No reprieve in sight for besieged Gaza

[Aidoneus]

No reprieve in sight for besieged Gaza
Monday 04 October 2004

Eight Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip on the fifth day of a huge Israeli offensive with army commanders talking of a weeks-long operation.

Among the dead on Monday was a child and a 16-year old girl. The teenage girl, Asma Dwidar died after being hit by a bullet in the chest in the eastern part of the Jabalya camp in Gaza.

The child was killed by Israeli gunfire during another army incursion into a village near Khan Yunus in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian medical and security sources.

The killings came after an Israeli military chief warned that the troops were there to stay.

"Our forces are ready to operate not just for days but for weeks," Israeli army chief Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon told military radio on Monday.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/336E5DCF-9936-407B-85BD-12FFFCEF6EA2.htm

[Kagemusha]

1. We'll see.

In the past there were, well, clear reasons why the israeli army didn't wanna go in and *stay* in for long periods of time.

Suddenly now everything's changed huh?

We'll see...

[lynx rufus]

2. I hope someone has the moral conviction to help

Everyone is watching. Everyone knows what must be done.
Be it sooner, or be it later.

[MrPrax]

3. OH and the UN rocket attack...

The UN report on the IDF's ludicrous 'propaganda' efforts...

http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/releases/pr-2004/hqg30-04.pdf
(It notes that the footage supplied by the IDF had the location and time marks removed--ah I guess for national secruity)

So what's the game plan now?

Israel is pulling out of Gaza, so it must destroy Gaza in order to protect the settlements it says it will abandon...
Oh the insane could believe these people...

Kerry during the debates:
"KERRY: Now, if you break it, you made a mistake. It's the wrong thing to do. But you own it. And then you've got to fix it and do something with it.

Now that's what we have to do. There's no inconsistency. Soldiers know over there that this isn't being done right yet. I'm going to get it right for those soldiers, because it's important to Israel, it's important to America, it's important to the world, it's important to the fight on terror."

At least Kerry got the priorities right...Israel's security ahead of America's...

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A Shiite-Sunni Islamist 'high command' may be forming

There are ominous signs that, far from dying down, the conflicts in the Middle East are set to widen in the coming months, sucking in new actors and posing new threats to the United States and its allies.

In the eyes of Arab and Islamic militants, the war against American forces in Iraq and Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation are increasingly seen as one and the same battle. In the absence of any prospect for peace on either battlefield, alliances are being formed and command structures established which suggest that the struggle is entering a new and more lethal phase.

Western intelligence sources report that a new high command is emerging made up of Hizbullah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood (represented in the occupied Palestinian territories by Islamic Jihad); and, last but not least, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The striking features of this alliance are that it bridges the Sunni-Shiite divide and unites Arab nationalists and Islamists in a common cause. As a member of one of these groups put it to me: "There is today no difference between resistance and jihad."


http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=8957

No kidding...we are being led into a terrible world war that is morally and legally indefensible

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