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| Israel to keep Gaza blocked until soldier freed |
| 2009-03-18 |
| Israel vowed on Tuesday to keep its blockade of Gaza Strip in place until Hamas agreed to free a captured Israeli soldier, following the failure of negotiations mediated by Egypt yesterday, a senior government official said Tuesday. "There will be no expansion of the opening of the Gaza crossings until they release Gilad Shalit," the official said. Shalit was captured in a 2006 cross-border operation by Gaza fighters, including members of the Islamist Hamas movement which has ruled the Palestinian enclave since June 2007. "The crossings ... are operating at a minimum to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza," an Israeli political source added. "And they (the crossings) will remain so until Gilad Shalit is released." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I'd of added one or two targeted hits per day/week as the price paid for continued absence of Shalit (immediately, when he was nabbed). That or snatch missions to jug Hamas types - killing as many as needed to ensure the team got its target and got away safely. But Iz'rl seems to have lost its way on deterrence, going back a few years. Their verminous enemies did not feel the sting of retaliation for their evil deeds, and thus we have seen a continued string of them. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-03-18 21:41 |
| #5 "And that trick of people rising from the dead happened a long time ago in Jerusalem." And a Jooooooooooo did that, Rambler. GFL on Ham-Ass finding another to do it again.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-18 21:02 |
| #4 Israel really should require that Shalit be released alive and unharmed. That would really put Hamas in a bind, since I reluctantly believe that he is dead (and probably has been for a long time). And that trick of people rising from the dead happened a long time ago in Jerusalem. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-03-18 19:24 |
| #3 Anybody else watched Bruce Willis in "The fifth Element"? Who's the negotiator" I am. BLAM (Between the eyes). Anybody else want to Negotiate? (Every thug shaking their heads no.) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-18 11:42 |
| #2 Ummm, We forgot where we stashed the bones. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-18 11:31 |
| #1 Or until there's a phone call from either Hildi or Himself Himself. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-18 04:42 |