Yesterday Hamas offered comprehensive truce with Israel and set its terms. The main item is a cessation of all Israeli acts of aggression against the West Bank and Gaza. Israel’s response came within hours. It sent death squads to assassinate five Palestinians in the West Bank, and launched bombing raids on the densely populated Gaza Strip.
If you think this is an isolated coincidence… it’s not. Let’s review news archives with a longer than 24-hour attention span, and we would see it repeat it self over and over.
Silly Hamas, though, they seems to have gotten caught up in the Israeli propaganda storm that they thought they constitute enough of a menace to Israel to dictate the term of the truce. Would somebody tell the Knafeh Man that his rockets are only good enough for a photo op, or to be represented with balloons?
And the Shoah is not yet completed…
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Offer, Counteroffer
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Israel turned down an offer from an organization who wants to destroy it?
Wow. Now that is crazy. And shocking. Wow.
Israeli fighter jets have hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip after a dozen rockets were fired towards southern Israel, the Israeli military says.
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Thursday's violence was preceded by the slayings of five Palestinian fighters in the West Bank.
Palestinian security officials said Wednesday's dead included Mohammed Shahada, 48, a senior leader in the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and Ahmed al-Balbul, 48, a senior official in al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Fatah.
Two others were identified as Imad al-Kamel and Eissa Marzuk, both from the Islamic Jihad.
Did you even read the article, Fayyad? Or are you going to claim that the 4 members of Islamic Jihad and the 1 member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs brigade were "innocents"? And that HAMAS launched rockets into Israel AFTER the Israeli fighter Jets struck back? :O
By the way, if HAMAS offerred the truce yesterday, it was AFTER Israel killed those terrorists in the West Bank, No? So it was HAMAS who violated the truce that HAMAS had just proposed, right? What a shocker.
Unfortunately, Israel wasn't able to find any kids to kill, and had to resort to killing Islamic Jihad members who had orchestrated suicide bombings. Or, as Kabobfest so descriptively calls them, "Palestinians".
Then, when rocket attacks resumed, Israel couldn't even hit Palestinians, and only took out a loaded rocket launcher. Pretty weak for a genocidal monster.
Mr Haniya delivered his speech several hours after Israeli troops shot dead an Islamic Jihad militant near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm.
After the killing, an Islamic Jihad official said the group would retaliate "deep inside the Zionist entity", while Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said it showed Israel was "not interested in calm".
Yep. Sure enough. Haniya offerred the truce AFTER Israel's operations in the West Bank. So HAMAS *was* the first to launch attacks after making that offer. Did you even read the second article you linked, Fayyad? Or did you just think that everyone would take your post at face value? You should know better by now, shouldn't you?
I suppose it would be too much to ask for you to fix the part where you claimed it was Israel who replied to a truce offer with violence, right?
Fear not KABOBfest readers, I've translated this post on KABOBfestWATCH for you to read and FINALLY understand.
You have to give Hamas credit, though, for grasping. If they managed to negotiate Israel's policy on the West Bank, they gain standing as representatives of the entire Palestinian territory, and not just Gaza, where they are actually in power.
That balloon story is hilariously sad.
Poor Israelis. Their victimhood is not getting enough attention!
4200 rockets I have had
And every one a red ballon
They're still coming, but we're standing pretty
In a sympathetic city
If there was a way to make
Palestine into a state
It might be looking at their ways
Of war and hate
And let them go
did you write that poem roy? you know who else writes gay poems? bill levinson. are you him? probably so you nerdy twat.
SHALOM! Insightful post my dear friend.
~Chaim~
Poor Israelis. Their victimhood is not getting enough attention!
Screw that, Safiyyah. I just heard that these assassinations took place in BETHLEHEM. Can you fucking explain to me why Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyr's brigade is in a *Christian* holy place? Are Palestinian Christians giving shelter to Islamic terrorists?
Fuck that. I say again, fuck that. Palestinians, give us back our Holy Land. You are incapable of caring for it properly.
Death to Hamas;
Death to the Palestinians.
did you write that poem roy?
It was a parody, you ignorant troll, of the last verse of "99 Red Balloons".
The meter would work better with the first line being "4200 rockets launched".
You know who else writes parodies? Weird Al Yankovic. Am I him? You bet I am.
I agree. While Hamas's refusal to recognise Israel's existence is unacceptable as a long term position, Israel's apparent refusal to respond positively to a ceasefire option that offers a (very remote admittedly) chance of progress is equally unnacceptable.
Any responsible state should explore all possibilities, and after all, if Hamas is not sincere, what do they have to lose? It is a pity the US is so one sided and does not apply a bit of pressure.
In the end, other world problems have only been sorted by discussion with terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your viewpoint. No point talking with the men of peace, they have no influence over anything.
xoggoth,
In the end, other world problems have only been sorted by discussion with terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your viewpoint.
Where has that happened in the middle-east? I'd really like to hear of some successful diplomacy in the middle-east, myself. I'm serious. But I can't think of a single example where talking has ever solved a problem between enemies. Even the Lebanese are making progress in the wrong direction every time they try to use diplomatic measures. If Arabs can't even settle matters peacefully with each-other, what chance is there for anyone else to succeed?
When was the last time Americans settled anything peacefully craig?
palestinian christians are treated just as badly as the palestinian muslims, oh you didn't know that palestinian christians are dying as well?
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