Jerusalem Peacemakers - Page 5

[merpk]

Bumping now that the holidays are over ...

[moonyoungi]

I read on a paper that they found a military underground tunnel in Gaza strips and there was firing from both sides.
I read that 6 Palestinians died from the air strikes.
I hope this does not mean the end of the truce.
I'm not totally familiar with the whole history of Israel and Palestine conflict. I know it is rooted back to ancient history, right?
The whole history seems really complicated, messy and frustrating.

It's really sad for all the people involved and suffering.

[merpk]

No, it's not rooted in ancient history. It's only about 100-ish years old.


The firing that both the Israeli government and the Hamas government insist will not stop the truce (: ) has been going on for a few days. The tunnel you're talking about is one of MANY. The tunnels are so numerous on the Egypt/Gaza border (which is also shut tight) that the Hamas government actually has workers collecting taxes on the 'imports' coming through them.




And there have been numerous rockets fired from Gaza into Israel before this incident over the last two days (the IDF went in to an area of Gaza near the border, and they've since finished their mission and left). And, of course, more rockets were fired into Israel yesterday (and I think today, but it's not clear).





Peace still has to come. Hamas is a racist organization (imagine if the KKK won an election in the US) and they weren't supposed to be allowed to run in the election according to the previous accords, but Bush (some friend he turned out to be) pushed the issue, and they ran. So now they're there. What to do about them?







I dunno. Which is why nobody's gonna vote for me in the upcoming elections, will they. Sigh.