I've just been reading a Q&A article with Martin Indyk. His belief is that Hamas intention with the attack was to get Israel to react massively, and then have the conflict escalate. Hezbollah in Lebanon, a West Bank uprising, a revolt in Jerusalem. Hezbollah will be the main one as apparently they have 150,000 rocket's they can launch into Israel, and would mean all out war in the Lebanon.In the next day of two Isreal will be in a two pronged attack as hezzbollah will enter this war . They are starting to escalate it in Lebanon .
Maybe we should… At least it would teach some of the teenagers in this country about self respect and respect for others…They are , but most are prity well trained , Isreal have compulsory Military conscription at 18 and are reservists untill 40
This is the only explanation/scenario that makes ‘sense’ of the actions of Hamas.I've just been reading a Q&A article with Martin Indyk. His belief is that Hamas intention with the attack was to get Israel to react massively, and then have the conflict escalate. Hezbollah in Lebanon, a West Bank uprising, a revolt in Jerusalem. Hezbollah will be the main one as apparently they have 150,000 rocket's they can launch into Israel, and would mean all out war in the Lebanon.
Must be a different Jordan to the one that annexed the West Bank in 1950 then, an act that was widely considered illegal by the international community. A bit like the Israeli settlements there are. And a different Egypt to the one whose army occupied Gaza in 1948. A bit like the Israelis occupy the West Bank.Maybe they are not big on colonising other people?
Yes, and as a by-product it will scupper Israeli relations with the more moderate Arab Countries, and ruin the proposed Saudi and Israeli peace deal that was in the offing.This is the only explanation/scenario that makes ‘sense’ of the actions of Hamas.
i always felt the US was rope-a-doped into its post-9/11 military campaigns, at widespread cost, and to no discernible long-term effect on the causes of that attack, and I share the same concerns here.
When the personal insults start flying you can be sure you've hit a nerve.I know the answer. It was those pesky Jews wasn't it?
You know, that lot who provoked the Russians in the late 19th century, then the Germans in the 1930's and 40's by the outrageous and aggressive action of being born Jewish. And then having the nerve to want to live safely in a country where they weren't subject to pogroms and genocide. Those damn Jews deserve everything they get.
This is possibly the most fuckwitted post I've seen on this subject and there's been some competition for that title.
That sounds a bit like outsourcing the problem.Isreal
West Bank controlled by Jordan
Gaza controlled by Egypt
There are many parallels to the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam, where the North Vietnamese/Viet Cong launched a surprise attack on urban centres during the Chinese New Year holiday.This is the only explanation/scenario that makes ‘sense’ of the actions of Hamas.
i always felt the US was rope-a-doped into its post-9/11 military campaigns, at widespread cost, and to no discernible long-term effect on the causes of that attack, and I share the same concerns here.
I criticised your post and your twisted thinking, not you (which is probably just as well I didn't because I know what I'd have called you).When the personal insults start flying you can be sure you've hit a nerve.
Of course it was the Jews.
History tells us that.
The fact that the Jews were pogrommed by the Russians and then the Germans wasn't anything to do with the Palestinians, these were genocides the European Jews experienced at the hands of other Europeans in Europe. Did the Russians and Germans sacrifice land for a Jewish homeland for the atrocities they committed?
It was Palestinians who just happened to be occupied by another European colonial power who thought a whole nation would be ok with giving away their country.
You might be ok with that, you being the beneficiaries, but the Palestinians and whole chunks of the world never will be.