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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is another great piece. Why havent the Palestinians been able to succeed? http://www.meforum.org/4758/stop-the-jew-hatred-and-build-palestine[/quote]
Er, isn't this a bit simplistic, along the lines of "forgive and forget"?  You're telling the oppressed people to forget about stolen land and property and just get on with things?  That's not to defend Hamas at all, but actually, yes, Hamas is not just one thing. Hamas has a government wing that runs municipal services, collects taxes, runs schools and daycares and does the sort of mundane things that governments do.   And there is, as a matter of fact, a theory that says Israel had serious concerns that a Palestinian unity government where Hamas has all but ceded power to Fatah may actually accomplish things, so it decided to start another spiral of a terrible, but familiar status quo.[/quote]

But everything Hamas does centers around hatred of the Jews. In the schools, they teach the children to hate Jews from preschool. And as clearly evidenced by the society, all the money they are given goes into building terror tunnels and missiles - they are not paying civil salaries, building infrastructure (and you can blame Israel for them not having building materials, but they certainly had materials to build the tunnels).

They destroyed the infrastructure - green houses, irrigation systems - that the Israelis left behind when they withdrew in 2005. And they did it out of hatred. They were finally given what they wanted - no more occupation and they threw away the opportunity to thrive and instead elected Hamas, a party of hate. [/quote]
I think, again, that this is a very simplistic explanation that demonizes a force you'd rather not understand because you simply do not want to consider a possibility that they may have a legitimate grievance.

In the context of Israeli-Palestinian history, Palestinians have excellent, excellent reasons to hate what Israel has done to them. Why would you blame Hamas for teaching children what they do? "Daddy, why do I live in a refugee camp?"  "Er...because in 1948 we got expelled from our village, and the world said it's OK because otherwise the Jewish state wouldn't exist and ethnic cleansing is OK in certain cases, and no, we can't go back to our old house because we aren't Jewish and the Jews said our house is not our house anymore and we can never go back."  Out of hatred?? What's to love???

On the missing salaries, I think you have bad information, since it was the nonpayment of salaries for Hamas civil workers that contributed to the current flare-up.  See this article from Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.606952

On destroying the infrastructure, I don't know if you've ever lived through war, but if a hostile occupying force FINALLY withdrew from my land, I'd burn everything they left behind and piss on the ashes, too.

Also, Likud also doesn't recognize the Palestinian state (or did not until recently), insists on a dogged pursuit of expanded settlement and says Israel's eastern border is the River Jordan.  They are better than Hamas why?[/quote]

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