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Originally Posted by Azure
Why isn't it? Israel gave up the Gaza Strip to try and better the relationship between the two governments. Clearly, one side has tried to make diplomacy work, while the other has elected, like Cowperson said, a terrorist government.
Maybe Hamas should give back the kidnapped soldier and get their militant wing under control.  |
So you're blaming the Israeli/Arab conflict on Hamas?!?!?!? That's a little ignorant, don't you think? This conflict runs much deeper than a democratically elected Palestinian government.
The reality behind Gaza is that it belongs to the Palestinians anyway. Israel illegally took that land away in a illegitimate war. Israel, if it bothered to follow international law, should consist of pre 1967 borders. Of corse Israel isn't going to do this, instead they are going to erect an illegal wall, claiming land that is not theirs, but hey, they gave up Gaza. They were supposed to give up Gaza a long time ago, but now they martyr it, and package it to make it look like the Palestinians are not negotiating or compromising anything in return.
Why does anybody do anything that is radical, such as that of kidnapping a political figure? It is clear that a group is being repressed, and feeling like nobody is listening to them, so they resort to whatever can get their message across. The democratically elected Hamas government is not being recognized, and therefor they have to do whatever is in their power to try and get their message relayed. The FLQ did it in Quebec, and I believe that if Israel and other states around the world took Hamas seriously, this wouldn't have happened.
I am not supporting the kidnapping, but obviously when groups have to resort to such an act, there has to be more to the story.