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2003-08-25 Middle East

Hamas promises âpainfulâ response for strike

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Posted by Frank G 2003-08-25 11:10:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nice call, Fred. I'd forgotten about the "gunfight" in Ramallah corral. What a pathetic soap opera of power plays...kinda like "Dallas" meets "The Gods Must Be Crazy"

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-25 12:10:09 PM|| 2003-8-25 12:10:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Under intense U.S. pressure to keep commitments under the road map peace plan, Israel has dismantled several West Bank outposts but has failed to freeze construction at established settlements or remove dozens of other unapproved outposts.

Maybe if the Palestinians lived up to their end of the deal - rooting out and dismantling terror groups - then this sort of criticism might actually be worth the effort expended to write it.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-25 12:28:58 PM|| 2003-8-25 12:28:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 So now Hamas is really pissed. They're becoming militant and if Isreal and it's allies don't back off they may become violent. That could be unfortunate. UN sanctions might help, perhaps a cooling off period.

Posted by Lucky 2003-8-25 12:45:34 PM|| 2003-8-25 12:45:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If a man once indulges himself in murder,
very soon he comes to think little of robbing;
and from robbing he next comes to drinking
and sabbath-breaking, and from that to
incivility and procrastination.
Thomas DeQuincy

Posted by .com 2003-8-25 12:57:37 PM|| 2003-8-25 12:57:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 very pithy .com, but nobody can beat Lucky for sarcasm, the above was a classic. I bow to the master

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-25 1:15:22 PM|| 2003-8-25 1:15:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Israel killed four of its members in a missile strike and declared anyone in the militant Palestinian resistance group a target for "liquidation."
Does that also apply to Arafat????

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-8-25 1:33:49 PM|| 2003-8-25 1:33:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, we're just gonna keep promoting people into management until all of them are wacked by the Israelis. What? What do you mean, no one wants to be promoted?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-8-25 1:37:44 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-8-25 1:37:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks Frank. And I do get a hoot out of .com and Rantburgers in general.

Posted by Lucky 2003-8-25 1:42:44 PM|| 2003-8-25 1:42:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "If the Israelis thought assassinations would destroy our determination to continue in our resistance, to continue defending ourselves, they are mistaken,"

Make no mistake, Mr. Haniyah, you and your fellow rabid dogs have made it very clear to Israel that your determination is unshakeable. They are not trying to destroy your determination - they are trying to kill you.

That's what's done to rabid, vicious animals.

It just so happens that a dead, rabid vicious dog has considerably less determination to slaughter than a live one. ( To all you dog-owners out there, I'm sorry to lump your pet in with Hamas - it's just metaphor )

Posted by Dripping Sarcasm 2003-8-25 1:52:12 PM|| 2003-8-25 1:52:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 What was that aircraft carrier we were about to decommission, the Constellation? Maybe we should give it to Israel instead, along with about 400 Apache helicopters and a couple of thousand Hellfire missiles. They do seem to be getting the best bang for the buck in the War on Terrorism. With a carrier, Israel could attack Gaza from several directions at once.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-8-25 2:09:30 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-8-25 2:09:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually OP, Gaza's available from all directions except overflying Egypt - they might take a dim view of that. The Connie would be beneficial to Israel only as a platform for a mutual destruction nuke delivery site should any blackhat take Rafsanjani's advice to heart. I'd think Israel would benefit more from a up-to-date sub with cruise missile capability, and I believe they have/or are close to having that.

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-25 2:26:07 PM|| 2003-8-25 2:26:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Frank G, they've got 3 of them:
The first-of-class INS (Israeli Naval Ship) Dolphin was commissioned in 1999, INS Leviathan and INS Tekuma in 2000. The mission of the submarines is to carry out interdiction and surveillance operations and special missions.
The submarine has the capacity to carry up to 16 surface-to-surface missiles or torpedoes. The surface-to-surface missile is the submarine-launched Harpoon, which delivers a 227kg warhead to a range of 130km at high subsonic speed.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-25 4:46:21 PM|| 2003-8-25 4:46:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Frank G / Lucky - I wasn't competing, I posted it to confirm that great minds think alike -- Lucky and DeQuincy! ;-)

Posted by .com 2003-8-25 7:32:24 PM|| 2003-8-25 7:32:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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