Forostar said:
The Hamas might be on their own, but many people voted for them and the Hamas warriors live within the densely populated Palestinian community.
Yes, but that does not mean that all those who voted for the Hamas are actually Islamists. Back when those completely nonsensical elections took place, the Hamas were the ones who said what the people wanted to hear, they fed from the hatred of the Palestinians towards the Israelis. What the Hamas said sounded so good to those who voted for them that they did not want to hear the moderate ideas of the Fatah. What most people still don't realise is that the Hamas stands for more than just the liberation of Palestine. They want a theocratic, fundamentalist state like Taleban-era Afghanistan. That idea alone must be fought with every means available.
I already stated my opinion on the Hamas using the Palestine population as shields against Israeli attacks.
However, there's much more at stake than rockets only. Til this very day Israel didn’t mark its exact borders officially. There were many opportunities to talk about peace or to give the lands back. If Israel would have given back the lands that they've possessed for 40 years, things might not have turned out so bad as now.
Official or not, the borders are there. What lands exactly are you referring to? If you mean the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, those are under control of the Palestinians. As we see. Israel wouldn't need to invade the Gaza Strip militarily if it was under their control in the first place.
Israel are the possessors, the Palestinians want more freedom.
The Palestinians want their freedom and the Israelis want their rights as a nation. Israel has never attacked a country or a place without being attacked first. The measures were not always comparable, but every Israeli attack was a counter-attack. Israel is determined to grant the Palestinians their freedom only when the Palestinians guarantee that they will leave Israel in peace.
And to state it again, a Palestine under the Hamas is not a free Palestine.
Israel has reasons to protect their people, but they should not ignore the other side. Nor should the rest of the world. The Palestinians are the victims. They have lost their land and many more human lives than Israel.
No. The victims are the civilians on both sides. Neither the Hamas, nor the Hezbollah, nor the Islamic Jihad and what other despicable organisations there are are any sort of victim. Their interest is to fuel the conflict so they can exist further. The only victims in their ranks are the followers brainwashed to believe that this is the only way.
Please note that I am anti-Hamas,
not anti-Palestinian. I am just trying to point out that many who support the Palestinians are overlooking the fact that the Hamas are a criminal organisation in the same league as the Taleban and al Qaeda. They follow the same ideology and pursue the same goals. They have no respect for life and utilise the suffering of innocent people to make other innocent people suffer, abusing a belief that is sacred to many to legitimise their deeds.