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Cory Booker Hid in Hotel Stairwell ‘Bomb Shelter’ as Israel Was Attacked
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Take a look at Israel's blockade policy first. I'm not saying Hamas is the role model for governments everywhere, but the blockade causes actual resource scarcity.
The blockade came in response to massive building of rockets instead of aid use for good.
You have it backwards. Israel announced the blockade in 2007 after Hamas won the election, then the rockets happened after.
The moment israel lift the blockade - hamas gets nukes/dirty bombs.
Let's not kid anyone - the "resolution" to the conflict is that one side dies and the other surives, or the other 'resolution" that will never happen - both sides drop nationally backed religion doctrine, no one gets Jerusalem and no one gets religious sites - and jordan and egypt gives up more land so a 50/50 split will stay fair.
Knowing that none of the above will ever happen, expect the next 100 years to stay absolutely the same.
Why doesn't Israel give up land for a 50/50 split? Anyway that aside, nobody's been asking for a 50/50 split for a while now. You can look up the 2000 Camp David summit for a list of sticking points between Israel and Palestine.
Also Hamas has been getting weapons from Iran for ages and they haven't used nukes to my knowledge, so I'm not sure where you got that from.
And more importantly, just because they somehow can't lift the blockade doesn't mean they need to block legitimate humanitarian aid. Actually go look up their blockade policies. Even if you believe a blockade is necessary, Israel's implementation is absolutely fucked.