Israel's offensive against peace

[AlamoDemoc]

War crimes

By Alain Gresh


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In reality, as the Israeli media has revealed, this offensive was planned a long time ago; that includes the arrest of leading Hamas officials, starting with ministers and legislators. The purpose was not just to get rid the Hamas government elected in January but all form of Palestinian authority. That was the thinking behind the disengagement plan devised by Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s prime minister, and continued by his successor, Ehud Olmert: in order to draw Israel’s borders unilaterally it was necessary to tell the world that there was no Palestinian interlocutor.


excellent read...more here
http://mondediplo.com/2006/06/19palestine

[DELUSIONAL]

1. Good find -- this bit was very interesting:

t is surely no coincidence that the present offensive came just as all the Palestinian movements (except for Islamic Jihad) signed a joint declaration (2) accepting the establishment of a Palestinian state on all the territories occupied in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital - an implicit recognition of Israel. The Israeli government wanted to stamp out any new Palestinian opening towards peace. It had done the same in 2002, when an Arab summit in Beirut endorsed a plan that proposed recognition of Israel in exchange for the creation of a Palestinian state; the Sharon government responded, on the pretext of a suicide attack, with a generalised offensive against the occupied territories.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. and THERE is the problem...

..."...is surely no coincidence that the present offensive came just as all the Palestinian movements (except for Islamic Jihad) signed a joint declaration...

[AlamoDemoc]

3. go ahead, don't mind at all if you nitpick...youR good at it

[Behind the Aegis]

4. not nit-picking...

simply pointing out the truth...I know that infuriates many, but such is life.