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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
Here's the thing, even during relatively peaceful times, Israel makes life miserable for the Palestinians. They withhold tax payments to the Palestinians ($100 million just last month), divert water to illegal settlements, etc. Then when someone launches a rocket, Israel is all look they want death instead of life. You can't slow torture a population and expect peace.
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Relatively peaceful times ????
Technically Israel has always been "at war". Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, & Iran all declared was with Israel. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP are all at war with Israel.
Relatively peaceful times means no rockets, but the random bus or pizzeria bombing here or there?
Before the Israelis showed up most Arab villages in the West Bank & Gaza didn't have indoor plumbing or paved roads.
Water rights will indeed be an issue (possibly a violent one) throughout the region. That is a peace process issue, but as it stands everyone is dipping into everyone else's wells. The major blocs get their water from Israel's aquafiers 7 De-salinization plants.
Israel withholds taxes that they collect for 2 reasons - 1) as a stick to get the PA to co-operate and 2) because the PA doesn't pay their bills - they get their gas & electricity from Israel, not other Arab states, and balk at paying for it.
As a tactic I have little issue with withholding PA tax dollars. It is far less bloody.
We are not talking about just one rocket, it is thousands of mortars & rockets.
You also can't keep poking the cubs and expect mama bear to take it with a smile.