It's a good thing the Israelis withdrew from Gaza. The peace that has ensued has been wonderful.
From AFP, with thanks to JE:
Israel has carried out a fresh air strike and threatened more ground operations in the Gaza Strip in a bid to halt Palestinian rockets, one of which narrowly missed the Israeli defence minister's home.The hardline Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for firing three missiles at daybreak towards the southern Israeli town of Sderot, which lies just over the border from the Gaza Strip.
Although no one was injured in the attacks, one of the makeshift Qassam rockets struck a residential building just metres from the home of defence minister, Amir Peretz, causing extensive damage.
The army has been pounding northern Gaza with artillery and has carried out a series of air raids in recent weeks in order to put a permanent end to the firing of the notoriously inaccurate missiles.
Wonder what is keeping Israel from unleashing on gaza and iran.
IsraelNN.com) Hundreds of members of the Palestinian Authority’s armed forces have seized the PA’s parliament building in Gaza.
The gun toting militia men, employees of the PA, seized the building as protest for not receiving three months back pay.
Sell out Israel---Let ue destroy it....Then we can chat..............Iran: US supports Israel blindly
A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hamid-Reza Asefi, said Thursday that Tehran believed “the best way to overcome the current crisis on the Iranian nuclear issue was dialogue with preconditions.”
Asefi was responding to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s suggestion to hold direct talks with Iran. Asefi added that the US must deal with all its allies in the region if it wants to solve the terror problem. “The US needs to condemn the crimes of the Zionist regime and nhttp://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.htmlot support it blindly,” he added. (Dudi Cohen)
BUT.....BUT.....THIS WAR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM.....RIGHT?.......America’s war on Iraq freed the Iraqi people from the evil rule of the Baathist regime and helped the strengthening of ties between the people of Iran and Iraq. This had a lot of benefit for Iran and Iraq and was in opposition to America’s objectives for the region, and the trend of future events will testify greater defeat for the occupiers and greater benefits for the people of Iraq”, Rafsanjani, who chairs the State Expediency Council, told a group of Iraqi students late Wednesday.
“If Iran and Iraq become united, the enemies will not be able to force anything against Islam in the region”, he said.
His comments were reported in the government-owned news agency Mehr.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7428
I think you would be just as dead if your were killed by a "notoriously inaccurate rocket", no?
This sounds like special pleading.
Those poor Palestinian terrorists can't even get some good, accurate rockets (from the Syrians via Iranians via North Korea).
Israel, luckily, tends to hit its terrorist targets with fewer collateral casualties.
Would the U.N. or the Arab world prefer Israel struck back with equally-inaccurate weapons?
Of course, now we can expect the Palestinians and their handlers to rail and rage against the Zionist Occupiers who have the gall to respond to their endless attacks. I can only imagine what those idiots in the ISM/Palestinian Solidarity Movement are ranting about now.
Israel traded land for peace iwth islam and has received only bombs and missels.
Israel when will you lear that you can not trade anything including land with islam for peace for you will have neither land nor peace with islam.
Has it occurred to anyone other than me that Israel withdrew from the Gaza very purposefully, knowing at least two things:
1. that Gaza would be used by terrorists to go on bombing Israelis with even greater impunity(therefore proving that there is no appeasing the @ssholes by ceding land); and
2. that there would be no Israeli civilians among what little collaterol damage that may occur in retaliatory strikes (a kind of reversal of the 1948 scenario, when the surrounging Arab armies urged the Arab population to flee so they could freely attack targets within Israel's borders).
Waterdragon is right. The first thing you ought to ask is who has been most disadvantaged by the withdrawal from Gaza, the Israelis or the Palestinians? After one year, the answer is obvious. Gaza is ungovernable and its collapse is destroying the credibility of both Hamas and Abu Mazen by the day. And do not think that the rest of the world has not noticed that it cannot even exist in any organized way without life support from Europe and the US - something that will not dispose other countries, that would love to have their economies artificially supported like that, to feel more sympathetic. Above all, there is the trapped-rat syndrome. A country in dire economic straits caused - as they can credibly argue - by foreign enemies might be expected to develop a "blitz spirit", a determination to survive by reducing their claims, tightening their belts, and doing one's best to go on regardless. Not the Palestinians: instead, they turn on each other, Hamas against PLO and PLO against Hamas, as if killing each other in the streets might improve the economic climate. Not, brothers, an impressive sight.
The withdrawal from Gaza and most of the West Bank was and is not intended to do the Palestinians any favours; and it has done them none. Having seen what it has done to Gaza, Egypt for one is absolutely terrified at what could happen in the larger territory. What Israel intended is simply this: to stop wasting the limited resources of a tiny state of five million people in trying to govern and police an ungovernable and utterly ungrateful hive of over a million enemies. The Palestinians have just proved them right, and will no doubt give equal evidence of incompetence and ingovernability once the Israelis leave over-Wall part of the West Bank to its own devices. If I were an enemy of Israel, I would be very, very worried at the prospect of the West Bank.
"Those who trade land for peace will have neither."
Benjamin Franklinberg
Do these people have any war factories or do they just order out?
http://www.estesrockets.com/
Has anyone EVER seen Israelis dancing in the streets and handing out sweets after a successful strike against those sworn to killing them? Nah, didn't think so. A truly fundamental difference in values and cultures.
Perp:
Should read:
"A truly fundamental difference between cult & culture"...