To Pajewmas tuba teakettle of fish
Two comments.
1. As for your comment #305, I didn’t say you should thow your World Books in the fire … I specifically said “You wrote (or copy-pasted) a very long essay”, I didn’t know where you took it from, or if you wrote it yourself.
I still think that this summary of events is biased. The events mentioned there are mostly one-sided and fail to give the neutral reader a balanced view (again, IMHO …).
2.As for your comment #325, you wrote : “Leaves me scratching my head as to how Egyptian authority has allowed this to happen, if in fact they are not part of the problem.”
That’s a very big mistake in a very subtle and delicate issue.
Egypt is involved in this situation more than anyone else.
Egypt controlled Gaza between 1949 and 1967. Egypt REFUSED to accept Gaza back on 1978 because it would have been a serious burden on Egypt to take care of the refugees there. They could have taken Gaza back from Israel in the peace settlement, and establish a Palestinian state there, but they chose not to do it. They chose to leave this problem to Israel to deal with, and wash their hands clean. They now (in 2009) know that this problem might blow up in their faces. On February 2008 Fatah supporters broke through the border with Egypt trying to escape from Hamas militants. Several dozens were shot dead while trying to escape.
Egypt must be part of the solution in Gaza, but they really don’t want to get too involved. In the last conflict in Gaza Egypt actually at least partly supported Israel blaming Hamas for what happened …
