The Israeli army forcibly evicted Israeli settlers from Gaza when
Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.
The result was a violent Hamas takeover in Gaza, raids on Israeli
border posts, the kidnapping of a soldier, and indiscriminate rocket
fire from Hamas controlled Gaza into Israel.
Given that history, where is the incentive for Israel to do anything
but take a hard line?
The people of Gaza would be a lot less needy if they concentrated on
building a civil society. If every crate that brought in weapons
through a tunnel brought in food and medicine how much better would
the Gazans be today? If Hamas resolved to live in peace with Israel
there would be no need for a closed border.
Matthew
On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
Wayne Dernoncourt
But they do get rockets, mortars and explosives into Gaza and
the West Bank along with people who will kill themselves
with the explosives (hmmm, that hasn't happened recently has
it, at least I haven't seen it in the news). The focus of the
Israeli's seems to be to stop the flow of weapons. They are
talking about giving land up, there are some factions (the
settlers) that don't buy it.
Thinking about this a little more, it seems that the Israeli
military/police are reluctant to evict the settlers from the
homes that are in the disputed zones. Disputed in that Israel
and the Palestinians have both said it's Palestinians and the
settlers that say it's the settlers. It seems that one way to
build trust would be to have a team of Israeli soldiers
escort Palestinian police to evict the settlers. The role of
the Israeli's is to make sure that Palestinians don't go
overboard in evicting.... I'm sure that there is lots wrong
with something so simple.
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