Hey look who else opposes lifting the Gaza embargo!

[harrycrat]

Originally Posted by lamontnow

You call Hamas "the side of the right"??????
You have a warped sense of morality.

There won't be a peace there as long as Hamas is strong enough to block it. They officially call not only for the extermination of the state of Israel, but also for the extermination of the Jews. And there actions have reflected their words.

I think there is a misunderstanding...

However,I believe that the Israelis are capable of getting all the nessecary intelligence...

[TnHilltopper]

Originally Posted by teach1234

Um, Fatah lost an election due mainly to their corruption. Abbas is their successor--of course they want to continue the blockade, in an attempt to wrest power back from Hamas--a most undemocratic state of affairs. Remember that when Hamas was elected, the Israeli military began capturing members of their government.

The middle east is a tar baby; it contaminates whatever it touches, and the further away America stays, the cleaner our hands.

Lets not forget that Israel and the United States once supported Hamas as a means to counter and help splinter the then powerful and influential PLO. I think this is a classic case of "blow back" and the direct result of US foreign policy of intervention.


America's Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power | World | AlterNet

Israel initially encouraged the rise of the Palestinian Islamist movement as a counter to the Palestine Liberation Organization, the secular coalition composed of Fatah and various leftist and other nationalist movements. Beginning in the early 1980s, with generous funding from the U.S.-backed family dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, the antecedents of Hamas began to emerge through the establishment of schools, health care clinics, social service organizations and other entities that stressed an ultraconservative interpretation of Islam, which up to that point had not been very common among the Palestinian population. The hope was that if people spent more time praying in mosques, they would be less prone to enlist in left-wing nationalist movements challenging the Israeli occupation.

This is a game that has been played by both the Israeli's and the US for some time. Support whatever side has the least power and influence by legitimizing them via "talks" while denouncing the stronger faction. If the meek inherit the government, then wash, rinse, repeat.