should the treaty between Israel and the Palestine government be honored by hamas militants who took power?
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That would be great.  However, Hamas is a terrorist group, not likely to honour any peace treaties.  The situation is so sad.  Progress was looking like a possibility, but the election of Hamas has set peace back.  For how long?  And leading to how much death?
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Yes Hamas is a terrorist group thats only goal is to destroy Isreal. so why should they support them?
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Absolutely. He was the first Arab leader to agree to meet with the Israelis. Egypt was on the verge of accomplishing peace in the Middle East. However, terrorists would not allow this to happen and Sadat was murdered.
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There is a tough semantic rift here--Hamas wants Israel to acknowledge that Palestine exists; Israel wants Hamas to recognize that Israel has the "right" to exist.\n\nIsrael should bridge the semantic gap by saying, yes obviously, that country on the other side of our fence is Palestine.  They exist, they have a right to exist.  \n\nThat doesn't mean they should simply accept rocket attacks.  Israel has already come up with some pretty wild technology associated with repelling violent attack with non-violent means.  Until their technology advances to cope with the new situation, unfortunately, it means they must take some military action in order to prevent those rocket attacks.\n\nThis proceeds logically to a point of irresolution--the inventiveness required to make guerilla attacks on Israeli soil will always precede the technological ability to repel those attacks non-violently.\n\nHamas therefore will never have the latitude to change its doctrine without a recognition from Israel that a Hamas-run Palestine is a fact and in existence.  Israel is loathe to concede this, for fear of having no recourse to guerilla attacks without outright declaration of war.\n\nThere is also a possibility, at least for the present, that a Palestine with the power to prevent individual guerilla attacks on Israel does not exist.  At the future point which guerilla attacks must be coordinated in order to succeed, Hamas might then possess the power to say absolutely, we can prevent guerilla attacks if you recognize us as a state and not a territory.\n\nSo there is that small hope.  And there is also hope that Palestinians will use their resources in a creative instead of destructive way, and begin to nurture their fledgling state in an economically responsible and non-retaliative way.  However, based on recent rhetoric, I believe that the money that Iran is sending Palestine is ear-marked only for destruction.\n\nThus I believe Hamas will entrench itself in its doctrine, and as a result, prevent the possibility of peace.
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I lived in Israel for 3 1/2 years and was witness to the senseless violence perpetrated by Palestinian militants on Israelis.  If groups like Islamic Jihad would forego violence and terrorism and attempt to achieve what they want through diplomatic means, they would achieve far more, far faster, than they do by this protracted, senseless war.  What do Palestinians think, the Jews should just sit around on their thumbs and let themselves be attacked, and not defend themselves?
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There is no use.\n\nthe UN is always with what is called "Israel". America is too. So why should the Palestinians trust both?
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Of course.if Israel can't blame this one on Hamas(although I am sure they will find some reason to,'cos they always do),it will be called just a "mistake"...No one will ever accuse Israel of deliberately killing civilians.even if they do...\nThey get away with it because they have the support of the strongest country in the world US ...\nUnfortunately Israel proved once again that it doesn't want any peace negotiations...while Hamas and Fatah are ,they too.wrong for asking attacks on Israel...It will only bring more violence...\nAs long as Israel keeps attacking the Palestinians territories and the Palestinians keep responding there will never be peace...\nAnd unfortunately the Palestinians have no other choice... than fight with the only means they have...
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So many times Israel got away with murder because US has vetoed every single sanctions against it...So it is because of the support of US and the silence of UN...This is their idea of justice...\nWhile Israel's crimes are called "self defense",the Palestinians fighting for liberty will be called "terrorists"...because they don't have the full support of the most powerful country in the world:USA... \nOf course.if Israel can't blame this one on Hamas(although I am sure they will find some reason to,'cos they always do),it will be called just a "mistake"...No one will ever accuse Israel of deliberately killing civilians.even if they do... \nWe saw what the reaction at the Israelis deaths are:they have to transform all into an international tragedy...Everyone must know that they still "suffer"...while 18 Palestinians who were sleeping in their beds are murdered it's not so important...'cos they were kille in "self defense",'cos Israel has the right to "defend" itself against unarmed civilians...
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There is no reason why the US should try to overthrow Hamas; they are the democratically elected government of the Palestinians.  However, there is also no reason why the US should continue to support Hamas.  Hamas continues to support the destruction of the only truly democratic government in the region - Israel.  Hamas continues to conduct unprovoked attacks on the state of Israel.  Hamas members are complicit in many acts of terrorism throughout the region of Israel and Palestine.  There is a river of blood on their hands.\nLike it or not, Israel is here to stay.  The sooner Hamas, Fatah, and all their supporters in the Middle East start DEALING WITH IT, the sooner there will be peace.
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Hamas is a political party that currently holds power in Palestine. Lead by various leaders, the Hamas party's main objective is to gain land for the Palestinian people: basically a country to hold their people. Their policies are people-centered (the people being their own 'citizens'). They are very socially aware for their own people, building hospitals, schools, parks, and other social projects. However, when it comes to those outside their 'country', the Hamas people are quite violent: after all, they are a "terrorist" party, and participate in very violent tactics.
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elven rangers: could you please list any of these treaties you claim Israel broke? The UN passed a vote in 1947 for the creation of the Jewish State of Israel.  The Arab nations that surround Israel refused to accept the UN borders, and Israel agreed to accept the UN borders.  The Arabs then started fighting the newborn Israel, and Israel shockingly won.  \nWho's breaking agreements here?\nTHis was the beginning of a pattern...
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The only bit of the government that works is the aid donations process. The UN and aid organizations hand over money to the Palestinian government. The government puts it in Swiss Bank accounts in the names of the government officials. That's why Yasser Arafat died with an estate of over $360 000 000.\n\nThe rest of the Palestinian government does not work.\n\nThere are two main parties in Palestine. Fatah and Hamas.  \n\nMuhammad Abbas is leader of the Fatah Party and the President of Palestine. The Fatah party was the party of Yasser Arafat and is descended from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Abbas' presidential term ends in three years. \n\nHamas is a relatively new party that was founded in 1987. In the January 2006 election, Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian legislature. The head of Hamas is Ismail Haniyeh who is now the Palestinian prime minister.\n\nThe Palestinian government should have a legislative branch consisting of Parliament and a national council. The legislative council should be balanced by the judicial branch and the presidency.\n\nThe problem is that President Abbas, of the Fatah party, does not trust Prime Minister Ismael Haniyey, of Hamas. President Abbas is refusing to hand over control of some of the Palestinian government departments to the Hamas Parliament. \n\nTo make matters worse for Palestine, most of the revenue collections, are done by Israel, for the Palestinian government. Hamas is a prescribed terrorist organisation, so Israel has refused to hand over the collected taxes and levies, until Hamas renounces violence. This means that the Palestinian government is practically broke.  \n\nThe country seems to be heading towards a civil war between Hamas and Fatah supporters, if Hamas supporters do not provoke a war with Israel or the US first.
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Hamas, acronym of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Arabic: حركة المقاومة الاسلامية, literally "Islamic Resistance Movement" and Arabic for 'zeal'), is a Palestinian Islamist movement closely related to the Muslim Brotherhood and is the democratically elected representative government of the Palestinian people. Its stated goal is to establish an Islamic theocracy in the area that is currently Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza strip.\n\n"Hamas" is also the former name of the Movement of Society for Peace, a political party in Algeria.
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B"H\nDemocracy isn't a cure-all.  When a group of people vote for a government that supports suicide bombing to try to wipe out a particular race, and has as part of its statutes the refusal of any compromise and the insistance on a violent end to another people, the country needs to be held responsible (no more treating terrorists as "renegades" - action should now be taken against the nation itself instead of just chasing after individual murderers).\n\nIt is contrary to international law to advocate war.  The Palistinean governement includes in its charter the following:\n\n"[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement."\n\n"There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad."  The initiatives, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility."\n\nWhat defines a terrorist is not a subjective matter.  There are clear outlines for this under UN guidelines.  The government of Hamas will not stop killing until (GD forbid) they have wiped out every Jew.  \n\nTheir goal is NOT peace; their goal is NOT religious freedom; their goal is GENOCIDE.\n\nTheir government sanctioned terrorist actions must be recognized as an act of war and treated as such.
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I wont answer ur question bcs\n\ni would give exemple here :\n\nif one make an Cake ... and onther one came and attack him and took it from him bcs he have more power ...and after days for some REASONS the 2 says ..ok let set and talk ...and the real owner of the cake said ,even all the cake its for me ...but i let u have it but i would have piece from my cake ... and u can keep the rest of it ... but the onther one said OK i will give u piece of ur cake ...but u must do thats and thats and thats!!! \n\nSo thats what is happning here today the Palestinians even b4 1948 they were have all the land and the Israelian occupied it....and now palestinians wanted just littel part of their own land and not all of it ...\n\nAnd now u asking ...do they deserve to be independent and have thier own state!!!!\n\ni will let you and whom reading this question to answer it
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Marie Carolin, are you serious? or do you just repeat what your freshly read newspaper said? if Hamas are terrosists, so what about the Israel Government? And what about the US? \nSolution: ask the US to be a little more objective and less israeli biased...No?
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Yes it is hypocritical of the U.S to refuse diplomatic relations with Hamas! Why? Did you know that before we gained our independence from England we were considered terrorists by much of the world? Who are we to refuse relations with a democraticly elected government? You can't have it both ways.....you are either for democracy or you are not. If we are willing to go to war to impose democracy on others, we MUST be willing to accept their democratic choices.........However, we do not have to give aid to them. A gift is just that, a voluntary giving. We get to choose who we give to.