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Jannah, the Islamic Paradise, has four rivers; "There are four rivers: one each of water, milk, honey, and wine"

Because religious bigots know how to manipulate the gullible and those who feel disenfranchised. How many virgins are they promised in the Land of Milk and Honey ?

Not aware of anybody on here called Earnest.

No, you work to eliminate the justification for Hamas' existence. Why do you think young Palestinians want to join them ?

And bombing Gaza into a "wilderness of rubble" is going to fix things ?

I thought the Troubles were entirely rooted in religious intolerance and discrimination.

What, learn to love the Skates ? Never going to happen.

What opportunity ? In 1948 the Palestinians saw most of their land confiscated and occupied as they were displaced by a huge number of immigrants. At that point they saw no point in simply caving in and accepting the situation, reacting as most people would. Over 70 years later nobody has succeeded in sorting out the resultant mess.

So find a rational way to undermine their powerbase and make them irrelevant.

Which is not solving the problem. Would Hamas have such support as they have if Gaza and the West Bank were truly part of a self governing, independent state, where Israel had removed the illegal settlements, military checkpoints, the security barrier, and relinquished their stranglehold on essential utilities and transport ?

There is no easy solution, but in similar vein Israel is not going to eliminate Palestinian militancy by force. All states and people's with "skin in the game" have to be addressed, and possibly the way to limit Hamas is to deal more effectively with Iran - the people pulling Hamas' strings.

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, Nelson Mandela, Menachim Begin, Yasser Arafat...........

Get away from your Twitter feed and develop opinions of your own.

At least 100 reported killed after Israel bomb a hospital, at least 6 more in a school sheltering people who had moved south to the "safe" zone, and Egypt saying the border crossing is not closed - it is simply too dangerous to try to get through due to Israeli air strikes. Definitely looking to maintain a safe passage out and minimise collateral casualties.

Chamber

What did they ever do for us ?

Ah, but yesterday the Israeli ambassador to the UK told Sky News that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. A UN official told the BBC that hospitals are rationing patients to one glass of water a day.

Perhaps over 2 million displaced people aren't happy with being crammed into the Strip, having been turfed off their ancestral lands and having all of their basic humanitarian needs controlled by what they perceive to be an apartheid style oppressive military machine. There are differing views and interpretations of what might be done, but one thing is for certain; whatever has been done over the last 20 years, and continues to happen, hasn't solved anything, and if things stay as they are it will still not solve the problems.

It is also day 3525 since the invasion and occupation of Crimea.

I am sure Mossad know exactly where they are.

Gaza is not all of the land that Israel occupies, most of it is the West Bank. Palestinian Territory is the combination of the 2. Also, Israel has almost total control over over water, fuel, and electricity supplies to Gaza, and of all but 1 of the routes in. ( Then again, you know this perfectly well ).

How many UN resolutions and international agreements is Israel in breach of ?. There are more current UN resolutions against Israel then all other countries combined. I am in no way justifying Hamas, but you seem completely oblivious to all the privations and apartheid actions that are imposed on the displaced Palestinian people. Israel can stop most of the problems by withdrawing from the occupied territories, granting the Palestinians the rights and freedoms they are entitled to, and working on a way forward through dialogue that denies Hamas and other extremists their production line of new recruits.

Mossad and Shin Bet have a history of extra- territorial action.

I know.

Apparently this comment is humourous.