more then 100 dead in Gaza, so what else is new?
 

Most Israeli forces were withdrawn early on Monday
Israeli troops Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned that the withdrawal of troops from Gaza does not mean Israel's military operation there is over.
Israeli forces pulled out overnight, several days after entering Gaza to try to suppress rocket fire. The operation ended with more than 100 people dead.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed victory over Israeli forces and held a rally in Gaza City. But Mr Olmert warned: "What happened in recent days was not a one-off event."

The prime minister told the parliamentary foreign affairs and defence committee: "We are in the midst of a combat action.
"The objective is reducing the rocket fire and weakening Hamas. Everything is possible... air strikes, ground strikes and special operations are all being discussed," he said.
'Interval'
A senior government official quoted by Reuters said Israel had called a "two-day interval" while US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Jerusalem and Ramallah in the West Bank on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ms Rice will meet Mr Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.


Parts of Jabaliya, Gaza, have been destroyed by the operation

Her visit was meant to move Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations forward, following a commitment by both sides at a conference in November in the US.
However, Mr Abbas has formally suspended contacts with Israel in protest at its operation in Gaza.
Medical sources say at least 112 Palestinians have been killed since Wednesday, when Israel intensified its campaign in response to the firing of rockets from Gaza.
Three Israelis have died in the same period - a civilian killed by a rocket on Wednesday, and two soldiers since.
Steeled for more
Funerals were held on Monday for some of the Palestinians killed in the fighting, while Hamas called a rally in Gaza City.
Thousands of supporters turned out and posed for photos with Hamas gunmen.
"The invaders fled and the army of Jews was defeated," said a chant broadcast through loudspeakers.
But despite the defiance, Palestinians do not believe this is the last of the violence and are steeling themselves for more bloodshed, says the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Gaza.
There were anti-Israeli demonstrations across the West Bank.


Rockets have continued to hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon

A number of protesters were reported to have been injured in clashes in Hebron, and a teenager was shot dead near Birzeit university in Ramallah, reportedly by a Jewish settler.
There was widespread international alarm at the scale of the Israeli operation.
A US state department official said: "We're encouraging Israel to exercise caution to avoid the loss of innocent life."
The European Union criticised what it called Israel's ''disproportionate use of force'' and also demanded an immediate end to Palestinian militant rocket attacks on Israel.
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem expressed grave concern at what it called the large number of children and other uninvolved civilians among those killed and wounded in the Gaza Strip.
It said of the 106 Palestinians it recorded as dying violently between Wednesday and Monday, at least 54 were not involved in hostilities and 25 of them were minors. Meanwhile, more than 25 rockets were launched on Sunday, and at least two more reached thereached the city of Ashkelon on Monday after the Israeli withdrawal.

Israel Bombs Anti-Semitism Out Of Lebanon


After decades of periodic conflict with Lebanon that cost thousands of lives, Israel successfully eradicated all traces of anti-Semitism from its northern neighbor with a series of heavy bombing attacks in July.

"Israel really turned us around on the whole Jew-hating thing," said Hezbollah leader Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, shortly after a U.N.–brokered ceasefire was declared on Aug. 14. "After destroying much of our infrastructure and displacing nearly 1 million civilians, we've come to respect Israel as a legitimate power and a beacon of democracy, and not a pack of lying, usurping, hook-nosed dogs."

now I'm pissed.

I was riding all my money on an Afrikan Tomahawks thread, and not one about "them krazy jewz".

you disappoint me. :(

You're a moron.

The Middle East

The Gaza Bombshell

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.

by David Rose April 2008


full article
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f.../04/gaza200804

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...care to elaborate?

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