Israeli pullout
BBC
But I don't think we should give up any more territory, for example in the West Bank, because then maybe we will have no country at all.
I feel sad that a 17-year-old has been so brainwashed into being blind to the fact that those who lack a country are Palestinians, not Israelis!
[Palestinian leader] Mahmoud Abbas says 'Gaza today, Jerusalem tomorrow'.
If this means East Jerusalem, this makes no less sense than the whole of Jerusalem being Israeli, since it it is home to muslim, jewish and christian holy sites.
How I see it. It's unfortunate that the "no West Bank" = "no country" view persists. But some of the views in that BBC article demand more attention. For example, Hamas has refused to indicate a willingness to stop firing Kassam rockets at Israeli towns near the border. This is understandable, because their raison d'etre is to drive either "the infidels" or "the zionist entity" into the sea. Needless to say, without access to Gaza, Israel will be powerless to stop rockets from being fired. Other countries would invade a place in response, but now Israel will have the entire public pressure thing hanging over them.
RépondreSupprimerThe pullout is obviously great for normal people. Just not for the couple who here and there will, inevitably, start getting hit by rockets in the coming weeks.
Hamas didn't wait for Israel to pull out of Gaza to fire rockets.
RépondreSupprimerThis thing about 'driving the zionist entity into the sea'..do you have a source?
Here's what another man said in that BBC link:
RépondreSupprimer"Look, I live in Nahal Oz, the closest kibbutz to Gaza, so we are already in rocket range. And the army can still protect us, whether or not there are settlements."
Dear anonymous simpleton,
RépondreSupprimerThe coming weeks have come and gone and we are still waiting for your dire predictions to come true.
What happened?
Yours,
DJEB
I feel like David Byrne:
RépondreSupprimerStill waiting...
I... I... I'm still waiting.