so we are now in the midst of what clearly even though it has not yet been
made official i think the time you can agreed soon we are going to hear of a of
a true slash cease-fire
and that is going to be
in the incredibly short term a pause to the violence in the time is that
accurate
yet uh... was just checking of b_b_c_ news and delete this word from home on
sand i guess you just is that uh...
there's an imminent truce going on rail all right so what are the priorities
here the priorities for me are number one and the short term violence
immediately
number two start on a path
to real long-term peace and we have to talk about
reality and pragmatism when we look at what is likely to make that happen now
one of the biggest i get a lot of emails about other want different things or the
dress for different points over one
we get that i'd had a lot of emails from people saying strictly because israel's
rockets are leading to more deaths than how mosses we need to consider that
israel is the one problem here okay now we need to talk about that me to think
about that critically there's a number of reasons why israel's rockets are
leading to more deaths than i mosses number one how mosses bringing in a lot
of these rockets either
built who uh... it was they're coming from iran
or they are being assembled parts from iran that are being brought in
through the use of subterfuge so by definition you're going to have less
rockets and they're going to be of lower quality ok we're talking about a a
terrorist group hamas who is basically
fighting against a military
so by definition a very advanced military very advanced military so by
definition israel's rockets
uh... are going to lead to more depth val
let's keep in mind
we need to separate in this discussion what is in the best interest of the
palestinian people and what is in the best interests of hamas lewis and his
before we get into that many of them were thing
israel has rocketed and systems
very advanced rocket defense systems they also have numerous shelters right
and uh... strategies for reducing civilian casualties to take affect
immediately and are very effective right forty five seconds from the siren people
are supposed to be in a shelter palestinians do not have any of this
right
so the other issue we have to be aware of
is that hamas is firing a lot of these rockets from areas filled with civilians
meaning that by definition when his role fires back palestinians dot
do i agree with those palestinians being killed
absolutely not we need to c_n_n_'s the violence right away and we need to
figure out whatever needs to be done whoever needs to get involved stopped
that violence needs to happen
new york where to start taking rockets that landed in the it you know upstate
new york
uh... and they were coming from a an area hypothetically in canada where they
were the rocket launchers were intermixed with civilians
certainly you would have civilian deaths does that mean that new york city were
targeting civilians it does not we need to be aware of this
do i think it's good to be ok for civilians to be dying in gaza now
obviously not
but braces this is a tactic of of hormones no question about it this is
cal create now
palestinians realize that
palestinians notice and support for hamas
npr has been reporting the guardian has been reporting and other media outlets
support her
for hamas is dwindling time and i think that that's a distinction that needs to
be tron between so-called palestinians
and hamas i don't know that it's being drawn for a lot of people
right now yeah there's all sorts of reasons why hamas is popular t gaza is
decreasing
not the least of which is that the middle class has been racked since they
took a controlled gaza few years ago and back class was more opposition also
right now you've got a lot of fanatics more supporting them and sort of uh...
maybe a silent minority or or almost a majority now that are kind of opposed
that don't know where to go right so we need to reject the idea from the right
hamas
palestine and palestine is hamas medicine group ten percent of hamas
rockets
don't reach israel from gaza they explode in gaza killing their own
civilians so palestinians have a lot of reason to walk an alternative to hamas
feliz that banking needs to be made clear read-out what what what might make
hamas less either to kill israeli civilians that they are with no regard
for launching rockets from civilian areas into israel uh... which then of
course will receive fire back and lead to to debts
they need to have some kind of easing of the blockade now this is complicated
because why is the blockade their well weapons are getting to the rockets that
are being launched by uh... by hamas
are getting in there somehow either the parts where the rockets
and the blockade presumably baton is there to stop that so i agree the
blockade something needs to be done about the blockade a blockade is not
right it is not just in the grand scheme of things however pragmatically what do
we do
right uh... there's no question that the conditions in which the palestinians in
gaza lives and even uh... a large chunk of them in the west bank
are not good not ideal and not a long-term solution at all
however the idea that we need to put all the blame for that on israel is just not
backed up by the facts so anaheim osce is also responsible
for awak of negotiations on that and also for the conditions that they have
jurisdiction over let's get to that