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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Sderot, Kfar Aza shelled with rockets
2006-05-18
A group of Palestinian brigades claimed joint responsibility for shelling Sderot settlement with four local-made rockets early Wednesday. The brigades are the National Resistance Brigades, military wing of the Democratic Front for Liberating Palestine, Al-Aqsa martyr brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, and Abu Ali martyr brigades, military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Is there anybody without Martyrs' Brigades? Anyone? Bueller?
"Scorecards! Getcher scorecards right here! Can't tell the playas without a scorecard!"
The attacks came in retaliation for Israeli raids in Jenin, West Bank. Salah Al-Deen Brigades, military wing of the Popular Resistant Committees and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, military wing of Fatah claimed their responsibility for firing two rockets, Nasser 2, at Kfar Aza settlement, eastern Gaza late Tuesday. They warned in a statement that Israeli soldiers and settlers will be targeted by Palestinian militants until they leave Palestinian lands.
Posted by:Fred

#3  A group of Palestinian brigades claimed joint responsibility for shelling Sderot settlement...

Holy eliminationism, Batman!

Sderot is inside Israel, not a supposedly disputed territory. It's a settlement in the same sense as Dubuque or Chippewa Falls.

Of course, all of Israel is a settlement from the Arab perspective, and since aiming to kill "settlers" gets a warm, fuzzy reaction from those easily cowed into appeasement, heck, why not make them all settlers?
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2006-05-18 16:38  

#2  Country-made rockets!
Posted by: 6   2006-05-18 14:23  

#1  DFLP and PFLP are the old "far left" Leninist and/or pro-Syrian wing of the secular PLO. IIUC they broke with Fatah after Oslo, which they rejected. That AAMB has formed a united front with them is a clear sign that AAMB is not really aligned with mainstream Fatah anymore.

and yes, it looks like you really will need a scorecard for this little to do. Youve got Hamas, the more rejectionist Islamic Jihad, the pro-"peace process" Fatah mainstream, the secular rejectionist front outlined above. and maybe Al Qaeeda. With the Israelis intervening from time to tims as their interests require.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2006-05-18 09:33  

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