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Middle East = Tragedy/catastrophe/Disaster | 29 décembre 2008

If Hamas is a dangerous terrorist organisation, it must be said that they're not very good at it.

As the spokesperson for the US government condems attacks on Israel by the Islamic movement in the palestinian territories, Washington only asked Israel to "avoid civilian casualties in Gaza". Until now Israel has only rarely responded to any demands or followed international resolutions not to attack civilians or occupy certain territories. They do just what they want. And the world watches without ever interfering. The EU and UN are completely useless. Everybody waits for the US to mediate - bad luck, Bush is leaving and he was busy eating his turkey, while Obama is dealing with planning his first response to the financial crisis and also wanted to spend his last christmas as non-president with his family. So no one was on call that day. Do we (other countries and the EU) sit by out of guilt? Will we ever get over the second world war? Yes it was terrible but its time to stop the nonsense, the palestinians have suffered enough.

The big joke is that the "evil terrorist" organisation has killed one person in rocket attacks, which is yes sad but what is it next to the 300 casulties the Israeli have killed, and more than 600 injured on the Gaza strip? How is it defendable, even if you do not get along with your neighbours, that you go out with intent to kill its leaders? Tell me where in the world political leaders are OPENLY accepted death targets? Whether we like it or not, Hamas is a political force in the palestinian territories and they won, may I remind you, democratic elections in 2006. So why is it acceptable that Israel can try to kill its leaders like Khaled Meeshal or Ismael Haniyeh?? It already assassinated the founder of the organisation, Sheikh Yassin in 2004

The main argument for the air attacks are that Hamas did not renew the 6-month old ceasefire with Israel a few weeks ago. A bit of a joke since Israel had in the meantime maintained some of its attacks on Hamas members and a blockade on Gaza for months. The situation there is already dire, there is almost no electricity, medicine, fuel or even food and a big military power drops bombs all over without any warning. And still, we just watch it happen.

The hamas leadership has now called for suicide attacks on Israeli targets - which is not the way to go of course - and should not be defended - but these people are already in such misery and they dont seem to be able to speak to one another, so negotiating seems completely impossible.

SO sad. It reminds me of an episode of the West wing, where Martin Sheen tries to mediate between the Israelis and the Palestinians. An extremely difficult task and the differences well represented, an image close to the truth and somehow there seemed to be some progress made. Well the writers of the West Wing series managed to write history before it happened in the presidential elections, maybe they should also be consulted for any future summits held by the new power in place after January 20th?

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