These people are lunatics

[Jayhawker Soule]

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How do you deal with Hamas?

By strengthening Abbas.

 

[Moishe3rd]

You fight terrorism through the means allowed by the international law.

I would humbly suggest that if "the means allowed by the international law" are interpreted to state, in fact, that you must die rather than defend yourself, then your "international law" might be deleterious to your survival.

 

[Moishe3rd]

There are many dubious factual claims in your reworking of this post. I prefer the original form.

Really?
Perhaps you could cite one of these "dubious factual claims" and offer factual evidence to the contrary?
No hurry. I'll wait.

 

[sandandfoam]

Hamas is a cancerous parasite and a persistent threat to all around them. They are also an organization which was, prior to the most recent conflict, losing support, struggling for legitimacy, and rushing headlong into bankruptcy - all serious problems solved with Netanyahu's indispensable aid.

The bottom line is this: you do not crush Hamas by building settlements and killing civilians.

I could not agree more.

 

[Estro Felino]

The bottom line is this: you do not crush Hamas by building settlements and killing civilians.

:clap:clap:clap:clap:clap:clap

 

[Yerda]

By strengthening Abbas.

Ok. This was suggested on the first page by xkatz. Thanks for addressing the OP.

 

[Yerda]

I would humbly suggest that casualty figures given out by the Palestinian, Hamas controlled, PR people in Gaza... are lies.

I can entertain such a possibility.

 

[Alceste]

This is, in fact, a reality that too many assiduously deny. Hamas is a cancerous parasite and a persistent threat to all around them. They are also an organization which was, prior to the most recent conflict, losing support, struggling for legitimacy, and rushing headlong into bankruptcy - all serious problems solved with Netanyahu's indispensable aid.

The bottom line is this: you do not crush Hamas by building settlements and killing civilians.

I don't deny that Hamas is awful. I simply observe that the IDF is also awful. Plus I view their PR (like the PR of every militant organization) with intense scepticism.

 

[metis]

By strengthening Abbas.

In which way? Also, for either Israel or the U.S. to strengthen Abbas would be the kiss of death for him and probably the entire P.A. Also, we would be supporting an entity that is viewed there as being corrupt even if there has been some improvement since Arafat.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

In which way?

By negotiating a just and responsible end to the increasingly harsh occupation instead of responding to every demand with the threat of new settlements.

By eschewing the idiotic policy addressed here.

In which way? Also, for either Israel or the U.S. to strengthen Abbas would be the kiss of death for him and probably the entire P.A.

So we're not negotiating with Abbas for his own good but are now negotiating with Hamas and Al-Aqsa? Seriously? How does that appear to be working?

Also, we would be supporting an entity that is viewed there as being corrupt even if there has been some improvement since Arafat.

This is getting sillier and sillier.

 

[metis]

By negotiating a just and responsible end to the increasingly harsh occupation instead of responding to every demand with the threat of new settlements.

By eschewing the idiotic policy addressed here.

So we're not negotiating with Abbas for his own good but are now negotiating with Hamas and Al-Aqsa? Seriously? How does that appear to be working?

This is getting sillier and sillier.

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