Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy
Do you honestly think that the attacks on Israel would stop if they completely left Gaza?
Israel is not in Gaza. Governmental control stopped in 1994, and was handed over to the Palestinians. Arafat mismanged Gaza for many years. Hamas just won the Battle of Gaza back in 2007, remember?

As to military control, Israel pulled out all military and civilians from Gaza as part of the unilateral diengagement in September 2005. There are no Israelis living in nor ruling over Gaza. They even turned over the Phillipi Route to Egypt at the same time - even though Israel was to control it accoring to the Oslo agreements. What's funny is that some people here are saying that Israel is the one at fault, but in reality, Egypt closed it's border crossing also. Egypt has the capability to send in as much humanitarian aid, and even weapons, that it chooses to Hamas. They choose not to. But that must be Israel's fault also, right? Arab foreign ministers and Palestinian officials presented a united front against control of the border by Hamas after the 2007 election. Israeli and Egyptian security reports claimed that Hamas continued smuggling in large quantities of explosives and arms from Egypt through tunnels. Egyptian security forces uncovered 60 tunnels in 2007.

Even though the Israelis pulled out, and have not expanded into Gaza, the Qassam rockets are still being fired at Israeli civilians. According to Israel, between the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip and the end of January 2008, 697 rockets and 822 mortar bombs were fired at Israeli towns. Then in 2008, Hamas and their followers fired over 3000 rockets into Israel, according to Israeli reports.

FACT: Israel is not in Gaza.
FACT: Hamas STILL fires rockets into Israel - aimed at civilians.