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reply posted on 1-10-2004 @ 09:41 PM by FredT

Originally posted by phreak_of_nature
I believe that the solution to the problem lies in helping the Palestinians WITHOUT Yassir Arafat. And the best way to acheive this is through his death by natural causes. It won't have the immediate effect, but after a legitimate leader is elected for the people, it is my belief that they will be able to find a better life for themselves, and even coexist with Israel.

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Phreak, this is something I have said for years. But it has to be a two way street of course as well. For an insight on him and why the US pushed him into the position he is in, you should read "The High Cost of Peace" by Yossef Bodansky. In essence, the adminsitration of Bush Sr. ignored the advice of Jordan and Egypt and made Arafat essential to any peace process.

reply posted on 1-10-2004 @ 09:45 PM by Jamuhn

*JUST IN*

Israeli army opens fire on stone-throwing schoolchildren

An incursion by the Israeli army into the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday has ended in disaster for a group of mainly schoolchildren.

Haaretz newspaper is reporting Israeli troops opened fire on the group near Jabalya after they threw stones at the army's jeeps and armoured vehicles.

A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed while at least 15 other Palestinians aged 12 to 21, many of them students in school uniforms, were wounded.

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reply posted on 1-10-2004 @ 10:12 PM by phreak_of_nature

Originally posted by FredT
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Thanks Fred. Unfortunately the "Arafat being an obstacle to peace" opinion isn't a popular one. Especially since Israel acted on it in the wrong way when it became too much for them to take last year.
Just because Israel knows it's true, doesn't make it any less true.

reply posted on 1-10-2004 @ 10:28 PM by phreak_of_nature

The Israelis and Palestinians are continuing to clash in the Gaza strip, especially in and around the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Unmanned aircraft have fired on Palestinians preparing to fire rockets, and anti-tank missiles have been fired at IDF forces.

www.jerusalempost.com
Two IDF soldiers were wounded Friday evening when Palestinians detonated a bomb near their armored vehicle operating in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The soldiers, one of whom sustained moderate-to-light wounds and the other who was lightly wounded, were airlifted to the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.

Also on Friday evening, troops operating in the camp fired at a group of Palestinian gunmen who were preparing to launch anti-tank rockets, and an IAF unmanned plane fired missiles at a group of Palestinians preparing to launch a Kassam rocket from the northern Gaza Strip village of Tel el-Zaatar. This latest IDF action beings to 42 the number of Palestinians killed in clashes with the IDF since Wednesday night.

Two Kassam rockets landed in Sderot on Friday afternoon just before 3 p.m. According to Magen David Adom there are no casualties at the scene. One rocket landed in the city and the second in an open area nearby.

Three mortal shells landed on Friday in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in southern Gaza Strip. A house in one of the communities was damaged.

Meanwhile, IDF troops fired two tank shells and aircraft missiles early Friday evening at Gaza's Jebalya refugee camp, killing at least one gunmen and wounding several others, one seriously, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said.

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The motivation for this offensive at this time is unknown, but likely is related to the deaths of two clidren from Qassam rockets. It is clear however that Israel is not taking this lightly. The escalation will no doubt put a damper on whatever may be left of the peace process.

I did look for this story on Al-Jazeera so that I could present both sides, however they do not have a story on it posted on the english website at this time.

reply posted on 2-10-2004 @ 12:50 AM by antipigopolist

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reply posted on 2-10-2004 @ 05:23 AM by Thinker

I think it was mistake to make peace deal with arfat and give the arabs gaza and the west bank. There is still trouble. Israel should just of just kept their lland and fought with the terrorists. If they had did the israelies would had 100% of what their ancestors had. But now they made a bad deal and lost 50% of their land plsu constant terror attacks. The arabs in israel want to get rid of jews all together and have israel all for themselves.

Mabe it's satan behind this, he wants to stop the jews from building the third temple and to stop god from coming down. I believe the temple is signal for god to come.

reply posted on 2-10-2004 @ 05:58 PM by phreak_of_nature

Ariel Sharon, in public comments, about the on going operation in Northern Gaza has asked for an expansion of the operation, and a buffer zone to be created to stop the rocket attacks.

news.myway.com
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, the army's biggest and deadliest offensive in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.

The army says the incursion, which began Tuesday and has killed 47 Palestinians, is aimed at rooting out militants who fire rockets at Israeli targets.

"We must expand the areas of operation to ward off the (militant) launchers from the areas within the firing range of the rockets into Jewish towns over the border," Sharon told Israel Radio in his first public comments on the raid.

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