Israel Retaliates for Palestinian Reprisals Over Israeli Retribution
Again...
An indignant Ariel Sharon made clear that Israel would attack Palestinian targets "very soon" in retaliation for the Palestinian retaliation for the assassination of one of the leaders of Hamas, involving: a retaliation bombing of an apartment building by an Israeli warplane/missile attack on a car/exploding cell phone/something like that.
This recent Israeli retribution was both a preemptive requital to prevent future revenge on Israeli civilians and actual retaliation for past attacks masterminded by the Hamas leader, who organized attacks on Israel in quid pro quo for Israeli violence and oppression.
Hamas has vowed that coming reciprocation will be "swift and severe" for any Israeli vengeance to the recent Palestinian retribution for those killed in the apartment building bombing/bulldozing/car attacks/sniper fire/whatever.
Recently, the Occupied Territories were reoccupied by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in to settle accounts for a wave of recriminatory suicide bombings that began on the 35th anniversary of the Israeli occupation in retaliatory protest, soon after the IDF partially withdrew from its "Operation Defensive Shield" reoccupation of the Occupied Territories in retaliation for an earlier series of bombings that began on Passover of this year in retaliation for Palestinian citizens who were killed in clashes with the IDF.
The current intensification of retaliatory conflict between the two parties began about two years ago when either the Palestinian suicide bombers began reciprocating for their fellows who were shot by the IDF in retaliation for throwing rocks in retaliation for Ariel Sharon's provocative walk on the temple mount in retaliation for Palestinian audacity to claim it as an historically important site for Islam, OR when the Israelis retaliated for the deaths of their citizens killed by Palestinians retaliating for the Israeli occupation which was in retaliation for the deaths of settlers who killed Palestinians in retaliation for other settlers who were killed in retaliation for building on land in the Palestinian side of the green line defined by the pre-1967 borders. No one is entirely sure, however it is suspected that tensions increased in retaliation for the perception that the other side wasn't abiding by the Oslo agreement, which was a the best hope in recent years of ending the retaliatory cycle.
There was a brief flirtation with peace in the mid-90s until Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli bible student in retaliation for attempting to make peace with the Palestinians.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do
that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies
toughness in a descending spiral of destruction...
The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more
wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the darkness of
annihilation.
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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J Klein is the creator of DemocracyMeansYou and occasionally writes and pens cartoons for the site. He lives in an undisclosed location in North Carolina with Dick Cheney.
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