Comments on: Introduction http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/gaza-e-r/introduction/971/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:14:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael J. Halliday http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/gaza-e-r/introduction/971/comment-page-1/#comment-3497 Michael J. Halliday Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:17:29 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/?p=971#comment-3497 Hamas is a democratically elected government that received the popular support of a majority Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the failure of Fatah to effect any real changes on ground or win any concessions from a succession of Israeli governments that have no interest in peace whatsoever. Hamas's unwillingness to recognize the state of Israel is a moot point which Israel uses to draw attention away from a host of human rights abuses and war crimes being committed by the Israeli Defense Forces in both the West Bank and Gaza. Twenty-six Israeli soldiers, involved in the latest massacre in Gaza have recently come forward to affirm this fact. The United Nations investigation into the allegations of war crimes will probably be released next month, and will almost certainly confirm what has been reported by these brave Israeli soldiers, and is already widely accepted in the world at large. Yet the U.S. expends almost all of its energy demonizing Iran, and its supposed nuclear threat, while totally ignoring the real threat to the region posed by the Israeli government. Israel isn't about making peace. Israel is about stealing the land that they are now illegally occupying, and destroying any vestiges of its rightful owners. Obama's speech in Cairo was nothing more than a collecton of meaningless words with absolutely no actions to back them up. It may have played well in the U.S. press, but the rest of the world was LOL, and rightly so. Hamas is a democratically elected government that received the popular support of a majority Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the failure of Fatah to effect any real changes on ground or win any concessions from a succession of Israeli governments that have no interest in peace whatsoever. Hamas’s unwillingness to recognize the state of Israel is a moot point which Israel uses to draw attention away from a host of human rights abuses and war crimes being committed by the Israeli Defense Forces in both the West Bank and Gaza.

Twenty-six Israeli soldiers, involved in the latest massacre in Gaza have recently come forward to affirm this fact. The United Nations investigation into the allegations of war crimes will probably be released next month, and will almost certainly confirm what has been reported by these brave Israeli soldiers, and is already widely accepted in the world at large.

Yet the U.S. expends almost all of its energy demonizing Iran, and its supposed nuclear threat, while totally ignoring the real threat to the region posed by the Israeli government.

Israel isn’t about making peace. Israel is about stealing the land that they are now illegally occupying, and destroying any vestiges of its rightful owners.

Obama’s speech in Cairo was nothing more than a collecton of meaningless words with absolutely no actions to back them up. It may have played well in the U.S. press, but the rest of the world was LOL, and rightly so.

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