I read in the Jeruselam Post today that most of the Hamas "security men" who died in the Israeli bombings weren't rocket-launching militants at all - they were in fact policemen who enforce local law and order, direct traffic, etc. and basically try to maintain a little sanity and civil order amid the chaos, misery and madness in Gaza.
What the Palestinians need is empowerment, with a real country and a real government with real control over their own affairs, control over their borders, their airspace, their seaports, their resources, their destiny. A real government strong and willing enough to control and stop the radical elements, the terrorists, within their society.
It's going to take a lot of courage, creativity, hard work and good will to establish and empower a real, credible, moderate and responsible Palestinian government, ruling over a genuine Palestinian nation. Bombing the hell out of them in this kind of insane collective punishment won't help at all in achieving that objective.
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All the bombs in the world won't make the Palestinians good neighbors to the Israelis
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- 100 tons of bombs dropped on Gaza
- Why Israeli and American indiscriminate Bombings and Shock and Awe won't work
- too bad the bombs weren't MK-77 Mod 4
- Galvanizing issue
- All the bombs in the world won't make the Palestinians good neighbors to the Israelis
- Obama's view
- Solution remains the same
- And when Hamas kidnaps or attacks the UN peacekeepers?
- All you have to do...
- E.P?... Do you live in what was Indian country?
- Bombs are no good
- "Most of those killed were security men"
- Israel learned well from the Nazis.
- The solution is simple.