in the last pair of years

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

There are nearly 2 million people in the Gaza strip who live under difficult conditions, with limited access to work or education. With nothing else to do is it any wonder that they turn to violence?

Whatever the rights and wrongs that led to the current situation the important question is not "who started this?" but "who will end this?".

Finally, "What we see in the last two weeks is an unprecedented call to action from the Palestinian leaders, both in the West Bank and Gaza, to go out and slaughter Jews" I'd appretiate some documentation about this, which leaders? what did say? can you prove it?

@diplomat, I'm afraid Baskinelli's conspiration theories fed by isreali gov. won't end this

I'm certainly with wjessop on this. Calling someone an Antisemite just because he doesn't support Israel is way out of order. It might be that for some or a majority of the Israeli people Israeli=Jews in general, but that's not the case for the rest of the world.

In DK we threat our jews very well. In fact, no minority get's the media attention when they get stepped on so easily. Not being antisemite here, just pointing out how it is. They are good citizens who try to make DK a even more peaceful place. After the shootings in Cph. the jewish community were in grief with the rest of DK. What did their leaders do? They acted like good danes - not Israelis.
And what did the leader of Israel do - he called the jews from Denmark "home" because DK and Europe were not safe anymore. Goes without saying, we didn't take kindly to such an invitation to our neighbors and friends.

Heres my attempt on a simple explanation of the difference between the three groups of PALESTINIANS you mentioned:
In Israel: Israeli citizen but assimilated by the state as a second degree citizen.
In Palestine: Under threat from Israel, but normally only fight back with rocks, and demonstrations. As they do not belong to any state they are in fact stateless and do not have any real citizen rights.
In Gaza: Locked in by Israel and Egypt. Fights back like David vs Goliath, but here Goliath always "wins" and a hostile episode often ends in a brutal retaliation from Israel. Have no rights what so ever.

The fact that you won't call them Palestinians shows, that you do not acknowledge their right to any part of Palestine. This is a very dangerous form of Zionism which insures that there will only be two possible outcomes of the continuing conflict.
As wjessop have already pointed out, your try to separate the last two weeks from the rest of the history between you and your the Palestinians is an attempt to color the situation in your general direction.

Steephie, I hope you do not fall for such simple propaganda. Cause then you have a lot to learn from this game.

Octavious, hopefully you do not buy the headliner. Israelis are being killed for being Israelis, not for being Jewish. Just as Palestinians are being killed for being Palestinians, not for being Muslims.

It is not religion that is at the base of these problems. It is nationalism. It is no different from what have caused conflict in Yugoslavia, Ukraine and so on.

To answer your original question more directly, Baskineli:
Media awareness in DK right now: New Goverment and it's program>Refugees>National footballteam>Syria>Turkey>Ukraine........ [all other stories] Palestine+Israel relationship.
Simple reason. Israelis have lost much of that special bond with DK by the acts of it military and settlers the last many years. Israel have been the total dominating big brother in the conflict for decades. Danes do not look kindly on the stronger bullying the weak. That's one of the reasons for Israeli horrors not giving any airtime in DK. The distance between DK and Israel have simply grown a lot the last years. Especially after the last major attack on Gaza. Of course, the fact that it has become everyday news ain't helping it. But we used to get news from Israel. Now we don't.

But hey, I doubt that you hear of every part of violence in DK, even when it's brutal and/or systematic.
It's just like we didn't hear much about Turkey until the bombs this weekend. Or that we do not hear much about violence in South America and Latin America.

@principians: sadly, no doubt about that.

Israel, and her supporters, are always quick to accuse critics of anti-semitism. I do not give a flying fig what sky-friend a person believes in but I recognise ill-treatment when I see it.

European Jews were always looked down on by European elites, Hitler simply took it further than anyone else dared to. In my opinion, creating the state of Israel was not far short of ethnic cleansing. Israel's treatment of Palestinians has eery echoes of the holocaust.

Hitler was a crazy criminal. Let's remember he did not only kill millions of jews, he also killed gypsis, communist, opposers, etc...

Question, does Israel have the right to exist?

@KingCyrus Of course it has the right to exist. Has anyone questioned it here?

No, just clarifying.

What is an ideal situation between Israel and Palestine? I realize that this is complicated and that we don't really have much bearing or a chance of actually seeing this come true, but float some ideas.

The attacker will have his family kicked of home then his home demolished or filled with concrete (the new style to prevent rebuild of house).
He knew that before hand, but he still did it. Why?? read history.

Many of those Palestinians blockaded in Gaza used to live in what is now Israel, they were kicked off their homes and stuffed in refugee camps in the desert.
Most of the houses destroyed by Israel in Gaza were not rebuilt because of lack of building materials due to the blockade.

Israelis are making more enemies every day!

It must be very hard for Baskineli to understand why the majority of us regard Israel as an aggressor in this way, considering all of the indoctrination he will have received.

@Cyrus: There's a UN mandate for the Jewish state's right to exist. General Assembly Resolution 181. But this also mandates the right for an Arab Palestinian state to exist.

Israel flagrantly ignores and actively works against the latter part of this resolution.

Indeed, the Israeli government and Zionists are happy to refer to UN resolutions supporting Israel's existence but reject and ignore resolutions that they disagree with, such as the resolutions against further Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the more recent resolution demanding that Israel stop the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier (i.e., the West Bank Wall).

However, and answering both KC and wjessop, either Israel undestands what it's provoking palestinians to act as they act, or it will need to exterminate palestinians, if they don't want more 'palestinian terrorists'. Hope the brilliant israelis at least realize those are the only two possible options

To be honest, I'm quite surprised that Israel isn't doing more to reach out to the Palestinians.

With IS raging through Syria and Iraq; and an Iran on the rise, it seems crazy that the Israelis don't want to finally have peace in their backyard so they can keep their eyes on the more pressing and rising threats to their country's safety.

sorry wjessop, I was refering to your first comment (and not disagreeing with it). Your second comment has much truth. I'd like you to clariry the word 'zionist' however.

"To be honest, I'm quite surprised that Israel isn't doing more to reach out to the Palestinians." Because Likud, and especially Netanyahu, benefit from the perpetuation of the conflict, and literally any resolution to it, whether it be one-state controlled by a Jewish aristocracy, one-state controlled by the now-majority-Arab republic of Israel, or a two-state peaceful solution, Netanyahu's political power comes into risk, undermining his power in such a way that he would care about avoiding more so than any threat from ISIS or Hamas posed to the Israeli populace.

Zionism is Jewish nationalism; Zionists, defined simply, would be any group supporting the unquestionable and unalienable right for a Jewish homeland in Palestine/the Holy Land.

I would add to that definition that Zionists, by definition as being zealots, can be further defined as any group that 'aggressively' supports the Jewish case for a homeland at any cost.

according to that definition you can be zionist, and still not support Israeli gov. actions, except for the zealot addendum, I could consider zionist myself, and certainly do not support Israel gov.

Princi- Why do you hate Jews?

@principians: Sure, you don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist.

You don't have to be female to be a feminist.

BOG, excuse me??????????? why do you say I hate jews? wjessop also hates jews according to you? Have I even refered to 'jews' here. The only time I used that word was when saying that Hitler was a crazy criminal....
and, btw, why do you hate muslims?

also in the news:
"30" Palestinians were killed and "1400" wounded since beginning of October in Israel and West Bank

princi- why do you say I hate jews? "that Isreali government is a genocide, terrorist one"

The Israeli government is not all Jews. Israelis hate their PM. Their PM is willing to risk their lives and let them die for his political gain.

BOG, Are you serious? Wouldn't you agree that one thing is Israeli gov and other, very different one are jews? I know of many jews that oppose Israeli gov.
Also my statement about israeli gov. does not come from hate. Let me refer to this again:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

and the defs I'm considering:
genocide: one that kills a people.
terrorist: one that uses terror as strategy.

In my opinion Israeli gov. is deliberately killing (thousands of) palestinians. And uses terror as the strategy to deal with them.