On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Charles Bennett wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > >> Even the NYT points out that it is disingenuous for Israel to say 'We >> just want to stop the missiles: we have no intention of overthrowing >> Hamas and occupying Gaza" > > > OTOH, if they don't do exactly that we will be watching this movie > again in a couple of years only each time Hamas will have bigger and > better weapons > until Israel is either hurt or they use that as a reason to take it to > the suppliers of Hamas's weapons. Oh wait... > > In any case, why say that they are going to continue to target Hamas > leadership and then say they are not trying to over throw Hamas? > > Better to say that they recognize Fatah as the only leadership and > intend to destroy Hamas and if they have to re-occupy Gaza until they > get it done > that they will. > > > At least their words would reflect their actions then. >
The one thing about this I wonder. If Hamas/Palestinians had the same level of hardware would israel keep going in? Would a MAD principle work here? It does get me that the people of Palestine elected a gov't and Israel basically ignored it because they did not like the outcome. I do wonder how much their own actions helped put Hamas in the position of power it is in. Both sides are being asses, but to pretend Israel is some kind of victim protecting themselves from those evil rettorists is pretty much bs. Neither side is innocent. There have been provocations on both sides. I've seen some trying to claim Israel is the innocent victim. This is pretty far from the truth, especially at this point. How about we just blame the British. That damn Balfour Agreement started it all. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
