Re: What is it about Israeli-Palestine Discussions?
How quickly you forget your own posts. Your claim was that Israel clamped down before rocket fire in 1989-90. You forgot that the suicide attack on the bus occurred just before Israel clamped down. It would be nice if the Intifada only included "widespread protests, civil disobedience, strikes, and boycotts," but it included more, didn't it? It included much more and that demanded a response from Israel. The gazans seemed incapable of controlling themselves, so they had to be controlled by outside forces (Israel).
I haven't forgotten my own posts. My previous post/comment was regarding the notion that the blockade was a result of rocket fire from Gaza. I pointed out, correctly, that the strangle hold and blockade of Gaza predated it and predates Hamas\ election victory. Are either factually incorrect ?
I also never forgot about the bus attack . Why would it be relevant to the discussion on whether the blockade of Gaza was due to rocket fire from Gaza ? Now that it has been introduced it is fine to discuss it. You do follow that this is how discussions develop, right ?
What don't you understand about hundreds of Palestinians being shot dead by the IDF whilst taking part in those protests and mass acts of civil disobedience and there being nearly two years before the first suicide attack occurring ?
In the first 13 months of the intifada, before the first suicide attack against Israelis , 332 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF. In the first two years of the intifada some 23,000-29,000 Palestinian kids were treated for being beaten up by the IDF .
You just don't care about any of this and wish to start your shock and horror 18 months in when some Palestinians , so enraged by the slaughtering of their own people , decided to engage in a terrorist suicide attack. Read , their response to an out of control IDF shooting protesters en masse and beating up Palestinian kids in the thousands
That you don't care about this enough to have done your own research and found out what happened prior to the bus attack shows me , as if it needed to be shown considering the content of your own posts here at almost every turn , that you have a problem with race , a big problem with it. It's truly sickening to read through it
That was never reasoned in and will never be reasoned out , so for now I am not wasting any more time trying to do the impossible