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Palestine vs. Israel.....No Peace!

Mike

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Palestinian Rocket Blast Wounds 40 Israeli Soldiers
Tuesday , September 11, 2007



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JERUSALEM —

A Palestinian rocket exploded in an Israeli army base early Tuesday, wounding more than 40 soldiers as they slept in their tents and drawing calls for a major military operation against militants launching rockets from the Gaza Strip.

The injury toll was the highest ever sustained in a single Palestinian rocket attack. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was meeting Tuesday with top military and security officials, and discussions were expected to include possible responses to the attack, Israeli officials said.

The wounded soldiers were all recent recruits undergoing basic training at the army's Zikim base, just north of the Gaza-Israel border, and were asleep when the rocket hit an empty tent, the army said. Of the more than 40 soldiers in nearby tents who were wounded, 12 remained in serious condition, the army said.

A Hamas spokesman praised the rocket attack, calling it a "victory from God."

"We consider this a victory from God for the resistance," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said on Hamas radio. "We consider the resistance as the legitimate right of the Palestinians to defend themselves and restore their rights."

Two small extremist groups, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for the attack in a joint statement faxed to reporters.

The Israeli army said its ground forces struck back at the area militants used to launch the strike. A Gaza health official said four civilians, including children, were wounded.

Ambulances roared up to the base's gate after the rocket hit before 2 a.m., and army helicopters evacuated the seriously wounded. The emergency room at Barzilai Hospital in the nearby city of Ashkelon was swamped with incoming casualties, and medics emerged from the hospital carrying empty stretchers covered in blood.

The strike came at a time when Israeli politicians and defense officials have been calling for a more aggressive Israeli response to the near-daily rocket barrages out of Gaza. Attacks last week on the frequently targeted town of Sderot, including one near a crowded nursery school, led parents to pull their children out of school and brought demands for harsh retaliation.

"The question is not whether to create deterrence, but when," said Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, a member of Olmert's ruling Kadima party, told Israel Radio.

Cabinet minister Eli Yishai told Army Radio, "Long ago, several years ago, we should have responded strongly ... In the end we will have no choice but to act."

Four Palestinian civilians between ages 5 and 21, members of the same family, were wounded in the initial army response, according to Dr. Muawiya Hassanin of Gaza's Health Ministry. Two were treated briefly and released, and two girls — ages 7 and 17 — remained hospitalized, Hassanin said. The army would not immediately confirm any civilian injuries.

Fearing retaliation, Islamic Jihad ordered its militants to avoid using cell phones and public transportation so they could not be tracked and targeted by Israeli forces.

Islamic Jihad has been responsible for nearly all rocket fire out of Gaza in recent weeks. But Israel has said it holds Hamas responsible for the violence, since the militant movement controls Gaza and has done nothing to halt the attacks.

"It doesn't matter which terror group took responsibility. Gaza is totally controlled by Hamas, and it has the ability to stop this and decided not to," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a news conference. "I think we have tools to do this, tools that are not only military," said Livni, who has hinted that Israel should cut fuel or power supplies to Gaza in response to the attacks.

In Gaza City and in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, youths in Islamic Jihad scarves and T-shirts handed out sweets to motorists.

"This is a very strong operation. I salute the Al-Quds Brigades, and I say to them that such operations have restored the credibility and honor of this nation," said Ahmad el-Sheikh, a shopkeeper in Rafah, referring to Islamic Jihad's military wing.

Another rocket hit an Israeli kibbutz near Gaza later Tuesday morning. Hamas militants also announced they had launched a mortar barrage at Kerem Shalom, a border crossing where humanitarian aid crosses from Israel into Gaza. There were no casualties in either attack.

Crude homemade rockets land in southern Israel nearly every day. Although the rockets are inaccurate, they have killed 12 people in the past seven years, injured dozens and disrupted daily life in the area.

Israel's Security Cabinet last week rejected calls for a large-scale Gaza invasion but threatened to cut water, electricity and fuel supplies to the impoverished strip. Tuesday's attack could increase pressure on Olmert to order a major ground offensive in Gaza.

Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, ending 38 years of military rule, but militants continued launching rockets at Israeli towns. The Israeli army has mounted several large-scale military operations in Gaza over the past two years, with heavy casualties on both sides, but those moves had no long-term effect on the number of rockets hitting Israel.
 

MoGal

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http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/witness.html

This is a website that has news/views not seen or presented by our media, (tv)

When the Mexican pres. (or whatever he is) said last week that Mexico has no borders, Americans were rightfully upset. Now, what if Canada came down and said well we'll help you Mexico to widen your borders and started bombing the USA so that the people would flee so Mexico could claim the USA. (Cause Canada wants the oil in Alaska). This is no different. Israel wants more property and ALL of the water that comes down the Euphrates River through Iran (they don't want just their fair share, they want all of it). And we, the Americans are over there doing just that for Israel (and of course we get the oil).

Greed and money has overtaken this world and it will be the downfall.
 

Mike

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Israel wants more property and ALL of the water that comes down the Euphrates River through Iran (they don't want just their fair share, they want all of it). And we, the Americans are over there doing just that for Israel (and of course we get the oil).

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Steve

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MoGal
This is no different. Israel wants more property


I simple question.

If you "owned border property"...say on the South Dakota/North Dakota border..

and a piece of crappy, dry land came available just over the state line for next to nothing... at about the same time your daughter and her worthless husband was "moving home"...

You decide to buy it...and a double wide... you move them on it...

LO and behold that worthless SOB, is actually making a go of the place... in fact he is doing fairly good...

Now the dirt farmer who sold out sees you at the cafe,.. he is pissed because the son put up a fence across the dirt road, he used to drive down and rob chikens from his neighbor from...and all the money you gave him is gone..

You laugh at what an ass he is and drink you coffee..

next day he is shootin at you grandkids...and whining to the local press on how you stole his land... and are keeping him from it... then some liberal cousin from Egypt, of his shows up and says you took his land in South Dakota, and should give it back to...

the shooting contiues, but you haven't shot back...

The sheriff shows up..says we got to stop the shooting... give him back his road... so the son cuts down the fence...

Now the "former land owner" is happy and stops shootin, and goes back to stealin... soon the cousin says wait a darn minute,..I still got nothing..

So the county steps in and gives him a piece of your land in South Dakota.. he is happy...your pissed but what the hell, it was a small piece..

Soon he brings in a few of his cousins from egypt, and they get you to build them a house.. cause after all when you bought the property from his grandfather he had a run down hut, so you owe him...

in short order... their fighting with one another...and it's evident they can't live together... so they want a bit more of your land,..and start shootin again..

this time the sheriff (US) and the county (UN) step in..and say come on it is your fault you bought the land give some of it back...

so under pressure from the sheriff, you give in...cause he can't protect you forever..

soon enough one of the liberals from Egypt, decides that he can't make a go of it and decides he wants to go live in North Dakota...so he sells your land back to you... you bring in another son to work that land...(which pisses off the other Egyptians.... and they start shooting at you..


the other Egyptian his pocket full of cash goes to North Dakota,..and spends half on a book, and the other half on a gun...and starts shootin at your grand children again...

do you think it was fair... that you had to give up land you bought..from the local dirt farmer? and land that you bought from his jackass grandfather,..and now that your making a go of it they want it "all back"..

Well welcome to Israel county...cause thats how it's done...
 
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