Israeli missiles slammed into a car in Gaza City on Saturday, killing two members of a Palestinian rocket squad in the second deadly airstrike since the Islamic militant group Hamas assumed power last week. The militants had just fired a rocket toward Israel and returned to their car when they were hit, the Israeli military said. | Very nice shooting, IAF. |
| Sepsis, pleez. |
On Friday, a missile strike on a militant training camp in southern Gaza killed five Hamas-linked militants and a 7-year-old boy. Fourteen people were wounded, and six remained hospitalized Saturday.
Training kids and bunnies are we?
Abbas, meanwhile, said Hamas has started to realize after just a week in power that it cannot govern without the world's recognition, but it is still grappling with the international community's demands that it moderate its positions.
Cause and effect - brain freeze for Pals.
Hamas has sent conflicting messages in recent days.
No kidding - not a coherent thought. Caught in their own trap of spew.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said the Islamic militant group will not comply with demands that it recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing peace agreements. However, Haniyeh has also said Abbas is free to negotiate with Israel, and others in the group have raised the possibility of accepting a Palestinian state alongside Israel. "You may notice some confusion in their political positions," Abbas told the British newspaper The Guardian in an interview published Saturday.
confusion ROTFLMAO
"If Hamas does not change, nobody will deal with them. ... They came to understand it."
Well, they are getting there anyway.
Hamas initially believed they could rule without foreign help, he said. "They started realizing that this is not doable," Abbas was quoted as saying. "But they are only a week in office, so let us wait. It needs time."
Are they getting the fact that ONLY foreign help has kept them alive to this point? Only the money of their enemies keeps them alive. Arabs and muslims couldn't care less. You are pawns meant to die in the great takeover. Not live and claim precious land. Dregs of islam - kill, then die and begone.
On Friday, the European Union and the United States announced they were halting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Haniyeh denounced the decisions as "blackmail" and said Hamas would not change its positions. Yet Haniyeh has acknowledged that the government is broke and would have trouble paying the salaries of 140,000 government employees, who with their dependents make up about one-third of the population in the Palestinian territories. Government paychecks for March are more than a week overdue, and the new Palestinian finance minister has said he is still $85 million short, more than half the total needed.
Rock and a hard place, Haniyeh.
On Friday, Abbas met with Haniyeh to try to settle some of the growing differences between him and the Hamas government. Abbas is a moderate who was elected separately last year. The two sides have been wrangling over authority and, earlier in the week, Abbas assumed direct control over more branches of the security forces.
Abbas, meanwhile, warned Israel it cannot solve its conflict with the Palestinians by drawing borders unilaterally, without negotiations. Israel can at best postpone the conflict for a decade, he said.
Think again, Abbas.
"After 10 years, our sons will feel it (the border) is unfair and they will return back to the struggle," he said.
Same old, same old.
Israel's designated prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has said he would try to resume peace talks with the Palestinians but has not said whether he would negotiate with Abbas even if Hamas does not change its views. The Palestinians fear that Olmert is not serious about reviving negotiations and that his real plan is to draw Israel's borders with a Palestinian state unilaterally. Olmert has said he wants final borders in place by 2010.
No negotiations to revive - Pals have never been capable. negotiation is not on the plate. Time was up long ago.
Olmert, who is forming a ruling coalition, has said Israel wants to annex large areas the Palestinians consider their state, including east Jerusalem and large Jewish settlements in the West Bank — a plan likely to be rejected by Palestinians. "Nobody will accept it. The struggle will continue," Abbas said.
more same old, same old. it's why the unilateral move is the only sane thing to do. Ring you off and let you kill each other.
In other developments, two Palestinians were killed when the tunnel they were crawling through under the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed, Palestinian police said. The tunnel apparently caved in overnight but the bodies were found only after dawn Saturday, police said. The two Palestinians are from a family known for drug and food smuggling in the area, police said.
All aid cut now. All.