The small column of military vehicles crossed the boundary fence into the northern Gaza Strip under darkness, said the witness, a resident of Beit Lahiya. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the incursion and said the aim was to seize areas from where Hamas was launching rocket attacks on southern Israel....An Israeli air strike earlier on Saturday evening killed 11 Palestinian worshippers, including children, and wounded dozens as in a mosque in Beit Lahiya, Hamas officials and medics said. Rescuers pulled people from the debris and the bodies of victims lay in pools of blood, witnesses said. Israel has targeted mosques previously saying that Hamas had used them as command posts and fire bases. The mosque raid brought the Palestinian death toll to at least 446, with about 2,050 wounded, in the worst sustained bloodshed in decades of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Four Israelis have also been killed in the cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas and other militant groups.
The small column of military vehicles crossed the boundary fence into the northern Gaza Strip under darkness, said the witness, a resident of Beit Lahiya.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the incursion and said the aim was to seize areas from where Hamas was launching rocket attacks on southern Israel.
...An Israeli air strike earlier on Saturday evening killed 11 Palestinian worshippers, including children, and wounded dozens as in a mosque in Beit Lahiya, Hamas officials and medics said.
Rescuers pulled people from the debris and the bodies of victims lay in pools of blood, witnesses said.
Israel has targeted mosques previously saying that Hamas had used them as command posts and fire bases.
The mosque raid brought the Palestinian death toll to at least 446, with about 2,050 wounded, in the worst sustained bloodshed in decades of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Four Israelis have also been killed in the cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas and other militant groups.
By Yassin Musharbash Israel has promised a "war to the bitter end." Yet history is full of examples showing that battling an organization like Hamas is almost futile. It is a lesson Israel learned just two short years ago. It was almost a century ago when the British soldier T.E. Lawrence described for posterity the World War I revolt of the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Lawrence helped organize the revolt, and he famously said that combating such an uprising was "like eating soup with a knife."
Israel has promised a "war to the bitter end." Yet history is full of examples showing that battling an organization like Hamas is almost futile. It is a lesson Israel learned just two short years ago.
It was almost a century ago when the British soldier T.E. Lawrence described for posterity the World War I revolt of the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Lawrence helped organize the revolt, and he famously said that combating such an uprising was "like eating soup with a knife."
history is full of examples showing that battling an organization like Hamas is almost futile. It is a lesson Israel learned just two short years ago.
Errr..no. If they'd learned it, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. This is the insanity of doing what they did several times before and expecting a different result. keep to the Fen Causeway
More than 100 protesters gathered outside the Egyptian embassy in London yesterday demanding the country opens its border with Gaza. Betty Hunter, general secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: "Egypt has to say this is our border and we can open it. It would allow humanitarian aid in and it would also allow the sick and the injured to come out and they could go to hospital."Egypt has to stop colluding with Israel and do this now."George Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, joined the protesters and said: "We hold Egypt jointly responsible for this great crime. Israel's Foreign Secretary was with Hosni Mubarak when the bombs began to fall and it's inconceivable she did not co-ordinate it with him," he claimed."The Mubarak dictatorship has brought shame on Egypt," Mr Galloway declared.
More than 100 protesters gathered outside the Egyptian embassy in London yesterday demanding the country opens its border with Gaza.
Betty Hunter, general secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: "Egypt has to say this is our border and we can open it. It would allow humanitarian aid in and it would also allow the sick and the injured to come out and they could go to hospital.
"Egypt has to stop colluding with Israel and do this now."
George Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, joined the protesters and said: "We hold Egypt jointly responsible for this great crime. Israel's Foreign Secretary was with Hosni Mubarak when the bombs began to fall and it's inconceivable she did not co-ordinate it with him," he claimed.
"The Mubarak dictatorship has brought shame on Egypt," Mr Galloway declared.
George Bush branded the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel an "act of terror" and outlined his own condition for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying no peace deal would be acceptable without monitoring to halt the flow of smuggled weapons to terrorist groups.
German Foreign Minister Steinmeier has pressed Muslim nations to use their influence to help secure an end to Hamas militants' rocket attacks on Israel, saying it was the only way to clear the path for a ceasefire.
Sigh... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
La présidence de l'UE parle d'action "défensive" d'Israël à Gaza La nouvelle présidence tchèque de l'Union européenne a qualifié samedi l'opération terrestre d'Israël dans la bande de Gaza d'action "défensive, pas offensive". "A l'heure actuelle et à la lumière des événements des jours derniers, nous estimons que cette mesure constitue une action défensive, et non offensive", a déclaré Jiri Putuznik, porte-parole de la présidence tchèque.
La nouvelle présidence tchèque de l'Union européenne a qualifié samedi l'opération terrestre d'Israël dans la bande de Gaza d'action "défensive, pas offensive".
"A l'heure actuelle et à la lumière des événements des jours derniers, nous estimons que cette mesure constitue une action défensive, et non offensive", a déclaré Jiri Putuznik, porte-parole de la présidence tchèque.
"As of today, in light of current events, we consider that this is defensive action by Israel, not offensive, says the EU Presidency" In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
