Task 2
Read the following article:
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/07/23/how-to-save-gaza
In a 25 lined comment give your personal opinion about this current situation and the different positive and negative implications.
Post your comment on September 8th.
I think this war has destroy a whole country for some problem that happened more than a decade, this problem it isn't new, this war has existed since ever and this is not a moment to think what is exactly the main reason because doesn't matter anymore, politicals leaders only need an excuse for killing people, to have the power. The truth is that they don't realliy care why the war started because they don't want to stop until reach their goal.
ResponderBorrarThe problem is that while this happend a thousands of civlians has been killed for bombs, rockets or other weapon, which is unnecesarily.
If the human race is the only animal capable of think and be consious of what they do, this war is not a good example of that because there is no reason to kill innocense people.
The solution of this war is easy but it is not going to happend until the polical leaders involved think about all damage that they are doing to both countries, becuase it's true that more Gaza's civlians has death than Israels but it isn't because Gaza hasn't attacked, they have been destoy each other.
This situation needs to be stopped and other countries shouldn't give them more weapons or bombs to attack; they should help them to resolve differences by a true pacific way.
And about what I read in the articule which said that they offer money to stop the war I am totally agree because with all that money they're going to cessing fire or at least think abouit it.
A war only bring us bad implicatios, ones worst than others. A thousands of families has losted everything: their relatives, houses, jobs, even faith.
And I know that the problem includes religion but what is causing this war, and has caused others in the past, is the lack of tolerence.
I think that is very sad to see that two countries that should learn to get along and cooperate for the benefit of both, are trying to solve their problems with violence and destruction. At this point, the parts involved have forgotten what the main reason was and they only want to destroy the enemy, no matter what the consequences are.
ResponderBorrarThe most frustrating part of this problem is that innocent people are dying, because the people of Gaza have nothing to do with the attacks to Israel, actually, is only an extremist group named Hamas who have carried out those attacks. The people of Gaza have been used as human shields by the group Hamas, that have taken advantage of the fact Gazans have no government to protect them, even many of they political leaders don’t live there. This group have rejected all the cease-fire proposals from Israel, which is making bigger this tragedy.
But that’s not the real problem, the biggest problem is that Israel have adopted many of the Hamas tactics of violence, instead of try to resolve the problem in a pacific way, safeguarding the integrity of the people of both countries. Both of them have forgotten that we all are humans and that we all have de duty of protect our race.
There are still solutions, but it’s our responsibility to take actions looking to end this problem. It´s difficult, because there are too many factors that affect this situation (religion, politics), but the first step is to unite, all the nations, and look for a solution that benefits both parts.
This solution have to be based on dialogue, because more violence will not bring nothing but destruction, which is one of the things that we are trying to avoid in the first place. We have to put aside the differences between cultures and the borders and look for de common benefit. There is not much time left, this is the time to take decisions, because this is not a problem of two countries, this is a problem that concerns us all.
This kind of situation reflects how dumb or blind the people can become sometimes by the side effect of a non-principal cause, in this case, the principal cause is the murder of a thousand gazans, that are being killed by israel's army and a group of terrorists named "hamas", but actually gazans are not involved in the problem.The hamas group, is taking advantage of the place they are possessing,
ResponderBorrarby using this innocent people for taking a shelter of themselves.
In my opinion hamas don't really have a clear objective, i feel that they just want to continue with the war,it seems like an they get used to this war and they dont wanna end it. I say that because the way they just rejected the israel cease-fire proposal, was like an inhuman answer, they dont't think in how much the gazans are suffering because of this war, living with a constant fear of a bomb falling to you while you're asleep.
By the other way, Israel is also suffering from this, because everytime they send their infantry forces, they're losing tons of soldiers in the battlefield,Is this what they really want?, at least Israel does care about their soldiers, and Israel is trying to put a end to this war.
But they dont want to step first and make a difference. They continue responding to the attacks of the hamas answering fire with fire.
So they really need to stand up and make a change, because they also need to see the reality that the gazans are being used by hamas and that they are killing innocent people without a real cause.
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ResponderBorrarIt's amazing that this late in the century, with many advances and technology developed, countries continue fighting this. Worse, they sacrifice people who just want a decent life for themselves and their families. For us who are on the other side of the ocean, we can travel, eat and go to college as free people, we believe that only writing a Facebook status, we will solve the situation, and of course, write the state and then we forget matter because that is not our "problem." Are military affairs may be more important? It's amazing they don’t think in the development of their land, their people and prefer to continue with this. No writing on Facebook is not the solution, neither is sharing the images of the conflict in the wall. Should put pressure on the national and international authorities to finally have a definitive intervention in this conflict, which has lasted many years now and it seems there is never going to end.
ResponderBorrarThe number of people living in Gaza is enormous, it is impossible to have an attack where civilians don’t die without also counting the deaths of those involved in the fight. During attacks lot of children and elderly in is schools, mosques and hospitals die. How can they be used as a target to launch their missiles? Besides the constant conflicts through the years will prevent Gaza restoration and development. Hamas doesn’t have a clear objective, as is bankrupt but still with power and conflict. The only one able to negotiate and convince Hamas to a more rational style of government is Mahmoud Abbas (possible candidate to take care of Gaza), who has access to international agencies and donors and who managed to Hamas start listening after multiple problems such as sabotage to stop the peace talks.
Gaza is urgent to have a government that protect and fight for their rights and freedom. Enough that senior officers think only in their own benefits and use civilians as shields or not allow them to go to protect themselves. Gaza requires demilitarization under international supervision as soon as possible and once and for all. The countries with great economic power are not going to want to invest in restoration if this continues, and unfortunately those who suffer are civilians, those who are in power don’t suffer, they don’t even live in the place. As the article says, Gaza could be recovered in 10 years without war if they can have an airport and a free flow of trade among other demands. Demands that any country has the right to own.
In my humble opinion is so sad read on the newspaper or watch on tv, all bad things that occur at Gaza, today the warfare has stopped or at last the fire, but this conflict leaved a lot of destruction, lots of buildings was destroyed o damaged by missiles or bombs, and the worst of all, lots of people lose his lives and thousands got big injuries all of they civils during the bombing.
ResponderBorrarThis war have so many years giving problems to the people that live at Gaza, because they victims from the racism of Israel, they don’t want to share the land with the people of Palestine, is so sad see how the Jews, suffered a lot at the second world war, and now, they give the same suffering to the people of Palestine.
The root of the war between Israel and Hamas, it is because the people of Israel want all of the of land Palestine, and they don’t want they live there because they want a nation only for Jews. But of course that the people of Palestine don’t want to lose all of their lands, and they will fight for it.
This conflict have more than fifty years, and not going to finish soon, because the Jews, need to leave away all of his racism, because the people of Palestine also has rights, and they were there before the Jews.
I think that we can’t get positive things about this, because we are humans and we need to live at the same planet, for that reason we cant go over there and kill to other because are or think different to me.
In my personal opinion, I think that it's so sad look how two neighbors can't understand each other. But at the same time, all it appears that Hamas has most of the responsibility about the civilian deaths. Like the article say: “Hamas cares more about hurting Israelis than about helping Gazans.”
ResponderBorrarFrom my point of view, the Israelis know that the invasion in Gaza have more negative results for they, and they are prepared to the cease-fire proposals, but the intention of Hamas is make Israel guilty about the Gazans deaths. Even they hide their weapons on public places like schools and hospitals. Under that situation if the Israelis destroys those weapons and kill the people of Gaza is their guilt.
Also, I think that the Hamas leaders are cowards, because they don't care the people of Gaza, they attack Israel, and don't worry they self, because they don't live in Gaza.
In the other hand, a can say that the worst fact of all this deal is that the people of Gaza, don´t have a real government that can represent them, and don´t have someone that could fight by their rights and needs.
Making a little summary, the main fact that keep this war alive, is because Hamas are pushing Israel to attack Gaza, and are trying to make them guilt by the deaths, on the other part, Israel is protecting itself of the rockets of Hamas. Gaza don’t have a government that really worry about them.
By this reasons, a think that the best way to stop this conflict, is the same that the article suggest, and it´s stop it through internationally supervised demilitarization.
I think this war is still being true because nobody is really interested in ending it. Hamas the goberment of Gaza where the war is held , hasn´t done much to stop the problems, even if Israel doesn´t really want to destroy Gaza, he actually wants to hurt Hamas. Hamas acts like he doesn´t care, but actually he is being afected by the attacks.
ResponderBorrarIn this countries, there is still the mentality of colonization, Israel since Jews where colocated in their territory, desarrollated a way of thinking that makes them want Jews out of their country. This is why Israel is attacking Gaza. Israel has fear because Hamas has being gaining force in the goverment. And they´re more people with Hamas and could soon even get in the goverment and more army power.
Israel doesn´t want to kill so much people, but will only stop until they get their old territory without Jews.
Powers like United States are helping Israel and ignoring the fact that they are killing lots of people for a Bible REASON.
The people that live in Gaza have being islated from the world, without food or products that come from outside, and also can´t get anything outside. This is also a reason why people around the world are worried. Bust as I said if the powers of the world are with Israel, what can another country or organization do for them.
Well I think that this is a delicate topic because depends of the point of view, beliefs, political ideas and other things, personally a think that this war is a conflict between a lion and a lamb, in my personal opinion Israel is the lion because they have all the army, economy power to break Gaza who not even have a goverment to support them but they have a person Hamas who in my oppinion don't care about his people.
ResponderBorrarThe fact tha Gaza have no goverment instead they have Hamas implies that more civlizans die because he believe that Gazan deaths should bother Israel and not him, he even encourages people to stand atop targeted buildings and stay in areas where Israel had issued pre-invasion evacuation warnings..i mean which leader does that to his followers, Hamas cares more about hurting Israelis than about helping Gazans
The Israelies have a phrase that bothers me a lot, “mowing the grass” for me that phrase represent non solution to the war only solution in a certain period of time and that's may be the Israelies have lost faith in a military solution, another thing that “helps” this phrase is the fact that Gaza is so densely populated
Hamas needs help and the person that can help him is Mahmoud Abbas but surprise Israel did the impossible to intervene between this association, Abbas would restore a government in Gaza that protects the people and now Hamas is beginning to listen, finally I think that both parts are now negotiating.
The first thing I think is that Israel is protecting the country. But there is the other side, Gaza. Gaza is a populace without goverment, without protection. Their politicians don't even care about how people is living the crisis, they just shot rockets to Israel. And it's sadly to think about this.
ResponderBorrarI can't believe that Hamas is looking at all dead people, kids, women... And still with the war. Hamas thinks a cease-fire is a favor to Israel... This is the phrase that explains why the fire continous. We want to help, but we can change this way of thinking. And also, Hamas prefer to hurt Israel... It's hard to believe.
The tunnels are growing up. Hamas just wants to set Israel on fire. Of course, if someone is hurting you, you have to protect you and your family, so Israel sends more and more rockets, and more kids are diying.
But, not everything is good for Israel. They adopted the way of using people has blankets, just as Hamas, but even worst.
Unanfortunally, Gaza has a big density of population, that means every bomb that is send to Gaza is going to kill a big amount of people. It's impossible to atack and do not hurt anyone.
One of the cause of this conflict includes politician topics. Like when in April Hamas decided to to form a unity government controlled by Abbas. So, there is Abbas teaching Hamas how to stop Israel, how to hurt.
There is a solution, Gaza demilitarize and Israel pays $50 billion. But is not factible.
In my opinion, Hamas needs to take a decision in orden to stop the war and fire. They have to negociate with Israel topic like the flow of commerce between the borders, design a good way to make the economy grow up, care more about the citizens of the country... And not just atack, say demands and atack. The have stop this situation because Israel and the rest of the world wants it.
We want peace in the world!
It's hard to comment about it because I'm not the best follower of the conflict so I'm going to be as neutral as I can. I think that the terrorism can't be allowed but there's gotta be another way to solve the problem because there are a lot of innocent people dying and that´s another thing that can allowe and it doesn't justify the attacks that Israel are sending.
ResponderBorrarI think that Hamas is the real problem here because it is a group that controls gaza but they are persons who don't know anything about the feellings of the people in gaza because they don't even live there so I think that they intentions needs to be clarified because is clear that theirs priority is the militar intentions.
The participation of Abbas is very important because he can give to Hamas another way to do the things thinking more in the people but personally I believe that it is just a dream.
They really need to get an agreement to stop the fire now and talk about the possibilities to solve the problems, Israel want money in exchange to stop the fire but I think that the money moves the world and there will be few people interested in pay for the peace.
An important fact is that there is a prisoner but I don't really understand why if Hamas is interested in hurt jews, they keep him alive. I mean thanks God that he is alive but if Hamas has been interested in negociate, why haven't they done it before?
It is not a recent problem and I have heard about many initiatives to claim for the peace in Gaza but I think that it is not something that we can solve because it has been hard even for the international gobernments.
The international participation is necessary not supporting the war, but trying to ensure the peace in that region.
The only thing we can do is to be informed about the situation because is something that we can ignore.
Israel is not justified to attack overcrowded places, killing people like this weren't a big deal. Further, if this situation exists is because the Israeli occupation some years ago, that forced the Palestinians to crowding in Gaza. They can't say that the attacks to Gaza are a self-defense action, because it has an complete historical problem, since the arrived of Israelis to the place.
ResponderBorrarWhy the people mainly mention the terrorists groups of Gaza, as the responsible of the conflict, and not the terrorist government of Israel?. It's the same thing, both are a murderers, the only difference is that Israel is winning at the moment, they have more money, and more “friends”.
There are not justification to kill lots of people, further having present all the context of the situation. In my opinion, Israel is doing an “ethnic cleansing”, they know what they are doing, they want it. Is not an excuse say that the civilian deaths are fault of Hamas, because they use it like human shields, and Israel only shoot!. The Palestinians are clogging the Israel government, geopolitically speaking. As we can see in the article, Israel look the conflict mainly in economical terms.
Furthermore, the Hamas's intolerant and military position, is as wrong as the Israel's ideology. How you would react if you were banished from your home? This is the factor that increases the hate and inspiration of this group, it's a feeling hard to forget to many Palestinians.
Both groups are intolerants, both groups are nationalists, and both groups are strongly motivated by religion, and none of this is good, both groups are fanatics, neither will give up, or at least permanently.
This is a rationalization process, that won't end in good terms. I'll sound so pessimist, but when you mix nationalism, militarism, geopolitical interest and religion in a conflict, there are not enough hope that ends well. Following this way of solution, there are two possible results, a complete genocide, or start a bigger conflict.
The discords exists, the real problem appears when you think that you have the reason and try to impose this with the strength. Sadly this is the commonly used way, this is the way chosen by Hamas and Israel's government. The war has not sufficient grounds to be carried out. The human attitudes in the most of this cases are shameful. The main problem here, is the intolerance, in every sense of the word.
my opinion about the problem in gaza is a deal about peace and land, their is no reason thats in a country without a leader can integrate into a land that have an economic and politic advantage; but thats the crue deal. if gaza do what they told, to conced the land there will be no peace in that place. In order hand there is progress during the timeline of the history in that area that their dismiss in education, for me its absurd that if israel make an agremennt of stopping missils attack to gaza, that good one pattern thinking is to stop that day, not the way they do to make missil attack response. nowdays i think the think the asocciacion of antropologyst that are now in the war is not to catch information of later attacks, not saying thats all antropologyst do that, but the reason is the make a deveploment of peace education.
ResponderBorrarThis new generation have more access and to make a change is no stoping war, there is other ways.
I think if we talk about history the real problem was when Islamic states never agreed with the distribution and from the first day of the founding of Israel declared war
The problem was exacerbated when 66 Israel in the war of the 6 days was annexed territory.
Today Israel is larger than what was agreed by the UN, these territories are considered as territories occupied by Palestinians
By the time I´m writing this comment, it seems to have a truce betwixt Hamas and Israel. Even when it has happened many times for years, apparently this time is an undefined settlement. In many articles we can read about this conflict, it looks that none of the two involved parts are taken a little of responsibility about what happened and is happening. Both sides incriminate each other for the death people, both sides think the other part has yield for the settlement. It´s unbelievable how Hamas was using children as a shell to protect themselves, using schools as military barracks. They are such a coward army. I can´t understand why if Hamas has been rejecting the cease-fire proposals of Israel, they accepted this time, and the reason why they say they´re the victories of the cease-fire. In my opinion, Hamas should be demilitarized because the only purpose they have is to kill every Jewish, so the more time they exist, the more technological weapons they will have in order to achieve their goal to die out Jewish and also more people will be death, mostly In Gaza. According to an article in CNN, Israel agreed to ease blockade on Gaza, open border crossings for more aid to pass through and construction materials to supposedly reconstruct the bombed city, but what I think is that the construction materials they want are for building tunnels to Israel, to launch more rockets, and then the conflict will be again. So for me, what should be done is an analysis of the military situation of Hamas, maybe they haven´t enough soldiers or equipment to attack now and they accepted the cease-fire to rearm in infrastructure, weapons and human capacity to attack again. Some World Organizations should act in order to preserve human rights of Gazans, Palestinians and Israelites, according to this organization, 2.100 Palestinians died in the conflict, more than 70% of the victims were just civilians. Researching, I found some information that says that Hamas was an organization that took control of the Palestine parliament seven years ago in 2006 with a public election process, apparently, according to this information the ambassador of USA on Israel said that Hamas was created by the Intelligence Agency of Israel to control Palestinians. In other sites, says that Hamas doesn´t want to destroy Israel, they just want to have two separate countries, one for Palestinians and another one for Israel, but the media that´s mostly controlled by USA, say that they´re almost terrorist. Finally I think that the comment I have written has no value ( as an opinion), because this problem is not something we could easily comprehend, there´s a lot information that I don’t have to make and argued comment, it would take hours, days and may be moths of research to understand this conflict at all. Even if we see the news in our homes or read the newspaper, all the information we could get, is influence and perhaps manipulated by United States and the American-capitalism vision we have about the world. In spite of this there isn´t any excuse for none of the sides for the bloodshed. The new of truce should make us all happy because of the deaths that are being avoided.
ResponderBorrarIs very sad to see how many people is dying and suffering for something they don't deserve. Many civilians have lost their families, jobs, houses, and many other things in this conflict. They do not live peacefully because they know that in any moment their country can be attacked.
ResponderBorrarI can't image a situation like this in Costa Rica. Is a blessing to live in this country because we don't have army and we don't experiment that kind of problems and it’s hard to see that we can’t do something in this moment for helping them.
I can see the importance that the government has in a country because the idea of that entity is to help the society. However, we can see that is not in all the countries and in the case of Gaza they have no government to protect them. The group Hamas controls them -even though many of its political leaders don't live there- but they don’t think about the benefits for its country and only wants to satisfy its goals even though the death of many people.
This conflict has many years, and the solution to it seems to be far away. It is incredible how Hamas has used human civilians as shield, putting its rockets in schools, mosques and hospitals. They cares more about hurting Israelis than about helping Gazans. So we can see that the war between this country is still happening because the people who is responsable of this is not interesed in fisnishing it.
Other big problem is that many people live in a Gaza so when there is an attack by Israel a lot of people die, and not only civilians, because many soldiers die too. In the article mention that more than two dozen Israeli soldiers have died in a particular conflict, so we can imagine the number of them who have died in the rest.
In my opinion I think they really need a government, a government on charged of people who really want the best for their country. As in the article says the most plausible way to stop this cycle of violence is through internationally supervised demilitarization because it is going to be difficult that Israel and Gaza stop the conflict by themselves.
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ResponderBorrarIT IS SO SAD TO SEE HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE, INCLUDING KIDS, WOMEN AND MEN, ARE DIYING BECAUSE OF THE WAR AND NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING FOR HELP THEM OR AT LEAST THAT WHAT THEY MAKE US BELIEVE. AND IT’S SO CURIOS THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF GAZA IT’S NO EVEN IN GAZA, THAT MAYBE A REASON OF WHY THEY DON’T DO A SERIOUS ARGUMENT TO CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA. HOWEVER, IT’S SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY HAMAS WANT TO HURT ISRAEL.
ResponderBorrarALSO, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF WAYS FOR THE CEASE OF FIRE, BUT ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN JUST GETTING WORST THE SITUATION IN GAZA, BECAUSE THE REBELS DON’T WANT TO MAKE AN AGREEMENT, THEY JUST WANT TO ATTACK ISRAEL. SO THAT IS ANOTHER PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY START TO A LOT OF TUNNELS TO GET THERE NO MATTER WITH, SO ITS ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO FOR ISRAEL BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO SEE HOW THEY DESTROYED THOSE TUNNELS. AND EVEN THEY GET OFF WITH ONE PROBLEM, THERE’S A BUNCH OF PROBLEMS COMING OUT FROM DE REBELS.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE MAIN PROBLEM IS TO DEMILITARIZE GAZA AND HELP THEM TO RECONSTRUCT A NEW ECONOMY THAT HELP THEM TO HAVE A BETTER LIFESTYLE, BUT HOW DIFFICULT CAN RESULT THAT? WE DON’T KNOW, WE CAN ONLY WAIT UNTIL THEY HAVE A GOOD ARGUMENT THAT BOTH PARTS AGREE TO DO. AND IT’S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE HELP OF INTENTIONAL GOVERNMENTS TO REACH THE GOALS.