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| Barak warns of Abbas's demise |
| 2008-03-13 |
| Warning of the potential downfall of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah government in the West Bank, Defense Minister Ehud Barak rejected reports on Wednesday that Israel had agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas, while claiming that additional IDF operations in Gaza were impendent. "There is a continuous battle taking place in Gaza," Barak said during a meeting of the Labor Party executive committee in Tel Aviv. "This is not a reality show, and there is no reason to fight with a stopwatch. Things will get tougher before they get quiet." Defense officials said Wednesday night that as long as Hamas continued to use the lull in violence to rearm and rehabilitate its military wing, which was badly damaged during the IDF's operation in northern Gaza last week, additional operations would be inevitable. The officials said that the IDF was continuing to prepare for a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip. Barak dismissed reports that had surfaced in recent days that the head of his Diplomatic-Security Bureau Amos Gilad had negotiated a cease-fire with Hamas during his visit to Cairo earlier this week. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 FOX NEWS > ABBAS has reportedly admonished ISRAEL for waging an alleged "CAMPAIGN OF ANNIHILATION" AGZ THE PA + PALESTINIANS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-13 22:58 |
| #8 The IDF ops in the west bank are at least 50% directed at Hamas and, in these ops, they get Fatah cooperation most of the time and most of these ops are successful. You'd have to think a non-Abbas Fatah could survive at Hamas attack. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-03-13 09:41 |
| #7 should be "HE will be more effective" |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-03-13 09:08 |
| #6 abbas falling would not be good for Israel. For IDF to reoccupy all of the WB would be very costly, in men, money, and international good will. Alternatively letting Hamas take over the WB will not be good either. And dont fool yourself that Jordan will take it. If Abbas falls, Israel just might release Marwan Bargouti in the hope we would at least be more effective. If Abbas goes down Israel might release Marwan Bar |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-03-13 09:07 |
| #5 Impendent??? Impending? Impudent? Imprudent? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-03-13 08:23 |
| #4 He's impotent and powerless, but I believe he does desire peace with the "Evil Zionist Regime" &trade . |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-13 07:37 |
| #3 What a nice way to start the day! Thank you, Bobby. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-13 07:12 |
| #2 I came here to see B. Obama making some faux pas, and to see how TW cleaned his clock. Alas, wrong Barak, but TW never fails to deliver! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-03-13 06:40 |
| #1 Oh yes, please! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-13 02:29 |