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2006-12-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Olmert Ordered: IDF May Not Fire at Kassam Rocket Terrorists

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-26 10:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is this a surrender? Is there any possibility of a no-confidence vote?

Posted by Mark E. 2006-12-26 11:28|| 2006-12-26 11:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Olmert, groan.

Posted by wxjames 2006-12-26 11:31|| 2006-12-26 11:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Olmert the Omlet, flips over and gets fried fairly often.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-26 12:00|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-12-26 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Since Olmert has been in office and this is only the latest in his flopping, and since there has been no uprising by the governed, I can only say that they get what they deserve. Time for us to turn off the money spigot to them also.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2006-12-26 14:34|| 2006-12-26 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Think this changes anything?

Gaza rocket injures first Israelis since truce

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired on Tuesday from Gaza injured two Israelis, the first to be hurt in a Palestinian attack since a ceasefire began a month ago.

A 14-year-old boy was in critical condition and another, also 14, was seriously hurt by the rocket that slammed into a street near a house in the town of Sderot, Leah Malul, a spokeswoman for Barzilai Hospital, said.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made plans to convene top decision-makers on Wednesday to weigh a possible Israeli response, an Israeli source and media reports said.

"It is clear that Israel's policy of restraint is not open-ended and these rocket attacks must stop," David Baker, an official in Olmert's office, told Reuters.

Olmert has come under growing public criticism for failing to retaliate for more than 60 rockets fired since a November 26 truce, while he is also under U.S. and European pressure to keep the ceasefire.

Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group, claimed its forces had fired the rocket, and called it retaliation for Israel's continued military raids on its hideouts in the occupied West Bank.

The truce had halted Israeli-Palestinian fighting in and near the Gaza Strip, but Israel has continued raids it says are to prevent attacks from being launched from the West Bank.

Israel has killed 15 Palestinians since the ceasefire began, all but one in the West Bank. About half were gunmen.

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-26 17:03|| 2006-12-26 17:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Since Olmert has been in office and this is only the latest in his flopping, and since there has been no uprising by the governed, I can only say that they get what they deserve. Time for us to turn off the money spigot to them also.

Prescience USN,Ret
U.S. BLOCKS ARMS, TECHNOLOGY TO ISRAEL

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-26 18:42|| 2006-12-26 18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 right: Arabic news, unnamed sources...

Israeli and U.S. sources said the State Department has blocked the transfer of weapons and technology to the Jewish state over the last three months. The sources said the halt reflected deteriorating relations between the two countries since the end of the war in Lebanon in August 2006.

"Nobody will say openly that there is a problem," a government source said. "But there is a serious problem that reflects the marginalization of Israel in U.S. strategy."

The unofficial suspension of U.S. arms deliveries began in late September, the sources said. They said the suspension halted the airlift of air-to-ground and other munitions conducted during and immediately after the Israeli war with Hizbullah.

Pardon me while I get this saltlick taste out
*blech*

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-26 19:33|| 2006-12-26 19:33|| Front Page Top

#8 And Amerikans can't fire at the future UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN USA. aka Motherly = Caring Commie Airborne ala RED DAWN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-26 22:42|| 2006-12-26 22:42|| Front Page Top

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