http://theburningplatform.com/blog/2010/06/07/gaza-pictorial/

This is some very tragic, graphic photography. An illustration of failed US foreign policy and Zionist aggression.

The complete elimination of every Palestinian from the face of this earth should be the goal of the "evil Zionists"...who are not really evil, but the left likes to portray them as such.

If they're lookin' for 'sympathy', it's in the dictionary between 'schit' and 'syphilis' ... I support Israel.

hamas recently rejected the israeli foreign minister's suggestion that israel simply make gaza independent - cut all ties with them and let them manage themselves.

“We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”

Golda Meir quote

what fantasy world do you live in? i'm palestinian..i've experienced their hate and their racism. they love to cry about the holocaust but they're doing the very same tactics the nazis did

probably why noone takes you seriously

This only tells part of the story. Did they consider Israel's terms unjust? It's important to dig deeper than soundbites.

why don't you post the rest. Israel is willing to make a two state, yet the checkpoints will remain, Israel would control all of the utilities, and the territory would be broken up. I praise Hamas for rejecting it.

nah - no checkpoints. closed border was what i heard.
gaza would still have a port and the border with egypt.

israel would not control the utilities. they would be
"on their own" with their own power plants, desalinization etc.

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3920724,00.html

i guess you know my hometown better than me.
where you get your info is dead wrong.

it was a news article in the open free press.

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3920724,00.html

hamas doesn't like it because they have to govern responsibly
and actually provide all the human services and they will be held
accountable. they will not be able to blame israel for their failures
any longer. but that is independence.

Thanks for the post. We in North America should be grateful we have not had to truly suffer the horrors of war since the 1860's. Sure we send young men off to fight and die but have been insulated from the true horrors.

Look at it this way... If both sides made peace... Israel would lose its aid and loan guarantees. the Palis would lose all the aid they receive.. we wouldn't have to pay Egypt and Jordan to play nice..

Hmmmm.. really makes you wonder if "peace" is ever going to really happen..

What makes you think that either would LOSE aid if there were peace? I'm pretty sure both sides would merely make stronger cases for the need to bolster cooperation and development. And ask for and receive MORE aid.



Neither side is "profiting" from the warfare. It is more like the
Hatfields and McCoys meets the Keystone Cops - with bomb vests and Katushyas. The fighting however is a major cost - an economic, emotional and social money pit.

The fact that Hamas does not want to be truly independent simply reveals again what they have shown previously. They wish to keep fighting to try to islamicize the entire middle east on the way to islamicizing the rest of the world. Has nothing to do with independence. If they were happy with independence there is nothing standing in their way now. They could simply act independently, make a peace treaty with israel and rebuild their economy.

Arafat was one of the richest men in the world when he died..

I didn't realize that while he was living in that rat infested compound he was also the CEO of 5 fortune 500 companies..

Not profiting? Come on..

i meant in general terms. of course arafat was corruptly skimming the aid and donations to benefit himself personally but even arafat could have had a bigger skim by a longshot if he could have sucked off all the economic development in peacetime.

in fact, he did just that under Oslo. but in general the war is not an economic benefit to the people of the region. just individuals who traffic in arms, smugglers and leeches. just like those in Somalia, Afghanistan and elsewhere who commandeer aid convoys and sell the goods on the black market.