Quite a few nations don't like Palestinian terrorists. Jordan kicked them out in 1970 because they tried to take over. Egypt doesn't want them cause they're allies with the Muslim Brotherhood. In Lebanon they helped plunge the nation into Civil War, & in Kuwait they supported Saddam when he invaded, so they kicked them out after he was ousted.
Gaza is indeed a concentration camp, and Sharon withdrew forces from Gaza explicitly to sabotage the peace process and prevent the emergence of a single Palestinian polity.
The fact that Hamas rules Gaza does not change these facts.
I remember, after 2001, how pervasive this sort of casual racism was towards any group of Muslims, but it sort of faded away along with the GWOT. It’s been disgusting but fascinating to watch it get resurrected as if the last 23 years hadn’t happened.
Setting aside the obvious fact that this is not true—the Israeli state routinely imprisons hundreds or thousands of Palestinians without trial or even charges—most of these convictions occur in military courts that rubber-stamp the mass imprisonment of Palestinians.
An infant had a better sense of false pretenses than you do.
“Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood” and “Israel deliberately cultivated Hamas as a counterweight to the PLO” are not mutually contradictory.
Whatever they think about Hamas, 143 countries in the UN General Assembly just voted to give Palestine more rights and privileges in the UN, against only 9 'No' votes and 25 abstentions.
It seems like quite a few countries don't like the Israeli government.
Israel did not cultivate Hamas. At the time the PLO was simply an umbrella organization for numerous Palestinian terror groups. Israel at times didn't know which one posed the more serious threat, but they didn't promote one over the other.
No, Sharon withdrew to try and show Israel's willingness to make concessions. They pulled out of Gaza & even left their businesses behind for the Arabs to use for themselves. All they asked for in exchange was peace. Hamas simply burned the businesses & chose war.
If Israel wanted to destroy all of Gaza, they'd have done it long ago. They're the only nation who offered any land to create a Palestinian state. When Jordan controlled the West Bank & Egypt controlled Gaza, neither nation offered any land to the Palestinians.
“The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. That is exactly what happened.”
Dov Weissglass, senior advisor to Ariel Sharon, explaining the disengagement plan in 2004.
So much so that Olmert contiued the process in the West Bank in 2006. But momentum was lost due to the war in Lebanon in which Olmeft lost much popularity.
Long after Israeli leaders knew exactly what Hamas was, they continued to prop up Hamas because Hamas was a convenient excuse to avoid engaging in a substantive peace process.