I respect his opinion, however where can I find the entire interview and not just 3 words quote? I don't consider BBC neutral.
[MENTION=48922]I.P.Freely[/MENTION][/QUOTE [MENTION=49937]Daniyel[/MENTION]
BBC Radio 4 - Today, 02/08/2014, Ashdown: Israel must talk to Hamas the interview is in clips
Oh so now I see it..So here are few points about the interview.
1.Who is the leader of Palestinians? Hamas doesn't capable of ruling the Palestinians and whether they are - why they are not begging for ceasefire? to me it looks like they don't care about the Palestinians at all.
2.Why going to the assumption Israel didn't talk to Hamas or any other Palestinian leader before? I mean negotiations with the Pales always went down, but there is a process, last time the process with Abbas ended after Abbas refused to continue the negotiations without more greedy preconditions (after 9 months of negotiations!) and joined terrorists.
3.How informed Mr.Ashdown of the situation? "2 civilians killed in Israel" clearly represent a lack of knowledge, Mr.Ashdown also is not aware of the basic principles of negotiation - when you are the one on the losing side, you get the smaller part, Israel never hesitated to act in Gaza - but Israel is not supposed to hesitate for negotiatons - its the Palestinians leaders duty to hesitate to negotiation because they are the losing side, don't you think? Mr.Ashdown said the pressure is on Israel to talk to Hamas, which is obviously the other way around.
4.When exactly Hamas called for negotiations? peace talk? anything involving ceasefire just to halt the killing in Gaza? last time they "accepted" ceasefire they abused it for kidnap attempt out of 8-7 proposals some broke by them, some refused, some "didn't reach them"
5.Israel made 4-5 mistakes out of 4,000 targets is that considered a war crime?
I'm assuming its all Israeli fault where its actually not (but that's debatable because Hamas also does mistakes and I tend to believe more than just once) and International Law/Geneva also mark these areas as a legitimate targets, is Mr.Ashdown aware of that?
I got more points but I don't see this going anywhere without these major points I would like to have an answer for them before we proceed to the others.
I also don't remember the last time any Israeli condition fulfilled by the Palestinians how can negotiation make any difference now when it clearly didn't work in the past where the Palestinian got a ten times generous offers?
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