Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Please stop saying that I do.
If you disagree with me about things, that's fine, I accept that...but stop saying that I support things I DON'T support.
If you want to argue that, following the departure of the IDF from Gaza, Hamas took power there, that is historically correct as correlation. However, you can't assume it was causation.
Had the Occupation ended in the late 1980's, when that superior local Palestinian leadership emerged, Hamas wouldn't even EXIST as a political entity...yet, rather than help that superior leadership you say the Occupation produced, the government you fight for KEPT THE TROOPS THERE, and kept building more settlements...and, by so doing, GAVE Hamas its chance. What became Hamas later was, at that time, just an Islamic charity organization. Had the IDF and the settlers left in, say 1989, that's what Hamas would still be today.