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Its a long article but i pasted a bit of it here.
Israel?s actions are part of a new round of provocation and reaction after a mostly successful cease fire was declared in June. Why now? The Palestine Monitor provides an explanation:
The fact that Palestinians are moving forward in their internal dialogue and attempts to reunite the West Bank and Gaza Strip as we speak; the fact Israel is undergoing a political transition which has effectively frozen the Annapolis Process to the point that Sec. Rice must return once more to ?thaw? it out; and the fact that the attacks occurred on Tuesday night while the entire world watched the US elections and where almost no news time could be spared to discuss the events, seems almost too well timed to be purely an act of pre-emptive self defense by the IDF.
A renewal of violence emanating from the Gaza Strip will throw a spanner in the works of the internal Palestinian dialogue.
This spanner in the works began on November 4th when Israel broke the cease fire by launching an attack on Gaza. In fact, even the Jerusalem Post ? in an editorial claiming that Gazan?s suffering from lack of food and fuel is ?self-inflicted? admits that the first hostile act was Israeli:
But lately, Hamas has been setting the stage for the next round. On November 4, the IDF destroyed a tunnel that Israeli intelligence believed was going to be used - at any moment - to infiltrate into Israel for the purpose of kidnaping soldiers. Since then Hamas has fired 60 Kassams and 20 mortars at southern Israel.
As the Palestine Monitor notes,
Quite predictably, Hamas? reaction to the invasion was to launch a number of rockets into the Negev, further terrorizing the civilian population of two small towns who had lived in a rather peaceful state for nearly five months. Though we condemn these attacks whole-heartedly, it is the disturbing logical conclusion to the Israeli invasion. In other words, Israel knew that their invasion would provoke a response?
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I don't mean to get in the middle of this. I think both sides should lay down the weapons but I was listening to npr on the way to work and one caller asked why there was no coverage of the attacks on Gaza on the 4th of November. Well i did a quick search and found this article talking about it. The link might have a pro Palestine slant but if the basics of the article are true then didn't Israel break the cease fire? I'm sure a lot of you who have followed this thing much closer then myself already know about this but it came as a surprise to me as this news hasn't filtered down to those of us that aren't really glued to the tv about this issue.
Its a long article but i pasted a bit of it here.
Israel?s actions are part of a new round of provocation and reaction after a mostly successful cease fire was declared in June. Why now? The Palestine Monitor provides an explanation:
The fact that Palestinians are moving forward in their internal dialogue and attempts to reunite the West Bank and Gaza Strip as we speak; the fact Israel is undergoing a political transition which has effectively frozen the Annapolis Process to the point that Sec. Rice must return once more to ?thaw? it out; and the fact that the attacks occurred on Tuesday night while the entire world watched the US elections and where almost no news time could be spared to discuss the events, seems almost too well timed to be purely an act of pre-emptive self defense by the IDF.
A renewal of violence emanating from the Gaza Strip will throw a spanner in the works of the internal Palestinian dialogue.
This spanner in the works began on November 4th when Israel broke the cease fire by launching an attack on Gaza. In fact, even the Jerusalem Post ? in an editorial claiming that Gazan?s suffering from lack of food and fuel is ?self-inflicted? admits that the first hostile act was Israeli:
But lately, Hamas has been setting the stage for the next round. On November 4, the IDF destroyed a tunnel that Israeli intelligence believed was going to be used - at any moment - to infiltrate into Israel for the purpose of kidnaping soldiers. Since then Hamas has fired 60 Kassams and 20 mortars at southern Israel.
As the Palestine Monitor notes,
Quite predictably, Hamas? reaction to the invasion was to launch a number of rockets into the Negev, further terrorizing the civilian population of two small towns who had lived in a rather peaceful state for nearly five months. Though we condemn these attacks whole-heartedly, it is the disturbing logical conclusion to the Israeli invasion. In other words, Israel knew that their invasion would provoke a response?
++++++++++
I don't mean to get in the middle of this. I think both sides should lay down the weapons but I was listening to npr on the way to work and one caller asked why there was no coverage of the attacks on Gaza on the 4th of November. Well i did a quick search and found this article talking about it. The link might have a pro Palestine slant but if the basics of the article are true then didn't Israel break the cease fire? I'm sure a lot of you who have followed this thing much closer then myself already know about this but it came as a surprise to me as this news hasn't filtered down to those of us that aren't really glued to the tv about this issue.
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