Just take a look at the facts -

The land was forcibly being taken away from the Palestinians 100 years ago. Millions of them since then have become refugees continuing to live in improvised conditions.

After the creation of Israel, the Israeli government continued to reject the peace offerings of Arab countries for a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders. A Palestinain state that posses just 22% of the original Palestine !!!!

Till then there has been resistance from the Palestinian people and Israel felt compelled to occupy the territory and eradicate all resistance for the sake of Israels security.

Israeli supporters are quick to point out that Israel had removed their troops from Gaza a while back. Yet they still maintained a stronghold on Gaza by controlling their borders. Humanitarian organizations including UN, testify that Gaza has been under siege by Israeli control for over a year (there are many ways a territory can be sieged) . Even the cease fire negotiated between the Palestinians and Israel, stipulated that 1) Hamas would not fire rockets at Israel, 2) Israel would open up the Gaza borders and 3) the Palestinians hold a democratic election.

The Palestinians had democratically elected Hamas (much to Israels dislike) and ceased firing rockets into Israel.

When Israel started their offensive they made propaganda statements that Hamas broke the cease fire and Israel had enough and it was time for them to retaliate.

Soon after the truth came out that ISRAEL actually broke the ceasefire by bombing Rafah on Nov 6th (claiming to destroy a Hamas tunnel) . Even then Hamas held back and tried diplomatically to get Israel to hold their part of the deal and open up the borders.

After much failure, and seeing the plight of their people (UN reports that people were dying from simple ailments due to lack of medical supplies, medicine, and many were living on one meal a day), Hamas decided to send a message to Israel with rockets (all other negotiations failed, they felt they had no choice). Either Hamas let Gaza remain under this type of siege and accept occasional attacks in Gaza whenever Israel felt a threat OR fight back to cause some sort of change and attention.

Now Israel had an excuse to mount an aggressive assault on Gaza..” we have had enough of the rockets attacks”. Israel wanted to destroy Hamas for the long term security of Israel.

Now it is like a vicious circle. Hamas will not stop firing rockets until Gazas border siege is removed and Israel will not stop their offensive till Hamas stop firing rockets (or more implicitly Hamas is removed from power).

The people of Gaza voted for Hamas because they feel they are their only protectors against the tyranny and oppression they have suffered almost 50 years under Israeli occupation. If Hamas were to be removed or destroyed, another resistant front will emerge.

So this all comes down to the question…..why did not Israel accept a Palestinian state based on the 1969 borders ?! why does Israel not let Palestinians live in peace in their own state without any type of occupation or siege ?

Israel has always claimed its security issues justify all their decisions and actions. Yet the continual oppression and bloodshed of the Palestinians just aggravates the issue more……

So now I have another question, does Israel really want peace ? (otherwise they would of allowed for a Palestinian state with full autonomy such that the Palestinians would not be willing to support any resistant militancy…….. SO what does Israel REALLY want ?!…what is their ultimate goal ?

Here is one that have alot bloggers -
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/arab-israeli-dialogue-of-a-kind-in-blogs-pranks-and-robocalls/#comment-210219

Does anybody know history ?, do the american people even get to hear the strategies the Israeli government have deployed to demoralize, destabilze, and destroy the palestinians forthe past 50 years ?

Thank You, Mr. Ralph Nader for a very eloquent, truthful, and powerful letter.