Letters to the Editor
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Desigirl
Nothing you've mentioned is a real life chunk of evidence or fact. It's a wonderful thing, I guess to preach from the unassailable platitudes of one's convictions, but that's all they are. Liberals and Progressives were entirely happy to watch intra-Palestinian violence in 2006 in the wake of these Hamas 'elections' claim the lives of more than 900 people in Gaza. Well you know how THOSE people are, cluck cluck nothing to do about that.
Is there violence? Yes there is, fancy that. Everyone was promised that Gaza pullout would suddenly and magically end attacks on Israelis. Do you know how long that lasted, fewer than 30 hours. So now Israel essentially supports the infrastructure of Gaza, for free, under fire while Egypt sits on its hands and shoots anyone who comes across into Sinai. And despite the infusion of billions upon billions of Euros (approx 8 billion of which seems to have vanished with Arafat into the next life and the EU is still angry about that) into PLO coffers to bolster them and despite they were offered with zero preconditions 98% of Yesha in 2000 and turned it down because it would require them to write on a piece of paper "We recognize Israel" they seem to have made a success of nothing but failure itself. They were even offered negotiations on cash reparations. The PA's response was "1 Trillion dollars or nothing" (Dr. Evil pinky optional).
So yes, the Hamas is largely to blame for most of the mess in Gaza, since 1994. Even the Hamas claims that responsibility, they simply call it the resistance (jihad as a political term was coined by the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood after reading "Mein Kampf") and they justify it by asserting it will eventually, in'sh'allah lead to a new Shoah.
Palestinians have been offered and have rejected independent states on as much, or more than the land they started with in the following years:
1948
1949
1967
1970
1983
1992
1994
2000
2002
Why? It's hard to tell apart from the obvious guess that their leaders don't want one. Killing people is a LOT easier than running a country. A lot more romantic too. Who wants to pick up the trash, pave the streets, issue credit, run the water company, issue stamps, collect taxes and such when you can wrap a flag around your head, hoist an RPG and shoot at civilian buses and such?