Not even true for the last year, Hamas still has the majority.
You have a habit of being wrong on the facts. Here's a quote from a CDI Research Assistant Dan Rothem - I quote him just so there can be no doubt whatsoever about any "bias", since this is straight Israeli data:
By Dan Rothem
CDI Research Assistant
drothem@cdi.org
216.239.33.100
"June 10, 2002 Printer-Friendly Version
Since early 2002, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have carried out more attacks on Israelis than its Islamist counterparts, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. As a result, the U.S. State Department designated the organization as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on March 27, 2002, marking a strategic shift in U.S. policy toward Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority.
These are all verifiable facts, check the U.S. Department sources and you'll get American data as quoted above.
Netanyahu disgracefully broke signed agreements
I was referring to the Wye Agreement, which Netanyahu proceeded to sabotage and then openly break because as it was claimed at the time, he couldn't sell it politically in Israel.
But, as you've pointed out, there are lots of ideological settlers in the West Bank. Where are the massacres they've perpetrated on the Palestinians, the revenge for the attacks and the bombings? Not to be found? Because Israel controls them.
As usual you are laughably unaquainted with facts, or equally laughably hope to deny them. Would an Israeli source be fine to quote?
haaretzdaily.com
That was pretty recent - Palestinian children bombed at school by Jewish terrorists... according to police and Shin Bet sources
Five children, all around eight-years-old, were slightly wounded yesterday in a blast at a Palestinian school south of Hebron. Police and Shin Bet sources said Jewish terrorists were most likely responsible.
In March, a bomb went off in another Palestinian school in east Jerusalem, injuring a teacher and four children. A Jewish underground group claimed responsibility for that attack but no arrests have ever been made for that attack which came a few weeks before the Bat Ayin group was captured.
Hmmm, doesn't look like their capture rate is much better than Arafat's...
There's plenty more where that came from... another example, also recent Oct 6 2002:
haaretzdaily.com
Settlers killed one Palestinian and wounded two others yesterday during an attack on olive harvesters near Nablus, the latest in a series of such attacks, Palestinian residents said.
Speaking off the record, Israel Defense Forces officers confirmed that a group of young settlers in the area has been deliberately attacking Palestinian olive harvesters, and that the army has taken no real measures to prevent it.
Not to worry, there's an endless stream of that. Don't be fooled by the fact that U.S. media devote 10 times more space to every attack by Palestinians than to Israeli attacks - the reality is there for all to see, and certainly is seen by those affected and in the Middle East in general.
So much for "Not to be found? Because Israel controls them."
Any more questions?
Oh, and all that "evidence" Israel showed about signatures and the like. Funny.
As for Arafat's support of terrorism being an Israeli lie, did they also forge his signature and those of his top aides on the papers of the Karine A? on the Tanzim invoices for bomb belts (about $350 each, as I recall)?
Yes, the Karine A may have involved Arafat - who knows. Arafat is certainly not a saint - nor is Israel. As to the signatures on the documents ALLEGEDLY recovered from Arafat's compound (suicide belts etc.), I wouldn't put a nickle's worth of faith in them. What, forgery by the Mossad - nah, couldn't happen, LOL! We are talking about folks who have no compunction about murdering American sailors (USS Liberty) and trying to frame the Egyptian Air Force for it (how's that for forgery), we are talking about a regime that routinely forges papers, assasinates on foreign soil, that spies on its primary benefactor (U.S.), and generally is the master of dirty tricks. I'd trust any information that comes from official Israeli sources about as much as I'd trust Stalin's KGB. I'm not even "blaming" Israelis for this - they regard themselves as fighting for their survival and they see every means as justifying the ends. But only a fool would take their statements at face value. Btw., I don't put any more faith in Arab official sources including Arafat. Two nations in a vicious struggle using ugly methods... war is ugly. But that does not alter the fact that the party responsible for the current mess is Israel.
Yes, offering 95% of the West Bank was a diabolically clever way to deligitimize Palestinian national aspirations
Only 100% will do. Not 95% or 98.5% or 73.78987898% will do. Palestinians will under any circumstances, including pre-67 borders lose land. They will have to forever give up that land. But the insanity of Israel grabbing for more, the suicidal desire for extracting even more from Palestinians will lead to a huge tragedy for Israel, and I fear the U.S. too. Israel will regret trying to steal that additional 5%. The kleptomanic compulsion to take "just a little bit more" will have to be resisted, or it will not end well. Israel reminds me of a gangster who robs his victim, beats him within an inch of his life, and then declares: "but you are not dead, so be grateful - now, how about another $5 for me? Come on, give me another $5". Same as getting all the pre-67 land, and then pressing the Palestinians for another 5%.
As I have said before, I think it is in ISRAELI interest to settle this. Give up the stolen land. Go back to pre-67 borders. For you will choke on those little parcels of land that you are stealing, and you'll never hold on to them in the long run. Better stop the injustice than one day face bio-WMD.
Israel needs one thing desperately: legitimacy. These days it has none in the eyes of the world - NOBODY supports the settlements, not even the U.S.
Pull back to pre-67, and everything changes.
And show me an article from even a Kach website that says that the Arabs drink the blood of Jewish children.
Obviously, the blood libel has a specific history. It is not likely that Jews would adopt it against Arabs. But they have their own equally ugly hatreds which they spew, including racism so raw it would shame a southern redneck (with Arabs being given animal status not much better than the Nazi ideology gave to Jews) - do you want to get into a contest as to who says "worse things"? Hey, we can go dig up stuff here for pages and pages of posts, which will show very ugly things indeed and we can all soak in a bit of Jewish extremist hate, that should be fun... no nation has a monopoly on hate and hate-speech.
Again, you are getting distracted. The important thing is not the existance of extremists - for they are on both sides. The important thing is to stop them from gaining power and influence. Israel is CREATING Arab extremists in frightening numbers - in a suicidal policy of land-grabs and occupation. Stop the raw and deeply felt, and INDEFENSIBLE injustice, and you have taken a huge step toward removing the extremists from influence.
Israel is its own worst enemy. The world is coming around to seeing Israeli aggression as the source of the problem, and sooner or later the U.S. will have to face that reality themselves. |
