Israel Minister Rejects Gaza Truce as Hamas Chief Assasinated
ZIonist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace | 02.05.2008 16:30 | Anti-racism | World
Why would they accept a truce?
They engineered this, and will keep the killing going so long as nobody says or does anything about it.
History will not judge us kindly for our shameful silence and inaction ...
They engineered this, and will keep the killing going so long as nobody says or does anything about it.
History will not judge us kindly for our shameful silence and inaction ...
Israel minister rejects Gaza truce as Hamas chief killed
by Beth O'Connell Thu May 1, 12:56 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A senior Israeli minister rejected on Thursday a proposed truce in the Gaza Strip, as the air force killed a Hamas commander suspected of involvement in the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier.
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit insisted that Israel could not accept an Egyptian-brokered proposal on Gaza, claiming it would only give the Islamist movement Hamas the opportunity to boost its military capabilities.
(But in reality, Israel's ruling Extremists engineered this situation, with the help of those in the White House, because they refuse to recognize the elected Palestinian Government. They don't want this new round of fighting to end, because, as this minister says, it's designed to unseat Hamas, the elected Government.)
"No deal whatsoever should be reached with Hamas because this terrorist movement would exploit any truce to gain strength, perfect its weapons and prepare for the next confrontation," the security cabinet member told public radio.
(This is a ludicrous excuse, since Hamas is only reacting to Israel's illegal policies, and its recent slaughter of hundreds of civilians, in attacks planned before the Annapolis conference. Ending Israeli aggression and War Crimes would eliminate the 'next confrontation'. But Israel will not enter into serious negotiations, because it never intends to live up to its legal and moral obligations, and allow a Palestinians state, so long as the world watches in silence and does nothing to stop them.)
Sheetrit's comments came as the air force "targeted and identified hitting Nafiz Mansur, a Hamas terror operative who was involved in terror attacks against Israel," the military said.
The military said Mansur had been involved in the capture of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit, seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from Gaza claimed by Hamas and two other militant groups.
It said Mansur was also responsible for the killing of two Israeli soldiers in a July 2006 attack, and took part in setting up a suicide assault on a border post on April 19.
Hamas confirmed Mansur's death and said it would "respond to this crime at the appropriate time and place."
Mansur, 40, was killed near his home in Rafah, according to Muawiyah Hassanein, who heads the Gaza emergency services. Three more people, including a child, were wounded in the air strike, he said.
Following the strike, Gaza militants retaliated, firing at least eight rockets and three mortar rounds at southern Israel. The attacks caused some damage to property but no casualties, a military spokeswoman said.
Sheetrit, who is also a deputy prime minister, said Israel's goal should be to break up Hamas, which European Union and the United States join with Israel in blacklisting as a terror group.
(This is what this has all been about all along.)
"We must break Hamas, not hold negotiations with them, because their demands are unacceptable," he said. "The armed forces must attack those terrorists night and day to break their arms and their legs."
(Despite the fact that a strong majority of Israelis support negotiations with Hamas. Some democracy ...)
Public radio said several other ministers had also opposed a Gaza truce at Wednesday's security cabinet meeting.
In the face of the near-daily violence on its doorstep, Egypt has again stepped in as a mediator in the impoverished Palestinian territory.
It brought together Hamas, the Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and nearly a dozen other factions, hammering out with them a proposal for a "comprehensive, simultaneous and reciprocal period of calm to be applied progressively, first in Gaza and then in the West Bank."
The pointman in the talks, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, is expected to deliver the offer to Israel in the coming days.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev has already said that "to be sustainable and real, the calm must contain three vital elements -- total absence of fire from Gaza against Israel, complete cessation of terrorist attacks and the end of arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip."
(That's what a cease-fire is. Israel always makes DEMANDS before talks, as a way of avoiding negotiation and compromise.)
Hamas has insisted that, as part of any truce, Israel must lift the blockade it imposed after the Islamists seized power in Gaza in June.
Israel allows only very limited humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. It says the blockade is intended to put pressure on the Hamas authorities to stop militants firing rockets on its territory.
In another Israeli military operation in Gaza on Thursday, a Palestinian civilian in his sixties, Mohammed Abu Daqqa, was killed and three other people wounded, Palestinian medics said.
The deaths brought to 447 the number of people killed since Israel and the Palestinians relaunched peace negotiations at a US-hosted conference in November, according to an AFP tally.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080501/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza
No Middle East Peace Without Tough Love
The scandal of the international community's impotence in resolving one of history's longest bloodlettings is that it knows what the problem is but does not have the courage to speak the truth, much less deal with it. The next peace conference in Germany (or in Moscow, where the Russians want to hold it) will suffer from the same gutlessness that has marked all previous efforts. It will deal with everything except the problem primarily responsible for this conflict's multi-generational impasse.
That problem is that for all of the sins attributable to the Palestinians - and they are legion, including inept and corrupt leadership, failed institution-building and the murderous violence of the rejectionist groups-there is no prospect for a viable, sovereign Palestinian state primarily because Israel's various governments, from 1967 until today, have never intended allowing such a state to come into being.
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by Beth O'Connell Thu May 1, 12:56 PM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A senior Israeli minister rejected on Thursday a proposed truce in the Gaza Strip, as the air force killed a Hamas commander suspected of involvement in the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier.
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit insisted that Israel could not accept an Egyptian-brokered proposal on Gaza, claiming it would only give the Islamist movement Hamas the opportunity to boost its military capabilities.
(But in reality, Israel's ruling Extremists engineered this situation, with the help of those in the White House, because they refuse to recognize the elected Palestinian Government. They don't want this new round of fighting to end, because, as this minister says, it's designed to unseat Hamas, the elected Government.)
"No deal whatsoever should be reached with Hamas because this terrorist movement would exploit any truce to gain strength, perfect its weapons and prepare for the next confrontation," the security cabinet member told public radio.
(This is a ludicrous excuse, since Hamas is only reacting to Israel's illegal policies, and its recent slaughter of hundreds of civilians, in attacks planned before the Annapolis conference. Ending Israeli aggression and War Crimes would eliminate the 'next confrontation'. But Israel will not enter into serious negotiations, because it never intends to live up to its legal and moral obligations, and allow a Palestinians state, so long as the world watches in silence and does nothing to stop them.)
Sheetrit's comments came as the air force "targeted and identified hitting Nafiz Mansur, a Hamas terror operative who was involved in terror attacks against Israel," the military said.
The military said Mansur had been involved in the capture of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit, seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from Gaza claimed by Hamas and two other militant groups.
It said Mansur was also responsible for the killing of two Israeli soldiers in a July 2006 attack, and took part in setting up a suicide assault on a border post on April 19.
Hamas confirmed Mansur's death and said it would "respond to this crime at the appropriate time and place."
Mansur, 40, was killed near his home in Rafah, according to Muawiyah Hassanein, who heads the Gaza emergency services. Three more people, including a child, were wounded in the air strike, he said.
Following the strike, Gaza militants retaliated, firing at least eight rockets and three mortar rounds at southern Israel. The attacks caused some damage to property but no casualties, a military spokeswoman said.
Sheetrit, who is also a deputy prime minister, said Israel's goal should be to break up Hamas, which European Union and the United States join with Israel in blacklisting as a terror group.
(This is what this has all been about all along.)
"We must break Hamas, not hold negotiations with them, because their demands are unacceptable," he said. "The armed forces must attack those terrorists night and day to break their arms and their legs."
(Despite the fact that a strong majority of Israelis support negotiations with Hamas. Some democracy ...)
Public radio said several other ministers had also opposed a Gaza truce at Wednesday's security cabinet meeting.
In the face of the near-daily violence on its doorstep, Egypt has again stepped in as a mediator in the impoverished Palestinian territory.
It brought together Hamas, the Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and nearly a dozen other factions, hammering out with them a proposal for a "comprehensive, simultaneous and reciprocal period of calm to be applied progressively, first in Gaza and then in the West Bank."
The pointman in the talks, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, is expected to deliver the offer to Israel in the coming days.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev has already said that "to be sustainable and real, the calm must contain three vital elements -- total absence of fire from Gaza against Israel, complete cessation of terrorist attacks and the end of arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip."
(That's what a cease-fire is. Israel always makes DEMANDS before talks, as a way of avoiding negotiation and compromise.)
Hamas has insisted that, as part of any truce, Israel must lift the blockade it imposed after the Islamists seized power in Gaza in June.
Israel allows only very limited humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. It says the blockade is intended to put pressure on the Hamas authorities to stop militants firing rockets on its territory.
In another Israeli military operation in Gaza on Thursday, a Palestinian civilian in his sixties, Mohammed Abu Daqqa, was killed and three other people wounded, Palestinian medics said.
The deaths brought to 447 the number of people killed since Israel and the Palestinians relaunched peace negotiations at a US-hosted conference in November, according to an AFP tally.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080501/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza No Middle East Peace Without Tough Love
The scandal of the international community's impotence in resolving one of history's longest bloodlettings is that it knows what the problem is but does not have the courage to speak the truth, much less deal with it. The next peace conference in Germany (or in Moscow, where the Russians want to hold it) will suffer from the same gutlessness that has marked all previous efforts. It will deal with everything except the problem primarily responsible for this conflict's multi-generational impasse.
That problem is that for all of the sins attributable to the Palestinians - and they are legion, including inept and corrupt leadership, failed institution-building and the murderous violence of the rejectionist groups-there is no prospect for a viable, sovereign Palestinian state primarily because Israel's various governments, from 1967 until today, have never intended allowing such a state to come into being.
https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8915/index.php Carter: Israel Rejected Truce Offer
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http://www.israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8898/index.php Hamas offers Gaza truce with Israel
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http://www.israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8877/index.php No Peace Without Hamas
http://www.israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8876/index.php Hamas ready to accept Israel as its neighbour: Carter
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http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/397937.html No Middle East Peace Without Tough Love
http://www.israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8915/index.php Palestinians Offer Peace, Likud Calls for Blood
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As predicted: Beit Hanun mother and children killed by Palestinian terrorists
02.05.2008 17:13
By YAAKOV KATZ
A blast in northern Gaza that killed a Palestinian mother and her four children on Monday was not caused by the Israeli Air Force, a probe into the explosion conducted by the IDF Southern Command concluded on Friday.
IDF footage of the Beit Hanun strike
Col. Shai Alkilai from the Southern Command conducted the probe over the last few days under orders from OC Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant and IAF Commander Maj. Gen. Elazar Shkedi.
The blast under investigation occurred Monday morning in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun, when according to [lying, as always] Palestinians, an IDF tank shell hit the home of the Abu Meatak family, as the mother Miyasar was preparing breakfast for her children. She was killed together with the four children.
According to the findings of the probe four terrorists were spotted carrying weaponry and explosives on their backs. The IAF fire was on target and only hit the armed terrorists. As a result there occurred secondary explosions which destroyed the home and killed the mother and her children.
The IDF probe ruled out the possibility that the family was hit by IDF fire. The IDF probe also revealed that the secondary explosion was far greater than the type of explosion caused by the initial IDF bombing and the munitions it had used.
The IDF said that it was unfortunate that innocent people were killed in the incident, but stressed that the blame lay with Hamas which operated from populated areas, using civilians as human shields.
More Palestinian terrorist war crimes, civilians used as human shields
IDF statement in full
02.05.2008 17:38
Conclusions from Investigation of the Incident in Beit-Hanoun on April 28th
02 May 2008 , 18:13
Documentation of an addition explosion on film.
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The inquiry group, appointed by the GOC Southern Command, Major General Yoav Galant, to investigate the circumstances of the incident in Beit Hanoun in which unassociated civilians were hurt on April 28th, 2008, has finished its work and submitted its conclusions.
Conclusions rising from the investigation point out the following:
A. Four armed gunmen firing at the soldiers were spotted in the area carrying back packs loaded with ammunition and various weapons.
B. The attacks against the gunmen were accurate and the gunmen were hit.
C. The secondary explosions triggered by the weaponry and ammunition carried by the gunmen were bigger than the ones caused by the ammunition used by the IDF.
D. The possibility that the family was hit by other IDF fire was eliminated since this was the only incident recorded that day in which attacks were carried out in the area.
E. The professional opinion of the IDF states that the family was hit during the explosion of the second missile that ignited the secondary explosions or from objects that had flown towards them from the strength of the explosion.
Between the 28th and the 29th of April, 2008, IDF forces operated against terror threats in Izbet neighborhood in Beit Hanoun in order to search the area and to arrest wanted Palestinians.
During the morning hours, complex fighting occurred on the area that morning, fighting in which armed gunmen were firing mortar shells, anti tank missiles and light weapons and activating explosive devices from within dense areas.
Three IDF soldiers were lightly wounded during the fighting.
Four gunmen firing at the soldiers were spotted carrying back packs loaded with ammunition. One gunmen carrying one of the back packs was targeted and hit from the air. As a result a strong secondary explosion accrued. Immediately after the explosion the second gunmen was targeted and hit as well causing an even bigger explosion. Both explosions were significantly stronger than those caused by the IDF attacks against them.
In light of the sensitivity of the matter and in order to leave no doubt regarding the circumstances of the incident, the IDF held a number of investigations that strengthen the IDF position to the story published the night of the incident. It should be emphasized that the armed gunmen were operating near by the family's house, therefore endangering their lives.
The IDF wishes to express sorrow for any harm to unassociated civilians caused due to terrorist organizations that operate from populated centers, using them as human shields.
Reality check
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03.05.2008 03:39
What has that to do with Israel's rejection of Peace?
Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace
As Predicted more CORPORATE reposts
03.05.2008 12:55
Brackets Man
If the IDF spokesperson says it, does that make it true?
03.05.2008 15:47
corporate and state lies
another corporate repost from Jordan Thornton
03.05.2008 18:24
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