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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]Muslima, a number of us have asked you this but you keep skirting around these questions.

1) if Israel gives in to all of hamas's demands of lifting the blockade, free trade of whatever, etc, what assurances does Israel have that Hamas won't continue to shoot rockets at them?   Won't continue creating these tunnels into Israel? I think that's a pretty basic question.

2). Why do you support Hamas and their tactics?[/quote]

I have responded to both questions in my previous posts that I think are searchable on the site? But to give you a quick answer, one has to understand the Palestinian perspective on the Israeli colonization of Palestine that started in the late 19th century. I think three generations later, Palestinians understand that the Israelis are there to stay. I don't think there is any serious Palestinian leader, including in the Hamas, that really believes that it can make the Israelis go, or that even want the Israelis to go. It's a question of what kind of regime would reign between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean.

Why do I support Hamas? I have said many times that Hamas was created with the help of Israel and backed by Israel to make it the strong force that it is but when Hamas stopped service their purpose, they recognized it as a terrorist organization, the UN doesn't recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization. And finally, Hamas is the government elected by Gaza in elections that Jimmy Carter (and many others) observed and said were completely fair and free.  I am not a cheerleader for Hamas and do not SUPPORT everything that they do, but I recognize their right to resist occupation.

What is Israel’s end goal? What if Hamas  dug tunnels beneath the entirety of the Gaza Strip—they clearly did not, but let us assume they did for the sake of argument. According to Israel’s logic, all of Gaza’s 1.8 million Palestinians are therefore human shields for being born Palestinian in Gaza. The solution is to destroy the 360-kilometer square strip of land and to expect a watching world to accept this catastrophic loss as incidental. This is possible only by framing and accepting the dehumanization of Palestinian life. Despite the absurdity of this proposal, it is precisely what Israeli society is urging its military leadership to do. Israel cannot bomb Palestinians into submission, and it certainly cannot bomb them into peace.[/quote]

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