Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
If you question Israel's behaviour (shooting back) 'The villainy you teach me I will execute, and I shall go hard, but I will better the instruction'

I am sure that quote is on a wall somewhere.
They already knew that lesson in 1947.

By now they're complaining about a nasty bruise that the house owner gave them, while the home owner is very beatened up. And they won't leave, because one room is absolutly faboulous.

40 years ago it might have been militarly important, but nowadays there's no major military threat towards Israel. Instead we should celebrate the bully because he shows restraint.
It's now Israel can afford to create a modicum of good will and improve the situation. Even if Hamas would use the opportunity to increase their arms, they would still end up with way to little arms to threaten Israel and would start to become very obvious that they don't care for the average Palestinian. It's unknown if Israel got the same opportunity 40 years from now, or alternativly one of those "kill them all" Israeli politicians gets a bit too much power.

The Palestinian hatred is a mixture of anti-semitism and ourage of being occupied. The Iranian is a mix of anti-semitism, realpolitik (they're exerting influence through the conflict) and a kind of excuse "don't look at the problems at home, look at the evil Israelis/Jews and how we temporary care for our Palestinian brothers in plight".