"WE ARE QUOTING HAMAS."
Didn't say you weren't - just said the statement was no more or less extreme than that of Israel - and certainly not of Israel's actions.
Extremist groups have threatened to wipe out Jews - Israelis atr acually in the process of wiping out Arabs - and have been for a long time.
I find the practice of blaming what is happening in Israel on the Jews - you do it all the time, which puts you on par with the worst of Islamic extremism
"The sources that the stooges keep giving NEVER state that ANY Gazans are killed by these missiles"
Neither does any other source apart from the Israeli propaganda machine and there are enough neutral observers around to see what's what (whoops, sorry - everybody who criticises Israel is automatically Antisemitic)
"How many opponents do you throw off a building to win a Palestinian election?"
About as many residents of Israel who are considered second-rate citizens because they worship at the wrong church.
INEQUALITY REPORT
Sorry Blundering Brucie - must try harder.
"But, tho I think the Israelis might be persuaded to come to the UN conference table..."
Don't know what gives you that impression, especially in the light of their having deliberately sabotaged the last round of peace talks
As far as Hamas is concerned, I have no doubt that they realise that they can't win a shooting war with Israel - a removal of the blockade and the walls would be a tremendous victory for them - as far as I'm concerned, it would be a betrayal of the Gazan's to accept anything less.
The Israelis could then claim their victory by having demolished the tunnels - faces saved all round.
"This is a group of whom we hear little or nothing!"
Not here Eddie - but some people choose to ignore their plight in all this.
Israel has been systematically ethnically cleansing the Bedouins for some years now - they have twice attempted to evict whole communities and re-house them on toxic land, they have driven settled Bedouins off ther homesteads with chemical sprays and water cannons in order to make way for Israeli settlers... a persecuted people indeed
Jim Carroll