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How Hamas uses Gaza for political mileage.

At 11:00 a.m. (EST), on February 6, 2009, the BBC reported that Hamas has, again, confiscated the United Nation’s Aid meant for the poor starving Palestinians. Because of this,the U.N. was suspending all Aid.

The world is deafeningly silent. No protests in the street today, in fact, everyone seems to have forgotten all about the situation in Gaza.

A few weeks ago, when Israel retaliated against eight years of rocket attacks, there were demonstrations all over the world. Apparently, Israel has no right to defend itself against attack, or a limited right.

Those who understood the events were not marching in the streets, were not vocal in protest, because they had the annoying ability to comprehend the nature of war.

To put it simply, there is a technical difference between rockets being launched by unnamed terrorists who reside in an area and are not under government control, (or can plausibly be denied to be under government control) and a government firing rockets into another country.

Hamas is the government in Gaza. The people voted forit. Hence the people support Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organisation which supports rocket attacks on Israel. Hence any rocket attack on Israel is a Declaration of War.

Hamas has taught the world the use of ‘human shields’. It is a great way to get simpleton’s support. Simply put a rocket launcher on the roof of a school. Fire a rocket,the flash is detectable from a satellite which pinpoints the location and retaliates.

That children are killed is not a problem to the Palestinian.They are far easier to replace than a rocket launcher.Further, bombing a school has great propaganda value.

Simpletons, unless the ‘dots’ are ‘connected’ will not be able to comprehend that the response missile fired from Israel had its coordinates set by computer which reacts to the satellite image. Simpletons will rally and protest because Israel bombed a school.

Those who launched the rocket from the school, (the same ones who danced in the street when the World Trade Centre was bombed), bathe in the anti-Israel protests by the simpletons.

The BBC itself began its heart rendering ‘poor Palestinians’ broadcasts during the first weeks of the war. In fact, the BBC might have continued its Pro-Hamas stance if the demand that they broadcast a financial appeal from an organisation attempting to raise money for Palestine had not been so strident.

After the ‘truce’ was called and rockets continued to fall on Israel, many simpletons realised they were simpletons and slunk away as punters who had bet the farm on the losing side.

That this is the second time the UN had supplies meant for starving refugees confiscated by Hamas should surprise no one, not even simpletons.

The fact is very simple, the arguments about ’state’ about ‘free Palestine’ are smoke screens. One is dealing with paid militias whose purpose is to keep the pot boiling so as to detract from Israel’s supporters, hoping to weaken that nation sufficiently to allow attack by Iran or others.

The problem with Israel is that it is a successful democracy.It occupies the same kind of property to be found in the rest of the middle east. That Israel has pioneered drip agriculture, can grow oranges in the desert, and provide its citizens with all the benefits of a first world country is an anathema to its Arab neighbours.

It creates a demand for rights unknown in the Arab world, for the provision of benefits that were reserved only to the ruling class.

Arab/Jew violence is of a fairly new vintage. Previously,the relationship was good, and the ‘enemy’ were the Christian Crusaders, the European Kingdoms, and up until World War I,the Ottoman Empire ruled all the areas now made up of Iran,Iraq, Israel, Palestine, etc.

The carving up of the Empire after WWI and the push for a Jewish Homeland which gained support after WWII, has created an enmity which could have been healed in the 1950s if political mileage was not available.

For the Palestinians to blame Israel for bombing a school,or keeping them in the kind of discomfort that has been so widely publicised is a way certain interests enjoy power.

I’m sure any mouth in Gaza which objected to using a school as a site to launch rockets belongs to a corpse. The only way for Hamas to hold power is to play the ‘Two Minutes Hate’ so clearly explained in George Orwell’s 1984.

That we now know the world is full of simpletons is the result of the recent conflict in Gaza.