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2007-09-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel threatens to cut Gaza supplies over rockets

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Posted by tu3031 2007-09-04 12:43|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 Omelette grew some eggs?

Posted by gorb 2007-09-04 13:49|| 2007-09-04 13:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Omelette grew some eggs?

No, the message is just becoming a little less scrambled.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-04 14:16|| 2007-09-04 14:16|| Front Page Top

#3 It's just incredible that it's taken them this long to figure it out.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-09-04 14:40|| 2007-09-04 14:40|| Front Page Top

#4 What do the terms UNSC, sanctions bring to your mind, Ebbang Uluque6305?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-04 15:25|| 2007-09-04 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 This is the first particle of sense I've heard from this government.

Posted by Titus Hayes4699 2007-09-04 15:41|| 2007-09-04 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like somebody's taking them seriously. And quite seethily, I must say...

Gaza Ma'an The "Buraq army" unit of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah warned on Tuesday that if Israel deprives the Gaza Strip of water and electricity, the Israeli power generating station at Ashkelon will be bombarded.

Announcing the start of operation "roaring sea waves" in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they said they would respond to Israeli threats to assassinate Palestinian resistance fighters. They threatened to undertake "qualitative operations" and to continue launching home made projectiles against Israeli targets.

Also on Tuesday the Al-Mujahideen Brigades, another of the units of the Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for launching a home made projectile at the Israeli town of Sderot. However, there have been no reports from the Israelis that a projectile hit Sderot.

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-04 15:59|| 2007-09-04 15:59|| Front Page Top

#7 While it is a baby step in the right direction, it will not work. This is because electricity, water and fuel supplies mean far less to Arabs than land.

That is, if Israel wants them to stop their attacks, it must first take a small slice of Gaza, extend the wall around it as "no man's land", then tell Hamas and the Gazans that for each subsequent attack, Israel will take another small piece of land.

If they cannot abide just taking it, then they should pay fair market value to its owner for it.

However, more than anything else, they must make it clear that the land will NEVER be returned, and that NEVER is non-negotiable. No matter if the Paleos become peaceful, or offer anything else, that land is gone for good.

Unless the Israelis do this, then there will never be peace.

And the Arabs make it abundantly clear that land is the only thing they care about. They harp on it continually. They want MORE land. But their weakness is that they are terrified of having LESS land. For them, to LOSE land means that they have failed their god in the only thing that matters.

Allah really doesn't care about anything, compared to land.

And knowing this, Israel can take land for peace, HAS to take land for peace, because it is the ONLY way they will ever get peace, other than killing every single Arab.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-04 19:30|| 2007-09-04 19:30|| Front Page Top

#8 You've been sayin' this for a long time now, 'moose and you were one of the very first to do so. Keep hammering on it. Short of flat-out expulsion, this is one of the only things that will ever inspire peace or bring a conclusion to hostilities through eviction. Either way, there must be an end to this tedious farce.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-04 19:38|| 2007-09-04 19:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Cut them off and let them eat their own.

Lord knows they have done everything possible to earn it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-09-04 20:09|| 2007-09-04 20:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Israel, oxygen... you forgotten oxygen!

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-04 20:28|| 2007-09-04 20:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Peace, as the west defines it, is not possible with muslims. Either you become a muslim or you are the target of perpetual jihad, with intermittent truces when muslims are weak. Once that sinks in, it becomes pointless to do tit for tat retaliation. The only productive solution is to take land and drive any muslims off of it, to use it for our benefit and power, then rinse and repeat. When this Administration stated this is a generation long conflict, they were being optimistic.

Posted by ed 2007-09-04 21:35|| 2007-09-04 21:35|| Front Page Top

#12 NETANYAHU > Israel may need to send in sizable ground units to control Gaza-based/induced violence, i.e. a "ground invasion".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-04 23:03|| 2007-09-04 23:03|| Front Page Top

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