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2009-01-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

SecState Rice says truce will have to end hamas rockets

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Posted by mhw 2009-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The erudite & intelligent Mrs Rice.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-07 04:44|| 2009-01-07 04:44|| Front Page Top

#2 she should have said all rocket attacks because that wording allows so called splinter groups to fire off rockets

Very good point. Hamas can just hand the keys to PIJ, or PFLP, or teh Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - and then look all innocent when the mortars take flight.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-01-07 09:41|| 2009-01-07 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 And what, exactly, is the point of having a truce if one side is still determined to eradicate the other? Wars end when either both sides say enough ( Iran vs Iraq, 1980s) or when one side is crushed ( US vs Japan, WWII). Any kind of truce or hudna is simply postponing the day of reckoning.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-07 11:50|| 2009-01-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 It seems Hamas understands the diff between 'border' and 'border crossings' better than our Sec of State.

-------------from a Haaretz article--------

Osama Hamdan, a Hamas representative in Lebanon close to the group's leadership in Syria, told al-Jazeera television that Hamas would not accept any initiative that does not include the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza and the opening of all of the territory's border crossings.

Posted by mhw 2009-01-07 14:41|| 2009-01-07 14:41|| Front Page Top

#5 She's worthless, she's always been worthless except as a 'token' of Bush's public image.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-07 16:12|| 2009-01-07 16:12|| Front Page Top

#6 your points are correct, MHW

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-01-07 17:26|| 2009-01-07 17:26|| Front Page Top

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