Israel's brutality
This is in response to the letters of Rafiqul Islam and Mahboob Hossain on this topic. I agree with the first point of Mr. Rafiq that Israel has no right to be in the Middle-East at the first place, but strongly disagree with his second view. He said that Hamas is to be blamed for the bloodshed taking place in Gaza. But I don't agree with you. As mentioned by Mr. Mahboob Hossain, no economic activities took place in Gaza during the six-month ceasefire period with Israel. According to the ceasefire conditions, Israel was supposed to gradually ease the blockade to which they had subjected the Gazans since June 2007. But they didn't do that and so Hamas had no option but to fire rockets at Israel to press home their demands. So Hamas isn't to be blamed for this bloodshed.
Let me clarify this fact with an example. In 1971, Bangladesh earned independence through losing 3 million lives. The Bangladeshis were nowhere close to matching the military might of the then West Pakistan. Yet the freedom fighters fought and 3 million people died.
Now will you blame Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for this massacre for provoking the military government on 7 March 1971 by saying "Ebarer songram muktir songram, ebarer songram shadhinotar songram"?
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