When you’re fighting for your rights, you have a choice to use peaceful methods or violence. I’d like to say that peace works best. But as I watch this experiment in the laboratory of the Middle East conflict, I’m not so sure.
For years, Palestinians have tried both tactics. Some support Hamas, a militant group in control of Gaza that shoots rockets at Israeli civilians to further the Palestinian cause. Others support Fatah, a political party that controls much of the West Bank, which has renounced violence and vowed to use only peaceful means to achieve a Palestinian state.
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Do we know how Obama will vote?
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Sad when some people see every issur through a narrow lense. Barrack Obama is the president, like him or not.It's fine to disagree with policy, but it's not fine or patriotic to have a knee-jerk reaction that's negative to every issue. Just take a moment and think.
What about Iran? Perhaps they sponsored this rocket attack to test Isreal's defenses and to demonstrate that Israel is vulnerable? With this demonstration, do they not have more power in their constant press toward nuclear weapons? Looking at this episode as strickly a Palestinian issue is myopic: this sould be a long end game chess match.
The premise of this article is wrong. The Arabs of Palestine are not fighting for "their rights." Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian groups are seeking to destroy Israel, just as they have since 1948. They have never acknowledged the moral and legal right of Israel to simply exist as a homeland for the Jewish people.
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