Comments on: Israeli attacks on Hamas good for peace?

By: Plucky Punk

Plucky Punk — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I’ve never heard any sort of quote from a teenaged Palestinian that went, “You know, the way they shot my little brother, and crushed my house with a buldozer, killing my mother inside, and humiliated my father with searches at checkpoints, and the way they keep us all under house arrest and how none of the people I know have running water or jobs or anything really makes me not want to join Hamas and kill them all.”

If Israel were serious about fighting terrorism, they would be building schools and hospitals and job training programs and the like in the Occupied Territories. That way these young men and women could have some kind of hope for the future. When you take away everything from someone, they have nothing to lose. And having nothing to lose puts you in a position of power.

If the Israeli government wants to keep saying that it’s so wonderful because it is the only democracy in the region, then it should stop acting as bad as Hamas does.

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Israel gives a lot of funding to the Palestinian Authority, as do the United States and many Arab countries. But it is the Palestinian Authority, with its own civil systems, school systems, judicial systems, and so forth. As part of giving the Palesitnian Authority autonomy, Israel turned over the building of schools and hospitals to the Palestinian Authority, which is responsible for administrating in the Palestinian territories.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is also something to remember when people start frothing at the mouth about Arafat. For the past several years, the Israeli government has had the ability to kill him pretty much at will. But he’s still alive.