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| Middle East |
| Israel seizes key Gaza Strip junctions |
| 2002-09-07 |
| In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces attacked Palestinian police posts while Apache helicopters fired missiles into a metal factory in the Khan Yunis refugee camp. The military said the foundry had been used to manufacture ammunition used by militants in their armed uprising, or intifadah. The situation was deteriorating so rapidly that Defense Minister Benyamin Ben-Eliezer declared that Israel will not go forward with a tentative peace initiative, negotiated last month, that would have handed responsibility for security in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said there have been too many attacks and betrayals for Israel to countenance any future interim deals, such as the one negotiated Aug. 18, which had offered the first glimmer of hope in nearly two years. I think that's what we predicted at the time... ''Oslo no longer exists. Camp David no longer exists,'' Sharon said in an interview with Israel's Maariv newspaper, referring to the Norwegian and US locales of two major Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. Yeah, well, hold that thought, Ariel. Every time you forget it, you get another boatload of fertilizer from the Paleos... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |