The Israeli Hypocrisy...

[pbel]

The Israeli hypocrisy is clearly glaring on the world stage...It is comforting to hear the Israelis who will suffer with continuos wars and tension with humanity"s norms.
Netanyahu Is Shaping Israel in His Own Dark Image*|*Carlo Strenger


Even though many Israelis are willing to explore new options, their wary prime minister is deepening the country's isolation.

Terabytes of commentary have been written on the chain of events over the past week. Fatah and Hamas held reconciliation talks and plan to form a unity government. In turn, the Netanyahu government called off the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, claiming that PA President Mahmoud Abbas couldn't have both peace with Israel and unity with Hamas.

First I'd like to summarize some of the commentary in Israel's leading liberal newspaper Haaretz. David Landau wrote that Israel's reaction to the Fatah-Hamas rapprochement shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's true face. After all, the moderate right has argued that there's no point to a deal with Fatah because Hamas wouldn't recognize it. Hence the reaction to the rapprochement should be positive, but Netanyahu isn't capable of that.

The right's reaction is that Hamas is a murderous, anti-Semitic terror organization, and that the rapprochement only signals that Fatah was never serious about peace. Blessed are those whose minds are made up so strongly that they're never confused by the facts.

Otherwise, they might have noted that, as Zvi Bar'el has pointed out, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal has repeatedly stated since 2007 that Hamas does not seek to destroy Israel. Rather, it simply won't recognize Israel until the establishment of a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.

In no way do I idealize Hamas; I've written many times that its role in the Israel-Palestine conflict is catastrophic. But how can Netanyahu be so sure that Hamas isn't changing, particularly now when it's more isolated than ever in the Arab world?

 

[Beelzebub]

The silliness about Netanyahu being upset at a Hamas / Fatah reconciliation is just pure play acting.
In truth the talks were done at the end of March when Israel refused to complete the prisoner release schedule, as they had committed to do.

Israel just wanted something to whine about to say it had ended the talks, when they were already over.

The real thing to remember is that no nation makes peace with a political party of an enemy. It makes peace with the Whole Nation.
Vietnam could not make peace with The Republican Party, but not the Democrats.
Argentina could not surrender to the Labour Party, but not the Tories.

So IF Israel wanted peace, the union of Fatah & Hamas would be welcomed.

Israel doesn't want peace.
It just wants another piece.

 

[Sally]

The silliness about Netanyahu being upset at a Hamas / Fatah reconciliation is just pure play acting.
In truth the talks were done at the end of March when Israel refused to complete the prisoner release schedule, as they had committed to do.

Israel just wanted something to whine about to say it had ended the talks, when they were already over.

The real thing to remember is that no nation makes peace with a political party of an enemy. It makes peace with the Whole Nation.
Vietnam could not make peace with The Republican Party, but not the Democrats.
Argentina could not surrender to the Labour Party, but not the Tories.

So IF Israel wanted peace, the union of Fatah & Hamas would be welcomed.

Israel doesn't want peace.
It just wants another piece.

It's amusing how posters want to put all the blame on Israel, but they completely forget that the end result is actually that Hamas and Fatah want to see Israel destroyed. Nothing else will do for them because Muslims should be the ones to rule the entire Middle East. However, it is easy to see why the term Dhimwit was coined.