Sunday, March 20, 2011

UPDATE: Hamas Fires 50 Rockets Into Israel in One Day


If someone was indiscriminately firing rockets, missiles and mortars into your country on a daily basis - what would you do?
If someone was indiscriminately firing rockets, missiles and mortars into your country on a daily basis - what would you do?
March 20th, 2011 | Author: Un:dhimmi
Un:dhimmi

But All They Really Want is Peace™:

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel on Saturday, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said.
A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israel hit back with tank fire and air strikes, said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he will file a complaint at the U.N. after Saturday’s unusually large barrage of rockets. In a statement, Lieberman said the Palestinians “primary goal is destroying Israel.”

The violence comes amid increasing calls for reconciliation between Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his bitter rivals, the Islamic militant group Hamas. Abbas is seeking U.N. recognition for a Palestinian state by the fall and is currently lobbying for votes worldwide. Hamas used force to disperse a reconciliation rally in Gaza. Some reporters were later beaten up, threatened and briefly detained.

Israeli police spokesman Tamir Avtabi said Gaza militants fired 54 mortar shells at Israeli border communities within 15 minutes. He said two Israeli civilians were lightly wounded by shrapnel and residents were advised to stay at home or in bomb shelters.

Hayim Yellin, head of the Eshkol region where the mortars exploded, said they were of the same type as those intercepted on a cargo ship last week loaded with weapons Israel said were sent by Iran to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas acknowledged it launched some of the mortars — an unusual move as the Islamic militant group does not usually take responsibility for such attacks. Hamas fears triggering another Israeli invasion similar to a three-week operation aimed at stopping daily Palestinian shelling two years ago that killed about 1,400 Palestinians.
Israeli police said the mortar barrage Saturday was the heaviest since that round of fighting.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for all violence originating in Gaza, though Hamas usually blames smaller groups for rocket fire.

Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan said the shelling was in reaction to recent Israeli airstrikes that killed militants. He warned Israel “not to test Hamas’ response.”

Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza in bloody street battles in 2007. Since then, Hamas controls Gaza and the Western backed secular Fatah rules the West Bank.

Repeated efforts to reconcile the two rival governments have failed. Palestinians have held rallies in Gaza and the West Bank in recent days calling for the two sides to resolve their differences.
The internal Palestinian rift makes their vision of statehood harder to achieve and hinders their ability to reach a peace agreement with Israel.

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed last year over disputes about Israeli construction in the West bank, areas Palestinians want as parts of their future state.
Israel's main export to Gaza: Hundreds of trucks send food and other aid every week
Israel's main export to Gaza: Hundreds of trucks send food and other aid every week
Gaza's main export to Israel
Gaza's main export to Israel
The Palestinian people [do] not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan. PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977, interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Since then, she has received nothing in return from the ‘Palestinians’ but hatred, terrorism, violence and thousands of mortar and rocket attacks.
Despite this, Israel provides aid (real aid, not the useless crap sent by Flotilla Lefties and hidden-Agenda Islamists) to Gaza on a daily basis: food, water and other essentials such as free medical care. It provides power and sewerage to a people, despite being one of the world’s largest recipients of foreign aid, appear to be capable of producing little or nothing for themselves.
Except of course, anti-Semitic hatred and violence.
In the first quarter of last year alone, Israel delivered 94,500 tons of supplies to Gaza. This included:
  • 40,000 tons of wheat – which is equal to 53 million loaves of bread;
  • 2,760 tons of rice – which equals 69 million servings;
  • 1,987 tons of clothes and footwear – the equivalent weight of 3.6 million pairs of jeans; and
  • 553 tons of milk powder and baby food – equivalent to over 3.1 million days of formula for an average six-month-old baby.
It’s time to nail the false narrative pushed by the Left, Islamism and the international media about ‘Palestine’ being the victim of the some imagined Israeli agenda. It’s time to recognise the real aggressors.

[Main story source: The Telegraph]

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and, Update:


50 Rockets Fired on Israel – BBC Reports Hamas Injuries!



BBC bias: they appear to have completely lost the plot this time
BBC bias: they appear to have completely lost the plot this time
Even more disgraceful BBC bias than normal this morning.. apparently, the real story of when Israel had (yes 50) rockets fired into her terrotory yesterday, was that some Hamas terrorists got wounded.

Just when you wondered whether the systemic bias prevalent in BBC newsrooms couldn’t get any more depraved – this comes along. Wow.

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