Gaza

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Deckard

Hey Strangelet, you weren't there a moment ago!

(Now I feel guilty like it's gang-up-on-Sean time. )

In all honesty I don't greatly disagree with you Sean; my anger is only directed at the green light Israel always seems to get from our politicians.

Ah, it's been a little while, but this is a pretty mild instance of "gang-up-on-Sean time" comparitively speaking. Doesn't bother me at all.

I do essentially agree with you on Israel's greater responsibility due to it's position of power. I'm basically just saying - as I've said here in previous conversations about the conflicts in the Middle East - I don't believe for a second that if Israel were to withdraw troops or even completely disarm, then there'd be peace in the region. I'm raising the point mainly in response to this comment from Myrrh and the subsequent agreement with it:

Originally Posted by myrrh

Maybe, just maybe, if the US had actually recognized that Hamas was the legit government and not labelled them as a terrorist group, then they would have been able to spend money on building more schools, instead of having to worry about buying rockets.

I guess that for me, it's one thing to acknowledge that Israel's response is inappropriate and over the top, but completely another to look at the root causes of the overall regional problems and how they should be handled. Wish I knew what the answers are, but I feel pretty confident that Hamas wouldn't be a peaceful, happy group of school builders had we just been nicer to them.