That's all well and good but you fail to make a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinians. The Palestinians aren't responding to Zionist aggression, Hamas are. Targeting civilians is forbidden in Islam. Supporting the Palestinians and supporting Hamas are two, entirely different things. Hamas have hijacked this issue to further their own agenda. They knew exactly what they were doing when they started firing rockets and they knew Palestinians would die and suffer as a result. Hamas are terrorists. They are an obstacle to peace, and if you don't think they're terrorists then look back at what happened in 2002, when the Arab League had secured a withdrawal by the Zionists from all territories, and secured East Jerusalem as their capital, what did Hamas go and do? Blow up a hotel. The deal was off. The same deal they now want.
The peace plan dominated the summit that year and it was unanimously endorsed by the Arab League.
Essentially, it offered Israel full normalisation with the entire Arab world in exchange for a withdrawal from all occupied territories, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Lebanon, as well as giving the Palestinians East Jerusalem as their capital and reaching a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees who, in the Arab-Israel war of 1948-49, had fled or been expelled from their homes in what became Israel.
The plan received international support and it briefly put Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the spot. Here, at last, seemed a chance to end once and for all the historic Arab-Israeli conflict.
But just before the plan was published, Hamas bombed an Israeli hotel in Netanya, killing 30 people and wounding more than 100. All talk of peace was off the table.
That's all well and good but you fail to make a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinians. The Palestinians aren't responding to Zionist aggression, Hamas are. Targeting civilians is forbidden in Islam. Supporting the Palestinians and supporting Hamas are two, entirely different things. Hamas have hijacked this issue to further their own agenda. They knew exactly what they were doing when they started firing rockets and they knew Palestinians would die and suffer as a result. Hamas are terrorists. They are an obstacle to peace, and if you don't think they're terrorists then look back at what happened in 2002, when the Arab League had secured a withdrawal by the Zionists from all territories, and secured East Jerusalem as their capital, what did Hamas go and do? Blow up a hotel. The deal was off. The same deal they now want.
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The peace plan dominated the summit that year and it was unanimously endorsed by the Arab League.
Essentially, it offered Israel full normalisation with the entire Arab world in exchange for a withdrawal from all occupied territories, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Lebanon, as well as giving the Palestinians East Jerusalem as their capital and reaching a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees who, in the Arab-Israel war of 1948-49, had fled or been expelled from their homes in what became Israel.
The plan received international support and it briefly put Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the spot. Here, at last, seemed a chance to end once and for all the historic Arab-Israeli conflict.
But just before the plan was published, Hamas bombed an Israeli hotel in Netanya, killing 30 people and wounding more than 100. All talk of peace was off the table.