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To: skinowski who wrote (53547)7/18/2006 9:40:14 AM
From: Moominoid  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
Saudi Arabia, Egypt etc. have blamed Hizballah for this conflict. But Israel is in danger of losing the goodwill they gained with them. Clearly Israel used the Hizballah raid as a pretext to implement the plan to destroy Hizballah. I don't object to that, but bombing power stations etc. is what I am referring to. The situation in Gaza is quite different. A long story - initially post-Oslo the Palestinians made a big error in not integrating all militias into their military. But since the Intifada II started (which was an outrageous attack on Israel) everything has become much more murky. Israel's actions in response to that made ti hard for the PA to implement any of Israel's demands. I'm not saying that Israel shouldn't have destroyed police stations, held up Arafat in his headquarters etc. But it is hypocritical to then say the PA isn't implementing conditions that are impossible to implement.

Apparently the Oslo agreement says that a party like Hamas can't run for election if they don't accept the treaty... but they did and were elected. Israel continued to wage attacks against Hamas and vice versa. So it is hard to give any blame to the Hamas attack which captured the Israeli soldier. It wasn't an unprovoked thing. OTOH Israel does need to fight them too. But is bombing Gaza's power station neccessary? There is some power still supplied from Israel but what is the point of destroying what little infrastructure there is in Gaza. I always thought this was the left-wing's plan in Israel. Withdraw from the territories and bomb the Palestinians like crazy if they do anything. Strangely the right wing was more interested in trying to seek coexistence... They seemed to have more actual real sympathy/empathy for the Palestinians though recognizing they were in a conflict with them.

Things aren't so black and white as you would like them to be I think. and when you are a very small country like Israel surrounded by enemies you need to be tough, but you can't act like you are the United States.
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