You are still dodging and refusing to back your deceitful statement up.
I am not dodging because I had already cited examples to make my point.
Yes, I am serious. I gave you an example of what America has done over a single attack that killed 3,000 Americans. With two countries invaded and over a hundred thousand dead in our retaliation, one can easily see my point.
Is it your point that a terrorist attack killing 3,000 people in one fell swoop is comparable to no deaths in the months preceding Cast Lead?
And this history between Palestinans and Israelis didn't start a few years ago. It began over 60 years ago and has never stopped. Would America standby and allow the bigots and racists of the world talk it into accepting 60 years of it?
You see, one reason I didn't want to rehash the argument with don is that in fact Israel has not sat idly by even when many countries would. Rather, Israel has regularly launched operations inside Gaza in response to rocket attacks. Some are simply air raids or commando operations and then others are full-scale invasions or incursions. For instance, in 2008 Cast Lead was not the only major military operation launched by Israel. Another had actually been launched near the beginning of the year.
One death ignited hundreds of millions in the following.
If Hezbollah were to assassinate an Israeli Prime Minister or President what do you think Israel's response would be? Now maybe the consequences of a war would not be as destructive, but it certainly could be if the right ties were formed.
A culmination of a series of events of incidents that involve people being killed is exactly what goes on between "Palestine" and Israel for the last 60 years. Attacking Israeli posts...kidnapping Israelis soldiers, terrorist attacks on crowded busses and bazaars, murdering them at Olympics, etc...... Perhaps if Russia was a Jewish nation you would forego a few facts to design their "evil" as well.
You put decades of incidents together and it makes it sound a lot more serious.
I have stated enough times, if this was going on with any other country, "Palestine" would have been wiped off the map by now. Consider what America, Russia, China, or even France would have done by now, and then think about what I mean by restraint.
Let's go with that for a moment. I am sure you could go on and on about how Clinton was a ***** for responding to countless terror attacks resulting in dozens or hundreds of death with maybe a few cruise missile strikes of little to no affect. Perhaps we should consider how the bombing Pan Am 103 that resulted in over 200 casualties, most of them American citizens, did not led to Libya being wiped off the map or facing anything other than sanctions. Far from showing a lack of restraint the U.S. has shown considerable restraint when faced with direct attacks against it.
It's only when the publicly known facts come crashing down around people's unfair and deceitful criticism that they accuse others of "cherry picking."
Actually it is because you are cherry-picking information.
The fact remains that no country in the world sees anything like what Israel does and no country in the world receives as much criticism for anything it does.
That is just pathetically false. I don't know why there is so much philosemitism around here, but it is kind of suffocating.
What is it about Israel that has you so focused?
I am not focused on Israel. The problem is that I see a lot of people on this forum posting blatantly false information or ignoring inconvenient facts to push their agenda against Palestinians and/or justify their excessive admiration of Israel and/or Jews.
And despite all of this evidence that even their own fellow Muslims around them push them away, you pretend that Israel has the problem. I don't blame Israel for not trusting Palestinians. No one else in the region does.
Are you seriously arguing that because everyone hates them and refuses to trust them that it is therefore ok to hate them and consider them liars? It isn't true by the way about everyone in the region feeling that way, but that aside you seem to believe it would justify your own attitude.
The affected residents face a degraded standard of living e.g., if schools are not constructed to educate their children, etc.
Yet they will still be living better than most Palestinians. No doubt it will inconvenience some people, but it will not lead to any real loss for Israel or the settlements. Such a freeze does not prejudice the status of settlements in negotiations. Though I doubt it would happen, what if Israel agrees to turn over control of all of the West Bank to the Palestinians?
I provided the links to several news articles backing my point.
No, nothing you cited backs up the claim that pressure on Israel was happening
instead of pressure on the Palestinians. That is what you claimed and you have failed to prove it. You have failed to prove it because the claim is false.
My argument is that there will be additional preconditions if Israel gives in.
An argument that has no basis in fact and is actually contradicted by the facts. The facts are that the Palestinians entered negotiations when that precondition was not fully satisfied.
