Was Sharon's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza intended to prove to the world that Palestinians don't really want peace, embrace terrorism in the form of Hamas terrorist government, suicide bombers, rocket attacks into Israel (even after Israel gave them Gaza back) and kidnapping Israel soldiers. What could be the basis for peace negotiations with a government which vows to never, under any circumstances, to even recognize the state of Israel?
2006-12-21 11:14:44 · 21 answers · asked by laohutaile 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If that was Sharon's goal, it was well proven to be true.
Anyone who thinks the Palestinians have a leg to stand on is blind.
I think Israel is singularly qualified to know how best to handle Hamas.
2006-12-21 11:24:23 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The same thing they said about Fatah and yet they negotiated with them...Hamas proposed Israel a 10 years truce,time in which they should negotiate.Israel totally refused it...
The withdrawal from Gaza had nothing to do with how good Sharon was to the Palestinians.It was just a political move...and anyway since they withdraw from Gaza many more settlements where build in West Bank...
As for Hamas recognized Israel...of course they don't want to do it...In 1993,after the Oslo agreement ,the PLO recognized Israel...What good did it bring to Palestinians?
2006-12-22 05:16:18 · answer #2 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel should negotiate with Hamas or with any other representives of the Palestinian people. But the fact is not like that. Israel doesn't want to negotiate with them nor to make a peace process. Israel has no peace partner -as it claims- and that's right. The night of 25 Jan-2006 when Hamas won the elections, the USA and Israel opposed that and -without giving them a chance- they stopped funding the landlocked Palestinians including Hamas. If Israel is serious about having a peace partner it would have given Hamas one chance at least. And many of Hamas chairmen (who are chairmen in the PA now) are jailed in Israeli prisons. I mean, if Israel really wants to make peace they should release them. When Hamas has the decision of peace we can judge whether they want to have it or not. Another proof, how can Israel ask the Palestinians for peace while it is killing them every day in Gaza, and making them suffer in the west bank by blocking the roads and putting barriers. I repeat it again.....how can we ask the hungry people for peace?
2006-12-23 07:28:39 · answer #3 · answered by MagicWand 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Barge into another mans country??? Gimme a break. Palestinians have no historical claim to that land. Jews and Christians were in that land when Mohammed was just a gleam in some dumb bedouins eye.
Israel needs to take off the gloves and deal with the threat of Hamas, Hezbollah, and their sponsor Iran. And the U.S. and the West should back them up. History proves that there is one way to deal with extremist murderers that threaten the rest of the world. ANd it isn't peace deals, truces, and diplomacy.
2006-12-21 11:37:04 · answer #4 · answered by thealligator414 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No need to worry. Israel will never negotiate with Hamas. They will be more than contented to sit back and watch Hamas kill the other terrorist factions in Palestine. This is the way to win the war with Jihadists. Let them kill each other and Israel doesn't suffer casualties. America should follow suit and allow the Sunnis and Shiites to fight and wipe each other out. It is really unfortunate that the middle east has to go this way, but no one can change it....not now anyway.
2006-12-21 11:34:19 · answer #5 · answered by wunderkind 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if Sharon was trying to prove anything, or if he determined that protecting a few thousand Israelis wasn't the best use of the military. But within hours of the withdrawl, Hamas started firing rockets into Israel. Then they crossed into Israel and abducted a soldier or two. And much to no one's surprise, most media, people, and of course Jimmy Carter and the UN, blame Israel.
2006-12-21 11:28:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
When were they handed Gaza back? Last time I checked they still have their Waters and Airspace on lock, and the military still stops by from time to time(before the soldiers were kidnapped) don't forget Israel shelling them every now and then....why would Palesine want to negotiate with a recognized terrorist state?
2006-12-21 23:20:50 · answer #7 · answered by Darkness 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want the answer to this question, read the book by Jimmy Carter "Palestine Peace not apartheid".
Carter is a president who has lived all the phases of the "peace process". I hope that each Israeli reads this book to understand why Israel has not achieved any peace with the Arabs yet.
I am sorry to say that everyone who thinks Arabs and Palestinians are terrorists is ignorant in history and politics!
2006-12-21 17:22:22 · answer #8 · answered by Thinker 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it wasn't for Irgun's terrorist activities on the King David hotel in 1946 and the Deir Yassin bloodbath in 1948 Israel possibly does not exist. Why do no longer Jews denounce that terrorist interest? to no longer point out the united statesS. Liberty.
2016-10-15 09:55:01 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been stated that the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. They could have had a state, which was offered to them by Israeli former PM Barak, but they chose terror as a way of making Israel disappear.
We must bear in mind that Arabs do not think the way we do, so their conclusions are not rational ones. And their hate for a Jewish state far exceeds their desire to have another Arab state for their own.
Thus, when the Jews left them hothouses in Gaza, so that the Arabs could prosper economically, the Arabs chose to dismantle the hothouses for scrap. And to turn the pipes into launchers for the Qassam rockets. And to dwell in poverty because they don't have the hothouses to provide income.
Don't try to understand their mentality. It is hopeless.
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The Israeli claim to the West Bank (as Judea and Samaria were carefully renamed by Jordan after 1948, in precisely the same way, and for the same reason, that the Romans, nearly two thousand years before, had renamed Judea as "Palestine" and Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina) is not that of a military occupier. The main legal and historic claim is that based on the League of Nations Mandate, which in turn, was based on a considerable historic and moral claim recognized by the educated leaders of the then-civilized world, who actually knew something of the history of the area, and were not nearly as misinformed as so many have been by the mass media, and the laziness and prejudice of journalists today.
2006-12-23 05:38:29 · answer #10 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hamas, Fatah are like the Hezbollah all terrorists and cowards. They take cheap shots like using morons for suicide bombing Israeli civilians and then run and hide behind their women and children like - running scared from Israeli soldiers.
How long do think they would last, if they didn't have civilian population to hide in?
The only negotiate these organizations deserve is wether to imprisoned or shot.
2006-12-21 13:35:55 · answer #11 · answered by Curious 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋