Why does Hamas fire rockets?

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The most important question-: Who provides Finance to Hamas and Al-Qaeda to buy High-tech weapons and long-range rockets/missiles.

The answer is-:

1) Multi-Billion dollars "Dubai real estates"

2) Crude Oil reaching $145 per barrel.

 

Wouldn't you agree that both cultures who are at war here favor revenge and retribution (real or perceived injustices as the foundation) over an impartial justice?

After all, it is not as if this conflict began recently.

 

Dude... add 60 IQ points and you'll be retarded.

So in your tiny brain you think Israel shouldn't assert its right to exist and disarm terrorists? You also seem to have missed the territorial concession part.

Put your post in the context of everything in the "Conflicts and peace treaties" section here and you're the ignoramus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

This is only the first three paragraphs:

Arab countries over the years refused to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, and Arab nationalists led by Nasser called for the destruction of the state.[71] In 1967, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan massed troops close to Israeli borders, expelled UN peacekeepers and blocked Israel's access to the Red Sea. Israel saw these actions as a casus belli for a pre-emptive strike that launched the Six-Day War, Israel achieved a decisive victory in which it captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights.[72] The 1949 Green Line became the administrative boundary between Israel and the occupied territories. Jerusalem's boundaries were enlarged, incorporating East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Law, passed in 1980, reaffirmed this measure and reignited international controversy over the status of Jerusalem.

The failure of the Arab states in the 1967 war led to the rise of Arab non-state actors in the conflict, most importantly the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) which was committed to what it called "armed struggle as the only way to liberate the homeland".[73][74] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Palestinian groups launched a wave of attacks[75] against Israeli targets around the world,[76] including a massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Israel responded with Operation Wrath of God, in which those responsible for the Munich massacre were tracked down and assassinated.[77]

On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surprise attack against Israel. The war ended on October 26 with Israel successfully repelling Egyptian and Syrian forces but suffering great losses.[78] An internal inquiry exonerated the government of responsibility for the war, but public anger forced Prime Minister Golda Meir to resign.

 

If hamas fired rockets into your backyard you'd bring them flowers, right? Now who's the hypocrite?

 

I agree with you. Its basically like 2 children fighing for the sake of fighting. A lot of attrocities were carried out by the europeans and native americans at the beginning of the US....but overtime I think both have come to terms with it. Yeah native americans aren't totally thrilled with being taken over by the US but I don't think they care that much after all these years since they aren't strapping on bombs and killing innocents or firing random rockets into cities. You also don't see the US launching strikes within the US either. I don't get it, the Europeans and the native americans carried out a lot of attrocities against each other that were much worse than this palastinian/Israel garbage and the natives and europeans pulled it together to form a great nation.....why these band of yahoo's can't pull it together and work something out over a worthless tiny speck of land.....I guess I don't get it all I know is that I'm sick of my tax dollars going into this region.

 

Trader666,

you try to slither your way into another topic of neighbouring tensions with other Arab states, while the fact that Palestinians who are living - wherever - are being marginalized, even by an Israeli state formalizing that they want them "outside of Israel" - and keep Israel for Jews only...

Taking into regards the special land-ownership laws in Israel as well favouring Jews over Arabs, it is a pretty ugly situation -- coupled with the land-grabbing settlers and orthodox extremists with Uzis. Apartheid is a word which does not seem foreign there... with the usual rampant violence, revolts, lawlessness and mass killings.

 

In case you didn't understand the information at the link I posted, it's all interconnected.

Or maybe you were too lazy to check it out, preferring instead to continue spouting your uninformed opinions.

 

Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony

Tuesday, 30 December 2008

How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.

That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don't come from Gaza.

But watching the news shows, you'd think that history began yesterday, that a bunch of bearded anti-Semitic Islamist lunatics suddenly popped up in the slums of Gaza – a rubbish dump of destitute people of no origin – and began firing missiles into peace-loving, democratic Israel, only to meet with the righteous vengeance of the Israeli air force. The fact that the five sisters killed in Jabalya camp had grandparents who came from the very land whose more recent owners have now bombed them to death simply does not appear in the story.

Both Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres said back in the 1990s that they wished Gaza would just go away, drop into the sea, and you can see why. The existence of Gaza is a permanent reminder of those hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who lost their homes to Israel, who fled or were driven out through fear or Israeli ethnic cleansing 60 years ago, when tidal waves of refugees had washed over Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War and when a bunch of Arabs kicked out of their property didn't worry the world.

Well, the world should worry now. Crammed into the most overpopulated few square miles in the whole world are a dispossessed people who have been living in refuse and sewage and, for the past six months, in hunger and darkness, and who have been sanctioned by us, the West. Gaza was always an insurrectionary place. It took two years for Ariel Sharon's bloody "pacification", starting in 1971, to be completed, and Gaza is not going to be tamed now.

Alas for the Palestinians, their most powerful political voice – I'm talking about the late Edward Said, not the corrupt Yassir Arafat (and how the Israelis must miss him now) – is silent and their predicament largely unexplained by their deplorable, foolish spokesmen. "It's the most terrifying place I've ever been in," Said once said of Gaza. "It's a horrifyingly sad place because of the desperation and misery of the way people live. I was unprepared for camps that are much worse than anything I saw in South Africa."

Of course, it was left to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to admit that "sometimes also civilians pay the price," an argument she would not make, of course, if the fatality statistics were reversed. Indeed, it was instructive yesterday to hear a member of the American Enterprise Institute – faithfully parroting Israel's arguments – defending the outrageous Palestinian death toll by saying that it was "pointless to play the numbers game". Yet if more than 300 Israelis had been killed – against two dead Palestinians – be sure that the "numbers game" and the disproportionate violence would be all too relevant. The simple fact is that Palestinian deaths matter far less than Israeli deaths. True, we know that 180 of the dead were Hamas members. But what of the rest? If the UN's conservative figure of 57 civilian fatalities is correct, the death toll is still a disgrace.

To find both the US and Britain failing to condemn the Israeli onslaught while blaming Hamas is not surprising. US Middle East policy and Israeli policy are now indistinguishable and Gordon Brown is following the same dog-like devotion to the Bush administration as his predecessor.

As usual, the Arab satraps – largely paid and armed by the West – are silent, preposterously calling for an Arab summit on the crisis which will (if it even takes place), appoint an "action committee" to draw up a report which will never be written. For that is the way with the Arab world and its corrupt rulers. As for Hamas, they will, of course, enjoy the discomfiture of the Arab potentates while cynically waiting for Israel to talk to them. Which they will. Indeed, within a few months, we'll be hearing that Israel and Hamas have been having "secret talks" – just as we once did about Israel and the even more corrupt PLO. But by then, the dead will be long buried and we will be facing the next crisis since the last crisis.

 

If that were so, Israel would have never ceded the lion's share of land under its control to Egypt (it's most bitter arch-enemy of all at the time) in the name of peace.