15 YEARS AGO: Two sentences that sum up the Israeli-Gaza conflict

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Here's a NOT PC post from 15 years ago, quoting the great Thomas Sowell, that could have been written yesterday ...

Two sentences that sum up the Israeli-Gaza conflict

If two sentences could sum up the Israeli-Gaza conflict, it would be these from Thomas Sowell:

"Since everybody seems to be criticising Israel for its military response to the rockets being fired into their country from the Gaza strip, let me add my criticisms as well. The Israelis traded land for peace, but they have never gotten the peace, so they should take back the land....
"Those who think 'negotiations' are a magic answer seem not to understand that when A wants to annihilate B, this is not an 'issue' that can be resolved amicably around a conference table."Read Israel vs. Hamas: Pretty Talk and Ugly Realities. THOMAS SOWELL

AND another post from 20 years ago talking about that 'land-for-peace' deal ...

Rewarding terror

Israeli settlers are being forcibly removed from their homes. And Hamas leaders view the forced removal of Israeli citizens from their own property as a Hamas victory, and as an endorsement of their tactics of terror.

Says an ebullient Ahmed al-Bahar, a leading Hamas thug in Gaza,

"Israel has never been in such a state of retreat and weakness as it is today following more than four years of the intifada. Hamas's heroic attacks exposed the weakness and volatility of the impotent Zionist security establishment. The withdrawal marks the end of the Zionist dream, and is a sign of the moral and psychological decline of the Jewish state."

Another spokesman for Hamas terror says of the property eviction that it is "due to the Palestinian resistance operations. … and we will continue our resistance." Talk about rewarding terrorists.

And you'll be as pleased as Cox and Forkum to note that the evictions have brought Hamas leaders together and out of hiding in a bid for control of the Gaza Strip, which puts them in direct conflict with the Palestinian Authority, who have recently been making moves of moderation.

Israel is playing into the hands of Hamas, and in the process is betraying the property rights of its own people and the moderates in the Palestinian Authority. Shame.

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