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originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
The country.
No it's a state...there is a difference.
The US is a country, but Washington is a state.
Israel is a country, Palestine is a state.
originally posted by: LoverBoy
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
Leave your agenda at the door. This is about Hamas.
OP, it isn't surprising as this is a terrorist organization. I just don't understand... why go after ordinary Palestinians? What have they done that they deserve this?
While Hamas had boycotted the January 2005 presidential election, during which Mahmoud Abbas was elected to replace Yasser Arafat, it did participate in the municipal elections held between January and May 2005, in which it took control of Beit Lahia and Rafah in the Gaza Strip and Qalqilyah in the West Bank. The January 2006 legislative elections marked another victory for Hamas, which gained the majority of seats, defeating the ruling Fatah party.
The result of the election was regarded as a major setback for governments attempting to mediate the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The George W. Bush administration immediately declared that it would not deal with Hamas until it renounced its support of suicide bombings and violence, and accepted Israel's right to exist. Israeli president Moshe Katsav and Israel's ex–prime minister Shimon Peres both said that if Hamas would accept Israel's right to exist and give up violence, Israel should negotiate with the organization.
On May 8, three Palestinians were killed and 10 wounded in clashes in southern Gaza, near Khan Yunis, between rival Hamas and Fatah gunmen. The PA, confronted to the Quartet's blockade and Israel's refusal to hand out the $55 million in monthly tax revenues impedes it from paying its 165,000 employees. On May 6 and 7, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza and the West Bank demanding payment of their wages. Although this inter-Palestinian incident had been one of the most serious since January 2006, tension had been slowly risen with the "economic squeeze" on the PA.
Twelve people were killed during the first days of October 2006 in armed clashes between Fatah, and the Hamas Interior ministry police. These clashes started when the interior ministry militia forcibly dispersed a gathering of Policemen demonstrating against unpaid wages. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Asqa brigades have threatened to kill Hamas leaders including Khaled Meshal, Saeed Seyam and Youssef al-Zahar. The Al-Asqa brigade kidnapped but then released a senior official in the Finance ministry.
"Our cables reveal that Israel supported Hamas in its infancy, that Hamas was used as an instrument to divide the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] and the Palestinian resistance."
Sources are on the post. What "things" or quote aren't correct?
An intricate and determined programme of ethnic cleansing at all levels of society and with all forms of suppression continues until this day against the Palestinian people inside Israel and within the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Past:
I'm from Portugal. Please tell me how my country was created. Before you try to compare it to Israel, remember that, 1000 years ago there was no International Courts and Law, and no UN charter or even Human rights Declaration.
Present:
Hamas should be brought to justice, such as Israel criminals, do you agree?
Talking about future:
Do you agree there should be two nations Israel and Palestine?
Do you agree that Israel must divide the land with Palestinians in a equal manner?
originally posted by: MaxMech
a reply to: voyger2
Many things. [..]
This is tinfoil-hat BS, and you know it. If Israel wanted to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians you would not even know they existed. The whole thing would be over in a week.
Try establish the same case using conventional sources (like Wikipedia for example). How would you react if I tried to make my point using www.bluetruth.net as a source?
Arabs who are disloyal to the State of Israel should have their heads chopped off
What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy?
including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.
They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.
originally posted by: MaxMech
a reply to: voyger2
Come on man... The atrocities committed by Portugal in south America, Africa and other places, are to long to count.
You are basically saying that murder rape and torture is fine by you as long as it does not violate any international laws.
Really? This is how you look at the world? It's wrong only if it's illegal?
How about the Portuguese Colonial War? 50,000+ killed in Angola, 6,000 killed in Guinea, 10,000+ killed + 50,000 Civilian casualties in Mozambique? Was this also before the existence of international law?
Hamas didn't exist until Israel invaded Palestine...
One exmple:
An intricate and determined programme of ethnic cleansing at all levels of society and with all forms of suppression continues until this day against the Palestinian people inside Israel and within the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
This is tinfoil-hat BS, and you know it. If Israel wanted to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians you would not even know they existed. The whole thing would be over in a week.
Try establish the same case using conventional sources (like Wikipedia for example). How would you react if I tried to make my point using
new Assange revelations:
Western ISIS adventurism, Israel behind Hamas
..."Our cables reveal that Israel supported Hamas in its infancy, that Hamas was used as an instrument to divide the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] and the Palestinian resistance," Assange told the paper.