Re: Israel & Palestine
davidw89 said:
Well i found a worthy source of mention. This is a prominent journalist who knows what his talking about (unlike Atila), who actually knows what is going on.
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-05/23pilger.cfm
The title pretty much describes the atrocious situation "Imprisoning a whole Nation".
That had to be one of the most useless articles I have ever read. I will pick out a few parts of it that were just ridiculous.
"Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is being allowed to imprison an entire nation."
So it's Israel's fault that Hamas wants to destroy Israel? Lol. As for the second part, Olmert just released some 300 Palestinians from prison in return for nothing!
". . . They only know the [Israeli army] will return and they know what this will mean for them: more imprisonment in their homes for weeks, more death and destruction in monstrous proportions"."
Many actually welcome the return of the IDF because that would stop the death and destruction that has occured these last few weeks.
"They dreamt about becoming doctors and nurses, then this was overtaken by an apocalyptic vision of themselves as the next generation of suicide bombers. They experienced this invariably after an attack by the Israelis."
More like the continuous preaching done by Imams telling them to kills Jews... Its in one of of my sigs concerning Hamas, check it if you don't believe me.
"A censorship by omission runs deep in western journalism on Israel, especially in the US. Hamas is dismissed as a "terrorist group sworn to Israel's destruction" and one that "refuses to recognise Israel and wants to fight not talk". This theme suppresses the truth: that Israel is bent on Palestine's destruction."
Love that whitewash. We have a clear situation in which Hamas pledges destruction of Israel, but this bumbling fool manages to twist saying that it Israel who is trying to destroy Palestine.
Is it just me or was it the Palestinian people who rejected a state in 1948, who refused 96% of the West Bank, who launched wars that were aimed at wiping out Israel. WTF is wrong with this guy?
"Historically, we believe all Palestine belongs to Palestinians, but we're talking now about reality, about political solutions . . . If Israel reached a stage where it was able to talk to Hamas, I don't think there would be a problem of negotiating with the Israelis [for a solution]."
Ok, whats up with the first sentence? Israel has always had a Jewish presence, it is the historical and religous homeland of the Jews. When has it ever been Palestinian or run by a Palestinian? As for the second part, if Hamas ever renounced violence and recognised Israel, then Israel would be able to start negotiations with Hamas - but that will never happen as Hamas is commited to Israel's destruction.
There you are, I have just proved that this guy knows nothing about the Arab-Israeli conflict.