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Cabinet accepts IDF plan to move troops into Gaza Strip
JPost -Reg Req’d - EFL
The Security Cabinet on Tuesday approved an army plan to intensify targeted killings of Palestinian terrorist leaders and send more troops into the Gaza Strip for ground operations, a security official said.
"Withdrawal? After we’re done..."
The military campaign will last several weeks, the official said on condition of anonymity.
"I can say no more"
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who canceled a planned meeting with Palestinian PM Ahmed Qurei following the Ashdod Port attack, met with the security cabinet for the first time in several months. The meeting lasted for more than three hours and participants declined to comment on the discussions.
"We can say no more"
Asked whether an Israeli crackdown would be effective, Justice Minister Tommy Lapid said: "You never finish with terror. You can only fight terror."
And kill it and it’s spawn
Early Tuesday, IDF troops raided the Gaza Strip, Palestinians reported. According to the reports, two PA policemen were injured by IDF gunfire. The forces demolished an abandoned building located near the Netzarim Junction in the northern Gaza Strip. Security forces said the two-story building was used by Palestinian terrorists for launching rocket and shooting attacks. During the operation IDF forces spotted a group of terrorists preparing to fire an anti tank rocket. The soldiers shot and identified hitting two.
Two Paleo police shotting at the IDF? Where’s the cooperation?
Palestinians reported that two Palestinian policemen were hit and claimed the building was used as a cultural institute.
LOL well, I guess shooting rockets and sniping at Joooos does constitute all of Paleo culture, anymore
IDF officials noted that since the beginning of the month, nine anti-tank rockets, two bombs and ten shooting attacks were launched by Palestinians from the building that was destroyed.
Yep, the hi-life of culture
The security cabinet discussed defense ministry proposals to increase military operations against the Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, aimed at lowering chances of terror attacks following Israel’s disengagement. The meeting comes amid a renewal of calls by some ministers, particularly the Likud’s Yisrael Katz and Tzipi Livni, to remove Arafat. One government official, however, said he doubts this will happen, because the intelligence community believes Israel is better off with him penned inside the Mukata rather than roaming around the world.
dying, gasping in his own putrid aquarium - no filter, no aeration, feces floating... ugh
Shalom, however, said he fears that as long as Arafat is on the scene, no moderate Palestinian leader with whom Israel can negotiate will emerge.
they’re not born yet
On Monday, security officials said the government intends to escalate targeted attacks on leaders of terrorist organizations and increase military operations against terrorism in response to the double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port on Sunday in which 10 people were murdered. In addition, a general closure will be imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These are only some of the measures that were decided on in a meeting among Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and senior military and security officials. They convened to assess the situation and discuss a response shortly after Mofaz’s return from Washington on Monday night. "Further steps have yet to receive cabinet approval and will be submitted to the ministers this morning," one official said, adding that expelling Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was not raised. According to Army Radio, the intention is to shorten the intervals in between operations in order deny terror organizations the breathing space needed to perpetrate attacks.
keep the foot on the neck, decreases chances they’ll catch a breath
The US administration is reportedly angry with the Palestinian Administration for not acting against terror, and world opinion in the wake of last week’s Madrid suicide bombing has created what government officials see as a "window of opportunity", which enables implementing additional tools against terrorist infrastructures, reports Army Radio. Tuesday’s planned meeting between Sharon and Qurei was postponed indefinitely because the government will not "negotiate as if there were no terror, and fight terror as if there were no negotiations," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday.
I like that
I saw a piece on Fox News this evening about the 10-year-old who was caught carrying a bomb out of Paleostine into Israel. The terrs told the kid the bag had car parts and to give it to an old lady who'd be waiting in a car on the other side. They gave him the equivalent of a buck. The bag was packed full of explosives and nuts and bolts, and there was a plastic Spiderman toy in it. They were going to blow the kid and claim he was a martyr. It was supposed to be a surprise.

Posted by: Frank G 2004-03-16
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