Israel is not trying to wipe out Palestine.
Really so why are they building settlements in Palestinian land? Why were they opposed to Palestine being recognized as an observer state by the UN? Thirty years ago Israeli political leaders, including some of the most noted hawks, submitted to Prime Minister Begin a shocking and detailed account of how settlers regularly abuse Palestinians in the most depraved manner and with total impunity. The prominent military-political analyst Yoram Peri (Israeli) wrote with disgust that the army’s task is not to defend the state, but
“to demolish the rights of innocent people just because they are Araboushim (“niggers,” “kikes”) living in territories that God promised to us.”
Israel suffers greatly because they have war and lose many of their people. They are at constant threat of being blown away by their Muslim neighbors.
Really I don't see a Hamas air force bombing Israel but I do see Israel bombing Palestinian civilians and Hamas shooting rockets to dissuade the occupation and theft of Palestinian land. I don't see Israel losing thousands of lives due to war but I do see it in Gaza. Israel uses people in settlements as human bargaining chips. If they cared so much for their safety they would not encourage them to live in Palestinian land
Plus Israel has actually sent numerous ammounts of aid to Palestine which has all been confiscated by Hamas.
Israel prevents Gaza fishermen from complete freedom to fish in Gazan territorial waters. They don't want aid they want freedom to make their own food. They are compelled to fish in waters that are heavily polluted because of US-Israeli refusal to allow reconstruction of the sewage and power systems that they destroyed. Israel permits concrete to enter for UNRWA projects, but not for Gazans engaged in the huge reconstruction needs. The limited heavy equipment mostly lies idle, since Israel does not permit materials for repair.
All of this is part of the general program described by Israeli official Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, after Palestinians failed to follow orders in the 2006 elections: “The idea,” he said, “is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” . In the Khan Yunis hospital, the director, who is also chief of surgery, describes with anger and passion how even medicines are lacking for relief of suffering patients, as well as simple surgical equipment, leaving doctors helpless and patients in agony.
Israel has the right to take the land of a nation that is choosing to war with them.
Shortly before the outbreak of the Intifada a Palestinian girl, Intissar al-Atar, was shot and killed in a schoolyard by a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement. He was one of the several thousand Israelis settlers brought to Gaza in violation of international law and protected by a huge army presence, taking over much of the land and scarce water of the Strip and living “lavishly in twenty-two settlements in the midst of 1.4 million destitute Palestinians,”The murderer of the schoolgirl, Shimon Yifrah, was arrested, but quickly released on bail when the Court determined that “the offense is not severe enough” to warrant detention. The judge commented that Yifrah only intended to shock the girl by firing his gun at her in a schoolyard, not to kill her, so “this is not a case of a criminal person who has to be punished, deterred, and taught a lesson by imprisoning him.” Yifrah was given a 7-month suspended sentence, while settlers in the courtroom broke out in song and dance.
The Palestinians could have had peace and their own country long ago but they refuse because they want war.
Their own country along which borders? The devil is always in the detail which you conveniently ignore. In 2008 a truce was established between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli government formally recognizes that Hamas observed it fully. Not a single Hamas rocket was fired until Israel broke the truce under cover of the US election on November 4 2008, invading Gaza on ludicrous grounds and killing half a dozen Hamas members. The Israeli government was advised by its highest intelligence officials that the truce could be renewed by easing the criminal blockade and ending military attacks.
But the government of Ehud Olmert, reputedly a dove, chose to reject these options, preferring to resort to its huge comparative advantage in violence: Operation Cast Lead. The basic facts are reviewed once again by foreign policy analyst Jerome Slater in the current issue of the Harvard-MIT journal International Security.The pattern of bombing under Cast Lead was carefully analyzed by the highly informed and internationally respected Gazan human rights advocate Raji Sourani. He points out that the bombing was concentrated in the north, targeting defenseless civilians in the most densely populated areas, with no possible military pretext.
The goal, he suggests, may have been to drive the intimidated population to the south, near the Egyptian border. But the Samidin stayed put, despite the avalanche of US-Israeli terror.
Israel and the USA are free secular nations who do not go looking for violence.
Nentanyahu has made it clear time and time again that Israel is a Jewish state so you are obviously wrong here. What rock are you leaving under.
We must end the terrorism, racism and ethnic cleansing being perpetrated by Israel. The playing field is obviously not level.The people of Palestine are strategically terrorised by the most powerful military in the Middle East
