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Old 02-05-2006, 01:01 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I have always found it hypocritical that Israel and the US insist that Hamas renounce violence, as if the US and Israel was any better than Hamas (really, the US and Israel is worse than Hamas), I think the US and Israel need to renounce violence first, then and only then, does the US and Israel have the right to tell Hamas to renounce violence, until then, why should Hamas or anybody else take Israel and the US seriously? I don't take the US and Israel very seriously and we all know the long history of the US and Israel both of using unprovoked violence and breaking their signed treaties.
It is true that the US and Israel are hypocritical, but the point is that Hamas has sworn to destroy Israel (it's in their founding charter) and does not even recognize Israel's right to exist. Therefore it would be impossible to have a "two-state solution", which is the objective the international community is currently pursuing.

If Israel were to act toward all Palestinians in the way that Hamas acts toward all Israelis, we wouldn't have any more Palestinians. I think Israel deserves more credit than it gets for it's self-restraint in not annihilating the people who have sworn to kill them. Hamas (and organizations like it) need to realize that the state of Israel will never be defeated by bomb-toting militants. If anything, this only hurts Hamas more by rallying the Israeli hawks.

Who knows where the Israel/Palestine conflict would be without U.S. $$$$$

It might have been over already.
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