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Middle East
3 infiltrations foiled; IDF demolishes Gaza buildings
2003-10-26
JPost Reg Req’d
IDF troops killed a Palestinian gunman after a fierce gunbattle near an army outpost and blew up three empty hi-rises in the Gaza Strip Sunday morning.
cause/effect lesson #8,342
I've still yet to see a desultory gunbattle.
Two more infiltration attempts in the Gaza Strip were also foiled by IDF reservists Sunday. In one of the incidents, two Palestinian gunmen were reported hit by IDF gunfire but it was not confirmed that they were killed.
look in the hospital for ’em...or maybe, after the last incident where the Israelis snatched the guys from the hospitals, these a-holes went home to quietly bleed to death
On a sandy hill overlooking the heavily guarded Jewish settlement of Netzarim, troops evacuated some 2,000 Palestinians from their homes and then blew up three unfinished 12-story buildings. Huge blasts rocked the area for kilometers (miles) around, sending plumes of black smoke and debris into the air, and damaging nearby structures. The operation was in retaliation for an attack Friday morning in which two Palestinian gunmen infiltrated an army outpost in the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim and killed three soldiers, including two women. One of the gunmen was killed and the other escaped. The attack was carried out jointly by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups. IDF officials said Palestinians used the buildings to monitor Netzarim and the adjoining military base and compiled information regarding the troop movements and daily routine.
12 story lookout posts hovels - wonder what kind of quality control they had in building those? lol
The Palestinian who was killed Sunday had approached an army outpost near a settlement armed with a rifle and hand grenades, the military said. A soldier on observation saw the gunman and alerted a nearby force. A fierce gunbattle erupted and the Palestinian was killed.
"Fierce gunbattle" is simply redundant, dammit!
In a separate incident overnight Saturday, troops noticed a group of four Palestinians crawling toward an army outpost. Troops fired on the group and hit two. Two others fled, the military said, adding that troops were waiting for daylight to search the area for the wounded Palestinians.
Crawled off into the brush to die, hopefully...
Also Sunday, IDF troops shot at a group of armed Palestinians who were approaching the Kfar Darom settlement in the Gaza Strip.
busy little beavers, aren’t they? I guess they just don’t know about The Roadmap™?
Security forces demolished a nearby Palestinian police station into which the second attacker of the Netzarim attack fled; police officials then helped him return to the Gaza Strip.
Ahhhh the vaunted Paleo security forces
Posted by:Frank G

#7  Truly, this is a stupid observation - devoid of fact and reality.

There will never be peace between the Israelis and the Arabs. If you haven't figured this out, yet, then you're just not paying attention. Your suggested "solution" has already been tried. Yes, it has. Save your quibbling foolishness and moral equivalencies - I'm miles past that, which is why talking to one like you (and there are many, but thankfully not most) is so frustrating and such a waste.

I could, in detail, explain why - but I'm not interested in educating such a lazy shiftless intellect. Set aside your current opinions illusions of moral superiority - for that is all they are. Dig. Read - all "sides." Analyze. Weigh. Wear shoes. Play the advocate, devil and saint. Re-analyze. Re-weigh. Sleep on it. Summarize. Expound. That's the best, and you'll be happy to hear - I'm sure, the last civil and constructive response I'll have for you. After this, your unconscionable lazy knee-jerk tripe and stupidity will receive nothing but the derision it deserves.

"We all do no end of feeling - and mistake it for thinking." - Twain. The smartest sumbitch that America has ever / yet produced.
Posted by: .com   2003-10-27 1:01:57 AM  

#6  Still awake and still interested in your opinions--but Quagmire is Israel--not Iraq--the occupied territories on the West bank preclude a settlement and and a two state solution to this mess
Posted by: NotMikeMoore   2003-10-27 12:39:19 AM  

#5  And you would have them kow-tow to the UN, a collection of thugs, despots, Arab dictators, and failed states, and thus commit suicide / self-genocide, paid for by the Saudis and Iranians. Brilliant.

If the destruction if Israel is your goal, and you can't do it militarily or economically, then do it politically under the phantasy auspicies of the most obvious failure of international diplomacy in modern history. Right. I'll put that suggestion in my next report.

The "world community" is the problem / joke here. The security problem is real, if you have any knowledge of history. Apparently, you do not.

Good call, NMM. You're certainly the clear-thinking even-handed one here - the rest of us are ignorant knee-jerk tools of the Joooos. No wonder you post so late, long after most everyone else has retired - almost no one around to ridicule your pre-approved NaziMedia comments. But hey, it's high noon here in Thailand, joker, so I'll keep you company.

Oops! Pardon me, Moh'd Mike, I must go check in with my Jooo Masters.
Posted by: .com   2003-10-27 12:18:34 AM  

#4  Of course some countries (but not Iraq) can ignore ANY UN resolution they want and thumb their nose at the world community--because they have to have their security--paid for by the US
Posted by: NotMikeMoore   2003-10-26 11:53:08 PM  

#3  Chief Paleo-liar Saeb Erekat claimed that the demolition of the lookout posts had made 180 families homeless.
"'This is a crime, a war crime,' Erakat said. 'It's a good thing that people are out of their apartments on the eve of Ramadan.'"

Wow, what an amazing stroke of luck that every member of all 180 families was out of the buildings, at the same time, in the early morning.
Meanwhile, the UN's Middle East dhimmi-in-chief, Terje Roed-Larsen, declared that "The destruction of these buildings ... is illegal. Destroying property as a punitive measure is a clear violation of the rules of international law."
Some nuance in UN definitions probably keeps Israeli pizza parlors and buses from qualifying as "property", but what about the World Trade Center?


Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2003-10-26 8:08:21 PM  

#2  I'm surprised that there are so many empty high rises in Gaza. Where is all the commerse?
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-10-26 11:57:13 AM  

#1  Looks like Isreal's policy is working alittle better than the Roadmap.
Posted by: Charles   2003-10-26 11:36:57 AM  

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