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**clubcughSheet** · 12-30-2008, 05:06 AM

@ Jasonik it is no more or less a problem or solution than a militarily threatening Palestinian State is. Because Hamas functions as a duly elected, governing Palestinian entity, they represent the Palestinian people when they unilaterally launch missiles across the strip

I think a fitting analogy would be this: Imagine in 1985 a bunch of black South African slum towns were given limited autonomy to elect their own governing bodies. The blacks still relied on the whites for jobs, utilities, etc., but they could now govern their shanties. The blacks, angry at having their land usurped and then treated as 3rd class people, launched rockets into white Johannesburg. The white South African government responded this attack by an "autonomous" entity by liberally carpet bombing the slum town centers where the rockets came from, killing black militants and the civilians that elected them.

Wouldn't the world condemn the white South African goverment? This is the situation right now in Gaza, but the U.S. leadership condemns the Palestinian while ignoring the much wider, longer-term wrongs perpetrated by Israel.

12-30-2008, 05:06 AM	#45
clubcughSheet Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 490 Senior Member	@ Jasonik it is no more or less a problem or solution than a militarily threatening Palestinian State is. Because Hamas functions as a duly elected, governing Palestinian entity, they represent the Palestinian people when they unilaterally launch missiles across the strip I think a fitting analogy would be this: Imagine in 1985 a bunch of black South African slum towns were given limited autonomy to elect their own governing bodies. The blacks still relied on the whites for jobs, utilities, etc., but they could now govern their shanties. The blacks, angry at having their land usurped and then treated as 3rd class people, launched rockets into white Johannesburg. The white South African government responded this attack by an "autonomous" entity by liberally carpet bombing the slum town centers where the rockets came from, killing black militants and the civilians that elected them. Wouldn't the world condemn the white South African goverment? This is the situation right now in Gaza, but the U.S. leadership condemns the Palestinian while ignoring the much wider, longer-term wrongs perpetrated by Israel.
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