Nearly 60 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at the western Negev since midnight on Wednesdaty; 40 of them were launched after 9 A.M.
On Tuesday, senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar told the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram that "the Palestinians want to give a chance to the Egyptian mediators. Hamas is ready for a truce, if Israel sticks to the terms of the June agreement."
After which they'll rocket the Israelis in celebration ...
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#4 Israel should send back 60 155mm shells.
Tit-for-tat. Posted by: DarthVader
Darth, you left out a zero or two there. Should be 10:1, or 600 155mm shells. They should all target Hamass party headquarters. I'm sure Israel knows where that is.
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I agree with LBFR. Do that, problem is over. World will bitch, moan, complain--and accept. Meanwhile, nobody is going to think it's a wise idea to mess with you because they've seen the results of such a policy.
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Line up the Cat D9 pancake makers dozers wheel-to-wheel and proceed to dig that border moat trench. Then install those .30cal robot emplacements all along that trench. Turn them on and set to automatic. After a few dozen dead, they will stop.
No, I would send back 60,000 small unguided rockets and mortars to the same areas that originated the attack, and no others. It would take about three times for one round out, one thousand back in, to the same neighborhood that originated the fire for the locals to tell the idiots launching the rockets to take a hike.
The locals have to experience the rounds going out and an overwhelming response in order to "get it".
Palestinian terrorists on Wednesday morning fired over 30 Kassam and Grad rockets from the Gaza Strip at Ashkelon and the western Negev, prompting Israel to hold up a shipment of aid scheduled to pass through to the Strip on Wednesday. Rockets continued to rain on southern Israeli cities throughout the morning hours.
Meanwhile, the security cabinet scrambled Defense Minister Ehud Barak to a special discussion on the massive rocket fire against western Negev Israeli communities. Because what happened was so unexpected, they were caught by surprise
A number of Grad-type rockets were fired at Ashkelon throughout the morning, one of them landing in the yard of a private residence, causing several people to go into shock.
A tense calm reigned over the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the Palestinian Islamist group said it may agree to a new truce with Israel. Gaza Islamists were holding their fire and Israeli forces were not carrying out raids on the territory after Hamas announced on Monday that it would not launch rockets or fire mortars for 24 hours.
Senior Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar told AFP that the movement could consider extending the temporary lull and agreeing to a new long-term truce, following the expiry on Friday of a six-month ceasefire. Hamas is ready to renew the truce "if Israel respects the conditions of a ceasefire," he said.
Hamas demands
" We demand that Israel respect truce conditions, in particular that it stop all form of aggression and open the border crossings. "
Mahmud "Warty Nose" Zahar, Hamas leader
These include lifting the blockade of the Palestinian enclave and stopping military raids on the besieged territory, the stronghold of the Islamist movement considered a terror group by Israel and the West.
"We demand that Israel respect truce conditions... in particular that it stop all form of aggression and open the border crossings," said Zahar, one of Hamas's most hard line leaders.
For which they offer in return ...
His comments came two days before Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is due to travel to Cairo for talks on the situation in Gaza with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
However Egyptian security sources warn that Hamas's efforts to haggle over another truce risks the possibility of having one. "They are haggling with ceasefire in order to improve its conditions, but we believe their calculations are wrong as neither the time, nor haggling will be fruitful. We know in advance their attempts will be doomed to fail," an unnamed Egyptian security official told the Saudi daily newspaper Al Medina.
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