The crux of the matter is that each of the parties want an absolute ownership and undivided total control over the same piece of land and Jerusalem. It is akin to the two women who went before King Solomon over the ownership of a child, with one woman asking that the child be divided into two and the other woman rejecting that the child should be killed. King Solomon was wise and he made a wise decision which forever inked him in history, solving the problem and also saving the child. A case of killing two birds with one stone, one would add. During the many centuries past when the Philistines had their way, they forced Israelis into servile existence and literary banished them from the MiddleEast. They took over everything including Jerusalem and their absolutism lasted for thousands of years with Israelis becoming wanderers in exile all over the world until 1948 when they were reestablished in the MiddleEast.
If Palestine have their way today, they will completely obliterate Israel and once again reassert total and complete control over Israelis and the entire territory as well as Jerusalem. If they had the superior firepower today, they will not agree to any ceasefire nor will they agree to accommodate Israel in any form or shape in the MiddleEast. They will remain resolute in their bombardment until their final objective, the complete annihilation of Israel, is accomplished. But Israel is somewhat more civilized and easily amenable to emotional pressure to end hostilities as soon as it has begun. Israel is heavily dependent on the United States of America and always finds it difficult to refuse any request from the White House which easily yields to international pressure to call off Israel each time they want to solve the Hamas problem. Left for Israel, the latest hostilities would have gone on until something decisive happened; but they are heavily constrained by their deference to America and once again had to acquiesce to yet another ceasefire.
Israel has been forced by Joe Biden to agree to another ceasefire with an internationally recognized terrorist organization instead of wiping them out. Why is Hamas still being accommodated when there is a standing international policy in force to deny terrorists any real estate and in fact to destroy them wherever they are found. Why is Hamas being given this leeway and at the detriment of Israel, who they continuously provoke and attack. If ISIS is not allowed to keep and maintain a territory, why should Hamas? If al Qaeida was bombed out of controlling any territory, why is Hamas not under similar blitzkrieg? If American troops and other coalition of the willing meagre troops spent over 20 years in Afghanistan hunting down Taliban terrorists, why is the airspace over Gaza not buzzing with fighter jets trying to dislodge and decimate Hamas. Why the mix message and differential treatment when it comes to Hamas?
ICHEOKU says the rest of rational world is confused about all these different American policies about terrorists as it is beyond any logical explanation or understanding. Why is there is no international effort to put Hamas out of existence after declaring and recognizing them internationally as a terrorist organization. Is it because Israel is their immediate victims and not America or other Western countries? ICHEOKU says may be it is about time Israel called America's bluff over the continuing tolerance of Hamas and see if America can actually throw them to the wolves, which is very doubtful. The strong-arming of Israel by the White House each time they want to decisively crackdown on Hamas terrorists living in their neck of the wood sends a conflicting message. It should either be every terrorists should be wiped out or no terrorists deserves a different treatment.
Will America accept such an unfriendly foe as Hamas, which seeks its destruction, living in their neighborhood? If Israel will not be allowed to destroy Hamas that means that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. So, let the international community remove the terrorist tag which they placed on Hamas, legitimize them and let them become known as ordinary "freedom fighters". But it is a conflict of syllogism for Hamas to be a terrorist organization yet not amenable to be completely destroyed. It does not make sense to continue to tolerate Hamas and watch them flourish and cause havoc every so often and when Israel responds, they are called to stop and sign a ceasefire agreement.
ICHEOKU is emphatic that the latest ceasefire, just like the several others before it, will only serve as a hiatus to enable both parties to regroup, rearm, restock and re-strategize for the next episode or round of hostilities. There will be more Hamas provocations and of course more Israeli responses and then a confused world going back on hyper loop hysteria, hyperventilating on the need for an immediate ceasefire and the cycle continues. This is a time, a seething Bibi Netanyahu wished that some Jewish people were not complicit in effecting the change in the White House last November 3, 2020. Imagine if President Donald John Trump was still in office what would have happened to Hamas, although Hamas would not have dared. It is sad that another ceasefire has been hurriedly imposed on Israel and sadder that some Jewish people voted against President Donald John Trump in the last election despite all he did for the Jewish State of Israel.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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