You forget that Israel is already occupying Palestinian territories and is well beyond its legal frontiers, depraving Palestinians from the most basic conveniences such as water, ability to work and farm, free deplacements, etc. Practicing what UNO defines clearly as ethnic cleansing. The same thing as Rwanda, Bosnia and Nazi Germany. So, even if Hamas stopped any rocket launching, the problem who still be there. Your assessed status quo, is already well beyond the acceptable. Israel is expanding its territories month after month, creating settlements that looks like any US suburb, even with pools, while Palestinians get water a couple of hours per week, and are forced to stay home. I their own land occupied by another country. Imagine a similar situation occuring in the US. Not many peple would accept being occupied.
The minimal action that would keep Hamas or Hezbollah to stop antagonizing with Israel woud be to revert to the frontiers of 1967. Remember that the United Nations have been asking it for over 40 years, and that Israel hasn't complied yet.
BTW if Israel is so rightfull in its attacks against Lebanese and Palestinians, I wonder why most arab countries don't really feel friendly with them, and why all European countries (in fact, the whole world minus the US) requires Israel to stop bullying its neighbours.
But as we know, peace would mean that the US would not subsidize Israel at a yearly rate of 4.5 Billion $ in diversified weaponnery (numbers for 2002). Not good for business. So does the US really has an intrest in stopping the bloodshed?
The minimal action that would keep Hamas or Hezbollah to stop antagonizing with Israel woud be to revert to the frontiers of 1967. Remember that the United Nations have been asking it for over 40 years, and that Israel hasn't complied yet.
BTW if Israel is so rightfull in its attacks against Lebanese and Palestinians, I wonder why most arab countries don't really feel friendly with them, and why all European countries (in fact, the whole world minus the US) requires Israel to stop bullying its neighbours.
But as we know, peace would mean that the US would not subsidize Israel at a yearly rate of 4.5 Billion $ in diversified weaponnery (numbers for 2002). Not good for business. So does the US really has an intrest in stopping the bloodshed?


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