"Israel needs peace.... Israel cannot have those things as long as it prevents any government except that of the most ruthless to exist in Gaza and the West Bank."
Israel allowed fair and open general elections in the territories. The Palestinians chose Hamas. If you are not satisfied with the results, have new elections, this time without Hamas participation.
"Israel sought on every border...to destroy any hope for peace." No, Israel did not. She was attacked by Hamas in the spring of 2006, during a cross border raid by Hamas and affiliates, when Hamas kidnapped Gilad Shalit from sovereign Israeli soil. Israel was attacked by Hezbollah in June of 2006 in a cross-border raid in which forty katyushas were fired at Shlomi, eight soldiers killed, and two soldiers kidnapped.
The terrorists were not satisfied with getting their land back. They did not start cultivating the land and setting up indistries. They preferred waging a terror war by Katyushas and Qassams on Israeli civilians. |
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