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We haven’t forgotten

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Well with plane crashes and stimulus bills etc going on some things have been forgotten, but not by us:

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck just south of the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon as officials from the Hamas Islamic movement said they were close to signing a truce that would halt such attacks.

This was the second such strike today, after another rocket fired from Gaza struck an Israeli agricultural settlement this morning, according to an Israeli army spokesman speaking on customary condition of anonymity. There were no reported injuries in either incident, the first rocket attacks since the morning of Feb. 6, the army said.

You didn’t think that pulling back from Gaza was going to stop Hamas from trying to kill Jews did you?

Reuters being Reuters reports it with this headline:

Israel troops kill Palestinian teenager-medics

At Paragraph 5 we hear about the rockets. Some things never change do they?

I guess even the UN can learn

Posted: February 6, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Amazing who would have thought it possible:

A UN agency said on Friday it halted aid imports into Gaza after hundreds of tonnes of food assistance were seized, but Hamas indicated the goods would be returned, saying the incident was a mistake.

“UNRWA has suspended all imports of aid into the Gaza Strip following the confiscation of hundreds of tonnes of food aid,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said.

And Hamas’ reaction? Who us?

“The aid supplies were loaded onto trucks by mistake as no government representative was present. The drivers did not know which supplies were UNRWA’s and which were the government’s.”

I suspect that this will be a blip and things will be back to normal shortly but you never know.

Two state solution? Ha!

Posted: February 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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Via Israellycool this story from the Age nails it:

Hamas has absolutely no desire to negotiate a peaceful Palestinian state living in neighbourly quiet next to Israel. Hamas, and many Palestinians, have effectively abandoned the two-state solution. They instead have a long-term demographic strategy. In 1950, there were 240,000 Gazans, Now there are 1.5 million. By 2040 there will be three million. Eventually, they believe, they will swamp Israel with sheer numbers. And they will never let Israel be free of responsibility for them, either by an association with Egypt, which is what Israel tried to achieve by its withdrawal in 2005, or by becoming an independent state at peace.

At the other end of the spectrum, I believe many moderate Palestinians don’t really want two states either. If you were an Arab East Jerusalemite, would you really want to leave Israel, with its modern economy, world class hospitals etc, to be ruled either by the corrupt kleptomaniacs of Fatah or the totalitarian Islamists of Hamas?

Combine this with Yon’s article from yesterday and you have the situation in a nutshell.

We will see a Palestinian state sometime after Puerto Rico either becomes independent or the 51st state.

Rockets Rockets have some more rockets

Posted: February 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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And the hits keep coming from Gaza but since apparently the only story in the world is the bill in the Senate nobody around here cares.

If you are the exception you know where to look.

It hits me that there isn’t a lot of whining over the plight of the Palestinians at least I haven’t read much of it lately, there was a time I couldn’t miss it if I wanted to.

This might mean that Peres in Davos might have been a seminal moment. If the “peacenicks” have lost Peres they have lost the ability to pressure Israel.

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