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Guatanamo. Bush´s greatest achievement.
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Uehara has been TERRIBLE the past few seasons. The reaosn why ueahara left is because Giants wanted to use him as mid relief. He only wants to be a starter again and and a new start in MLB.
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It is a complicated issue and conflict. There is an another catch. Say if Israel accepts 67 borders but not Right Of Return then still in a few decades the Palestinians will become the majority within israel proper due to a higher birth rate. Israel is sitting on a ticking time bomb. From Israel perspective there are 3 options.
Israel can maintain the status quo. Go back to 67 borders Merge Israel with Palestine.
I wish to see israel try something else than their current approach which is leading to violence and wars but do not think Israel will change their stance. In the end I think Israel will defeat itself.
Hamas is stupid for using the home made rockets which hardly do any damage what so ever and keep using the rockets as some kind of symbol. But Israel is also wrong for the blockade.
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Superlib. You need to come to terms with obvious facts. Every country in the world voted for Israel to retreat to 67 borders including US in the UN resolution 242 which was adopted by the UN SC. Therefore according to international law, every single new settlement built in the occupied territories is illeagal according to international law.
Hamas backs a 67 borders and Hamas emphasizes the Right Of Return needs to be discussed. Though the Right Of Return is an international right according to international law which also USA voted in favour of Israel will not accept this.
The biggest irony here is US. US tried to come with a peace agreement but then were told by Israel not to vote for the peace agreement that they had made, the vote in favour of UN resolution 242 and the Right Of Return.
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The aim of Israel is probably a regime change by toppling the elected government or pressuring Hamas into raising white flags and accepting Israeli occupation conditions. But the problem here will be who will fill up the vaccum in Gaza? Fatah will not be interested in governing Gaza after an Israeli lead coup. So if Israel’s goal is to topple the Hamas government their aim seems to be short sighted. Hamas aim is to stop the blockade. Though Israel is much stronger due to the humble demands from Hamas politically they have a good chance of winning this conflict as all conflicts end with a political solution. Egypt hold the keys to a cease fire. They can say they will control the borders and turn a blind eye to whatever Palestinian smuggle. Hamas agrees to stop firing rockets in return Hamas gets open borders.
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Look, I do not blame Israel 100% and Hamas 0%. I think both should share the blame but when it comes to being fair and all I think Israel is the one to be blamed more than Hamas. Israel have now been using WP and DU. on a civilian population, bombing schools, apartments. When I see pictures of destroyed Palestinian homes and images of dead Palestinians, I am not smiling.
Israel has the state of the art weaponry and Hamas just a bunch of home mdae rockets. This is not a war against countries and armies. This is more like a prison riot. Israel should try the path of peace and dialogue and not oppression which has resulted in nothing but wars and conflcits for decades.
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The peace agreement which was brokered by Egypt 6 months ago was that Israel kept the borders open and the Palestinians stopped firing rockets. That was the deal and it was Israel who violated this agreement by keeping the borders closed. Therefore Hamas fired rockets and in return Israel started an onslaught and have so far committed war crimes and should be held responsible for their crimes.
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Superlib.
Hamas has said that they are willing to make a state of 67 borders.
US has also voted in favour of an Israeli retreat to the 67 borders. Infact every country in the world including US and also Hamas agrees to the plan that israel retreats to the 67 borders.
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Superlib.
If we are to get technical, technically speaking it is Israel because Gaza is under an Israeli occupation and not Egyptian.
Also Israel have been bombarding the Egyptian Gaza borders. Anyway you are right to a certain extent. First you have to remember that the non democratic government of Eqypt does not represent the people of Egypt. Egypt is run by a dictator. US pay the government of Egypt 2 billion dollars a year in order for Egypt to hold diplomatic ties with Israel. Egypt also doesn't want to get nuked by the Israelis for keeping the borders open. And Egypt does not like Hamas because Hamas is branch of the Muslim Brotherhood who have lots of popularity in Egypt. If there were to be held elections in Egypt the chances of them winning is high. The military rulers of Egypt fear Hamas and other offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood that remains an influence in Egypt as alternatives to current regimes.
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What are the objectives of this war from Israeli side?
Israel can test new weapons Israel wants to put an end to the rocket attacks There are elections in israel and an onslught on the Palestinians can boost votes in the elections.
Hamas.
It wants open borders It wants to tell a messae to israel that Israel cannot have security unless it stops the blockade
Israel can very well perhaps put an end to the Hamas rule in gaza but I doubt Fatah would then be willing take over Gaza in an Israeli supported coup so I think Hamas will still be ruling Gaza when this conflict is over.
So the situation comes down to who wil control the borders. I think thats where the conflict is at now.
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The real reason for why Israel labels Hamas a terrorist organization is because then israel does not need to negotiate with Hamas. Once they do start negotiating Israel will have to pull it's settlements from the Occupied Territories. So it is convinient for Israel to label Hamas a terror organization. Hamas was democratically voted in to power by the people of Palestine in a country occupied by Israel who Americans like to boast The Only Democracy in the Middle East while boycotting the Palestinian election results.
There is very little logic in this conflict. US votes against a peace deal they were the architects of and Hamas also is against a peace deal because the peace deal does not include them. And Israel telles US not to vote in favour of a peace deal.
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The Egyptian brokered cease fire agreement which now have collapsed stated that Israel had to open up the borders on conditions that militants did not fire home made projectiles. THe militants did not fire a single shot yet Israel did not open up the borders. Now by the looks of things it seems as if Israel had already planned this Holocaust which is the word the Israeli politicians have used for this latest onslaught already 6 months ago, and the starving of the Palestinian people was phase 1 in this onslaught. It is easier to fight an enemy who is starved and tired.
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In a speech late on Monday, Olmert said Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, was left "pretty shamed" at the vote and had to abstain on a resolution she had helped arrange.
Sean McCormack, a US state department spokesmen, who was with Rice at the UN last week during debate on the security council resolution, went further and said the remarks were "just 100 per cent, totally, completely untrue".
McCormack said that Washington had no plans to seek clarification from Israel.
First US wanted to vote in favour of a peace deal and were sure not to seek any clarification from Israel but a telephone call from Olmert to Bush changed Rice's stance who felt ASHAMED that she could not vote in favour of a peace deal she had made.
This just illustartes what enormous power Israel has over US. Many political leaders have boasted about how Jews control US and that Americans were well aware of this.
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It is Israel with US who voted against a peace deal.Rice wanted to vote in favour of the peace deal but Olmert made sure Rice would not in favour of the peace deal. According to Olmert.
He [Bush] gave an order to the secretary of state and she did not vote in favour of it, a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organised and manoeuvred for"
When Olmert found out that RIce was going to vote in favour of a peace deal that she had made together with others, Olmert called Bush and demanded Rice not to vote in favour of the peace deal and Bush then changed his stance and followed Olmert orders.
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Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime For 18 months Israel had imposed an unlawful blockade on the coastal strip that brought Gazan society to the brink of collapse. In the three years after Israel’s redeployment from Gaza, 11 Israelis were killed by rocket fire. And yet in 2005-8, according to the UN, the Israeli army killed about 1,250 Palestinians in Gaza, including 222 children. Throughout this time the Gaza Strip remained occupied territory under international law because Israel maintained effective control over it.
Israel’s actions amount to aggression, not self-defence, not least because its assault on Gaza was unnecessary. Israel could have agreed to renew the truce with Hamas. Instead it killed 225 Palestinians on the first day of its attack. As things stand, its invasion and bombardment of Gaza amounts to collective punishment of Gaza’s 1.5m inhabitants contrary to international humanitarian and human rights law.
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Hamas in fact started as a charitable Islamic organisation, establishing schools, mosques, clinics and providing other social services to the people in occupied Gaza. Hamas and Israel had a cease fire just over six months ago. As part of the deal, Hamas was to halt rocket fire into Israel and in turn Israel agreed to open the crossings into Rafah. The blockade was implemented right after Hamas won the elections in January 2006.
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This article is propaganda. Israel say Hamas must disarm and you know they will not do that. Egypt is not sealing the borders it is Israel. Egypt should say they will control the borders together with Palestine. The part of teh broken case fire agreement was that Palestine stop firing rockets on conditions that Israel keep the borders open. Besides Gaza is under occupation as long as Israel does not let go of the borders.
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