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In reply to the discussion: Jubilant Palestinians mob Gaza streets [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)57. It doesn't have to be.
It's only "anti-Israel" if you assume the status quo on security policy is actually GOOD for Israel(it isn't...it simply keeps the tensions building and sets up a far worse day of reckoning down the road unless the Palestinian people are given some sort of respite from the perpetually increasing repression and subjugation imposed by the Occupation in the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza).
Obviously, I oppose what was done to the collaborator. It's not as if bombing Gaza can stop things like that happening, since all the bombing can do is to increase Hamas' popularity. It's the "circle the wagons" thing...people always do that under attack, even if the wagon-master is a total bastard.
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Thank you for the response then. I'll self-delete the post you are responding to out of respect.
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#37
don't let your guard down; that kind of assumption can still be safely made about certain others
Alamuti Lotus
Nov 2012
#41
Really? Do you have information that the executed collaborators just didn't think Hamas was great?
Comrade Grumpy
Nov 2012
#34
As the Wikipedia link pointed out, it hasn't even been agreed that THAT election will happen.
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#35
They tried directly electing the pm in Israel at one point...Didn't seem to help.
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#52