[Nate]

Originally Posted by The wirerat

What if we withdrew all support from any side of the issue? It has been suggested we stop supporting it. Maybe if they found out that the United States refused to give any money, food, financial, or military aid they would play nice. Of course, being the cynic that I am, I doubt removing or physical and political support would do anything.

It might not solve anything in terms of the immediate or long-term hostility, but at least they'd have to make their own damned bombs to continue their own pseudo-meta-civil war or find another supplier willing to become the new laughing stock of the world.

[ICTHUS]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090106/...o-41f21e0.html

The murderous Israeli regime has struck again. I'm sure that school posed a really big threat to them.

[tlj009]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090106/...o-41f21e0.html

The murderous Israeli regime has struck again. I'm sure that school posed a really big threat to them.

If the school had posed a really big threat, then I am sure that Israel would have destroyed it. But since only three died and not the "hundreds of terrified Palestinians" that were in the building, then I guess that it didn't pose that large of a threat and was not destroyed. It does make a good headline though for how evil Israel is.

[JerryLove]

Originally Posted by ICTHUS

The murderous Israeli regime has struck again. I'm sure that school posed a really big threat to them.

Can you swear from personal and certain knowledge that no one fired any weapon from that school at a soldier?

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by ICTHUS

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090106/...o-41f21e0.html

The murderous Israeli regime has struck again. I'm sure that school posed a really big threat to them.

yea, because Hamas has been nothing but honorable in their fight, nothing to criticize them about.

[Ridley's Own]

I don't know whether Hamas was firing rockets from the school or not, but there is a basic problem with the approach Israel has been taking since, oh, I don't know, 1948. I's the 'It Takes a Tank to Raze a Vilage' approach that has been o-so succesful in secureing a lasting peace in the region.

Israel is fighting an idea, and ideas always win against tanks and missiles. Where ideas lose, and I hate to sound cynical about this, is when they're faced with money and ecnomic prosperity. Why does Hamas have the success they have in Gaza? Because they were the ones operating the medical clinics, the schools, the basic infrastructure of life in the Gaza strip while the rest of the world, including, I would mention, Israel, the US, the UN, and the Arab world, sat back and let them build squalid refugee 'camps.'

One wonders what would'vehappened had Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the US and the UN aken the time to invest in the territories after 1978, rather than leaving them to their own devices (as Egypt, Jordan and the UN did) or colonizing the area in contravention of the Geneva conventions(Israel with US support).

Israel isn't going to win this, long-term. Hamas is playing the long-game, using their demographics and the reality that Israel is caught in a non-win situation. And simply burning Gaza to the ground, losing international support, etc. isn't helping. I recall something about cutting off noses to spite faces.