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| 2005-09-25 | |||
| Events posted previously deleted. Israel launched a "crushing" retaliation Saturday against Hamas in Gaza with deadly airstrikes, troops massed at the border and a planned ground incursion after The escalation threatened to derail a shaky seven-month-old truce and quashed hopes that Israel's ceding the coastal strip to the Palestinians would invigorate peacemaking. Israel's reprisals drew new Hamas threats of revenge, while Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas came under growing Israeli pressure to confront the Fatima, did the earth move for you, too? ... and that he wanted to exact a high price from Palestinians everywhere, not just the Sounds almost Jacksonian. The crisis erupted just before a major challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's leadership in his hardline Likud Party, and could strengthen the hand of Sharon's main rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has warned the Gaza pullout endangers Israel. A Likud vote Monday could determine whether Sharon quits the party — a move that would likely bring early elections and prompt Sharon to form a new centrist party to capture mainstream voters. On Saturday evening, Sharon convened his Security Cabinet, a group of senior ministers, to approve a series of military operations proposed by Mofaz, culminating with a ground incursion into Gaza. Security officials said that "Operation First Rain" would include artillery fire, air strikes and other targeted attacks. The operation will grow in intensity, leading up to a ground operation unless the Palestinian security takes action to halt the rocket attacks or Hamas ends the attacks itself. The ground operation would require final approval from the full Cabinet, the officials added. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicize the operation's details. The officials said the army planned to create a buffer zone in northern Gaza by ordering residents to leave their homes, and said a closure barring Palestinian laborers from entering Israel would remain in effect. Shortly after the Security Cabinet's meeting, Israeli aircraft struck a series of targets throughout Gaza, including three weapons-storage facilities and a Gaza City school that the army said served as a front for Hamas. Other targets included the offices of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small Darn.
I don't care. "It was decided to launch a prolonged and constant attack on Hamas," said Maj. Gen. Yisrael Ziv, the army's head of operations, hinting that Israel was preparing to resume targeted attacks against top Hamas leaders. Asked whether the leaders were in danger, he said: "Let them decide for themselves." Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu Khoussa called the Israeli retaliation plan a "serious escalation that will lead to a new era of violence."
He's alarmed that Israel is striking back. A senior Palestinian security official said the Jebaliya deaths were caused by a rocket-propelled grenade that exploded as a result of friction and in turn ignited about 10 other grenades on the back of a truck. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because You rub two sticks together to make a fire, not two RPGs. Hamas called Abbas' position "a stab in the back of the martyrs" and a blow to efforts to work out differences between the factions. Abbas has been trying to co-opt Hamas and has rejected calls by Israel and the international community to confront and disarm the Farhad's mother, known as Um Nidal, said all three of her sons have been killed in fighting with the Israelis. "I am so proud," she said. "I wish I had more sons to offer." Here's a candidate for the Spay & Neuter Clinic. Hamas vowed to avenge the attack, calling on its
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| Posted by:Jackal |
| #15 Israel launched a "crushing" retaliation much easier to do now that the settlers are gone. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-09-25 15:35 |
| #14 Israel should say absolutely nothing, or "no comment." Let their actions speak for themselves. The Hamas organization [oxy-moroon] has got to be dumber than a box of rocks. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-09-25 13:42 |
| #13 I predicted this about a week ago. I hereby nominate Abbas and the Hamas leadership as prime candidates for the the Darwin Award. It's tough, but the human gene pool must be purified. Pass the popcorn, please. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2005-09-25 12:15 |
| #12 Not sure I like the idea of a ground campain unless it's after a month of systamatically leveling every house in Gaza as Hamas runs into it. |
| Posted by: Charles 2005-09-25 12:04 |
| #11 "Abbas has been trying to co-opt Hamas and has rejected calls by Israel and the international community to confront and disarm the terrorists militants..." Abbas wants to die alone trying to placate terrorists rather than die as the man who crushed the primary roadblock to the creation of a Palestinian state-Hamas and other terrorist ilk? That's a shame. He'll probably get his wish-with the US and Israel standing by over his remains, bewildered as to why he didn't seize one more in a long line of wasted opportunities presented to Palestinian leaders. That seems to be the Palestinian way-hoisting their own petards. Suicide is apparently now a matter of their DNA. |
| Posted by: jules 2 2005-09-25 12:00 |
| #10 "Abbas has been trying to co-opt Hamas and has rejected calls by Israel and the international community to confront and disarm the terrorists militants..." Abbas wants to die alone trying to placate terrorists rather than die as the man who crushed the primary roadblock to the creation of a Palestinian state-Hamas and other terrorist ilk? That's a shame. He'll probably get his wish-with the US and Israel standing by over his remains, bewildered as to why he didn't seize one more in a long line of wasted opportunities presented to Palestinian leaders. That seems to be the Palestinian way-hoisting their own petards. Suicide is apparently now a matter of their DNA. |
| Posted by: jules 2 2005-09-25 11:59 |
| #9 Here you go, Frank. I just made a new batch. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-09-25 11:51 |
| #8 With or without the kosher salt? |
| Posted by: Omerens Omaigum2983 2005-09-25 11:51 |
| #7 pass the popcorn |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-25 11:26 |
| #6 "Does the MSM know how transparent their bias is?" CF - the important point is that, whether they know it or not, they ceased to give a shit years ago. They also apparently haven't noticed that newfangled invention called the "Internet." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-25 11:19 |
| #5 Izrael vows to crush Hammas... isn't that like squeezing 10 lbs of pig shit into a thimble? |
| Posted by: Ebbase Ulerese7889 2005-09-25 11:00 |
| #4 Does the MSM know how transparent their bias is? Probably not. But the real question is, do they even care? |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-09-25 10:49 |
| #3 exploded as a result of friction I have it from |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-25 10:47 |
| #2 Let me get this stright.... Firing rockets into a civilian settlement in order to murder civilians is A-OK with the MSM.... Defending yourself by targetting the source of those missles is.... threatening to derail the peace process... Does the MSM know how transparent their bias is? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-09-25 10:37 |
| #1 "What we have here is, a failure to communicate. You see, some terrorists you just cain't reach; and we get what we have here. That's the way Hamas wants it, and they gets it. I don't like it anymore than Kofi do." |
| Posted by: Iron Hand Luke 2005-09-25 10:20 |