Khamas continues to fire hundreds of rockets into civilian centers in Israel.

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This is not a conflict over a right to return.

This is a conflict in which one side wishes to destroy the other side utterly and completely. And this has been their long-stated goal. And they were about to win an election, by the way, in the West Bank, which is the reason for all of this. the recent history here is that in late April,

Mahmoud Abbas, who again is a terrorist,

Mahmoud Abbas treated as a legit,

a terrorist,

Mahmoudabas treated as a legit world leader by much of the world community, but is not.

Mahmoudabas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, which is a terrorist organization,

but a slightly less terrorist organization than Hamas. He had declared that there would be

elections in April. The first elections since 2004, he is now in the 16th year of a four-year term, Mahmoudabad. So he declared elections, and it appeared he was going to lose. So he canceled the elections in late April and blamed the Jews, because this is what you do if you are a Palestinian leader who has suddenly got their feet to the fire. So Mahmoudabas cancels the election.

He blames the Jews and he starts ramping up calls for violence. Hamas not to be outdone because

the way that you apparently garner support is to show that you hate the Jews even more than the

guy next to you. Hamas decides they are going to ramp up the violence. This all culminates in

violence on the temple mount spurred by Hamas,

spurred by Fatah, people using the Al-Axamask, a holy site to Muslims, as an actual staging base

to perform acts of terrorism and violence against police officers, Israeli police officers.

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