The Palestinian people are starving while the Hamas Government seems more concerned with destroying Israel?
358867
Ya, let's feed them so their "government" can focus on the important task of sending teenage suicide bombers into pizza parlors.
680103
It is still supporting Hamas.  The goal is to not have peace with the Palestinians and to steal thier land, having a reactionary government that Israel can falt out reject and ignore diplomatically is exactly why Israel supported Hamas in the first place.  It is ideal if the goal is to ignore efforts such as the Road Map, because of course, they "don't recognize Israel".  The fact is that Hamas could be brought to the table and would recognize Israel, but a long pattern of negotiations where Palestinaisn offered all and Israel offered ntohing reasonable by far (camp david) has made the Hamas line hard.  Palestinaians elected Hamas because they are tired of leadership that acts in accord with Israels rejection of peace and in doing so capitulates to the oppressor.  But Israel is in control (because the US allows it) and can only be brought to justice if the American people put pressure on them to do so, it is in our hands, make a call, write a letter, it is the least we can do.
41543
Hamas is playing the hardliner approach and they play on the long furstration of the Palestinians. They also have a policy of growing their followers from when they are infants. It is propably not hard to imagine that if you are told since you are 1 month old that blowing yourself up will send you in heaven then when you are 21 you actually believe it will happen. \n\nI think that over the long run it will be good that they transition from a arms/violence related organization to a political force. Time will tell.
1099946
The Israelis Killed more than 4000 Palestinians most of them are civilians,why is the world very annoyed of kidnapping single Israeli soldier why nobody talks about thousands of Palestinian prisoners without guilt,why is the west EXTREMELY biased to Israel??
413492
Hamas is dedicated to the eradication of Israel.\n\nTheir sole aim is to murder every Jew, not just in Israel but in the US as well.\n\nI'd say that his platform is a bit shaky.
677235
Dear derekmleiniger,\n\nYour analogy is totally wrong. Unlike English and other establishers of USA, Israelis started to kill the Palestinians grabbing their land and not ready to give any rights to them. The only reason that Palestinians are facing hard time is that they don't have any port and can't do business activities independently. \n\nWhile only reason Israelis look flourishing is the aid sent by the oversees Jews as well as hefty amount of $ 3 billion from US only.\n\nFollowing is an account of Israel's leaders, you can find it very different compares to people who came to US:\n\n\n\n"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."\n-- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff.   From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.\n\n"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"\n-- Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.\n\n"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."\n-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.\n\n \nDavid Ben Gurion\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1949 - 1954,\n1955 - 1963\n\n  \n"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."\n-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.\n  \nBenjamin Netanyahu\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1996 - 1999\n"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... \n-- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000\n\n"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...."\n-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000. \n\n"I would have joined a terrorist organization."\n-- Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.\n \n \nEhud Barak\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1999 - 2001\n  \n"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."\n-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.\n\n"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."\n-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998. \n\n"Israel may have the right to put others on trial,
62001
They can if they work to create a organized and functional government for its people and work to create an economy.  Palestinian for the most part is dependent on Israel for work since it does not have much of any industry.\n\nFor Hamas to succeed, it will have to work with Israel to resolve issues that limit the economy of the Palestinians.
1177933
Palestinians are the ones that forget history. The Jewish state was created by the league of nations/united nations. When the mandate expired the nation of Israel was declared, and they, the Jews, fought to keep what was given to them. Basically the nation was formed like ANY other nation. A war was fought and the victors took possession. Now the Palestinians want the land and they do not even have a government, and can not even play nice amongst themselves. Or manage/govern the land they have peacefully.
1151363
Both. But god is more violent about it:\n\n  The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived.  Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you.  It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.  I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre.  But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered."  O LORD, what should I request for your people?  I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk.  The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them.  I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions.  I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.  The people of Israel are stricken.  Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit.  And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children."  (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)
694325
Yes I care. I think that the violence will continue as long as Israel pretends to be the good guy. I admire the tenacity of the Palestinians they stand up for what they believe to be right and will fight a tank with a rock they believe that strongly. I admire that kind of strength in any human. They could give up and accept defeat but they dont. They are willing to stand up to Israel and the US and not many countries do that. I am sorry about your relatives.
503227
Palestine is the one who signs the peace treaty then fires a crappy rocket into Israel because you cant police Palestine. then Israel comes with their high tech war jets and destroys you, i think that's why you re upset because you cant win against Israel and resort to cheap gorilla tactics against citizens
1104409
of course the Palestinians have been oppressed as long as they can remember by the Israelites.\nthough the middle east conflict is too complex  to answer in just a few words, the bottom line is history proofs that Palestinians need to be in their own land while Israelites rely on religious (biblical) wishful thinking of  the promised land.
998534
An all out war?  God help the Palestinians if that should occur.  Israel is going to show Hamas who the boss is.  Simple as that.  Hamas had better get a grip and realize that they cannot beat Israel at any game.
634444
no, i'm hopeful, but it seems so unlikely...and not either side is 100% innocent...but seems that israel is intentionally setting goals and demands for the palestinians to meet in order for hopes of peace that they know they can't do, or make it impossible for them to achieve.  ruining their land, burning farms, bulldozing, shooting people in the streets is not way to allow that area to stabilize and police itself.  several years ago israel kept saying, like they are now, that they need to get police out and stop the militants, but with the occupation, they would shoot at anybody even the police, making it impossible to their job..so its very much like palestine gets set up to fail, add to that all the frustration and hate coming from the palestinians and its a candle and powder keg.
997832
I think Israel is being far more restrained in their actions that I would be in their position. Hamas - a known terrorist organization - has seized two Israelis. They executed one of them (the civilian), and want to negotiate the release of Israeli-held Palestinian prisoners for "information" about the other (the soldier). Further, since Hamas took control of the Palestinian government, the number of rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza has increased, including one that was claimed (by the Palestinians) to have a chemical warhead on it.\n\nThe Israelis are under relentess attack from terrorists organizations, and every time they respond to said attacks the Israelis are chastized by the UN as the aggressors... if Israel acts first, they are the bad guys. If Israel responds to terrorism, they are the bad guys. Israel is in a no-win situation, so they're taking the high ground - they are not initiating anything, only reacting to it.\n\nAnd far from being overkill... Israel could easily level everything and everyone in Gaza and the West Bank if they chose to. What they're doing now is very controlled and very orchastrated, to keep from giving the terrorists anything to use propaganda-wise.
414292
punished? Hamas is a whacko cult of murder junkies who brainwash kids to hate and kill. They need to be wiped off the planet.
673365
there's no such thing as Israel..they came there not be friends with the Palestinians but creating havoc..has you ever been to palestinian side..they being treated like animals there..have you seen the walls?? israelies are worse then talibans..two faces satanism,deception on the world\n\ngod almighty,the palestinian will thrive