Israeli Airstrike Kills Hamas Founder

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Well I can't say anything I'm talking about is an original thought on my part. There has been talk of a Sharon plan that was along these lines, and his current move for a full seperation is along the same lines. Ultimately, Egypt and Jordan do not want the Palestinians either, and both countries expelled the PA in the past.

Violence has been indoctrinated into Palestinian society, and frankly, I don't see it going away soon, but dealing with Egypt allows for more effective diplomacy, and would be slightly more effectual then the PA who sponsors that same violence. Israel's response would also be slightly more limited (though Jordan's solution to dealing with their Arafat problem was inviting Israel to bomb). See with this provocation level, war is inevitable, but neither Egypt nor Jordan want to go to war because of the Pals. If they're going to war, it's to finish what they started in '48. So it's likely they would rejoice in being given the spotlight in reigning in Islamic Jihad, etc. that threaten their governments as well. The only problem is, while Egypt cries that these groups must be stopped, they provide them with the weaponry and sponsorship to keep them going.

The Palestinains are claiming land is broken up by Israel that was never connected to begin with. Legally there is more precedance to return Gaza to Egypt, then to a people who never had soveriegn control over it. Nobody claimed these areas between 1948 and 1967 because they were intended to act as a buffer between nations. When Israel attempted to build there (housing meant for Palestinians actually) the UN stopped it. Meanwhile the fighting itself never really stopped and it became clear Israel needed it for strategic reasons. So right before the Yom Kippur war in 1973 you have a clumb of IDF troops watching the Egyptian border for activity, and eventually the theory was "why stand here, let's put some structures up, and once we build it will be irreversable". So legally, if you're going to call for a return of land, it MUST be to the last recognized entity to own it, not the moral landlords or whatever champions of the Palestinian cause might think. The truth is that there was less violence, and a more peacefull living standard for Palestinians and Jews BEFORE any of the Rabin/Arafat talks, before Israel negotiated at all, and before the Palestinians had autonomous land. These experiments didn't work, the PA didn't act in good faith, and truth be told, NOBODY not even the Palestinians really want Gaza.