Reading the Comments

I have been reading the comments posted at the end of articles on news websites lately, something I promised myself not to do, but given the circumstances, I have to. Anyways I thought instead of replying to those comments over there I would do it here.

"You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house"

This comment has been posted by many of those who feel that Egypt's actions/inaction has been too harshly criticized by other Arabs especially those from Syria, saying that the Syrians haven't done much either. I would just like to point out that it is Syria who supported Hizbullah during its war against Israel in 2006 when Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia criticized Syria's role and their support of Hizbullah. It is also Syria who supports Hamas; Hamas's political leader Khaled Mishal lives in Damascus. Unlike Egypt which supplies the Zionist entity with oil and gas and has so far cooperated with the Zionist siege on Gaza blocking the Rafah crossing.
However Syria's response has been very weak by just stopping the indirect peace talks with Israel.
What is interesting to note here is that Olmert was in Turkey last week, Turkey being the mediator of the 'indirect' peace talks between the two countries, and what I am 'conspiracy theorizing (?)' is that the Syrians have negotiated over Hamas, weakening Hamas's armed wing, in return moving negotiations forward. A plausible yet far fetched explanation to the inaction of Syria's political leaders. Unlike during 2006 we have not yet seen Walid AlMualim, Syrias foreign minister saying Syria is ready for any war with Israel, and we have not seen Bashar AlAsad going live on TV and calling Arab leaders "Half men" or "men-like leaders" (أنصاف الرجال), even though later on Walid Almualim went on to explain that AlAsad didn't mean the Arab leaders, but other people within Syria and Syrians outside Syria who undermined the concept of resistance.

"What did Hamas really expect?"

A rhetorical question that has been asked by many people who are either supporters of Israel or have no idea what they are talking about. Here I ask another rhetorical question.. What did Israel expect?
It was Israel who decided to siege and starve to death the people of Gaza who were being punished for voting Hamas into power. If you read the article I posted below that should be sufficient as a reply.