Reply #90: and hamas would have "canned their plans"...

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I do think they would have done better to negotiate a deal for leaving, done right they might even have kept Fatah in charge of Gaza

Hamas would have taken over anyway...their plan was well in place, with motivated and rather ruthless followers....and that would have made any public negotiated deal irrelevant anyway...

i dont complain about the gazans, i just find that since gaza has been a massive failure, and the mantra of:

israel as the stronger one, has to do something big, something to break the cycle, etc etc etc has been shown to not produce the hoped for results, somehow its israels fault for "not doing it right" to be ridiculous

gosh, we so sorry, perhaps if we said "please a bit more,...or we so sorry"..maybe they wouldnt have been so insulted by us leaving so abruptly and would have refrained from trying to kill us-for years afterwards.
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