User blog comment:FirstStooge/Palestine or Israel?/@comment-3398633-20140722083232

Palestine. Everytime. All of the time. Why? I'll explain.

Let's ignore the last fifty years of recent history, and take a look at the recent conflict. Now Israel said it was going into Gaza to "dismantle some 'terror tunnels'", even though Hamas hadn't broken the ceasefire established in 2008. Now, this comes suspeciously close to a time when Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank signed what was effectively an agreement to unify both parties and unite Palestine's two largest political bodies into a single coalition. Such a coalition would come at Israel on the world stage with one combined voice instead of two weak voices. Bibi stated repeatedly that he didn't want that coalition to happen, and that it was a direct threat to Israel's political goals, that is, to prevent Palestine from becoming an independent nation (you need only look at Israel aggressive attempts to prevent Palestine from becoming a UN member in 2012 for proof of that).

Now ask yourself: Why would Hamas kill three random teenagers in the West Bank, far from its own territory in the Gaza Strip, and then, in complete opposition to their normal mode of operation, deny they killed them, especially when the proudly claim all of the other murders they have commited? On top of that, what did Hamas stand to gain from killing the three teens? Normally, whenever Hamas commits an act of murder, it has an objective, and Hamas will immediately claim responsibly as they have all the other times in the past. Looking at the timeline, Hamas halted all suicide attacks after 2008 in line with the ceasefire brokered by Egypt. They agree to form a coalition government with Fatah, and Israel protests the action. When the coalition becomes reality on June 2, the boys disappear only two weeks later. Their bodies are found two weeks after that, and despite their being found in the West Bank, Israel blames not Fatah, by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Now Netanyahu blames Hamas, stating that he has "proof" they did it, but he never provides any evidence. This is a complete contridiction of his behavior, because whenever Bibi gets any "proof" promoting his statements, he would have clubbed the world over the head with it already, and proudly worn that "evidence" on his chest. But no no, Netanyahu keeps that information to himself, and instead of trying to find the murderers who would either be in the West Bank or Israel, he immediately blames Hamas. Now Hamas states that it didn't have anything to do with the murders, and would have claimed responsibility if it had. Another, less-known group claims responsibility, but no one pays them any attention. Hamas warns Israel to leave it alone, and Israel refuses to back down. Shortly thereafter, Israel, not Hamas as many like to believe, fires the first shots, bombing multiple locations in Gaza as punishment.

Hamas then begins to shoot off rockets to punish Israel for its actions, the only means of retribution it has (since it lacks tanks, missiles, aircraft, warships, a massive army, an intelligence agency, a media machine to white-wash its actions, the United States, a massive economy, a massive population, nuclear weapons, an extensive pool of global allies, a modern industrial complex, so on and so on). Israel knows that it cannot justify a massive ground operation that will kill hundreds of Palestinians because three kids in another region were killed, so what does it do? It states that its invading a tiny piece of land to destroy tunnels. Now these tunnels haven't resulted in any deaths whatsoever in Israel since 2008, and are used instead to get food and supplies into Gaza. Logic would dictate that if you wanted to keep someone from getting into your house, rather than go to their house and lock their doors, I would just upgrade the security at my house. Israel could have simply closed the tunnels in their land, but instead went into Gaza to do it there.

Now why do all of this over some tunnels? Well its not about the tunnels, but its about weakening Hamas as a threat to Israel and removing them from a political unity government with Fatah that would jepodize Israeli control over both the West Bank and Gaza. I believe without a doubt, that the Mossad killed those boys and covered it up to rile up the Israeli populace into acting against Hamas. This is the same organization that kidnapped a Palestinian engineer because he was able to get Gazas one power plant to run on coal provided by Egypt instead of electricity provided by Israel, removing the energy control Israel held over Hamas. It's the same group that kidnapped a man from Italy to jail him in Israel for revealing Israel built nukes in defiance of the NPT. It's the same group that killed dozens of Iranian scientists, who had nothing to do with Israel, in Iran simply to get at Iran's government. It's run by a government that repeatedly plays the victim in complete disregard for the fact that it has the best economy, military, standard of living, and political ties in the region, and is a regional power in its own right.

I will always support the Palestinians because unlike the Israelis, the Palestinians have no one to defend them, nor can they defend themselves. The Palestinians are the victims in this case, and have been for the last fifty years.