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xazy--what i don't see in your position is any sense that hamas comes out of a dynamic, a history, and that what is happening in gaza now is an extreme expression of that same dynamic. you seem to think that the only way to consider this fiasco in gaza is to separate it from the past, to pretend that there is a symmetry between the actors involved--i don't think that leads to anything at all except a continuation of the same. it is an expression of the lunatic viewpoint that enables a military operation to be launched against hamas with the civilian population of gaza unable to flee.
what i've been trying to do is put the civilians of gaza at the center of this situation--which they are, like it or not. hamas is a bunch of idiots who i think expressed their idiocy in playing chicken with israel after the cease fire ended. but i see them as in a position to do that **because** of the decision to not recognize the 06 elections, which has strengthened their position--and if this were not the case, they would not have felt they were in a position to play chicken.
the dynamic itself is fucked up, and that dynamic is expressed in the actual history of the entire context.
if the civilians of gaza had been allowed to flee, i think i would have been far more neutral about this action. but the fact is, no matter what you think of it, they weren't. THAT is the problem.
i am not concerned with or about viewpoints that treat the situation in gaza as if the civlians were not there. there is NO justification for this. and this position can easily be maintained while NOT approving of hamas itself or of its use of rockets.
there is no way around context.
there is no way around the fact of siege.
there is no way around the consequences of that siege.
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