Will Palestine bcome stronger both politically&economically with Hamas or will it simply collapse?
87005
It will weaken, further isolating it, and become another of Iran's best friends/cronies.
755414
No it will not.\nCurrencies go up and down due to various economic indicators and not due to political changes.
558151
No..Israel will. Then Iran will hit back and the US will come running to help the jews..and cause even a BIGGER problem..that will expand the entire region.
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Is peace humanly possible?  Yes.\n\nWill it happen in between Israel and the Palestinians?  Not in the way things are currently being run:\n   - Palestinian's Rulung Party, the Hamas, have demanded control over thier own land for the last 39 years (since 67), now that Israel has removed thier citizens from Gaza, Hamas has celebrated its freedom, but complains that Israel will not let thier people travel to and from... which is funny because they admitt their goal is to eliminate the Israelis alltogether.  \n\nSo if peace was to happen... both sides would have to prove to one another they were serious about peace.  This isn't some perfect world, so it is not like the Israeli governement would be willing to just lay down all thier arms in order to establish peace with the Palestinians... they know the second they do that Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq would attach full-force.  So it will havce to be a slow process of give and take with the Palestinians and the Israelies each giving up thier rights in order to establish peace.  \n\nWith Hamas in control of Palestinian areas, it won't happen though.
634444
no, i'm hopeful, but it seems so unlikely...and not either side is 100% innocent...but seems that israel is intentionally setting goals and demands for the palestinians to meet in order for hopes of peace that they know they can't do, or make it impossible for them to achieve.  ruining their land, burning farms, bulldozing, shooting people in the streets is not way to allow that area to stabilize and police itself.  several years ago israel kept saying, like they are now, that they need to get police out and stop the militants, but with the occupation, they would shoot at anybody even the police, making it impossible to their job..so its very much like palestine gets set up to fail, add to that all the frustration and hate coming from the palestinians and its a candle and powder keg.
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I think the governments of the West have made it very clear what the barrier is.  Hamas was renounce terrorism and its call for the destruction of Israel.  I think you call it a "Jew lobby" in our senate, but it's not because it's a Jewish state or Israel, it's because Hamas is calling for the destruction of another country.  That does not ever sit well with the United States.  If Hamas will renounce its former violence and become a legitimate POLITICAL party that will seek change through PEACEFUL and POLITICAL methods, then it will be recognized by the West as a legitimate government.  It will finally get the recognition by the world that it has craved.   Surely the leaders of Hamas are intelligent enough to see that.  Your prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, taught peace, not violence.  I see the election of Hamas in Palestine to be a golden opportunity for the leadership of Hamas.  I hope they do not do anything foolish that would ruin their chances of establishing a legitimate government.
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Now that Hamas is in power? I don't know. But it does put Israel in a better position. They can't really declare war against a faction, but they can against a government. Now that the govt. is controlled by the extreme faction, it would be easier for them to declare war and get away with it.
1057296
Get rid of the corrupt Palestinian Authority and launch a free-wheeling laissez-faire economy in the Palestinian territories. When people can make money by trading with people they are less likely to want to kill them.
332887
&#92; you show Palestinian government which try to achieve Peace with Israel's government to prevent Israel's army from invade Palestinian 's land and not work Israel 's army destroy all lands of Palestine  so you see the other opinion Hamas and her friends which try to achieve Peace but the way you can name (eye for eye , man for man ....)\nI mean if you Israel destroy me so I'm to destroy you and let us who will win game finally
11556
They both lay claim to the same land .   one historically, and one right now.  It is similar to what happened in Northern Ireland and I must say I am really impressed by how the peace there has been working well.  The armed units of the IRA are seeing that economic development  and stability cures  a lot of  problems that happen when no one has a job.  I believe if overnight 95% of Palestinian men were employed the religious conflicts would be worked out or would just go way by themselves
327935
Are you serious?Iran is the world's fourth largest oil-exporter.If the international community does anything to Iran the latter will stop exporting oil and then what do you think will happen to the world economy?It'll burst like a party balloon.And that's worse for the world isn't it?This whole is issue is politically motivated and once oil-prices start feeling the heat it'll all be sorted out amicably.Its all about the money my friend-noone gives a fu-k about whether or not our Yiddish friends are feeling secure down there.In any case Iran won't have the balls to stir up some nuclear bullsh*t with the Israelis-if they do Mossad will have Teheran levelled before you can say "Zionist Crusader"!
680103
It is still supporting Hamas.  The goal is to not have peace with the Palestinians and to steal thier land, having a reactionary government that Israel can falt out reject and ignore diplomatically is exactly why Israel supported Hamas in the first place.  It is ideal if the goal is to ignore efforts such as the Road Map, because of course, they "don't recognize Israel".  The fact is that Hamas could be brought to the table and would recognize Israel, but a long pattern of negotiations where Palestinaisn offered all and Israel offered ntohing reasonable by far (camp david) has made the Hamas line hard.  Palestinaians elected Hamas because they are tired of leadership that acts in accord with Israels rejection of peace and in doing so capitulates to the oppressor.  But Israel is in control (because the US allows it) and can only be brought to justice if the American people put pressure on them to do so, it is in our hands, make a call, write a letter, it is the least we can do.
675559
Mexico is about to collapse after the next election into fighting between drug cartels and corrupt politicians and police.   Anarchy will result.  Expect loss of production in all those factories that jumped over the border and even perhaps a glitch or two in natural gas and oil supplies.  Search news some sources are belatedly reporting it.  We may need to close border period, not just monitor it if situation gets really serious.  Both defeated criminal gangs and other refugees will be trying to flee.
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1- Gaza Strip\n2- West Bank
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The United Nations seems to think so.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by Jewish militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, with the Jewish area having roughly 55% of the land, and the Arab area roughly 45%. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947, David Ben-Gurion tentatively accepted the partition, while the Arab League rejected it. Several Arab attacks on Jewish civilians soon turned into widespread fighting between Arabs and Jews, this civil war being the first "phase" of the 1948 War of Independence.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight on May 15, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed.
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The future will be more of the same abuse the Arabs of Judea/Samaria and Gaza experienced under Fatah.\n\nThe Hamas is a terror gang part of the Muslim Brotherhood. \n\nHamas has set the destruction of Israel as its goal. Between September 2000 and April 2004, Hamas perpetrated 425 terrorist attacks against Israel and murdered 377 Israelis.  \n\nHamas was founded by Islamic militant extremists in the Gaza Strip in 1988, shortly after the first intifada broke out. The word Hamas is an acronym for the Arabic words for "Islamic Resistance Movement." \n\nThough it is also involved in social and welfare programs, the organization is devoted chiefly to the obliteration of Israel. Its charter states, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." \n\nThe charter further states, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.\n\nHamas is responsible for 24 murders before the Oslo Accords, 156 more before the Oslo War began in September 2000, and at least another 377 since then - a total of at least 557.\n\nThe organization's first mass attack was a car bomb that blew up at a bus stop in Afula in April 1994, murdering 8 and wounding 51. Among the most horrific Hamas attacks were the following:\n\n* 22 people killed and 56 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on \nDizengoff St. in Tel Aviv, Oct. 1994\n\n* 26 killed by suicide bomber on a #18 bus near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, Feb. 1996\n\n* 16 killed in the Mahane Yehuda open market in Jerusalem in a double suicide attack, July 1997\n\n* 23 dead and 115 wounded when a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up on a No. 2 bus line coming from the Western Wall in Jerusalem, August 2003\n\n* 45 murdered within the space of five days in March 2002: a suicide Hamas terrorist blew himself up in a Haifa restaurant, killing 15, and another one did the same in the Park Hotel in in Netanya during a Passover Seder, murdering some 30 and wounding 144.\n\nThe ten worst Oslo War Hamas attacks, in which a total of 186 were murdered, also included the following: \n* June 1, 2001 - Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, 21 killed - mostly new-immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet Union\n\n* Aug. 9, 2001 - Sbarro's Pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed, including the parents and three children of the Schijveschuurder family\n\n* Dec. 2, 2001 - Haifa bus, 15 killed\n\n* May 7, 2002 - Rishon Letzion hall, 16 killed\n\n* June 18, 2002 - #32 bus from Gilo, Jerusalem, 19 killed\n\n* March 5, 2003 - #37 bus in Haifa, 15 dead\n\n* June 11, 2003 - #14 bus, Jerusalem, 17 murdered\n \n...And it goes on
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this is the way it will come down. israel will nuke them, china and russia will come down on israel and we will get into it, and this is the beginning of www3 armagedon. israel will never be defeated. if you believe in the bible.