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US warns Israel ally against Gaza ground assault
[Al Ahram] Washington warned its Israeli ally Monday against any ground invasion of Gazoo, as Egyptian officials said the US top diplomat was headed to the region to join efforts to end a week of deadly violence. The White House stopped short of criticising Israel over the civilian casualty toll from its devastating air and artillery bombardment of the densely populated Paleostinian enclave that has drawn flak from the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... watchdogs. It said the Israeli government had the "right" and "responsibility" to defend its citizens against rocket attacks by its Islamist foe Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, from its Gazoo stronghold. But it said even more civilians would be put at risk were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to heed hardliners in his governing coalition and send in troops and armour. With Israel's punishing air campaign in its seventh day, the corpse count in Paleostine's Gazoo strip hit 177, prompting growing calls for a ceasefire which have so far showed little sign of progress. Ahead of an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Hamas shot down hopes of a deal to end the violence, saying no serious moves had been made. "Talk of a ceasefire requires real and serious efforts, which we haven't seen so far," Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri told AFP in Gazoo City. "Any ceasefire must be based on the conditions we have outlined. Nothing less than that will be accepted," he said, in a show of defiance in the face of the withering Israeli bombardment. Israel has said it is not ready to countenance a ceasefire either, as it seeks to deal ever harsher blows to Hamas and stamp out its capacity to fire rockets against it from Gazoo. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-15 |
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