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As Predicted: Israeli Tanks, Bulldozers Push Into SE Gaza

Zionism's War to Wipe Palestine Off the Map | 28.12.2007 22:39 | Anti-racism | World

In Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932, if enough Germans of conscience had begun to say No -- history would have had an entirely diferent outcome.

If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of conservatives as well as progressives. They will be (Israeli) tears.

The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.

Adapted from "American Tears"
www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/american-tears_b_68141.html

Israeli tanks roll into southeast Gaza

GAZA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- As Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday, Israeli tanks thrust into southeastern Gaza Strip, sparking clashes with Palestinian militants and residents.

The incursion started before noon, and witnesses said Israeli troops entered Abbassan town in the east of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants went into the area to fight intruding Israeli forces.

Residents reported that sporadic exchange of fire was taking place every now and then. Yet there was no report of casualties but Israeli bulldozers which accompanied the tanks destroyed a number of greenhouses and leveled the fields.

(Proving that this is about Annexation, not security.)

Earlier, not far from the scene, a group of Hamas fighters launched several mortar shells into Israel from eastern borders of Gaza Strip and escaped Israel's retaliation attacks.

(Hamas, of course, was again responding to Israeli aggression.)

In a press statement, Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters fired 14 mortars at Israeli army vehicles before Israeli could launch missiles against them.

Hamas said the attacks took place near Kissufim commercial crossing point to the east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip. The crossing, like all other terminals, is closed as part of the Israeli siege (Collective Punishment) on Gaza since June.

Meanwhile, a home-made rocket was fired at southern Israel's port city of Ashkelon before noon. The military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for the shelling.

In addition, in northern Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, Palestinian militants targeted an Israeli army jeep which was then patrolling along the security fence (Apartheid Wall).

Israel confirmed the attack but said it caused no casualties.

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/27/content_7325116.htm

ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Israel Plots Massive Aggression

It's interesting to note that, while the Plant Spammed the site again, pretending to be someone else reposting old articles, he glaringly eliminates certain stories.

The timing is interesting, given the upcoming "Annapolis Conference", which serves to be about PR alone, as Olmert has already ruled out any Negotiations or Compromise in the name of peace.

If you follow the events surrounding Israel's "Disengagement" from Gaza, you will quickly understand that this was the plan all along. While Israel was making a public spectacle of "forcing Jews to leave their homes", it was quietly surrounding the Strip with artillery emplacements, in an operation ominously named "First Rain".

Under this operation, Gaza basically became a "Free-Fire Zone", and several artillery and gunship strikes killed a high number of civilians. Finally, when one of these batteries fired upon and murdered a Palestinian family - picnicking on a beach that had been Segregated "Jews Only" only weeks before, Hamas finally decided to call an end to its unilateral, two-year cease-fire.

(In essence, they took Israel's bait. After all, you can't excuse your Aggression and label it "defense" if you're not being intermittently attacked. Never mind the hypocrisy underlying the entire media's framing of that whole debate ...)

When the Palestinians responded by electing Hamas to power (yes, elected), Israeli Extremists and their Ideological, bought foreign co-conspirators imposed unilateral sanctions on Gaza, a bit of Collective Punishment which increased the hardship of those stuck in the world's largest Concentration Camp.

When they felt Gaza had been substantially weakened, the US and Israel undertook a Coup attempt, using corrupt elements within the Fatah Party, provoking a violent response by Hamas, which expelled the group. Most of the world's media ignored the events leading to this "crisis", and instead only repeated the Propaganda emanating from the US and Israel, which used this to further increase sanctions against Gaza.

Most recently, Israel stepped up its Collective Punishment, except that human rights groups and legal advisors to the Government halted some of its approved measures, because they run contrary to International Humanitarian Law.

This was sold as another "response to rocket attacks" (again highlighting the hypocrisy of the debate's Framing - are the Palestinians allowed to defend themselves from strikes which actually KILL people ... ?), even though high-ranking officials said that this was NOT, in fact, a response to these attacks, but a way to "distance Israel from Gaza's infrastructure".

The real reason for this whole episode, of course, has been to "soften up" the Gaza Strip for a long-planned military attack, a way to undermine the resolve, and hopefully rid this territory of Palestinians altogether.

winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8076S

Israeli Aggression to Follow Annapolis Photo-Op
winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?7841S

As Predicted: Gaza Attacked
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8124/index.php

Censoring 'Neo-Con' Role in Gaza 'Civil War'
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php

Olmert: Seige on Gaza Will Continue
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8196/index.php

Physicians for Human Rights Gaza Update - Another Seasonal Shame
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8172/index.php

Israel's Ongoing Human Rights Violations
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8177/index.php

Red Cross Condemns Gaza Collective Punishment, World Inaction
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/rate/8181/index.php#Article-8181

Meanwhile, In The West Bank
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8211/index.php

Olmert Rejects Truce With Hamas
israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8212/index.php

Zionism's War to Wipe Palestine Off the Map

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  1. Behold the mystical powers of the ancients! — Nostrum Damus
  2. Who is provoking whom? — Selective
  3. More of Jordan's finest — yawn
  4. Israel Is Provoking The Palestinians — As It Always Does
  5. Lies, not just — Selective
  6. Not At All — Zionists Don't Negotiate
  7. IMC watch — One of the secret Mossad operatives disrupting IMC 24/7
  8. Funny — Mike
  9. New Links — Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace
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