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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel makes Gaza arrests
2006-08-23
Israeli soldiers, backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and armoured personnel carriers, moved into Palestinian-controlled areas near the main Israel-Gaza cargo crossing on Tuesday, conducting house-to-house searches and arrests. Five Palestinians were wounded moderately, including three Hamas militants, medical officials said. Three Palestinians were arrested, security officials said.

The military confirmed an operation near the Karni crossing, but wouldn't divulge its objectives. In the past, Israeli troops have searched for tunnels being dug by militants near the crossing. "They took two of my cousins and asked them about fighters, tunnels and many other issues," said farmer Ahmed Helles, 65, whose olive trees were being uprooted by Israeli military bulldozers as part of the operation. "I was waiting for the harvest, which was to start next month, to pay for the marriage of my grandson, but the bulldozers are destroying my hopes," Helles said.
"That's too bad. What were you raising?"
"Landmines."
Separately, in southern Gaza, the Israeli army moved into farmlands near the town of Khan Younis, firing machine guns into the fields after calling on farmers to evacuate the area, Palestinian security officials said. Cameramen filming the operation said they came under fire, but were not wounded.
Posted by:Fred

#16  Unfortunately, the Israelis are engaged in a "police operation" against the Paleos, while the Paleos are waging war. The only victory in war is to make your enemy so miserable he gives up and surrenders. You do that by killing his fighters, breaking his toys, destroying his homes, and taking his land. Until Israel begins to do that, there will constantly be trouble with the Paleos.

Troll, don't come here. We eat trolls for breakfast, and remain hungry.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-08-23 16:52  

#15  Run along little boy. It's your day to satisfy the imam.
Posted by: ed   2006-08-23 14:25  

#14  mcsegeek1, please do argue with me when you have so trenchenta point. And when you add gallant things like "lovely Rantburgerness" to the end of it, well I just melt, even if I have absolutely no idea what it means. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-23 14:14  

#13  How're things in Londonistan?
Posted by: Fred   2006-08-23 13:36  

#12  My father was in Vietnam for 4 years and never met a single Viet Cong. Weird, huh? Sounds like the same thing going on here and lebanon, there are no civilians in a war fought by irregulars.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-08-23 12:07  

#11  Hey! Todays Chew Toy!

Sorry - Rantburger's are all red blooded americans. Even those on the front lines in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. You see being an 'american' isn't a nationallity - its a spirit.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-08-23 11:54  

#10  RB is neo nazi? Great, I'm blond! But, alas, I'm fat, not very physically brave (an understatement), and very unfit.

Will you still accept me as a member of the aryan Master Race?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-23 11:28  

#9   Ebbinetch Unineth2587

Mara, mara/Leki, leki/Shoufa la ochtak/Ihsa aleki.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-08-23 11:15  

#8  Wow. Trolls sure like to throw that word 'nazi' around, eh?
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-23 10:03  

#7  bwhahahaha Troll bait bwhahahaha.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-08-23 09:50  

#6  Damn, the neo-Nazis are in full swing on this site! Talk about extremist racism taken to an unimaginable extreme. If your stupidity is representative of American or Israeli public opinion, the US/Israel does not stand a chance in the war on muslims. In fact, they don't stand a chance anyway, but it's funny to see such extremely delusional people.
Posted by: Ebbinetch Unineth2587   2006-08-23 09:44  

#5  TW, I'd never disagree with you in all your lovely Rantburgerness. However, is it not quite possible that the grandfather actually planted the seeds of Jew hate in his children, who passed it on to their children, and now those seeds are bearing fruit?
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-23 09:27  

#4  I do feel for the grandfather, who probably has tilled around those olive trees for decades, waiting for them to mature enough to bear fruit. But while he was tending the trees, his children and grandchildren, and the leaders of his tribe, planted and harvested Jew hatred, and destroyed all his hopes. They sowed, he reaps.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-23 09:12  

#3  I am really really trying to find sympathy, somewhere anyplace in my heart for Pallys nope none sorry.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-08-23 08:45  

#2  I think all Paleos, no matter how "innocent," deserve whatever happens to them. Nits make lice.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-08-23 08:39  

#1  "I was waiting for the harvest, which was to start next month, to pay for the marriage of my grandson, but the bulldozers are destroying my hopes,"

Well, at least he won't be reproducing anytime soon.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-23 05:51  

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