A Plan of Attack For Peace

It's not just the Israelis who are happy to see the Hamas go away. The Egyptian, the Saudis would be thrilled to see Iran's proxy out of their neighborhood.

Israel is the regional superpower, so they have to do the dirty job of eradicating Iran's proxy, but the truth is that the more secular countries in the region will benefit from it as well.

"The suspicion of many Israelis???sometimes justified???that Palestinian leaders are interested not in peace but in Israel's destruction"
hmm do you think that "suspicion" has anything to do with the fact that the Hamas leaders have been saying "DEATH TO ISRAEL" from the day the established their terrorist organization?

Perhaps Israelis suspect so, because the Hamas have murdered hundreds of Israeli women and children in the most cruel suicide bombings and other attacks,

But most of all, the Israelis might suspect the Palestinians leaders are interested in war and death to all the Jews, basically because that was exactly the political platform onto which the Hamas have won the elections and got the majority of the Gazans votes?

I think the Israelis might be suspicious of the intentions of the Gazans, because the Gazans have been firing rockets to Israeli towns and cities for the past 8 years.

That sounds like a reason to be "suspicious" of someone's intentions, wouldn't you agree?

The problem comes when a terrorist gets in a powerful government position... Hamas, Hezbolah, Iran... Why does Israel live so peacefully with Jordan ? Because it's leaders are not terrorists.

Persistent reports tell of Hamas's leaders hiding in the basement of the Shifa Hospital of Gaza, using the civilians in this medical facility as human shields, a form of war crime.

Also, similar reports, based on photo documentation, accuse Hamas's armed forces of stockpiling weapons and explosives in mosques, in schools and in people's homes and firing them from schoolyards and the yards of medical facilities, which also amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

And of course, Hamas's exclusive targets for many years have been population canters in Israel ??? the blue colour towns of S'derot, Ashqelon, the universities in Beer Sheba and Sapir, and the collective and cooperative farming communities and their residents, of southern Israel - also considered war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Israel has been seeking an accommodation of peaceful co-existence with its Arab neighbours, in Gaza and elsewhere. But Israel, as any other country, can not permit its citizens to be targeted day in and day out, especially when the declared goal of the attackers is to erase the Jewish state of Israel ??? a UN member state ??? off the face of the earth and with it the Jewish civilization in this national homeland of the Jewish people (read Hamas's Charter!!!).

At present, Hamas must loose its will and motivation to fire at Israel and Israelis, and most of the means with which it conducts its war machine against Israel's civilian population must be eliminated. In addition, all illicit weapons and explosives must cease from making their way into Gaza. And of course, without Gilad Shalit coming back home this conflict will not come to an end.

On a longer term, the demand of the UN, EU, US, Russia as well as Arab states and the Palestinian Authority presidency of Hamas must stand if it (Hamas) wishes to be part of any peace process: Cease all acts of terror and violence against Israel and Israelis and the preparations for such acts, adhere to previously signed agreements with Israel, and recognize Israel's right ??? a UN member state ??? to exist.

Israelis have never sought anything beyond an accommodation of peaceful co-existence between Arab and Jew, between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

Can Israel's neighbors rise to the occasion and seek the same goal??


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HOW Many Jews must die from random missile attacks before the people realize they are not the aggressors. UNTIL GAZA GETS RID OF THEIR OWN WARMONGERS THEY SHOULD NOT BE SUPRISED THERE IS REPRISAL TO THEIR MURDERING. Unless they are ready to face the consequences of their own actions or inactions they cannot justify calling themselves victims. USE YOUR ENERGIES TO WEED OUT THE THREAT IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND PEOPLE WILL STOP BOMBING YOU. Think about it allright

1. They are not innocent! 2.Israel isn't targeting non-combatants. This is a war zone like any war.
There is a reason why gaza is under INTERNATIONAL blockade.
Poor Palestinians? The ones who are training their kids to be suicide bombers?
You really have to see this before they flood youtube with their cover-up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvsAzF2MxcA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRWKwUzCoQ

The ones who elected a governing terrorist body responsible for this... besides the 8000 rockets?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1197051.stm

At first I did not understand what it meant thst Bush wanted to sabotage Iran nuclear program (when he did not allow Israel bomb Iran). After the report that Iran used front companies to buy military parts from USA companies - i guess it is clearer how US did it. I would not try to use those parts, and thanks for few $ billions, Iranian people.

1. They are not innocent! 2.Israel isn't targeting non-combatants. This is a war zone like any war.
There is a reason why gaza is under INTERNATIONAL blockade.
Poor Palestinians? The ones who are training their kids to be suicide bombers?
You really have to see this before they flood youtube with their cover-up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvsAzF2MxcA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRWKwUzCoQ

The ones who elected a governing terrorist body responsible for this... besides the 8000 rockets?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1197051.stm

There are snake pits in Gaza City name "Rerfugee Camps". Israel should give them 1 day notice to leave, and then completely destroy those camps from safe distance. See how Hamas will like it.

Hamas has set the delusional goal of eliminating Israel and killing all the Jews in the Middle East. Since they want to fight till the last drop of blood, they are getting exactly what they asked for.

I find it incredible how their leaders are hiding in Syria and while they are protected- they call their own people to die for their anti- semitic and fanatic cause.

Hamas is a proxy of Iran, just as Hezbollah in Lebanon. They follow the orders of the Ayatollah in Iran, not the interests of the Lebanese people or the Gazans.

That is why Egypt is not opening the borders with Gaza and not helping the Hamas. They hate Hamas.
Saudi Arabai hate Hamas for the same reason- TSaudi and Iran are arch enemies and thus both Saudi Arabia and Egypt- despite their anti- Semitism, are happy to see Israel fight Hamas.

Non of these countries like to see Iran meddling with their neighborhood and they know that if Israel is down- they will be next.
Irans wants to constitute a global Jihad and have the Middle East under the rule of the Ayattolah.

I grow so weary of this never ending story that goes round and round and round.Cant we find something else to fight about,or is this just too entertaining for us all to just let go.Maybe if we just all ignored them like obnoxious children looking for attention, they would just fade away quietly while we dealt with the truly important issues of our day.

The bloody protracted struggle in Palestine is as natural as that of a cockfight...with the losing *** allowed no exit from the ring.

This problem should have been put to rest decades ago...other displaced populations have long since gotten on with their lives by now. The people living in Gaza are 80% refugees from a war lost in 1948. Their Arab brethren, despite their fine promises of support and instead of utilizing some small fraction of their petrodollars to resettle then on Arab land and in Arab societies, have found it expedient to let them languish in what amounts to a concentration camp.

In theory, enlightened Western societies that have a problem with the plight of these refugees could step forward but a more realistic solution is to close down Gaza and integrate these people into Arab societies and states. The alternative is 1.5 million people in Gaza waiting to "go home" to a place that they lost 60 years ago and will never see again.

Peace requires that the "Diaspora" proceed forthwith. They should be grateful that, unlike the Jews 2000 years ago, they have brethren able to receive and nurture them.