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| Livni: We will not allow thugs to rule the Middle East |
| 2009-01-01 |
| Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, on a tour of rocket-battered Be'er Sheva Wednesday, said Israel will not allow Hamas "thugs" to rule in the Middle East. "We have made a change in the equation, gone are the days in which Hamas fired at us and we kept quiet," Livni said. "They erred in thinking that when Israel restrained itself, it would not respond." Livni said Israel cares about its citizens while at the same time Hamas does not care about its own. "They use women and children in order to defend terrorists. We will not allow these thugs to rule in the Middle East," she said. Earlier, President Shimon Peres visited Ashkelon as Qassam rockets pounded the southern city, and vowed that "the IDF is ready for any scenario." During his tour, Peres met with Ashkelon Mayor Benny Vaknin and officers from the Home Front Command, and was given an assessment of the security situation in the city. Peres also visited the city's Barzilai Hospital, where he met with Bedouin laborers wounded by a Qassam strike on Monday that killed 27-year-old Israeli construction worker Hani al Mahdi, from the Bedouin village of Aroer. Peres refused to elaborate on how long he thinks the IDF operation will last, but did say that "our army shows sensitivity and doesn't hurt civilians as much as possible, even though the terrorists hiding in family homes." Peres added "this is not a war that we started; it is a provocation that had carried on for months. We left Gaza and we have no interest there." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Brzezinski is not high on most people's list of suspected neocons. Quite the opposite - he's the very model of a modern geo-realist. Where did that author come up with such an idea? |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-01-01 21:24 |
| #9 Including by NUCLEAR TERROR. Also on WMF > OBAMA's DANGEROUS GAME: SMASH RUSSIA AND CHINA! Webster G. Tarpley's book "THE MEN BEHIND OBAMA" claims that Zbigniew Brzezinski is PEBO's true overall political advisor, and that once in power Obama's new POTUS Admin will likely come out in suppor of "Ziggy's" great pro-Neocon geostrategic agenda to PDeniably but globally expand WAR-OPS [vee GWOT = "ANTI-TERRORISM"] agz a host of international countries, wid INTENT TO ULTIMATELY DESTABILIZE IFF NOT UTTERLY DESTROY RUSSIA AND CHINA, ETC. AS CHALLENGERS TO US-CENTRIC WORLD DOMINATION [USOWG-NWO!? * OTOH, PRAVDA > US PREPARES TO IMMORTALIZE ITS HUGE DEBT [new 100-Year Bonds].; + WORLD MIL FORUM POSTERS > IT WILL TAKE THE US MANY GENERATIONS, NEARLY 200 YEARS TO PAY OFF ITS CURRENT GROSS WORLD DEBTS EVEN IFF THE US PAYS US$700BILYUHN IN BAILOUT EVERY YEAR FOR 200 YEARS! D *** NG IT, SILLY MORIARITY THOUGHT 30-YEAR US TREASURY BORROW BONDS WERE "IT" - we missed "THE IMPOSSIBLES" animated movie on Disney Channel again, didn't we!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-01 21:15 |
| #8 Joseph, I disagree. They may be crazy but they are not stupid. But that doesn't mean that they should be allowed to have nukes. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2009-01-01 21:00 |
| #7 WORLD MIL FORUM [Chinese]POSTER > opines THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT IRAN WILL NUKE ISRAEL AND THE ZIONISTS ONCE IT DEVELOPS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-01 20:56 |
| #6 "Peres added "this is not a war that we started; it is a provocation that had carried on for months. We left Gaza and we have no interest there." Peres, How's that Multiple paragraphs please. Pencils down in 90 min. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2009-01-01 16:20 |
| #5 the comments (from OP's link) make we want to puke but the actual article itself is spot on |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2009-01-01 15:35 |
| #4 good link, OP - they DO get it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-01 15:08 |
| #3 Canada's National Post gets it. Too bad the New York Slimes or Washington Post-intelligence can't. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-01 14:57 |
| #2 Let's loan them a dozen B-52s, weapons and crews. Take off from Ben Gurion Airfield, fly over Gaza, come back - 30-minute actual mission time, an hour to form up. Make six trips a day. By the end of the second day, allow the Israeli 2nd Squeegie Brigade in to mop up. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-01 14:53 |
| #1 Whoa! What a concept! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-01-01 00:06 |