Thread:Comments:International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Gaza blockade/International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Gaza blockade/reply (14)

The problem is that responding to violence with even greater violence is what is isolating Israel from the rest of the world. I fear for the future of Israel because the current leadership seems to not be able to do anything else than responding to violence with even greater violence and it doesn't seem to have a single idea on how to make the peace any nearer. And about facts: there are 300000 colonist living in the west bank and they represent one of the greatest hurdle Israel will have to surpass for getting peace. You can blame the palestinians for the evacuation of 7000-8000 settlers from gaza but the point is that those people shouldn't have been allowed to settle in the occupied areas. I think that while the six days war was one of Israel greatest success it's aftermath was screwed up. Instead of keeping the occupied territories just under military control and using them has bargain chip for recognition and peace accord (sinai style) Israel has let colonies grow to a point where it's pratically impossible to dismantle them. And this send the worst possible message to Palestinians. You say that palestinians could do a lot to stifle the most extreme organizations but what for? To their eyes Israel is still slowly evicting them and taking a small piece of land after another no matter if they're peaceful or aggressive. If they aren't shown any alternative to this how you can hope the situation will change? And while you can personally not believe that all palestinians are guilty a lot of people in power behave has if they are.