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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Truce ends as Israel launches air strike on Gaza
2008-12-21
Israel launched its first air strike on the Gaza Strip Saturday, a day after the six-month-long ceasefire between the Jewish state and Hamas
" The Israeli escalation confirms the need to unify and strengthen the resistance in the face of this aggression that did not respect the truce as is evident from the ongoing Gaza blockade. "
Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesperson
rulers expired, the army and Palestinians said.

An Israeli military official said the air strike targeted members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade who were firing rockets towards Israel.

The attack came hours after two rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel, causing no damage or injuries, the army said.

Ali Eliyan Hijazi, 25, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade was killed and two others were wounded when a missile exploded in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, Palestinian medics said.

Posted by:Fred

#9  No, Lemuel, even that won't be enough to buy a "journalist" if oil stays below $40/barrel.

Mods - cleanup idiot on aisle 8.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-12-21 18:42  

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Posted by: Lemuel Jineng9947   2008-12-21 17:34  

#7  Exactly right, Verlaine. The hypocrisy of the international media and US policy has reached Kafkaesque dimensions.

If the Mexican army decided to start lobbing rockets into El Paso some fine morning, there wouldn't be two boards left nailed together or one brick standing on another in Ciudad Juarez by nightfall.
Yet Israel is expected to silently endure this provocation, and this expectation has become institutionalized.

On a brighter note, I predict that media and academic support for Paleo terrorism will start to decline as falling oil revenues reduce the supply of honoraria, gifts, fellowships, investment capital and other bribes currently flowing into our self-appointed cultural elites.
At $40 a barrel, the day might come when oil ticks can't even buy a British journalist, let alone an American one.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-12-21 17:19  

#6  this is where carpet bombing should become popular again
Posted by: rabid whitetail   2008-12-21 14:04  

#5  The orwellian, surreal inversion of "news" is nowhere better captured than right here. As others here have commented, what exactly started this round?

"It all started when I hit him back".

My favorite pithy rendition of this contemptible idiocy.
Posted by: Verlaine   2008-12-21 12:39  

#4  Justifiable response to the Occupation... er...Zionist aggression...er...the closure of the crossings in response to the rocket attacks!

/That's the ticket!
Posted by: Frank G   2008-12-21 10:51  

#3  Yeah seriously, All those rocket attacks were what?
Posted by: Hellfish   2008-12-21 10:38  

#2  Truce ends as Israel launches air strike on Gaza

Not "Israel launched an airstrike in response to a kasam attack".
Not even "Israel launched an airstrike after truce ends".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-12-21 09:23  

#1  Green light go.
Posted by: newc   2008-12-21 01:29  

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