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In reply to the discussion: Terrorists fire rockets from Gaza hospital [View all]Sam1
(498 posts)but the Palestinians are no threat to Israelis? Why the military uniforms then?"
Answer: So they (the Palestinians) can fantasize.
Question: Why are the "Israelis are just better organized, better disciplined and better armed, but ... are no more angry or intent on war than are the Palestinians?"
The Palestinians do not have the same ability to interfere with Israel's governing structures as the Israelis have to interfere with those of the Palestinians. The Palestinians are under Israeli occupation not the other way around.
The clips of IDF troops kicking the shit out of an American Palestinian Kid does not, to me, indicate a well discipline army, but rather one that has been corrupted by to much occupation duty.
The IDF is better armed the Palestinians because the U.S.A. gives them just about everything they want in the way of military equipment with no restrictions on use, while Israel embargoes the Palestinians in Gaza from everything from medical supplies to parts to repair the water wells that the IDF bombed.
Actually a negotiated peace is impossible until Israel gives up the dream of Greater Israel and quits bulldozing Palestinian homes, businesses, and olive groves and replacing them with settlements in the west bank. I really think that the end is going to come when enough of the west bank is settled by Israelis that the IDF can drive the Palestinians across the border in to Jordanian refuge camps. The Israelis may be no more angry then the Palestinians but the are, as long as the dreams of Greater Israel exist, the are more intent on war.
As long as the U.S.A. gives unqualified support to Israel there will be no peace, just ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.