Verwuestung said:
do you know ANYTHING about israel? about olmert?
israel has already given lots of territory it had gained during previous wars, for nothing..
israeli does not wish for more territory. haven't you heard about the very recent gaza disengagement that basically split israel into 2 (the ones for it and ones against it).
Olmert is definitely NOT a lunatic "mad jew" (that was close to sounding racist, BTW). he is not considered right wing and I don't recall him mentioning the bible once
all in all what I've learned about you is that you're willing to blab out anything that crosses your mind even for a brief second
"West Bank Terrorist State". In what way could Hamas' victory in the Palestinian elections be of conceivable use to the Israelis? One might ask. Well, the Israeli withdrawals from the west bank and Gaza was a move that greatly assisted the election of Hamas, who managed to take the credit for this in the eyes of the Palestinians.
With Hamas in power, Israel could more easily claim to be threatened by them, as a "terrorist state" and move aggressively, such as the airstrikes launched against a warehouse in Gaza, killing a few men, because they claimed rockets and mortars, etc were being made by Hamas.
Then there is the strong potential of making use of the rivalry between Fatah and Hamas .
"Israel has also been skilled at trying to foment Fatah-Hamas rivalries, trying to create a form of chaos in the territories"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/03/news/hamas.php
I found a very good article explaining reasons for the Israeli withdrawal.
"With regard to the Gaza Strip, the disengagement plan published in the Israeli papers on Friday 16 April 2004 specifies that, within a year and a half, the Israeli occupation there should be declared to be over. In every other aspect, the situation will remain as it is. The Palestinians will be imprisoned from all sides, with no connection to the world, except through Israel. Israel also reserves for itself the right to act militarily inside the Gaza Strip.(1) But since the strip will no longer be defined as an occupied territory, Israel will not be subject to the Fourth Geneva Convention. Clause f of Section I in the published plan states that "the disengagement move will obviate the claims about Israel with regard to its responsibility for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip". In other words, what Israel does today in violation of international law will become legal: it would presumably become formally permissible to starve people and to kill whoever Israel determines - from a child throwing stones, to the successor of a spiritual leader, himself executed a month before."
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/treinhart5.htm
"Apart from its borders, Israel will undoubtedly retain control over the Gaza Strip's electricity and water supplies, as well as its territorial waters and airspace. Hence Israel's 'pullout', if it happens, will be a vast smokescreen concealing the consolidation of its hold over the West Bank, a process designed to secure international legitimacy for the occupation."
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9003
The US has cut off aid to Palestine,and Israel is withholding Palestinian revenues and tax receipts amounting to $60m a month.
"This is the price Palestinians must pay for their democratic elections in January. The majority voted for the "wrong" party, Hamas, which the US and Israel, with their inimitable penchant for pot-calling-the-kettle-black, describe as terrorist. However, terrorism is not the reason for starving the Palestinians, whose prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, had reaffirmed Hamas's commitment to recognise the Jewish state, proposing only that Israel obey international law and respect the borders of 1967. Israel has refused because, with its apartheid wall under construction, its intention is clear: to take over more and more of Palestine, encircling whole villages and eventually Jerusalem."
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/news.asp?d=y&id=1699
