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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Israeli land attack rebuffed: Hamas |
| 2009-01-03 |
| THE armed wing of Hamas says its fighters have repelled a patrol of Israeli special forces troops trying to cross the border into the Gaza Strip. A spokesman for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades told AFP on Saturday that fighters spotted an unspecified number of special forces trying to enter the Shijaiyah border neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City at around 1am on Saturday (1000 AEDT). He said the fighters fired six mortar rounds at the Israelis, who returned fire with small arms and retreated. He said there were no casualties. An army spokesman could not immediately comment on the claim. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #18 Perhaps a bit less emotion and a bit more logic. That's an awfully tall order for these people. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-01-03 14:56 |
| #17 I think the dog theory is the more accurate one. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-01-03 10:34 |
| #16 Plus ir gives me an opportunity to showcase my html skillz. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-01-03 10:02 |
| #15 Bring out yer trolls... Bring out yer trolls... Here at Rantburg, we always enjoy welcoming new people to |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-01-03 10:00 |
| #14 A surprising number of Rantburgers share your experience, Spike Uniter. I'm glad y'all made it out to enrich our part of the world. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-03 06:59 |
| #13 Get 'em Scooter! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-03 06:47 |
| #12 #1 and 5 were somewhat amusing, but #10 had no style.... |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-01-03 06:25 |
| #11 AS I think the subject is "Hamas repells invasion" not whatever you are selling. BTW nobody seems to address the issue that hamass has both mortar and missile capabilities. These are in violation of the (can't count that high) un sponsored "cease fire" agreements. Also they managed to get the material in spite of the "Harsh" Israeli "Blockade" that prevents food, medicine, and ponies to get through to gazaland. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-01-03 06:14 |
| #10 Yeah, I'm an asshole, I'm also bloody comatose. I'm at least not a myopic juice d*ck loving evangelical hellulja moron. Oh and how's that 401(k) doing btw? keep flapping your blabber mouth while your greenback gets ass-b*nged from here to 2011, pretty soon you'll be paid in new shiqels for that bl0wjob. |
| Posted by: Ar1el Shar0n 2009-01-03 05:54 |
| #9 You should keep the troll droppings. It shows that a) the left are mad. b) they always support the west's enemies. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-01-03 05:37 |
| #8 JFM, apparently the #1/5 is an asshole, which seems to limit its perspective on things--everything is passed through prism of its experience and function. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2009-01-03 04:55 |
| #7 AC, your story kinda reminds me of translations we had to do in my old (commie) country on a daily basis. Yes, it is kinda convenient, an old trick I do not have to learn. But the funny part is I escaped from it, and it is almost as if it was only for a short while (I don't mean Ham-ass PR, I mean media in general, Rooters, AP... without their cooperation, the Hamas/Fatah/AQ/MBPACs would be nothing) |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2009-01-03 04:52 |
| #6 Could anyone clean garbage in aisles 1 and 5? I don't care about his side. He uses too much five letter words and this is a family site (sort of). |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-03 04:33 |
| #5 What gives? How is that fat f*ck anyway? it seems y'all here is up on the news and know a little bit of history. So y'all saying Paleos were actually Turks before they became land selling Arabs who then got kicked out of their f*cking living room by the Poles and Ruskies? F*ck me - now I'm f*cking confounded. And the UN, that f*cking fag organization, the same one the same Poles and Ruskies pi*s and sh*t on since, what was that, 1948, while their juice co*k is being su*ked on by their G.I Joe big bro. Fu*k you 16 times, fu*cking F16s. |
| Posted by: Ariel Sharon 2009-01-03 04:10 |
| #4 The real story in all likelihood: A stray dog, an escapee from an Israeli kennel, wandered across the fence and heroic Hamas freedom-fighters fired 26 RPGs, 12,400 7.62 rounds, and an SA-14 SAM toward it. The frightened dog then retreated back to Israel so quickly that even the BBC and Reuters couldn't get there quickly enough to cover the event. One Hamasnik was killed by a badly aimed RPG and three others shit their pants. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-03 03:29 |
| #3 Sounds like you're talking about Israel with that Ruskie cousins' bit but you name yourself Ariel Sharon, what gives? It becomes unclear whos living room it is when the area was part of the Ottoman empire and they allowed the initial zionists to move in and buy land. IT becomes unclear whos living room it is when the British owned that neighborhood for some time afterwards. IT becomes clear whos living room it is when the UN decided that it belonged to both Israeli and Arabs. If you want to go back to before the Ottomans the Jews have the older claim to the land. Otherwise the land ownership is clear through a few generations and it is only an Arab living room in the delusional Arab mind that continues to include Andalusia. When one side pledges to slaughter the other and follows through on those promises in attempt after attempt after attempt than self-defense is indeed the correct term for it. Perhaps a bit less emotion and a bit more logic. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-01-03 02:42 |
| #2 They were probably just moving the tanks around to keep the terrorists from sleeping. Big deal. Leave it to their propagandists to turn it into some kind of victory, because that's the only way they're going to get one. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-03 02:33 |
| #1 The self defense argument is patently false. You come into my f*cking living room, and lay your f*cking bed, invite your f*cking unsuspecting ruskie cousins to stay and then when I try to kick you the f*ck out, you cry "self defense". f*ck you all and your f*cked up logic. f*ck you. |
| Posted by: Ariel Sharon 2009-01-03 01:42 |