Hamas is willing to sign a long term peace deal with Israel, but Israel has turned it down.
Israel’s security cabinet has voted to reject a long-term ceasefire deal with Hamas, the Palestinian group in Gaza, until an Israeli soldier held captive is released.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/02/2009218112811761858.html
You remember Israel complaining about the thousands and thousands of Hamas rockets that were being fired at Israel, killing dozens of Israelis over the course of a couple years? The rockets that Israel said was the reason Israel had to bomb and invade Gaza?
Lemme ‘splain something to you, ok?
Israel doesn’t give a damn about the rockets.
Israel wants the Palestinians out of Gaza. Israel wants the Palestinians out of the West Bank. Israel wants to continue its expansion of Jewish Settlements on Palestinian land (currently 300,000 Jews living in land set aside for a Palestinian state). And Israel will do whatever it takes to make sure that there is a single state solution: Jews only in the State of Israel.
The last thing Israel wants is Peace with the Palestinians. So, when Hamas offers a peace treaty, Israel finds any excuse to turn it down. The return of a single soldier is suddenly more important than a long term peace, stopping the thousands of rockets, and moving the region towards a long term peaceful solution.
Because Israel doesn’t want peace. Israel doesn’t want a long term peaceful solution. Israel wants all the land for Israel. And Israel is going to maintain it’s blockade on Gaza for as long as possible in order to push out as many Palestinians as possible.
Hamas offered peace. Israel rejected it.
As far as Shalit is concerned, Israel and the Palestinians have done prisoner exchanges many times over the years. This time need be no different. Israel and the Palestinians could easily negotiate some trade for Shalit versus Palestinian prisoners, like they’ve done before. But Israel is allowing Shalit to remain a prisoner, demanding he be released without any prisoner exchange, something they know Hamas will refuse to do, before there can be discussion of peace.
Because Israel does not want peace. Israel wants LAND.
And just to reveal their true intentions, Israel just siezed Palestinian land in the West Bank and approved 1600 Jewish families be moved there.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/02/2009216134248562227.html
Israel does not want peace. Israel wants the LAND.
If there is to be a long term peaceful solution, there needs to be a two-state solution. And the world is going to have to drag Israel, kicking and screaming, to a peaceful two-state solution, because Israel wants all that land for itself. And if anyone is going to drag Israel to a peace deal, they really ought to do it soon while there is any Palestinian land left or any Palestinians left alive.
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