Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I simply reject the idea that the ONLY way a person can prove they don't support that is to agree with your notion that the IDF should have stayed in Gaza and should stay in the West Bank indefinitely.
Keeping the IDF in Gaza wouldn't have stopped Hamas. They were pretty much doing everything they do now when your army was there. And keeping the IDF in the West Bank can't lead to Hamas being stopped. In fact, since the IDF was still more or less in the West Bank when Hamas won the election, it DIDN'T stop them.
And no good would have come of your army overthrowing the PA by force to stop Hamas from assuming the legislative seats it had won. All doing that would have achieved was to massively increase Hamas support, with Palestinians that hadn't backed them before backing them now, even though those people didn't and don't back the fundamentalist agenda, BECAUSE an IDF-led coup against Hamas would have given them universal anti-Occupation street cred in the 'Bank. That's what always happens to the faction the occupying troops use the most brutal force against.
The way to stop Hamas is to give the people of Palestine a chance at a life.