Hamas says Israel must accept Palestinian demands or face long war

Hamas talks a great game.... they lob a few rockets over the border and blow up a sand dune, Israel fires back and destroys an apartment block. Rinse, repeat. Great strategy, Hamas. Israel has shown it has no problem with making an incredibly disproportionate response.

Hamas should be clamoring to get to the negotiating table. Instead, they're intent on waving their ****s at Israel and sacrificing dozens of Palestinian lives.

(This is not to say that the Palestinians don't have a beef - they emphatically do. But Hamas is doing nothing to help.)

Hey, it's Hamas's funeral, as if they have the upper hand. Lol

"the intractable relationship with Hamas"

Yeah, when one side is committed to the destruction of the other side, the relationship is pretty intractable.

"Israel must accept the demands of the Palestinian people or face a long war," Osama Hamdan, the head of Hamas’s foreign affairs, said on Facebook.

So Hamas' definition of negotiations is to do what they say or else. Yeah, that shows a desire to resolve the situation.

And Hamas needs to remember that they don't speak for the Palestinian people. In the last election that Hamas allowed they did not even receive 50% of the votes and they followed the vote by killing Palestinians who were members of the major opposing party.

If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?

David Ben-Gurion

Hey, it's Hamas's funeral, as if they have the upper hand. Lol

Note that the destruction of innocent human life is treated as a laughing matter by some.

Yeah, when one side is committed to the destruction of the other side, the relationship is pretty intractable.

Muslims and Jews lived side-by-side in Palestine peacefully for centuries. Then Zionists from Europe showed up to murder Arabs and ethnically cleanse and steal their lands -- claiming something that might have been in effect over two thousand years ago. It has been Israel that has been committed to the destruction of the other side.

when a nation was attacked by 6 arab countries but got trounced and beaten so badly that they lost portions of their land and was occupied now they want the land back becuase they said its theirs in the first place...i wonder if they will let any jew own a piece of land or even allow them to live should they had won the war.

when a nation was attacked by 6 arab countries but got trounced and beaten so badly that they lost portions of their land and was occupied now they want the land back becuase they said its theirs in the first place..

What was the date of this "attack" by six Arab countries? (The first date on which any of these armies attacked...)

i wonder if they will let any jew own a piece of land

Ironically, nearly 95% of the land in the Zionist state is not privately owned. The state owns the land.

Those "Palestinian demands" of would mean the end of Israel .... which if of course the stated goal of Hamas. Show me one country in the world that would agree to that.

Fact is, if Hamas simply wanted "peace" that could have had that yesterday. First step: Stop firing rockets at your neighbour. Second step: Stop building tunnels under your neighbours territory and send terrorists through it to murder citizens. Third step: Accept your neighbours right to exist.

But all that is unacceptable to Hamas.

WilliB,

The June 30th Hamas rockets were the first since the last IDF assault on Gaza in 2012:

The security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assessed that Hamas had probably launched the barrage in revenge for an Israeli airstrike several hours earlier which killed one person and injured three more.**

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-fired-rockets-for-first-time-since-2012-israeli-officials-say/#ixzz3AhUzJKk5

Eighteen months of de facto acceptance of their neighbour's right to exist, which continued to mean illegal land grabs, extrajudicial killings and imprisonment without trial, was rewarded with the assassination by airstrike of a Hamas leader (weeks after Hamas' political leadership in the West Bank was rounded up and interned in their hundreds).

The US, EU, Brazil, China and India all supported Hamas and Fatah moves earlier this year to form a Palestinian Unity government, the competent authority to negotiate and ensure a lasting peace with Israel.

Peace between the two parties is a potential game changer for the Middle East and the wider world. Netanyahu knows it requires giving up the settlements: falling on his own political sword.

Dropping bombs and sacrificing young conscripts is easy. Does Bibi have the testicular fortitude to make peace?