anon45
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Stay on the topic. Keep it civil.
Every little gain on the Palestinian side is a real gain. No one likes to see millions of people in a concentrated camp being killed like a turkey shooting. The source of Israels power is not Israel itself, it is the American people and their tax dollars.
The only thing is the accusation that Israel is arbitrarily keeping Gaza blockaded and actively trying to kill non-Hamas affiliated Palestinians doesn't hold water.
The reasons for keeping Gaza blockaded are, at their core, based on Hamas' own charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel. Even blockaded Hamas is able to obtain some amount of missiles, missile parts, and Iranian missiles, now imagine if they were not blockaded what they could obtain and how that would further endanger the security of the Israeli people.
As for like a 'turkey shoot', civilian casualties are inevitable in such a densely populated area as Gaza when Hamas fires from schools, hospitals, and apartments in order to bring about the maximum amount of civilian casualties from retaliatory attacks which they can then parade to the media and outrage people, but do you really believe Israel is not capable of literally flattening Gaza and changing the casualty numbers from around the hundred range to the tens of thousands range?
The fact of the matter is that Israel is being a hell of a lot more restrained in where it shoots than Hamas and its splinter groups are, and Hamas and its splinter groups must cease their fire before Israel stops its retaliatory attacks, thats just common sense.
In a perfect world...
If you would like the blockade to be lifted, discuss with Hamas about revising its charter, and get it, and most if not all of their splinter groups to agree to recognize Israel as a state with a right to exist. Both of these at the very least must at the very least be part of the compromise they are willing to offer.
On the Israeli side, in return they should acknowledge the existence of the state called Palestine and, of course, lift the blockade.
Only after this has been established can both governments, now willing to accept that the other is legitimate, deal with the issue of settlements in a more peaceful, if not necessarily diplomatic, manner.
Of course this is never going to happen because both sides don't trust each other, and I can't say the reasons both sides give are in no way justified (though I feel the Israeli side is a bit more justified in doubting the intentions of Hamas).