Palestine and Pakistan seem so similar.

Pakistan was carved out by the British and became independent at the same time as India. From the beginning the sole aim of successive Pakistani governments was the destruction of India which was seen as a Hindu state, never mind that hundreds of millions of Muslims live in India. Instead of spending on education and improving economically Pakistan chose to spend a large portion of its budget on its army and on conventional and nuclear weapons. When Zia ul Haq was president he encouraged Islamic extremists and terrorism. Today Pakistan is a basket case surviving on handouts from the US and the IMF, large swathes of its territory are under the control of the Taliban and it has to spend enormous amounts of money to protect its nukes from terrorists. The history of the Palestinians, especially that of Gaza, resembles that of Pakistan. On 1 September, 2006 the Israelis withdrew completely from Gaza, breaking up their settlements, and left it to the Palestinians. In January 2006, Hamas won the elections in Gaza and in January 2007 fighting broke out between Hamas and supporters of Fatah. Between 2006 and 2007, 600 Palestinians died in the fighting until by 14 June Fatah was expelled from Gaza. A rocket hit the home of the senior commander of Fatah dominated Preventive Security Force, Gen Muhammed Gharib killing him, his 2 daughters and 2 guards. Led by the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas Fatah is restricted to the West Bank and, since Hamas has been declared a terrorist organisation, there is no one who can negotiate a peace deal for the entire Palestinian people. Hamas is dedicated to the complete destruction of Israel and refuses to talk peace. Instead it constantly provokes Israel by firing Qassam rockets into southern Israel, making life impossible for the residents, and used to send suicide bombers until Israel built a fence along the border stopping the infiltration of terrorists. More than 700 hundred rockets have been fired this year alone. Hamas turns the situation on its head by accusing Israel of blockading Gaza and hence justifies the firing of rockets as a reaction to an " occupying force ". Last week Israel's patience ran out and it killed Ahmed al-Jabbari, the head of the armed wing of the Hamas. Since then Hamas has been firing Iranian supplied Fajr 5 missiles far into Israel killing 5 civilians. At least 100 Palestinians have also died. Predictably European countries are against Israel with the propaganda channel, BBC accusing Israel of using disproportionate force. But who is responsible for the disproportion? Last year Hamas was celebrating when it forced Israel to release 1000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in exchange for one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit who had been kidnapped and held as hostage. Hamas set the ratio of 1000:1, so why complain now? Pakistan and Palestine will both perish. Sadly the whole world will suffer.