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Israel warns Hamas of returning to assassination policy
2010-09-17
(Xinhua) -- Israel is warning Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, that it could return to a policy of "targeted assassinations" of the Islamist group's leadership in Gazoo and abroad if rocket strikes and armed attacks against Israel do not stop, Paleostinian newspapers and news agencies reported on Thursday.
And they have a ready stock of Australian passports ...
According to the report, "diplomatic sources told Asharq ( beacon) that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Arab countries to transfer a warning to Hamas that the resumption of armed hostilities and suicide kabooms, including inside Israeli cities and the escalation of rocket fire at Israeli territories would make Israel to return to what sources called a policy of assassinations and targeting the leadership and institutions in the Gazoo Strip and abroad."

Israeli Prime Minister Office front man Mark Regev told Xinhua on Thursday that he was aware of the reports, but would not comment on them.

Regev, referring to the last two days of intensive but discreet direct talks between Netanyahu and Paleostinian National Authority (PNA) President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas, including the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Middle East special envoy George Mitchell, said the discussions were confidential and would remain so.

Overnight, Israeli Air Force jets bombed what the army said was a weapons warehouse in northern Gazoo. The strike comes after a sortie on Tuesday against targets in Rafah along the Egyptian border that left one Paleostinian smuggling tunnel worker dead and several others maimed.

The "specific tunnel was used to smuggle Orcs and similar vermin into the Gazoo Strip so that they could execute attacks against Israeli civilians," the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) front man said in a statement sent to Xinhua. The army said it "holds Hamas solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gazoo Strip."

The airstrikes came after Paleostinians in the Hamas-controlled enclave fired at least a dozen mortars, Grad and Kassam rockets into Israel over the past several days. Israeli officials say it was the heaviest such barrage against Israeli civilian targets in the last year, since the army's Operation Cast Lead in the end of 2008. Officials said two of the mortars contained phosphorus.

The upsurge of violence comes against a background of peace talks held Tuesday and Wednesday between Netanyahu and Abbas.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Carpet bombing is so 1980's.
Cluster bombs though, now that's a 21st century man's answer to political gridlock.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2010-09-17 22:48  

#2  screw assasinations. just carpet bomb them
Posted by: chris   2010-09-17 13:50  

#1  Think of it as Mid East version of Tea Party.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-09-17 02:32  

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