Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Please describe, in detail, whatever you are accusing me of failing to take into consideration.
The ignoring of the power struggle instead you attribute it to a superficial struggle for the right to live under Israel rule with this comment.
The conflict between Fatah and Hamas is over how to live under Israel's refusal to acknowledge Palestinians rights under international law, to resolve the effect we must address that cause.
Your idea you project implies that removing the settlements would enable peace to happen between Fatah and Hamas ignoring the obviouse security issues of having a civil war on Israels doorstep, let alone a analysis made without any backup at all.
Your ignoring the fact that it truly doesn't matter who is in power, both have failed to reach agreements with Israel, and with that history it doesn't matter what actions Israel takes it will not be settled until they come to terms with each other. You stated that here
It matters to those of us who want to separate reality from misconceptions.
The misconceptions you spout are exactly what I said, ideas that don't matter, like me saying it doesn't matter what color the gun is, its still going to kill you, and you arguing that it has significance if its black or brown.
Here, you again ignore the fact that Hamas has been attacking Fatah off and on since 1988, though in the end as I said before it doesn't matter, and for this entire basis of this thread was nothing more than a derailment.
I get the impression you are not aware of the fact that our government persuaded Fatah to attempt an overthrow Hamas's legitimately elected position by planing an funding a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war.
How does that fit into this in your eyes?
Statements you made that had nothing to do in regards to the OP.
Here you ignore how the Zionist settlers first acted in self defence to the persecution of the Arabs, not to mention you ignore how European cultures expressed sympathy yet failed to open there borders to Jews when asked, which was directly responsible for the emphasis on a home state for the Jewish people
This reminds me a bit of the early Zionists who focused their effort on colonizing Palestine instead of focusing their efforts on rescuing the millions of Jews being persecuted throughout Europe. Some people are selfish thugs.
Not to mention, I am still waiting for you to address the own inconsistencies in your own arguments which you seem to ignore, that you perhaps put some magical faith in them that your like "blind spots" in your solutions will magically heal them self.