Hamas seems to justify its attacks on Israel not based on what Israel is doing in Gaza–Israel has withdrawn from Gaza after all–but based on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Perhaps 44 out of 120 settlements in the West Bank might include land confiscated from Palestinian private land owners. The Palestinians might have been paid a lower than fair market price for their land.

I would like to ask: “When Israelis confiscate Palestinian private property in the West Bank, do they pay less than fair market prices for the land they confiscate? Do the Israelis use some ‘eminent domain’ laws under the Israeli legal code to confiscate land? If not, what legal provision to the Israelis use (putting aside the issue of whether it is legal to use Israeli civil law in the occupied west bank)? Do Palestinian private land owners sue the Israeli government in Israeli courts for confiscating their land paying less than fair prices for the land they confiscate? What is the status of these lawsuits?”

Any answers would be much appreciated.

Just a wild thought. If Israel issued a thirty year bond worth $20 billion and gave all the proceeds form the bond sale to the Palestinians, would that help ameliorate the Israeli Palestinian issue? Or is this just another naive and impractical American like idea.

And they bombed the Islamic University to rubble too. I trust that those for whom ‘academic freedom’ means the freedom of the settler universities in Israel won’t protest too much when the Academic Boycott campaign highlights the silence of Israel’s academia, if not complicity, in the latest Nazi style attacks by the IDF.

This is what happens when you live in a theoretical world instead of the real one. The Israelis may — though i doubt it — advocate killing ALL Hamas members, whether “civilian” or military, whereas the Allies in WWII may not have advocated murdering any Nazi, civilian or otherwise.

In practice, though, Israel appears to be taking measures to at least minimize civilian casualties (under difficult circumstances at that, given that rocket launch pads are housed in civilian neighborhoods). Contrast that with the actions of the Allies during WWII, where hundreds of thousands of civilians, nazi or not, were killed in indiscriminate bombing of cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin and countless others.

So Benji, get your theoretical head out of your theoretical ass and try living here in the real world for a change. You’re starting to sound like Hasbara Buster, who talks without any sense of irony about how Jews have all these theoretical rights in Jordan, even though by his own account there are 0 Jews in Jordan.

Hamas willfully starves Palestinains for that little touch of theatrical flourish.

More and more people are seeing that, and, believe it or not, some aid groups are even starting to point it out.

Hamas oppresses its own people, and will even kill a few, just to demonise Israel in the eyes of the international community.

Yep.

Turkish membership of the EU spells the end of the UK as we know it.

Not just the UK, but all of Europe, as well.

It’s amazing how people can through history right out the window and hand over everything their ancestors faught for to an enemy that has been trying to 1300 years to do you in.

Outside of the veneer of westernisation one sees in Istanbul and a few other large urban centres, Turkey is as backward as Waziristan.

And just as anti-semitic.

Some 60 of the nearly 200 killed in the Mumbai attacks were Muslims. Would you please explain to the Jihadists that their murderous gesture was islamophobic to the extreme.

But I guess they deserved it for daring to feed “the Palestinians”

Isn’t it about time these worthless, lazy thespians learned to feed themselves?

In fact, isn’t it about time the entire islamic world got off its fat lazy butt and learned to feed itself?

Not gratuitously destroying high-tech greenhouses worth millions would be a good start.

“And the killing of over 200 people”

“How many of those 200 would have no problem beheading you for being an infidel?”

When it doubt resort to extreme anti-Muslim hatred.
There are many non-Muslims in Gaza (aid workers etc) many of whom have been killed in the current slaughter. But I guess they deserved it for daring to feed “the Palestinians”

“How you feeling now “Free Palestine” to know that you will only be free under Israel’s terms and neither you or your pals can do a damn thing about it. (as evidence ever since 1922 when every Arab attack ended up a disaster for Arabs)”

Which is why Israel will never be able to live in peace -until the Palestinians have a just solution not one based on Israels terms, Until then Israel will never be accepted in the region no matter how shiny its hardware and will ever be a nation under siege not a normal one. The Arabs are weak now; but they wont always be. History fluctuates and is not on Israels side.

What are their other options? Moving to a new neighbourhood?