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Israel breeds suicide bombers through carelessness, doing whatever they please and making life hell for the other side. Israels strategies and policies only feed this hatred. As much as the Palestinians are at fault for breeding hate etc, Israel does it's fair share and just helps these religious nuts in the making of suicide bombers through their own wrong doing.

I've saw life first hand in several West Bank towns, and in Gaza. It's complete and utter chaos, these people have nothing and live in deciese infested areas with little or no power and little to no hygiene. Mainly because of Israels policy of pre-emptive strikes, strike at whatever costs, strike-anywhere, as well as their policy of demolishing homes of "Suspected" suicide bombers and their families. I don't really feel my family should be held at the mercy of my actions. Not to mention evictions from Palestinain West Bank land to make room for the expansion of Israeli settlements. The harrasment West Bank farmers go through on a daily basis as well as the loosing battle they fight in order to try and keep their land from the expansion of Israeli "security barriers" and Israeli settlements is ridiculous. One can only feel their pain and hopelessness.

Give me a room with running water and i'm living in a palace compared to these individuals. Life just is not worth living, and Israel does not realize this and that is where one of the biggest problems arise - extremism. These people have absolutly nothing and live with absolutly nothing and as a result, have the hope of absolutly nothing. IMO, It dosen't take much to convince these people to turn to extremism given the things they witness on a daily basis. At the end of the day, Israelis come home to warm beds, running water and peace. Palestinians have none of this, they live in squaller and are forced to deal with whatever Israel throws at them. There is no democratic process when it comes to this region, what Israel says, goes. As much as i am against extremism, it's far easier for an Islamic group to convince someone, based on all i've provided, as aposed to denying this with what little Israel accomplishes.

The 3 months i spent there, not one night went by that i didn't hear a strike of some sort by the IDF. Not one. Not one day did i wake up to see some sort of damage that goes un-compensated and ignored by the Israelis. Damage which cannot always be affored by the Palestinians as money is limited. A journey that should take 10 minutes takes 45-1hour as you have to go through checkpoint after checkpoint. All of which are un-needed checkpoints if the Israelis where not illegally settled in land that is not only not theres, but internationaly condemed. This is without the fact Israel tends to close checkpoints on a regular basis, rather freaquently really. So if you need to be somewhere...WORK for instance, but Israel chooses to keep a checkpoint closed, tough luck. Go home and count your losses -- but whats new?

The Palestinians are at the mercy of the Israeli war machine and they either do as told or get put in there place. Israel has the resources and means to do what they want, where they want and when they want with no real resistance. If they want a settlement at Point A, they will have a settlement there. If they want there "Security wall" to run right through Palestinian territory instead of around it, that is the direction it will go. There is absolutly no accountability what-so-ever on Israels behalf. If they make a mistake, all that tends to be said it "sorry". No inquiries, probes, nothing. Just a count your losses and move on, only problem is, these losses happen weekly and the Palestinians get no justice, nothing.

As much as i realize it's just as hard for Israel to protect it's self, nothing is getting through to them. The enviroment they are creating and the policies they are choosing are only making things worse and feeding this hatred. One step outside in some areas of this region is all thats needed to be said. Witness life for a week, you don't need someone to whisper in your ear propaganda and hateful slogans, the daily life speaks a lot louder.

Through my experiences, the majority of Palestinians have all lost a friend, family member or know someone who has. Not because they where suicide bombers, not because they where associated with the resistance, but because they got caught up in another one of Israels "pre-emptive" -"strike-first" attacks. Did these people get justice? No, they where just another victim of Israels careless tactics, because they don't want to face the real issues causing the violence. I have a friend who serves in the IDF and he is against some of the policies of "containment" they carry out, some of the things he tells me which goes on, what they are ordered to do and the strategies at hand and just out-right ridiculous and completely wrong.

Then theres settlements....but that is a complete different ball game. This is where the MAIN problem lies, little communities dotted all over land that is rightfuly not Israels, yet they are far too arrogant and careless to ever give it up. Main reason why is because Israel wants as much of the land as the Palestinians do, don't believe this myth that Israel is striving to peace and the Palestinians are the bad guys, both sides are fueled by deep religious backing. Israel wants Jerusamem just as much as the Arabs do, only difference is, Israel has the army and means to enforce there rule upon it. I'm all for a wall around the West Bank, whats shocking is Israels using this "security wall" to choose their own boarders, secure more land they desire and permanently shutting out the Palestinians to key areas, whether those be Water supply, or land rich in agriculture. Israel controls all water supply in the West Bank and Gaza and has evicted thousands of farmers from land.

The same week Israel was moving the insignificant Gaza Settlements, they where expanding those in the southern West Bank between one and two thousand units...."one step forward and two steps back." All that Gaza removal was for was to draw brownie points with the international community and the media, what they really want is east of there, the land they will never give up.

But who am i trying to kid...turn on the news. Another suicide bomber, another innocent Israeli is killed, god damn those Palestinians. This issue is just so much more complex than a lot of people realize. The things Israel gets away with stops at nothing short of insane.