Hopefully, having Hamas in charge will be such a jolt to the international community, Israel, and the US, that they'll stop giving the bloodthirsty savages in the disputed territories a free pass and start requiring them to act like civilized human beings in order to get aid, political support, and sympathy.

Furthermore, this is probably good news for Israel. They now have new options available to them militarily since the Palestinian government can now be held directly responsible for terrorist attacks, there will be less international support for the Palestinians, Hamas will be put under considerable pressure to moderate their stand against Israel, and maybe support for transferring the Palestinians to the surrounding countries will even pick up, even if that's still not all likely at this point.

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The conflict between Israel and Palestine is something that has interested me for the past few years. Being a student at UCLA for four years left me with a lot of questions, such as, why is it so many liberals are so eager to hop on the Palestinian band wagon and completely ignore the Israeli side of the story.

If you study the origination of the conflict, the clear "bad guys" are the imperialists who controlled the territory and then promised it back to everyone. The "Palestinians" were not at fault at the beginning and neither were the Israelis at fault at the beginning. But if you take a look at the history since then, and you do have to look at it honestly, you can't be like Noam Chomsky who leaves out certain facts in his papers (like leaving out the fact that the Yom Kippur War started because of a surprise attack by Arabs during a religious holiday for the Jews), the Israelis have certainly been harsh in their responses, but, in general, they have been responses. It seems like the left would like Israel to simply roll over and take it.

[moonbat on]Attacked during a sacred religious holiday? How dare you defend yourselves and almost wipe out the Egyptian army in the process?! Evil Jews. And Republicans are Nazis.[moonbat off]

I think it was in Why Nations go to War by John G. Stoessinger...the author discussed the Israel-Palestine conflict and he said something like...well I'm not as eloquent as him but the gist of it was that neither side was to blame at the beginning but now both sides have done some unthinkable things that the other side refuses to forgive and so it goes on...

I'm not going to claim that Israel is innocent in all of this, because I do not believe they are. But, what I will say, is that one side in this conflict teaches its preschoolers that killing Jews is fabulous and as long as that continues on there can be no peace in the Middle East. One side celebrates the murder of innocent Israeli children, a celebration that does not occur in Israel when innocent Palestinians are used as shields by their terrorist leaders. Israel may not be perfect but anyone who can't see that it is the more reasonable and civilized party in this matter lives in candyland.