How Much More Will Israel Take Before Invading The Gaza Strip?
September 21, 2007
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Sooner or later Israel is going to have to stop treating Hamas with kid gloves.
Hamas has made it quite clear that the Israelis are “occupiers” of all the land of Israel, not just the West Bank and Golan Heights, and that the only good “occupier” is a dead “occupier.” The affects of a real blood bath in the Gaza Strip is the main reason the IDF has not already gone in to generate it.
It will solidify the Arab hatred of the so-called “moderate” elements of the Muslim world even more that it is now. The creation of a Palestinian State in the West Bank, and a renegade Hamas Terror State in the Gaza Strip, presents an even more undesirable outcome than the present situation.
A peace agreement to the Muslims is merely a means to an end that results in the elimination of their enemies. The Israeli Prime minister has been saying he has found a peace partner, but the only peace partner Israel will ever find among the Palestinians is a treacherous partner of deceit in a false peace.
Begin Article Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert
Excerpt 1
Israel Declares Gaza “Hostile Territory” – What Does It Mean?
Dan Izenberg
Jerusalem Post
September 20, 2007
The Israeli government on Wednesday declared Gaza as “hostile territory,” though there is no such concept in international law.
A source explained that the term was not a legal concept but ra
ther the description of a practical fact. The government is saying that Gaza has been hijacked by terrorists. It was essentially a warning notice to the world that Israel intends to treat Gaza differently than it has until now and to apply measures it has not used before. The government will apply three restraining principles to its decision.
It won’t carry out any measures immediately, it will give due consideration to the legality of every measure it wants to take, and it will not take measures that would lead to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpt 2
Gaza on War Footing after Israel Declares It “Enemy Entity”
Nidal al-Mughrabi
Reuters
September 20, 2007
Hamas-run Gaza is bracing for a major incursion by Israeli forces after Israel labeled the territory an “enemy entity” on Wednesday. Masked gunmen crouch behind piles of sand, fingers on the triggers of their rifles, while others rig explosives along the streets of Gaza.
Wearing brightly colored headbands, hundreds of militants have taken up positions along the border fence with Israel and in Gaza City, while ordinary people shovel sand into bags to use as barriers to block any invading troops.
(Reuters)
Begin Arutz Sheva Excerpt
IDF-PA Clashes in Central Gaza
9 Tishrei 5768, 21 September 07 02:47
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
(IsraelNN.com) IDF soldiers carried out counter-terrorist operations in the Gaza town of Al-Bureij throughout the day Thursday. Multiple clashes with local Palestinian Authority gunmen led to light injuries among Israeli forces and to at least two deaths among the enemy.
Unconfirmed reports from the Gaza front indicate that three soldiers were lightly injured in Al-Bureij on Thursday evening. Two of the wounded men were hit by shrapnel from a PA mortar shell, while a third soldier was lightly wounded in an RPG attack. They were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon for treatment.
At least one terrorist wounded in clashes with the IDF was also taken to an Israeli hospital, Be’er Sheva’s Soroka Medical Center, for treatment. One PA terrorist was killed while fighting Israeli troops and a 17-year-old was killed earlier in the day when he was hit by an IDF bulldozer. It is unclear at this stage if the teenager was willingly involved in the Gaza violence.
PA attackers in Gaza fired more than a dozen mortar shells at Israeli soldiers and civilians throughout the day Thursday. Nine shells were launched at Israeli towns and IDF positions in the space of one hour in the late afternoon.
Two landed near the Kerem Shalom crossing, formerly the main crossing into Gaza, which has been closed due to terrorist threats. Seven shells fell near Jewish communities close to Gaza, including one near Kibbutz Miflasim. In one instance within Gaza, a terrorist cell attempted to launch a mortar attack against soldiers, but the shell landed near Arab houses, missing IDF positions.
Earlier in the day, several journalists arrived in the Al-Bureij area in order to document IDF activities in Gaza. They then came under PA mortar attack alongside IDF forces.
No injuries were reported among the journalists, but they were instructed to leave the area following the attack.
In addition to the mortar attacks and clashes in and around central Gaza, at least three Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot by PA terrorists. There were no physical injuries reported in the multiple attacks on the Negev city.
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