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| Militants demand Israel free 1,000 prisoners |
| 2006-06-30 |
| Three Palestinian militant groups that captured an Israeli soldier demanded in a statement on Saturday that Israel free 1,000 Arab prisoners held in its jails and end its offensive. The document titled "Military Statement Number Two", which was faxed to news agencies, did not specify whether the demands were for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit. But a spokesman for the military wing of the governing Hamas group, one of the three factions, said they were conditions for freeing Shalit. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #16 Interesting thought, Anonymoose. Of course, the Muslims do insist that in the end Allah will make sure they get it all back -- the inevitability of the Reconquista and all that. Abu Abbas's dissertation (University of Moscow? somewhere in the Soviet Union, anyway) was on the option of pushing the Jews off the land by virtue of excess population, even if it has been noticed that the PA is lacking a million living bodies they'd claimed. Nonetheless, Israel has never before put anything completely off limits except the new part of Jerusalem -- it would be salutory shock. Now all we need do is hope that someone with Olmert's ear pokes his/her head in here tonight. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-30 22:51 |
| #15 Agreed that it is time for the Israelis to be hard-assed. However, there seems to be only one currency that the Arabs are fixated on: land. Declare that for every day they hold the Israeli soldier, the Israelis will permanently confiscate 100 acres of Paleo land, which will thereafter become part of Israel, never to be redeemed. That this land will be blessed and sanctified by Rabbis after it is completely plowed to erase any trace that Arabs ever lived there. It will be surrounded by the wall so that Arabs might not even look upon it again. And Israel will not attend, discuss, or have anything to do with any international effort that so much as mentions this land. Other lands might be returned, but never this land. I believe that this is the one button to push that would finally get results. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-30 22:16 |
| #14 AP. Thats the problem. Their switchboard doesn't work. They can't seem to get the connection between cause and effect. Cause: Deliberately targetting and murdering innocent civilian - even women and children. Effect: Isreal defends itself and kills those who relish the 'Cause' above. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-06-30 22:06 |
| #13 Use the thousand to chum the water off the Gaza coast before beginning the big push? |
| Posted by: Cromosh Greamp4148 2006-06-30 21:47 |
| #12 It's easy... when the Israeli offensive has netted 1,000 prisoners, prisoners, they can swap. Hamas won't be making that trade again. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2006-06-30 21:46 |
| #11 How about instead Israel executes one prisoner an hour until the paleos release their kidnap victim? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2006-06-30 21:29 |
| #10 Trailing wife---I don't speak arabic, but I am beginning to really understand how their switchboards work. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-06-30 21:13 |
| #9 If Shalit is dead, Israel should take them at their word: line up 1,000 Paleo-terrorists and execute them. Then announce that the same procedure will be repeated every time they attack Israel. And immediately execute another 1,000 terrorists for teenager Eliahu who was kidnapped and murdered this week. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-06-30 21:11 |
| #8 dropped from 5000 ft |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-30 21:00 |
| #7 Yup...I like AP's idea. How about 1000 body bags? |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-06-30 20:58 |
| #6 I would have never guessed that these guys would admit to such a self-esteem problem. low self esteem and incompetence: a deadly combination |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-06-30 20:57 |
| #5 Maybe we should send you over to handle it, Alaska Paul -- do you speak Arabic? ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-30 20:44 |
| #4 Did the *ahem* Militants stipulate in their demands if they required the 1000 prisoners in Israeli prisons be alive when they are repatriated? I see some middle ground here in the negotiations. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-06-30 20:29 |
| #3 One Israeli is worth a thousand arabs, but in this case I'd say no. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-30 20:19 |
| #2 Division of labor is the key to large scale efficient industrial activity. You've got the al-Aksa tunnelling brigade, the al-Quds Snatch unit and the Hamas Baby Sitting & Public Relations Troop. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-06-30 20:09 |
| #1 Three groups that captured a soldier? Three? One soldier? It takes three Palestinian militant groups to capture one Israeli soldier, and one Israeli soldier is worth 1,000 Arabs. I would have never guessed that these guys would admit to such a self-esteem problem. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-06-30 20:05 |