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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Easier said than done. I imagine you'd normally have to do more than just sit in your house if you had a family and only made $10/day, especially during a blockade.
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I agree, I should have been clearer.
It is my opinion that those in Palestine that want peace with Israel aren't doing much to ensure that happens.
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Also, I don't think the militants conducting the rocket attacks are open to suggestion. How would you go about doing "more than sit in your house"?
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What could you do if Agents of your own government were launching rockets into a neighboring country?
Quite the Catch 22, on one hand you could try to change your own government and likely be tortured and killed. On the other, your government continues to launch missles and conduct suicide bombings within Israel and you get to deal with the IAF.
The difference, the later gets forum warriors the world around in an uproar.
To be serious though, I honestly don't know what could be done, but I can't help but think not much is being done by the segment of the population that wants peace with Israel.
The whole situation has been circular for a long, long time. Political cease fires aren't going to work, Hamas and other organizations won't follow them, but the only real answer is for them TO follow them.
If Israel, tomorrow, would remove all blockades and Israeli nationals out of the Palestinian territories, suicide bombings and rocket fire wouldn't stop, for multiple reasons already brought up in this thread. A cease-fire continues the circular nature of this confrontation that has been on going for longer than most of us have been alive.
In essence I think that everything over the past 40-50-60 years has created a situation where these guys just have to fight it out. Not every situation in this world has an ending that is fair, or logical, or just. I really think this is one of them.
The question becomes, what happens next? At some point we've got to accept an all out offensive from Israel into Palestine is inevitable, once we create the baseline we can then try to control future moves in the chess game to minimize the global implications of any war.
Earlier in this thread, on the first page, Roachboy discussed what has Israel's policy got them so far? My question is what has Palestine's policy got them so far? Surely the people of Palestine knew what Hamas stood for, I know that Hamas built schools and roads and what not for the people of Palestine, but surely they realized that if elected they would be legitimizing Hamas's effort against Israel.
The only legitimate ending for this centuries old conflict is for one side to stop throwing stones (or bombs.) One side of the fight believes, justly or not, that if they stay strong that they will be eliminated. If Hamas/Palestine/whoever would, starting tomorrow, leave Israel alone I believe everything would be over. I don't believe that would apply if the roles were reversed.
The only ending is for Hamas, and other organizations that terrorize Israel and her people, to stop. Or be forced to stop.
Just my opinion, if the 10 or so months I've been reading and not participating on these forums have taught me anything the majority will likely disagree.