True, let's call it Apartheid then, not much better unfortunately.
Also very important to highlight that most people living in Palestine were pretty provincial and moderate farmers before being carpet bombed by settlers which has unsurprisingly lead to extremism.
Does that justify Hamas atrocities? No, of course not. But desparate people do desparate things. And every bomb the Israelis drop is just creating more hate for the future. Anyway isn't the Hamas leadership mostly living in Qatar?
Of course leadership isn't living in the line of fire. They are not stupid, they don't blow up the place they live in. Or risk their own lives, now that they are leadership. Some things just never, ever change it seems.
Terror bombing never worked ever. What it does so, also confirmed hostorically by its biggest advocates like Sir Harris, is satisfying someones need for revenge.
Hell, this whole middle east conflict is so fucked up, I do not see any way how it will ever be resolved. And obviously, getting rid of either Israel or Palestine is absolutely no option. A shame, in a different world Israel could have become the Switzerland of the Middle East, instead religious hardliners, on both / all sides of this conflict did their utmost to prevent that.
That is exactly not how I understand OP, regardless of a harsh choice of words. I do not like Israels policy around settlements and the treatment of Palestinians, for me this is just unacceptable. The same goes for calling for the destruction of Israel as a nation. People can actually critizise both things.
And one thing should be clear: not all Palestinians are Hamas members, nor are all Israelians supporting the settlement policies or the Nethayahu government. Punishing everyone for actions of a few is not a thing I support.
What a bizarre thing to say. I wan't the jewish state destroyed? You are seeing ghosts my friend.
The fact that not carpet bombing and creating a huge concentration camp for millions that had their land annexed is now equal to wanting the Israel state destroyed is a testament to how one sided some of you people see thing conflict.
I'm pro peace, anti carpet bombing, and i see that Hamas has been supported by Israel to weaken PLO, and that settlers have stolen property and killed palestinians which has led to this extremism now, at the same time i understand the importance of an israeli state, and i understand the horrors of living in fear of rockets, though they kill a hundredfold less than the Israeli military.
Also very important to highlight that most people living in Palestine were pretty provincial and moderate farmers before being carpet bombed by settlers which has unsurprisingly lead to extremism.