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Actually it's both sides.
Hamas need Israel to be harassing them to gain support for their own platform. The Israeli right need the Palestinians to be shooting missiles at them in order to gain support for their own platform. Hey, perfect for both of them. One kills a few people, the other retaliates and kills a few people, the other retaliates and kills and a few people and the other retaliates and kills a few people.
Each side is moving more to the right and extreme with time, the right and extreme get more votes/support/money etc to carry on what they're doing and everyone's happy, except those dying of course.
You say you support Israel defending itself. Do you support Israel ATTACKING?
Cameron condemns Israel s new land grab as utterly deplorable after soldiers swoop on 1 000 acres of Palestinian territory Daily Mail Online
"Cameron condemns Israel's new land grab as 'utterly deplorable' after soldiers swoop on 1,000 acres of Palestinian territory "
Defending itself? I don't think so.
U.S. condemns Israel as tank attack kills 15 asleep in UN school refuge Daily Mail Online
"U.S. condemns Israeli aggression as tank attack kills 15 men, women and children asleep in UN school refuge"
Defending itself? I don't think so.
Defending themselves by increases at a steady constant rate the taking of land? I don't think so. They need this violence to justify their land grabbing.
There's plenty of this. And here is a perfect example of how the right works.
Sharon came into power in 2001 to 2006. The Israelis, as if clear from this chart, show how Sharon stopped the suicide bombings by building a wall, having a blockade, separating Israel from the Muslims around.
I see it differently. I see Sharon's plan to attack the Palestinians and force them to retaliate, and retaliate they did. So he had justification for his policies, by causing lots of deaths. Without Sharon there wouldn't have been a need for these politics, because the attacks wouldn't have happened.
It's how the right works.
The right in the US works by being tough on crime. Yet Republican states have more crime than Democratic states on average. They need poor people, they need desperate people, they need weapons, so crime happens, so they can spend more money on it.
The Cold War was perfect for them. The end of the Cold War was a victory parade followed by the realisation that they had destroyed what was perfect, the common enemy that they could unite behind to get through draconian laws, more military spending.
You can see where Reagan came into power, he was tough on the USSR. You can see where the Cold War ended and Clinton was in power, and you can see where Bush came into power to be tough on al Qaeda et al.
Who benefits from military spending? Those going around the world getting their asses shot at and being killed or maimed or the politicians and their friends? Oh, yeah, it's be the latter.
So they convince the plebs like you and me to support their nonsense by making nonsense, everyone follows like fumb ducks and they get what they want.
The Israeli right isn't any different. Hamas isn't any different.
