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hyperbola11 months, 3 weeks ago
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More appropriate might be to ask when Israel broke the cease-fire agreement. The answer is Israel did not ever comply with the cease-fire agreement. Here is an israeli jewish description.
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How Israel is Multiplying Hamas by a Thousand
Molten Lead in Gaza
http://www.counterpunch.com/avnery01022009.html
... “ISRAEL MUST defend itself against the rockets that are terrorizing our Southern towns,” the Israeli spokesmen explained. “Palestinians must respond to the killing of their fighters inside the Gaza Strip,” the Hamas spokesmen declared.
As a matter of fact, the cease-fire did not collapse, because there was no real cease-fire to start with. The main requirement for any cease-fire in the Gaza Strip must be the opening of the border crossings. There can be no life in Gaza without a steady flow of supplies. But the crossings were not opened, except for a few hours now and again. The blockade on land, on sea and in the air against a million and a half human beings is an act of war, as much as any dropping of bombs or launching of rockets. It paralyzes life in the Gaza Strip: eliminating most sources of employment, pushing hundreds of thousands to the brink of starvation, stopping most hospitals from functioning, disrupting the supply of electricity and water.
Those who decided to close the crossings – under whatever pretext – knew that there is no real cease-fire under these conditions.
That is the main thing. Then there came the small provocations which were designed to get Hamas to react. After several months, in which hardly any Qassam rockets were launched, an army unit was sent into the Strip “in order to destroy a tunnel that came close to the border fence”. From a purely military point of view, it would have made more sense to lay an ambush on our side of the fence. But the aim was to find a pretext for the termination of the cease-fire, in a way that made it plausible to put the blame on the Palestinians. And indeed, after several such small actions, in which Hamas fighters were killed, Hamas retaliated with a massive launch of rockets, and – lo and behold – the cease-fire was at an end. Everybody blamed Hamas.
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WHAT WAS THE AIM? Tzipi Livni announced it openly: to liquidate Hamas rule in Gaza. The Qassams served only as a pretext.
Liquidate Hamas rule? That sounds like a chapter out of “The March of Folly”. After all, it is no secret that it was the Israeli government which set up Hamas to start with....
For years, the occupation authorities favored the Islamic movement in the occupied territories. All other political activities were rigorously suppressed, but their activities in the mosques were permitted. The calculation was simple and naive: at the time, the PLO was considered the main enemy, Yasser Arafat was the current Satan. The Islamic movement was preaching against the PLO and Arafat, and was therefore viewed as an ally.-
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hyperbola11 months, 3 weeks ago
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...THE MAIN LINE was: not to repeat the mistakes of Lebanon War II. This was endlessly repeated on all the news programs and talk shows.
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This does not change the fact: the Gaza War is an almost exact replica of the second Lebanon war.
The strategic concept is the same: to terrorize the civilian population by unremitting attacks from the air, sowing death and destruction. This poses no danger to the pilots, since the Palestinians have no anti-aircraft weapons at all. The calculation: if the entire life-supporting infrastructure in the Strip is utterly destroyed and total anarchy ensues, the population will rise up and overthrow the Hamas regime. Mahmoud Abbas will then ride back into Gaza on the back of Israeli tanks.
In Lebanon, this calculation did not work out. The bombed population, including the Christians, rallied behind Hizbullah, and Hassan Nasrallah became the hero of the Arab world. Something similar will probably happen this time, too. Generals are experts on using weapons and moving troops, not on mass psychology....
...Millions are seeing these terrible images, picture after picture, day after day. These images are imprinted on their minds forever: horrible Israel, abominable Israel, inhuman Israel. A whole generation of haters. That is a terrible price, which we will be compelled to pay long after the other results of the war itself have been forgotten in Israel....
...This war is a writing on the wall: Israel is missing the historic chance of making peace with secular Arab nationalism. Tomorrow, It may be faced with a uniformly fundamentalist Arab world, Hamas multiplied by a thousand.
MY TAXI DRIVER in Tel-Aviv the other day was thinking aloud: Why not call up the sons of the ministers and members of the Knesset, form them into a combat unit and send them off to head the coming ground attack on Gaza?-
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CaptainLucid11 months, 3 weeks ago
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Holy crap hyperbola you managed to say all that while ignoring the only relevant fact which is that hamas is bombing Israeli citizens randomly yet again. There is also the irrelevant crap like Israel may be faced with a uniformly terrorist/fundamentalist world. Guess what you wannabe pundit, they already have and they have whipped the muslims everytime and other than Egypt they still face them. Hyperbola, I am not stupid like you because I know reality. Israel has tried to make peace several times and the palestinians agree only long enough to reload. As far as your taxi driver (personally I get my advice from people smarter than taxi drivers unless it is to a *****house or a strip club or some other vice) I would rather suggest get all the palestinian leaders together and tell them to form a police unit and arrest all the terrorists before Israel has to bomb the rocket launchers.
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jimdoze11 months, 3 weeks ago
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"you might know that the author of this article is a former member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament)"
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That does not render the opinions expressed in your "counter punch" article as having any basis resting on the fundamental principal of the survival of Israel... which, as is apparent, is precisely your point.
Lyndon LaRouche remains very proud of you, hyperbole!-
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hyperbola11 months, 3 weeks ago
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What jimd! Now you claim that former members of the Israeli Knesset cannot speak about (or write articles about) what is going on in Isreal / Palestine because you happen not to like their opinions?
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Thanks jimd. You show clearly the totalitarian nature and ethics associated with support of zionism.
You should read what a former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset (and Head of the Jewish Agency) has to say about the increasing totalitarianism of the zionists.
The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from its Ashes
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/11/03/the-holo...
Time to give up the "if its my tribe, it can't be wrong" racism jimd - especially when increasing numbers of israelis (and jews worldwide) are doing so.
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