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Originally Posted by epchick
Both sides are to blame, but if your going to make a "promise" (of sorts) keep it. Israel gave those two territories to the Palestinians, yet continue to occupy the land. Yes they should pull out of "Palestine." Pulling out doesn't not mean they should stop protecting themselves, but Israel should protect themselves on their side, instead of keeping their soldiers on Palestinian "land."
Palestine is as much to blame as Israel, but let's not pretend that Israel is innocent either. Palestine is not attacting Israel "every chance they get."
You can resent the term aggressive, doesn't mean it isn't true. You think other countries want all men, women and children of Israel dead? Hmmm...how many women and children in Gaza have died by the hands of the Israelis in the past week or so? Come on now.
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For one, many Israelis do not believe the Palestinians should have any land, and had no say in the matter (these are usually the more religious hard-liners). If you think about this from any other countries perspective, whether it is land that they gave to the other people or another country altogether, if they have the military might and are being constantly attacked, they will occupy that country to ensure these attacks are minimized... It's basic logic. I feel for the citizens of Gaza, because most of them just want a home in which to raise their children and live their lives, but when you make a stupid decision like they did in 2006, electing a known terrorist group as the leaders of your region, it really isn't going to end well for you. I really feel for the 43% who voted for the much more levelheaded Fatah party.
"Palestine" is not attacking Israel at every chance they get, but the Hamas militants are, and this has been going on for some time now, Israel has just gotten sick of it's citizens dying/being injured and its property being destroyed.
If you cannot see the distinction between a national ideology of exterminating an entire race of people and collateral deaths due to the enemy constantly hiding itself amongst the civilian population, I really can't have a reasonable conversation with you on this topic. Also, as I previously pointed out, some of those "women and children" being killed are either militants or the wives/children of militants. As I said before... I hardly consider a 16 year old wielding an AK-47 a child.
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