Thats a classical example of saying somthing thats true yet somehow twisting it compltely. "food and gas etc"...The etc is weapons. RPGs, High Explosives, 122mm Grad rockets. why dont you mention that part? There is a reason why Israel dose not allow anyone out of Gaza and into Israel, and that reason is clear for all to see. We left Gaza and so we were not responsible of feeding and taking care of them. My country dosent have to feed its enemies. Even so we did, and even during fighting allow "humaneterian aid" to go into Gaza. We also allowed Palestinians to come into Israel in ergent medical situations.
So it's easier to just stop all supplies and let people starve than to look in the backs of the trucks to see if they are carrying weapons? trained dogs will soon sniff out HE and I'm sure that 122mm rockets etc would not be hard to spot in amongst the vegetables and other food supplies. You must think that the people of the world are absolutely stupid if you want them to believe that. No, you don't have to feed them, but you are not supposed to shoot up their fishing vessels or other vessels trying to go and get food either. The truth is, Israel is actually trying to turn one of the most densely populated areas of the middle east into a concentration camp, knowing that the population would start to fight and give the israelis a reason to further wreck their economy and infrastructure. It is no less than piecemeal genocide.
The crossings that have been closed are between Gaza and Israel, not Gaza and Syria, so why would the Israelis need to stop weapons coming from Israel? Surely you are not expecting me to believe that the Israelis are allowing other Arab nations to truck weapons across their borders for Gaza.
The fact is, that Israel did not uphold their end of the ceasefire agreement, the Palestinians lost patience with them and started to send over a few rocket propelled reminders. Those rockets killed less than 30 Israelis, in return, Israel has flattened most of Gazas infrastructure killing over 400 innocent civilians, Oh, and one known terrorist along with 19 other civilians that just happened to be in the same housing complex.
[Sarcasm] Yep,... seems OK to me. [/sarcasm]
There is now news about people coming forward stating that this was all planned prior to the ceasefire ever being implemented, and that it was never intended by Israel that it should work. It all seems to be going according to plan.
Somehow I think that both you and I know that even if they had the whole land they would be poor and hungry.
You've never learnt have you?
People would rather be poor and hungry in their own land, than being killed and pushed off their land by a group of outsiders who were given the land by a third party who didn't own it in the first place.
Their leadership is robing them blind.
Perhaps they just feel that is better to be robbed, than being robbed AND killed.
As for Israel taking more land, it was not Israel that decided to have war, it was the arabs. You cant start wars, loose them, loose land and than whine for 60 years. Time to compremise.
No, the Palestinians were merely trying to keep what was theirs, I think that's a good enough reason for them to fight, and the fact that you have beaten them still does not mean the land is yours. You talk of compromise, If I were to steal your house, and you decided to fight me and i won,
(1) That does not make your house belong to me.
(2) If I then say "Oh well,... give me your car too and you can be my slave and we'll call it a compromise" That is not a compromise, that is living death. Believe me, they will not accept it, even if Hamas accepted it, another group would not and would take their place, You know it, and I know it, and we both know why.
All of this, and you still can't understand why they hate you and go on fighting??? At the very best, you may drive them underground, but the Israelis will live forever in fear of massive retribution. You will never be able to go unarmed or go out knowing that you will come home, that is the nature of the war you are bringing upon the Israeli people. Your "Berlin wall" will keep out large numbers of small attacks, but they will only need one big target every now and again and you will eventually find out that you can't stop everything. Also this is just making them up the ante., attacks will be fewer, so they will make sure they are more worth while.
Your current policies are the ones most likely to be the target of something really nasty like a Dirty bomb, or chemical/bacteriolocal warfare, you are far easier to get at than the US and surrounded by a Arabs with rich uncles. There are plenty of arabs willing to sacrifice their lives to kill a few Israelis, did you ever stop to think what would happen if several of these people get hold of a real weapon, let's say Ebola virus, or any of a hundred things that are available from rogue states around the world. They won't care if they all die, just so long as they kill you too, this is the nature of the war you are forcing them to adopt. I think that it's time for Israel to wake up. We all know that it can happen, it's just a matter of time.
But what would I know, I am only a stupid burnt out ex Stoker with no knowledge of the way the world and people work.