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talk is cheap. the israelis do a lot of talking. the important thing here is that they rejected the draft. you are quoting from a draft that israel voted against. did you purposely missed that part? remember the PLO under arafat? they "officially" and in writing accepted israel's right to exist. what came from that? increasing of the illegal settlements and more annexation of the palestinian land and the continue of the israeli control of all major roads, the airspace and the water. launching rockets was not "the first step". the rockets have been happening for less than five years. israel's violation of international law, like resolution 242 and the violation of the rules of occupation, has been happening for half of a century.

the story is quite simple. since 1967, israel has been breaking international law by occupying and annexing palestinian land. why are you not speaking against this violation?

their mantra is not much different than the israeli government's, which is to never allow a palestinian state. any time a bill comes up in the kenneset to allow a palestinian state, it is shutdown overwhelmingly. the occupation and the annexation of palestinian land has been happening for close to 50 years. you're surprised that the people have elected someone who says they'll be fighting against this occupation?

i don't think anyone is denying that hamas has broken international law by both firing rockets and carrying out suicide attacks in the past. that i fully agree with you. no. i have to disagree. you have to realize that this whole thing did not start with hamas' homemade rockets which has killed less than 5 civilians since the conflict escalated recently. israel has been controlling the airspace, the waters and all the borders for over 4 decades. they have imposed a blockade for a while now where it's become extremely difficult for food and aid to go into gaza. this latest blockade started because israel does not like who the gazans have democratically elected as their government, which is hamas. so we have to understand that this did not start over some rockets being fired. however, lets for a second pretend that israel is responding to rockets which, again, have killed less than 5 israeli civilians. would that really justify the over 1000 palestinians dying in the past 2 weeks, where 1/3 of them are children? i don't think so, do you? would that justify demolishing people's lives? would that justify the over 5000 civilians who have been severely injured? i don't think so, do you? this is not my personal morals that i am applying. i am applying international law which includes the geneva convention. same international rules were applied during the world war where germany declared that they were in danger of the jews taking their country down and that's how they justified the atrocities. i'm not saying that the israelis are treating the palestinians the same way the nazis treated the jews, but we'd have to respect these international laws which most countries, including israel are signatories to. same argument can be said about south africa where the africans where put into enclaves and the roads, borders and many other things that we take for granted in north america were being controlled by the apartheid government. we certainly don't support or endorse hamas for breaking international law, but we do support israel which has been breaking international law for close to 50 years.

what other people would think? israel is breaking international law. why do you seem to be okay with that?