Israeli slaughtering in Gaza continues.
While the Israeli bombing and terror continues in Gaza with over 300 dead and over 1000 injured the response from Arab and Muslim leaders is silence. This silence and impotence is not acceptable and the people have had enough! In fact some Arab leaders have collaborated with Israel before the attack. Now is the time the Arab and Muslim armies should be mobilising to deal Israel a deadly blow and teach it a lesson. Only through unity will there be strength to fight the constant attacks on the Muslim world by the US/Israel. Until this happens Muslim blood will continue to flow freely and the leaders will just sit, watch, and at most condemn but do nothing. God help the people of Gaza.
yes tallg, saudan more recently ..
Thanks nadt. And isn't he involved in trying to do something in Sudan as well?
tallg, Qatar(Emir) was involved and instrumental in providing a meeting here in Qatar where Lebanese political leaders were in conflict last May, and a solution was found. Your not imagining it..
RP, whats with all the cutting and pasting, at least make it a seperate thread..
Who are Hamas?
Sheikh Ahmad Yassin's Hamas founder
For more reading on his profile:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4653706.stm
Current leadership
Hamas' Mahmoud Zahhar
For more reading on his profile:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4653706.stm
Mahmoud Zahhar is believed to be the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Group, Hamas, in Gaza.
A surgeon who teaches medicine at the Islamic University in Gaza, Mr Zahhar helped found the group in 1987 with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
He became a member of the "collective leadership" of the militant group in 2004 after Sheikh Yassin and Abdel-Aziz Rantissi were assassinated by Israel.
Mr Zahhar is one of Hamas' ideological leaders and is considered to be more hardline than Ismail Haniya, who headed the group's national list of candidates for the January legislative elections.
Hamas PM Ismail Haniya
For more reading on his profile:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4655146.stm
Ismail Haniya was a relatively unknown figure until he headed the Hamas list that won the Palestinian legislative election of January 2006.
He had risen within the Islamic group as a close associate of its spiritual leader, the late Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, whose office he ran.
He is considered a pragmatist in the movement's ranks who is more open to dialogue with Israel.
However, he has insisted that Israel would have to recognise Palestinian rights before talks could begin.
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Who are the Hamas?
Hamas takes its name from the Arabic initials for the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Branded a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the EU, it is seen by its supporters as a legitimate fighting force defending Palestinians from a brutal military occupation.
It is the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organisation, formed in 1987 at the beginning of the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israel's occupation in the West Bank and Gaza.
The group's short-term aim has been to drive Israeli forces from the occupied territories. To achieve this it has launched attacks on Israeli troops and settlers in the Palestinian territories and against civilians in Israel.
It also has a long-term aim of establishing an Islamic state on all of historic Palestine - most of which has been contained within Israel's borders since its creation in 1948.
For years the organisation was divided into two main spheres of operation:
* social programmes like building schools, hospitals and religious institutions
* militant operations carried out by Hamas' underground Iss al-Din Qassam Brigades.
But it became increasingly involved in Palestinian factional politics, both in the occupied territories and with a political branch in exile.
One of its leaders-in-exile, Khalid Meshaal, was the target of a bungled Israeli assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997.
King Hussein was outraged by Israel's action and was only placated when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released Hamas's jailed spiritual leader and founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
While King Hussein tolerated Hamas's presence, his successor King Abdullah II had the group's headquarters closed down and senior figures expelled to Qatar.
Hamas has remained outside the main Palestinian political structure of the PLO, but it took part in - and won - Palestinian Authority (PA) legislative elections in the occupied territories in 2006.
Veto power
Hamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian opponent of the Oslo accords - the US-sponsored peace process that oversaw the gradual and partial removal of Israel's occupation in return for Palestinian guarantees to protect Israeli security.
Despite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian National Authority, Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.
In February and March 1996, it carried out several suicide bus bombings, killing nearly 60 Israelis, in retaliation for the assassination in December 1995 of Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash.
The bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing about the election of right-winger Mr Netanyahu who was a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords.
In the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in the summer of 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel steadily destroyed the infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority.
In towns and refugee camps besieged by the Israeli army, Hamas organised clinics and schools which served Palestinians who felt entirely let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority dominated by its secularist rival, Fatah.
The armed struggle
Many Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks (and those of fellow militants Islamic Jihad and the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) in the first years of the intifada.
They saw "martyrdom" operations as the best way to avenge their own losses and counter Israel's unchecked settlement building in the West Bank.
After the death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, the Palestinian Authority was taken over by Mahmoud Abbas, a vocal opponent of attacks on Israel.
He viewed Hamas rocket fire, the militants' weapon of choice in recent years, as counterproductive, inflicting little damage on Israel but provoking a harsh response by the Israeli military.
When Hamas scored a landslide victory in the Palestinian Authority legislative elections in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power struggle with Fatah.
Hamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to give up the armed struggle.
It has remained steadfast to its pledge never to sign up to a permanent ceasefire while Israel occupies Palestinian territory and its troops are responsible for the deaths of Palestinians.
It did, however, offer a 10-year truce in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967: the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
But it has not relinquished its assertion that Palestinian refugees from 1948 should be allowed to return to homes in what has become Israel - a move that threatens Israel's very existence as a Jewish state.
Assassinations
Over the years Hamas has lost many members in Israeli assassinations and security sweeps.
The paraplegic and visually impaired Sheikh Yassin was killed in a missile attack on 22 March 2004.
Khaled Meshaal, now based in Syria, became the group's overall leader. Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi emerged as Hamas leader in Gaza before he too was assassinated six weeks later on 17 April.
Other prominent Hamas officials killed by the Israelis include Ismail Abu Shanab, in August 2003, and Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades leader Salah Shehada, in July 2002.
Shehada's successor, Muhammad Deif - whom Israel blames for the 1996 bombings - has escaped several attempts on his life.
More moderate political figures also emerged as significant players within the movement.
One of them was Ismail Haniya, a former aide to Sheikh Yassin, who was appointed to a "collective leadership" in the occupied territories along with the more hardline Mahmoud Zahhar and Said al-Siyam.
Facing the electorate
Hamas's decision to stand in PA legislative council elections in 2006 was a major departure for the movement and had a profound impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Top figures said the move reflected Hamas's importance in the Palestinian sphere and the need for it to address failing political structures beset by corruption, inefficiency and lost credibility.
It did not, they insisted, imply any acceptance of a two-state solution to the conflict, although Hamas opposition to the Oslo accords had kept it out of previous elections.
Aside from its much-vaunted incorruptibility, Hamas campaigned forcefully on its claim that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in the summer of 2005 was a victory for its commitment to armed conflict with the Israelis.
But if Hamas leaders thought its parliamentary victory would bestow greater credibility on them in the eyes of the international community - or if they thought in any way that they would be given any more leeway - they were mistaken.
The new government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.
Skirmishes in Gaza with the Fatah-dominated PA security forces escalated to all-out war, in which the well-armed and better-disciplined Qassam Brigades eventually ousted their rivals in May 2007.
Hamas security control made Gaza a more calm and orderly place than it had been for months. But Israel tightened its blockade on the Strip and - despite a multilateral ceasefire in June 2008 - rocket fire and Israeli raids continued to provide provocations for more violence by each side.
And on the diplomatic level, the Palestinians faced their biggest set-back for decades.
With Hamas in charge of Gaza and the pro-Fatah PA operating in the West Bank - and neither side engaging properly with the other - the aspiration of an independent Palestinian seemed further away than ever.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/1654510.stm
Published: 2009/01/04 15:53:06 GMT
© BBC MMIX
WHAT? They have a football team? What's their rank in the FIFA?
I must agree with PM and tallg, air supply and 812 can discuss amongst themselfs, i'll be reading and laughing ;)
Ayman
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
I would have thought they wouldnt have time for football, for all the kiddy fiddling that goes on.....
"A man may fight for many things.His country,his friends,his principles,the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child.
But personally,I'd mud wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sackful of porn."
Blackadder.
GPN is trying to win the war by arguing and debating in QL.
The football team of the Vatican
you really think this is about winning?
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call me ONE.
812 said
Hamas is an uncoordinated bunch of lunatic fools and Israel is organized and precise.
Who else is uncoordinated bunch of lunatic fools?
I guess they are just lucky. That is pretty much why they are winning right now.
Sometimes Nukes are good for one reason only, too recycle the genes.
Damn right I'm proud. It must look pretty bad for Israel to be the first country in the middle east to have nuclear weapons. That is, since you know for a fact that they have them and all. The bottom line is, they don't seem to need them to smash Palestine into the ground!
As he's perfectly entitled to do PM. I've kind of started to glaze over there's so much of the ugly stuff about this topic on QL at the moment. I was just interested if anyone could provide info about the peace stuff Qatar's been involved in recently. Perhaps I'm just imagining it.
Typical Arab reasoning. Hamas is an uncoordinated bunch of lunatic fools and Israel is organized and precise. Therefore, it is believed that Iran needs to come a long with a nuclear weapon in order to stand equal to Israel who has no such weapon. This is great!
No, more recently I'm sure he's been involved in some stuff.
I said Iran, not Hamas
Let's hope that Iran has the nuclear bomb soon and can stand equal to israel.
That is a funny one. Hamas has absolutely no chance of wiping out anyone except their own people. How sad is that?
I guess that you are a sample of the israeli/zionist mentality.
This is why we all know the Mr. Nejadi is 100% right when he said: Israel should be wiped out
He joined the infidels to help get Iraq out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
Hasn't Qatar (i.e. the Emir) been involved in various peace deals in the past?
I guess the truth stings a little, doesn't it?
I hope the Arab leaders do somehow find a miracle method by which to "unite"!! If HH the Emir thinks his opinion is at all influential in this current situtation he is sorely mistaken. He is a small time ruler of a small country that offers nothing of any influence in the world of politics. Unless the Emir wants to offer some free hotel rooms from the Doha Four Seasons or some free Chinese hookers from the Ramada, he needs to just shut his mouth because the world simply doesn't care, nor do they know who he is.
Arab leaders unite? Is this a joke??
I guess the current death toll and injury numbers arent enough for Irsrael or Arab leaders...
I know you said US/Israel but do know that not all of the US agrees with what is going on.....here is an example:
In response to recent attacks on Gaza, CNI encourages all members to participate in local demonstations to vocalize your opposition to the bombings. The Associated Press is reporting that the Israeli air strikes have killed an estimated 300 people, and have wounded hundreds more. The Israeli attacks come on top of a brutal siege of the Gaza Strip. The siege has created a humanitarian catastrophe of dire proportions for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinian residents by restricting the provision of food, fuel, medicine, electricity, and other necessities of life.
Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip could not have happened without the support of the United States. We need to take action to end these attacks, and demand that the US act swiftly to end the violence diplomaticaly as a honest broker.
Please make plans to attend a demonstration in your hometown listed below. If not, please make an effort to contact your local congressman or senator. The attacks on Gaza must end, and without a voice of opposition here in the US innocent lives will continue to be wasted.
(The list below was provided by www.endtheoccupation.org)
EMERGENCY PROTESTS TO STOP
THE ATTACKS ON GAZA
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has compiled the following list of events taking place in the United States and Canada to protest Israel's attacks yesterday on the occupied Gaza Strip. Inclusion of an event does not imply endorsement by the US Campaign.
CALIFORNIA
Anaheim
Sunday, December 28, 2:00 pm
512 S. Brookhurst St. (between Orange Ave. & Broadway)
Initiated by a coalition with a large number of groups
Los Angeles
Tuesday, December 30, 4:30 pm
Israeli Consulate: 6380 Wilshire Blvd.
Contact: 213-251-1025, [email protected]
San Francisco
Sunday, December 28, 12:00PM
Protest the Massacres in Gaza
Powell and Market
Contact: Arab Resource and Organizing Center
EMERGENCY ACTION! STOP THE ATTACK ON GAZA
Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office
5PM Monday Dec. 29th - Montgomery and Market
Bring candles, posters, and banners; wear black.
Rain or Shine
Co-Sponsored by Direct Action to Stop the War; the Middle East
Children's Alliance; Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism; SF Women in Black
Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm
Israeli Consulate: 456 Montgomery St.
Contact: 415-821-6545, [email protected]
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington, DC
Monday, December 29, 4:30PM
Barack Obama Transition Office
451 6th St. NW (1 block from Verizon Center)
Contact: 301-523-4197 or email me at [email protected]
Tuesday, December 30, 4:30 pm
State Department: 22nd St & C St NW
Contact: 202-544-3389 x14, [email protected]
Friday, January 9, 12:00PM
Lafayette Square and march to UpperSenatePark
Contact: National Association of Muslim Women, [email protected]
FLORIDA
Fort Lauderdale
Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm
FederalBuilding: 299 E. Broward Blvd.
Contact: 954-707-0155, [email protected]
GEORGIA
Atlanta
Sunday, December 28, 2:00PM
Outside the Israeli Consulate, 1100 Spring St. NW
Contact: Emory Advocates for Justice in Palestine, 770-597-0276 or 404-844-3202
Tuesday, December 30, 4:00PM
Outside the Israeli Consulate, 1100 Spring St. NW
Organizers: Emory Advocate for Justice in Palestine and other local groups
Contact details:Saba Khalid, 770-597-0276,
[email protected]
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Sunday, December 28, 12-2pm
Water Tower Park 830 N. Michigan (Michigan and Pearson) Chicago
Chicago-area Arabs and Jews, along with Chicagoans of all faiths, join to protest the horrific and bloody Israeli air strikes on Gaza that have left at least 200 Palestinians slain and another 700 wounded, including many civilians.
***Bring bouquets of flowers to commemorate the memory of the hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza who have been killed by Israeli bombardments today***
Sponsored by (list in formation):
American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, Arab American Action Network, Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, American Arab Anti Discrimination-Chicago Chapter, Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism, Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, International Solidarity Movement-Chicago Chapter, US Palestine Conference Network, Students for Justice in Palestine (UIC), American Muslims for Palestine, Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, Mosque Foundation, Tikkun-Chicago, Wright College Students for Peace and Justice, Fight Back Newspaper.
Separate event in Chicago:
Details to be announced
Contact: 773-463-0311, [email protected]
KENTUCKY
Louisville
Monday, December 29, 4-6PM
Broadway and Baxter across from Cave Hill cemetery
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Wednesday, December 31, 2:00PM
Copley Square
Contact: Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, [email protected], (617) 491-2313
Details to be announced
Contact: 857-334-5084, [email protected]
Brookline
Sunday, December 28, 3PM-5PM
Coolidge Corner, Harvard and Beacon Streets
Northampton and Hadley
Monday, December 29, 7:30-9AM and 4-5PM
Coolidge Bridge between Northampton and Hadley
Contact Paki at [email protected]
MICHIGAN
Dearborn
Monday, December 29, 6PM
Community Leadership Meeting
Lebanese American Heritage Club ,4337 Maple Road
Contact: Congress of Arab American Organizations, Osama Siblani / 313.505.4889
Tuesday, December 30, 4PM
Human Chain Protest
Gathering at corner of Warren and Chase in Dearborn. Following the protest a memorial service will be held at Byblos Banquet Hall, 7258 Chase Road in Dearborn at 5:15 PM. Program will end at 6:30 PM.
Contact: Congress of Arab American Organizations, Osama Siblani / 313.505.4889
MINNESOTA
Various
Protests at Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Keith Ellison's offices
Tuesday December 30th
10 am-closing
No "holding their feet to the fire" but instead hold them accountable.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar
Office of Senator Klobuchar
Minneapolis
1200 Washington Avenue South, Suite 250
Minneapolis, MN55415
Main Line: 612-727-5220
Main Fax: 612-727-5223
Toll Free: 1-888-224-9043
Rochester Office
1134 7th Street NW
Rochester, MN55901
Main Line: 507-288-5321
Fax: 507-288-2922
Moorhead Office
121 4th Street South
Moorhead, MN56560
Main Line: 218-287-2219
Fax: 218-287-2930
IronRange Office
OlcottPlaza, Suite 105
820 9th Street North
Virginia, MN 55792
Main Line: 218-741-9690
Fax:218-741-3692
Keith Ellison office
Minneapolis office is located at:
2100 Plymouth Ave North
Minneapolis, MN55411
For directions you can call our office, 612-522-1212
MISSOURI
St. Louis
Sunday, December 28, 7PM
3628 Lindell, corner of Grand and Lindell
Contact: Colleen Kelly, Instead of War, 314-761-7428
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord
Tuesday, December 30, 3PM
In front of the State House
Contact: New Hampshire Peace Action, 603-228-0559
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque
Tuesday, December 30, 12-2PM
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
1801 Mountain Rd, NW (in Old Town)
Contact: Called by Stop the War Machine, 505-401-4808,
[email protected]
NEW YORK
New York City
Sunday, December 28, 2:00-4:00 pm
Gather at RockefellerCenter
March to the Israeli Consulate: 800 2nd Ave (b/w 42nd and 43rd Sts)
Initiated by Al-AwdaNew York
Monday, December 29, 5:00PM
Adalah-NY is organizing two meeting locations for fliering on Monday at 5:00:
The south end of Union Square, near the corner of 14th St and 5th Ave.
The triangular park at 6th Av. & 32nd Street.
We welcome you to join us and we encourage other organizations to choose their own flyering locations and then to join the procession.
We will all meet-up for the procession up 6th Ave at 6:30. We will be meeting at the triangular park at 6th Av. & 32nd Street. Look for the Palestinian Flag.
Contact
Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm
Israeli Consulate: 800 2nd Ave (b/w 42nd and 43rd Sts)
Contact: 212-694-8720,
[email protected]
OHIO
Columbus
Sunday December 28th - 5:00 PM
Ohio State University - Committee for Justice in Palestine
15th and High St.
Columbus, Ohio
Youngstown
Monday, December 29, 5-9PM
Vigil
15 Belgrade Ave.
Contact: Arab American Community Center, 330-759-9186
Tuesday, December 30, 1-3PM
Demonstration
In front of the Lobardi Federal Building and Court, downtown Youngstown
Contact: Arab American Community Center, 330-759-9186
ONTARIO
Toronto
Sunday, December 28, 2:00 pm
Israeli Embassy Consulate: 180 Bloor St. West
Initiated by a number of local organizations
OREGON
Eugene
Monday, December 29, 2-5PM
Al-Nakba Awareness Project and Veterans for Peace will erect signage and provide detailed handout materials along the high-traffic FerryStreetBridge approach parkway.
Portland
Tuesday December 30, 2008
Gather at 4:30 and Rally 5:00 pm
Where: FederalBuilding, Downtown Portland, SW 3rd & Madison
Organized by: Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Portland
Peaceful Response Coalition, and others.
Contact: (503) 344-5078
RHODEISLAND
Providence
Wednesday, December 31, 6-7PM
Burnside Park (opposite KennedyPlaza)
Contact: Martha Yager, AFSC-SENE, 401-521-3584 or
[email protected]
SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia
Wednesday, December 31, 5-6PM
In front of the State Capitol Building
Gervais and Main St.
Contact: Women in Black, 803-446-2772
TEXAS
Austin
Monday, December 29, 5PM-7PM
In front of the State Capitol
Contact: Haithem El-Zabri, cell. (832) 660-6665, e-mail [email protected]
Houston
Sunday, December 28, 2008, 4-6PM
Westheimer and Post Oak (in front of the Starbucks across the Galleria)
Contact: Houston Palestinian Community
San Antonio
Tuesday, December 30, 6-7PM
Candle Light Silent Prayer Vigil for Peace
Around the Peace Pole in front of the Brackenridge Village, University of the Incarnate Word, enter at 4301 Broadway
You are invited to bring candles.
VERMONT
Burlington
Tuesday, December 30, 4:15PM
Main St. Landing, Burlington
1 Main St.; corner of Main & Battery Sts.)
MEET in Burlington at Main Street Landing at 4:15 to march to Representative
Welch's, Senator Leahy's, and to Senator Bernie Sander's offices, to
arrive at the top of Church St. at 5pm to stand in solidarity with the
vigil opposing further war profiteering and war crimes--the US Occupation
of Iraq.
This march is endorsed by Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
(VTJP), Peace and JusticeCenter, and the International Socialist
Organization (ISO).
TO ENDORSE THIS ACTION OR FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
[email protected] or [email protected]
WASHINGTON
Seattle
Saturday, January 3, 12:00noon - 2:00 pm
WestlakePark: 4th and Pine
Initiated by Voices of Palestine
Contact: [email protected]
TAKE ACTION
1. Contact the White House to protest the attack and demand an immediate cease-fire. Call 202-456-1111 or send an email to [email protected].
2. Contact the State Department at 202-647-6575 or send an email by clicking here.
3. Contact your Representative and Senators in Congress at 202-224-3121 or find contact info for your Members of Congress by clicking here.
4. Contact your local media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor. To find contact info for your local media, click here.
5. Organize a local protest or vigil and tell us about it by clicking here.
6. Sign our open letter to President-Elect Obama calling for a new U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine and find out other steps you can take to influence the incoming Administration by clicking here.
US will continue to help Israel even if it means the contry goes bankrupt.
In this specific case Israel seems to be the one that started out first.
"Rocket fire from Gaza had largely stopped during a five-month cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that was brokered by Egypt, but that unraveled on Nov. 4, when Israel raided Gaza to destroy a tunnel it accused Hamas of digging to conduct cross-border raids. Since then, dozens of rockets have been fired at Israel, and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have responded with land and air attacks and by halting supplies that were to enter Gaza. Israel has hoped to tighten the screws on Hamas by blocking all but a trickle of aid from reaching Gaza's 1.5 million stricken inhabitants, leading to what U.N. officials describe as a humanitarian crisis. For the past two weeks, the Israeli military has barred foreign journalists from entering the Palestinian territory to report on the siege."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1861524,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom
...is not possible. Not through any honorable means of fighting anyway. Israel is defending itself. They have the right to do that because attacks came to them. If Arab countries such as Palestine want to deal Israel a "deadly blow" they need to get their army ready and fight it out. The problem being is that Palestine knows they cannot defeat Israel fighting head to head so they resort to cowardly attacks such as rockets across the border and suicide bombers.
Also, where are Palestine's allies? Iran and other Arab countries sit back and say "down with Israel" or "Israel will burn" but they don't seem to come to Palestine's aid when Israel attacks! Intelligent Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan know better than to get involved because they understand that the U.S. will help Israel at that point and any "ally" of Palestine will be destroyed as well.
Palestine needs to understand that Israel isn't going anywhere and that they utilize one of the most effective military forces in the world. If this turns into all out war, Palestine is finished.
Abohmaid, what did Mr.Hasan Nasrulah say?
Israel tries to justify its actions on the fact that Hamas broke the ceasefire. But as britexpat said elsewhere, there is most probably an underlying reason if we look at the situation as a whole.
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Don't want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
Have you actually given thought to what you are posting?
You want the Muslim bloodshed to end and yet you think that the Arabs/Muslims should unite against the USA and the countries in the United Nations...
Are you really not clear what the affects would be by this action?
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=49933&s2=27
This is going to spread From just Gaza, Already in Gaza it is a Bloodshed and a huge massacre beyond imagination.. action has to be taken now because it will spread.. already on the lebanese borders there is a high number of Israeli Militants Poised.. ready.. for what?! God knows...
WYSIWYG
but the solution not that easy
did u listen to mr.hasan nasrulah
God help the children of Gaza