Posts to BBC on Palestinian Issues
Added: Wednesday, 19 April, 2006, 16:30 GMT 17:30 UK
The Palestinians now having aid cut from the USA and the EU should turn to Iran the main supporter of Hamas. They can depend on wealthy expatriate Palestinians living in the West. Humanitarian organisations like Oxfam should step in. Gulf States can employ more Palestinians to help their staying families. They can't depend on generous help from rich Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, as they don't want to be portrayed as supporters of Hamas considered by the USA as a terrorist organisation.
The Palestinians can’t go on living on international humanitarian aids as this is just the minimum living standard they can get. But to live up to their aspirations they should have economic activities and political independence that can put them on track without tending their hands for permanent outside help. But they can’t achieve this as long as the Palestinian factions , especially, Hamas and Fatah are at odd with one another .Hamas is kept a lame duck inside and outside the Palestinian territories. So the Palestinians as it seems will remain under the care and mandate of international community without achieving their goal for full independence.
Added: Wednesday, 17 May, 2006, 10:46 GMT 11:46 UK
Like religion and state that should be set apart, so should love and politics. Even married couples of the same race can have different political views and vote differently. In the case of mixed marriage in Israel, especially, between Palestinians and Israelis, the risk of terrorism shouldn’t be used as an excuse to stand between human relationships. Isreal has enough means to detect woul-be terrorists. So lovers on both sides should be allowed to enjoy their passion without obstruction.
Added: Wednesday, 17 May, 2006, 11:06 GMT 12:06 UK
Isreal by standing between genuine lovers from the Palestinians and Israelis sides is building another wall between them. Outlawing such relations is another form of its attempt of disengagement from Palestinian affairs. But people have the right to the pursuit of happiness. Love will make people peaceful. Standing in their relations makes them violent. So the law is groundlessly motivated. It is based on xenophobia and it can have the adverse effect in the long run. Richard Bowen
17 May 06, 06:04 PM
Added: Friday, 19 May, 2006, 16:25 GMT 17:25 UK
The Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah by their internal feud are playing in the hand of Israel. While they go about fighting about what action to take to end occupation or resorting to internal armed fight, Isreal exploits this disarray to set a clear agenda for its internal security and how to win diplomatic victories over its policies regarding the Palestinian issues.The Palestinian people, sole victim of this situation, are at crossfire from all sides, paying dearly for such internal feud.
Added: Friday, 19 May, 2006, 16:23 GMT 17:23 UK
The Palestinian factions - Hamas and Fatah - can’t settle their differences by peaceful negotiations. This reinforces the attitude of some that the Palestinian leadership is far from being worthy of an independent state as the Palestinian security forces aren’t yet under a single command, which leads to frequent open armed battles between them, leaving casualties among the population they’re supposed to protect. Maybe, they need an international peace keeping force to keep them apart.
Added: Tuesday, 6 June, 2006, 16:54 GMT 17:54 UK
Generations of Palestinians have lived under armed struggle which begot armed factions with conflicting political agenda to deal with the Palestinian issue. Hamas and Fatah are the main breed of such a situation. As they have never seen eye to eye, referendum or no referendum for implicit recognition of Isreal will not diffuse their differences about Isreal or internal matters. Their internal struggle will be as always to Isreal advantage, further delaying their territorial independence.
Added: Sunday, 11 June, 2006, 17:26 GMT 18:26 UK
The death of seven people, including three children, when Israeli shells hit a beach in Gaza on Friday should not be used to fuel tension in a permanently troubled area. Hamas and Isreal should respect the truce. Continuous reprisal attacks on both sides will create more incidents similar to the beach attack, in which innocent civilians on both sides pay dearly making political agreement an impossibility , especially, between on Israeli and Palestinian hardliners.
he tragedy of the Palestinians is that they are at crossfire from all sides. After more than 50 years of resistance for independence, their leaders of different factions didn’t manage to come up with a national agreement of what political system they should have that preserve their unity and put them in a strong position to negotiate with the international community about the future state they should have. Isreal, which has a wide influence, especially, in Western Europe and the United States of America exploits this division to delay the setup of a Palestinian state. What has aggravated their cause is the coming of Hamas to power. But Hamas is powerless since it is not recognised by the US and Israel because of its refusal to recognise Isreal and its adopting terrorist attacks against it. This has led to the cut of help to the Palestinians, who unfortunately will continue to pay for the division between Fatah and Hamas and the refusal of Israel to recognise them as a people worthy of full independence. But the international community should consider the Palestinian territories as a disaster zone in view of the state in which it is now and send them humanitarian aid – for them not to fall in famine which can turn into a human catastrophe in the region.Tuesday, 09 May 2006 23:19
The Palestinians now having aid cut from the USA and the EU should turn to Iran the main supporter of Hamas. They can depend on wealthy expatriate Palestinians living in the West. Humanitarian organisations like Oxfam should step in. Gulf States can employ more Palestinians to help their staying families. They can't depend on generous help from rich Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, as they don't want to be portrayed as supporters of Hamas considered by the USA as a terrorist organisation.
The Palestinians can’t go on living on international humanitarian aids as this is just the minimum living standard they can get. But to live up to their aspirations they should have economic activities and political independence that can put them on track without tending their hands for permanent outside help. But they can’t achieve this as long as the Palestinian factions , especially, Hamas and Fatah are at odd with one another .Hamas is kept a lame duck inside and outside the Palestinian territories. So the Palestinians as it seems will remain under the care and mandate of international community without achieving their goal for full independence.
Added: Wednesday, 17 May, 2006, 10:46 GMT 11:46 UK
Like religion and state that should be set apart, so should love and politics. Even married couples of the same race can have different political views and vote differently. In the case of mixed marriage in Israel, especially, between Palestinians and Israelis, the risk of terrorism shouldn’t be used as an excuse to stand between human relationships. Isreal has enough means to detect woul-be terrorists. So lovers on both sides should be allowed to enjoy their passion without obstruction.
Added: Wednesday, 17 May, 2006, 11:06 GMT 12:06 UK
Isreal by standing between genuine lovers from the Palestinians and Israelis sides is building another wall between them. Outlawing such relations is another form of its attempt of disengagement from Palestinian affairs. But people have the right to the pursuit of happiness. Love will make people peaceful. Standing in their relations makes them violent. So the law is groundlessly motivated. It is based on xenophobia and it can have the adverse effect in the long run. Richard Bowen
17 May 06, 06:04 PM
Added: Friday, 19 May, 2006, 16:25 GMT 17:25 UK
The Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah by their internal feud are playing in the hand of Israel. While they go about fighting about what action to take to end occupation or resorting to internal armed fight, Isreal exploits this disarray to set a clear agenda for its internal security and how to win diplomatic victories over its policies regarding the Palestinian issues.The Palestinian people, sole victim of this situation, are at crossfire from all sides, paying dearly for such internal feud.
Added: Friday, 19 May, 2006, 16:23 GMT 17:23 UK
The Palestinian factions - Hamas and Fatah - can’t settle their differences by peaceful negotiations. This reinforces the attitude of some that the Palestinian leadership is far from being worthy of an independent state as the Palestinian security forces aren’t yet under a single command, which leads to frequent open armed battles between them, leaving casualties among the population they’re supposed to protect. Maybe, they need an international peace keeping force to keep them apart.
Added: Tuesday, 6 June, 2006, 16:54 GMT 17:54 UK
Generations of Palestinians have lived under armed struggle which begot armed factions with conflicting political agenda to deal with the Palestinian issue. Hamas and Fatah are the main breed of such a situation. As they have never seen eye to eye, referendum or no referendum for implicit recognition of Isreal will not diffuse their differences about Isreal or internal matters. Their internal struggle will be as always to Isreal advantage, further delaying their territorial independence.
Added: Sunday, 11 June, 2006, 17:26 GMT 18:26 UK
The death of seven people, including three children, when Israeli shells hit a beach in Gaza on Friday should not be used to fuel tension in a permanently troubled area. Hamas and Isreal should respect the truce. Continuous reprisal attacks on both sides will create more incidents similar to the beach attack, in which innocent civilians on both sides pay dearly making political agreement an impossibility , especially, between on Israeli and Palestinian hardliners.
IN CONCLUSION
he tragedy of the Palestinians is that they are at crossfire from all sides. After more than 50 years of resistance for independence, their leaders of different factions didn’t manage to come up with a national agreement of what political system they should have that preserve their unity and put them in a strong position to negotiate with the international community about the future state they should have. Isreal, which has a wide influence, especially, in Western Europe and the United States of America exploits this division to delay the setup of a Palestinian state. What has aggravated their cause is the coming of Hamas to power. But Hamas is powerless since it is not recognised by the US and Israel because of its refusal to recognise Isreal and its adopting terrorist attacks against it. This has led to the cut of help to the Palestinians, who unfortunately will continue to pay for the division between Fatah and Hamas and the refusal of Israel to recognise them as a people worthy of full independence. But the international community should consider the Palestinian territories as a disaster zone in view of the state in which it is now and send them humanitarian aid – for them not to fall in famine which can turn into a human catastrophe in the region.Tuesday, 09 May 2006 23:19
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