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Originally Posted by roachboy
i've said this several times in this thread, but i think that israel, with the full support of those policy geniuses in the bush administration, made a fundamental error in refusing to acknowledge that hamas won the last elections in gaza. because i think hamas is not run by the sharpest forks in the drawer, i think that allowing them to govern would have been more problematic politically for them than has been the siege.
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Agree with your all round perspective of this situation.
Further, this will go on forever. Sure it's easy to blame Hamas for not accepting Israel's right to exist, suicide bombers, rockets flying,..but what I find more disturbing is Israel's willingness to remain in conflict in order for the Palestinian's to further be relegated to the slums they have been in for 60 years.
I've said it before and I will say it again. For the Palestinian's to be granted anytype of statehood in that area will be viewed as a colossal failure to the Jews of the world. Israeli's being see in the same light as Palestinian's? A people with a country like Israel and recognized as such? Equals? Never will happen.
Israel said when Arafat was out of the way-the Palestinian's could begin the processes of statehood- did it happen, no,...conflict instead. Israel said vote in a democratic government and the processes for statehood would be initiated. Nope, Hamas elected,..further conflict. Israel now saying statehood can only happen if Hamas is removed. Anyone believe that for a second?
Quite ironic also that Israel will say that only when the Palestinian's accept Israel's right to exist that they will become a people within their own country yet Israel has been instrumental in denying the Palestinian's their right to exist for 60 years.
At least we know how our billions of tax dollars sent to Israel are being spent.