war on Iraq?

[moe.ron]

Ah, I was waiting for the flame war to start. But back to the topic and sub-topic at hand.

Hamas was funded and supported by the Israel government in the 80s to off-set the growing power of the PLO. I'll try to find the source as soon as possible. So it's the dog comming back to bite the master arses.

The problem with the current Israel-Palestine problem is the lack of leadership on both camp. Both leaders are of the old school of fighting. Arafat was a good revolutionary leader, and Sharon was a good war general. Neither know a single thing about state-building or peace negotiation. I just read a study about Hamas and its pattern of violance. It's violance goes hand in hand when a negotiated peace is gaining steam. So the fight in many way is against those that want peace (Sharon is not one of them, neither is Arafat), and those that would like to stay in power through haterd and violance (plenty of those on both side, don't kid yourself if you think only the Palestinian are perpetrating violance.)