Hamas doesnt want peace, they dont seem to care about improvong life for Palestinians, just wiping out Israel. they are eveyones enemy.. but I bet there is a eager line of "martyrs" waiting to keep hamas going long after israel has bombed the place flat, if not run out of rockets. Hamas is David in this battle.
I'd like to see a few rockets and a swift solution... but my bet is that this is a bad strategy for Israel. From down here the USA doesn't look as squarely behind Israel as it always has been... The reporting here makes it look like the US really is more interested in a final solution than totally appeasing Israel for the first time I can recall.
If the Israeli's aint careful they will find themselves with the USA pressuring them for the obvious fair outcome, a Single State solution.. I bet they think the current 2 state model they are shitting on with these overkill rocket attacks looks pretty good if that happens.. If the real intent was simply to wipe out Hamas surely a more subtle strategy at a time peace is possible would have been chosen.
Uncle Sam has more than one middle east piper to pay now and Israel is just making it as hard as possible for it's old allie imho.. and I don't get why American's agree with Israel doing this?!? Don't you see it as Israel saying "Fuck You" to the USA by choosing such provocative action when America is publicly calling for restraint and a committment to the "road map for peace" plan the US drafted? That is how it is being reported in the rest of the world.
Tuesday June 17, 2003
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Yesterday George Bush's envoy to the region, John Wolf, held talks with the Israeli foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, in an unsuccessful attempt to convince the Israelis to end their policy of assassinating suspected terrorists.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2...,979444,00.html