It is unclear whether or not Israel has sought U.S permission to invade the Gaza strip in a more agressive manner. In any case, Israel must act in a constant state of readiness, whcih includes closed borders. However, they will provide as much refuge as possible.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070620/D8PSI6N82.html
Israel helps the innocent civilians of Pakistan as much as possible, but they cannot (nor should they be expected to) allow humanitarian aide to displace national security as a priority. It is a cold and even callous view of things, but that's war. It is not their responsibility to help these people because he borders have closed.
I'm assuming you're talking about Palestine and not Pakistan. Nevertheless, up to here I'm pretty much with you, even if I see no reason why Israel couldn't do more to act civilized in this situation.
The people flee to Israel, because Israel is one nation in which terrorists are not rampant in neighborhoods, hiding and needlessly endangering civilians. People flee to Israel because the 60,000 (if I recall correctly) Palestinians living under Israeli rule in the occupied territory have more rights and protection than they do in their own country.
No.
Palestinians are fleeing from the Palestinian territories because chaos is governing those areas. The chaos is the result of the total impossibility for the Palestinian government to run the state, which in turn is the result of Israel's decision to withhold the hundreds of million of dollars from Palestine as a way of punishing the Palestinian people for democratically electing the wrong government. At the same time the Israelis, together with USA and Europe, actively support Fatah and thus reinforced the development which resulted in what could be described as a civil war.
Israel is a nation that, although troubled by considerable worries, doesn't suffer the consequences that the Palestinians have to suffer. Israel is a functioning democracy (it is a lot of other things too, but, still, it is a democracy) while Palestine, under the Hamas government, was never allowed to develop into a functioning democracy. And how do you expect the Palestinians to respect democracy when, clearly, the Israelis, America and Europe only respect democracy when it renders the result that these nations and federations agree to? The world demanded democratic elections in Palestine but they didn't accept the outcome. Not only that, they punished the Palestinian people fiercly for electing the socially concerned but fundamentalist Hamas as opposed to the then corrupted Fatah (or the militia puppets of USA, if you will).
The U.N will not do anything. Did the U.N enforce Resolution 1559? No. Instead, the legitimate Lebanse gov't, due to widespread corruption among other things, was infiltrated by Hezbollah (the militia puppets of Syria).
As far as the U.S support of Israel, while strong, the United States continues to bow to international pressures within the U.N (as resolution 1701, the resolution arranging a cease-fire last summer shows).
Last summer was a widely regarded defeat for Israel. In the final debriefing, analysts says that Israel's fault lay in its relative inaction. Res. 1701 handed victory to the jihadists and left Israel in a weak position for the next time. The lesson seemed to be that when given a chance to take out terrorists, Israel must seize such a chance because the United States will not help in procuring more time and the U.N will certainly not be any aide in upholding anti-terrorist resolutions. This summer will be handled differently. The area is different, yes, but given the opportunity, Israel will exchange short-term chaos for hopefully long-term benefits.
There is little point in arguing with someone who seems to think what is going on in the region could be described as an ongoing war between Israel and "jihadists". The conflict in Lebanon has nothing to do with the conflict between Fatah and Hamas in the Palestinian territories. At least, I don't understand the connection you're making, but you clearly has a pretty generalizing view of non-Israelis in the area. I'm supsecting that has something to do with the widespread evangelical idea in America that the Israelis are serving as protectors of The Holy Land and defending it against "jihadists", that is everyone outside of the christian/judeo heritage. That, unlike the anti-Semite notion of some kind of global zionist consipiracy, is the reason to why Israel has the world's biggest brother and can do pretty much whatever they want to in the region which will lead to more chaos and death in the longrun.
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