Israel's breaks their own unilateral ceasefire in Gaza within minutes
"Israel declares cease-fire in Gaza; Hamas warns of ongoing resistance" by Richard Boudreaux and Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times | January 18, 2009
A Palestinian man carried a child as he passed the rubble of the Taha mosque after it was struck yesterday by Israeli warplanes in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. (Abid Katib/Getty Images)
JERUSALEM - Declaring that Israel had crippled Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last night announced a unilateral halt to its three-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip and said the army would remain there while Egypt mediates a longterm truce with the militant Islamic group.
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In a televised speech, Olmert asserted that Israel had driven Hamas's leaders into hiding, hobbled its rocket-launching capability, and stemmed weapons-smuggling into Gaza. With that, he said, the military had proved its deterrent power, which had been tarnished by its performance in the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon....
That is DISGUSTING!!! They BEAT UP on the DEFENSELESS PALESTINIANS so they could prove how butch they are, the NaZionist assholes!!! I swear to God, Israel can not go a few months without tasting Arab blood!
Olmert's security Cabinet approved the cease-fire at the end of the 22d day of the offensive as tanks and aircraft pounded Hamas positions in the Palestinian territory. An Israeli tank shell hit a UN school in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, killing two brothers, 4 and 5 years old, and wounding 36 others who were sheltered there, UN officials said.
ANOTHER ONE, huh? Once is an ACCIDENT, TWICE or MORE.... ??
The declared aim of the offensive was to stop years of rocket fire into Israel from the Hamas-ruled territory, and to choke off the group's supply of weapons through Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
Of course, we know the REAL REASON!
Hamas says it is fighting to end a suffocating blockade that has deprived the coastal territory's 1.5 million people of adequate fuel, water, electricity, and medicine. Olmert said the offensive had eroded Hamas's ability to lob rockets into Israel. Although Hamas has continued to fire rockets throughout the offensive, the numbers have declined.
Israel faced growing international pressure to halt the incessant airstrikes and thundering ground offensive, which by yesterday had killed more than 1,200 Palestinians, one-third of them children, according to Gaza Health Ministry figures that the UN deemed credible. At least 13 Israelis - 10 soldiers and three civilians - have died.
That's ODD! No Israelis have died for nearly a week? Must the NaZionist scum LIE about EVERYTHING?
Officials in Israel also said they wanted to stop the fighting before Barack Obama is sworn in as president on Tuesday to avoid clouding a historic day for the Jewish state's main ally and creating friction with the new US administration.
Yeah, even a MASS-MURDERER should be allowed to have bygones be bygones, huh? How CYNICAL of the NaZionist scum!
One element of a truce deal fell into place in Washington on Friday, when US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of Israel signed an agreement on steps the United States will take to help Egypt stop the weapons smuggling. Olmert thanked Egypt yesterday for its assistance in reaching the agreement.
Yeah, Israel to Build Another Apartheid Wall.
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The other element, the focus of ongoing talks in Cairo, is that country's proposal for a longer-term halt in fighting by both sides. Talks on the proposal center on Hamas's demand for a reopening of Gaza's border crossings to human and commercial traffic, ending more than a year of blockade by Israel and Egypt. In return, Hamas has offered a one-year renewable truce.
As if they are being unreasonable or something!
Hamas has insisted that all Israeli forces leave Gaza within a week after an initial halt in fighting, and Barhoum said yesterday the militant group will continue fighting as long as Israeli troops remain there.
AS IS THEIR RIGHT under INTERNATIONAL LAW -- you know, the ones Israel keeps breaking!
Egypt is mediating because Israel refuses to deal directly with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organization. Olmert said Israel's cease-fire is unilateral, not a result of the indirect negotiations.
Yeah, we saw how good their word was above, the lying shit scums!
The Jewish state has imposed a blockade on Gaza since Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 and continued to preach Israel's destruction. Hamas took exclusive control of the territory in June 2007, ending a power-sharing government with the rival Fatah faction, which now controls only the West Bank.
Honestly, I'm sick of the Zionist shit-spew and shit-spin!
Egypt, wary of Hamas's close ties to Islamist foes of the government in Cairo, has cooperated with the blockade.
Translation: Egypt is a Zionist collaborator!
In fighting early yesterday, Israel said its planes struck 50 Hamas targets in Gaza, including rocket-launching sites, smuggling tunnels, weapons storehouses, bunkers, and minefields. About 30 rockets fired from Gaza had landed in Israel by yesterday, the military said.
Yup, had to end the agression with a bang -- and then keep on going!
Fucking NaZionist scum!
UN spokesman Chris Gunness condemned the shelling of the school, where he said 120 families had taken shelter from the fighting. Mohammed Ashkar, 4, and his brother Bilal, 5, were killed, and their mother, Noujod, 24, lost an arm and a leg, medical officials said.
God damn you, Israel!! God damn you!!!
The Israeli military said an initial investigation of the shelling indicated that soldiers were fired upon from inside or near the school.
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT, NaZionist assholes!!!!!!!!!!
United Nations officials questioned yesterday whether the attack, and others like it, should be investigated as war crimes.
Yes, yes, BY GOD, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Under the US-Israeli agreement signed in Washington, the United States agreed to help organize international monitors to oversee Gaza border crossings and to provide technical aid to prevent the smuggling of rockets and other weapons, officials said. The composition of the monitoring group and other important details remain to be worked out, they said.
Anybody gonna monitor the weapons of death we send to Israel?
Btw, WHERE are the CACHES of IRANIAN WEAPONS in GAZA? Wouldn't the Israelis have FOUND SOME by now? The reason is because Hamas' pop rockets are HOME-MADE!
"The essential element of this is to inhibit the ability of Hamas to rearm, so . . . you're not back in the same situation six months from now," said Sean McCormack, chief US State Department spokesman.
Yeah, but WE can ARM ISRAEL to the TEETH with WMD!
The Israeli cease-fire could mean an effective end to a three-week-old war, but even then, the shape of any lasting peace was far from clear.
Lasting peace, pfft! Not with Israel around!
Israel has signaled that its troops will stay in Gaza until a formal truce is signed that meets Israeli goals of stopping rocket fire from Gaza and hindering the smuggling of arms, weapons, cash, and fighters into Gaza through tunnels from Egypt. But the government said it will not sign any deal with Hamas, whose rule over Gaza Israel does not want to recognize. Also, Israeli officials said they reserved the right to attack again if Hamas kept firing rockets into Israel.
They ALREADY DID (within MINUTES).
Hamas, battered but hardly broken, is expected to reassert its political control over Gaza and to resist any attempt to restore a presence for Fatah, the rival faction that runs the Palestinian Authority, within Gaza.
Then HAMAS WINS!! If they are STILL STANDING, they win!!!!
Palestinians reacted with skepticism to the Israeli declaration, and called on world leaders attending the talks today in Egypt to put pressure on Israel to withdraw immediately.
WOULDN'T YOU, after witnessing their TREACHERY for 60+ years?
Leaders of Germany, France, Spain, Britain, Italy, Turkey, and the Czech Republic are expected to attend the summit, along with Abbas, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
Talk, talk, talk, talk.
It was not immediately clear whether Israel would send a representative, and Hamas has not been invited.
Israel should be BANNED form ANY CIVILIZED MEETINGS until they come to heel!
Of course, Hamas -- the LEGITIMATELY ELECTED GOVERNMENT of Palestine -- was NOT INVITED! How about NOT INVITING ISRAEL instead?
Ban welcomed Israel's move and called on Hamas to stop its rocket fire. He said "urgent humanitarian access for the people of Gaza is the immediate priority," and "the United Nations is ready to act."
FUCK YOU, Ban!!
And why did the Zionist War Daily excise the tough statements of Gordn Brown of England?
Brown, along with the leaders of France, Germany, and Italy, said he was offering military and humnanitarian help to implement the cease-fire and ease the suffering in Gaza.
Yeah, if you were an agenda-pushing, Zionist War Daily, you wouldn't want THAT SOLUTION under consideration!
The PROTESTS in ENGLAND must be GETTING to GORDO, huh?
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