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Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, plans to perform a second "disengagement" from the Gaza strip, says the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The plan, we is to be presented to Catherine Ashton, the European Union commissioner for foreign affairs, during her scheduled visit to Israel next week, accompanied by six European foreign ministers.


This disengagement will include the complete removal of the naval siege on one hand and on the other will include the removal of all the Palestinian dependencies on Israel. This means that the Palestinians will need to produce their own drinking water, electricity, handle waste water, and so on - or in other words: they'll need to start acting as an independent country, which - everybody presumes - this is what the Palestinians are aiming for.

This plan - which should be considered as a major step in the process of establishing an independent Palestinian country - was already rejected by Hamas officials, saying "This is an (Israeli) attempt to evade its responsibility for the siege. The removal of the siege is a legal right according to international and human rights law, and we must separate between the removal of the siege and the disengagement of the Strip from the rest of the homeland".

... Or in other words: removing the siege from Gaza is nice, establishing an independent state in Gaza is good, but this will not end the conflict, and war will continue until the "rest of the homeland" - commonly known as the State of Israel - is "freed from the Jewish occupation".

So, again in other words, Hamas once again declares that it does not aim for peace or freedom within the borders set in 1967 - Hamas is aiming for the destruction of Israel.



And Israel is the aggressor?