Thank God because I lost my map.
"Israel, militants resume airstrikes as Gaza truce ends; Fighting may be aimed at gaining leverage in talks" by Jodi Rudoren and Isabel Kershner | New York Times August 09, 2014
We go way back, those two and I, and I just want you to know that everything is clear, okay?
GAZA CITY — Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip resumed cross-border air assaults after a three-day cease-fire expired Friday, but the renewed violence seemed less about meeting military goals than about jockeying for leverage in talks that had made little progress toward a more durable truce.
Militants led by Hamas, the Islamist faction that dominates Gaza, sent a rocket soaring toward southern Israel exactly as the agreed-upon pause expired at 8 a.m. and fired about 50 throughout the day, wounding one soldier and one civilian and damaging a house in the border town of Sderot.
Israel, which withdrew its ground troops earlier this week, responded quickly with airstrikes and artillery shelling that by day’s end had hit nearly 50 targets and killed five people, including three children. But Israel showed no signs of seeking to re-invade Gaza or escalate its airstrikes.
The cause of the fighting appeared to be Hamas’s frustration that it could not get what it considers meaningful concessions from Israel and Egypt at the talks in Cairo.
The Egyptian foreign ministry asserted that the parties had reached agreement on “the great majority of topics” and urged an extension of the cease-fire to address “the very limited points still pending.” But Palestinian officials said the Israeli delegation had hardly addressed their demands to open border crossings, remove restrictions on trade, establish a seaport, and release prisoners.
Palestinian and Israeli analysts alike said that after a month of death and destruction, Hamas could not stop fighting without a tangible civic achievement and was finding it difficult to climb down from an ambitious agenda in the face of a strong Egyptian-Israeli alliance.
Yeah, I know. It's always the Palestinians fault, and Egypt is even worse under Sissi than it was under Mubarak. Morsi's compassion for the Palestinians -- and his refusal to sign up for that IMF deal, same thing that doomed Yanukovych -- was his death knell.
The conflict on the ground between an advanced, high-tech military and a guerrilla group appeared to find an echo in diplomacy, as Egypt, Israel, and the United States all pushed for President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority to take a leading role in running and rehabilitating Gaza. That would be a blow to Hamas, which took control of the territory in 2007, and tricky for Abbas, whose perceived cooperation with Israel has already hurt his credibility among Palestinians.
Okay, first thing you see is nothing about a unity government that was shattered by Israeli lies followed by misplaced military power. Nothing about that.
Secondly, this is a de-facto coup! Not a mention that HAMAS WON ELECTIONS! The deal here is Egypt, Israel, and the U.S. agreeing to basically remove Hamas now through cease-fire coup and replace him with an increasing unpopular (? I was told Hamas is hated by my Jewish war pre$$. WTF???) U.S. puppet and stooge.
You know, the kind the world is rejecting all over the place right now?
Ahmed Yousef, a former Hamas leader who remains close to the movement, likened the renewed fighting to two people biting each other’s fingers to see who would surrender first.
“This is like a game, a chess game — you have all the time to continue, to show your enemy that you stay strong,” Yousef said in an interview at a seaside hotel in Gaza City. “For three days we couldn’t have a solid answer from the Israelis, so you have to go back to fighting. Your legitimate demand is not answered, so you have to put pressure on the other side.”
That wasn't bombed? Is this guy an undercover asset of USrael and its mouthpiece media? Is he another fictional creation and staged and scripted asset like Baghdadi, Ghadan and the rest? Why would anyone believe this Israeli pre$$ handout?
Oh, btw, this is not a chess game unless all the dead Gazans are the pawns, and poker is the EUSraeli's game. Chess is Russia's, and are they ever doing a masterful job of it outside the Jewi$h War Pre$$ of AmeriKa.
This sucks, readers!
Ehud Yaari, an Israel-based fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who specializes in Arab affairs, said, “Hamas is in a bind because they have set such a high bar with their demands.
“But you can see today Hamas and Israel exchanged blows but on a low scale — they were not firing all that they can,” Yaari noted. “Everybody understands there may be an extension or a new cease-fire.”
I just love constantly getting Zionist war mongers as experts in my newspaper.
Of course, it is being written of, by, and for them, so what am I complaining about? That it is the fare served up by my regional flag$hit?
A senior Palestinian official briefed on the Cairo negotiations said that Israel and Egypt had essentially dismissed all talk of a seaport or restored airport in Gaza and only agreed to ease limits on travel and imports.
Not good enough. Time to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel.
In exchange for these concessions, Israel and its international backers demanded the demilitarization of Gaza, something the Palestinians said would come only with the establishment of an independent state.
So the next time Israel comes a'callin' the Palestinians will have no defense at all.
How about the MONSTROUSLY MURDEROUS ISRAELI WAR MACHINE DEMILITARIZE, huh?
HOW ABOUT THAT?!!!!!!!
“As Palestinians, we don’t want escalation, but it is our right to defend ourselves,” Azzam al-Ahmed, a negotiator who is close to Abbas, said in Cairo. “We won’t stay here indefinitely,” he added, referring to the talks.
No, it IS NOT, according to USrael!
Kobi Michael, former head of the Palestinian desk at Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, said the negotiations so far had proved “a very humiliating treatment of Hamas by Egypt.” The country’s new president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, views Hamas as an enemy because it sprang from his main domestic rival, the Muslim Brotherhood.
And they are the "even-handed, third-party, independent go-between and negotiator."
(Blog editor shakes his head at the absurdity, and sadly notes that PALESTINIANS are ALL ALONE when it comes to WESTERN GOVERNMENTS and their lackeys!)
Egypt’s role is critical not only as a broker of the talks, but because it controls Gaza’s gateway to the world, the Rafah border crossing, which has been closed much of the past year. Cairo has indicated that having Abbas’s security forces back on the border, as they were before Hamas wrested control of Gaza in 2007, would be required to get it reopened.
So as soon as Hamas won elections and repelled a coup attempt they were under siege.
And THERE is your "bloodless" coup.
“The Egyptians don’t bother with political correctness, they are very direct,” Michael said. “The Egyptians have a long memory and like to serve up revenge cold.”
That explains the slaughter and grinding poverty of its own citizenry that has USraeli blessings and approval.
Except for the weapons so central to its identity, Hamas has little to offer at the bargaining table.
Same position as Israel.
Renewing the rocket fire not only sent Israelis scrambling into bomb shelters on another sunny Friday, it also returned the world’s attention to the killing of nearly 1,900 Gaza residents since July 8, most of them civilians, including a 10-year-old boy felled by a drone Friday morning as he played at a mosque under construction near his home.
Oh, thank you, New York Times, for getting back to that. I also feel sorry for the Israeli population (although not that much) for being yanked around like a yo-yo from their own mind-manipulating, fear-generating government.
What a pair, U.S. and Israel!
The day’s exchanges, however, were less aggressive than before the cease-fire. An airstrike hit a Gaza City home of Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, injuring three, witnesses said.
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That's it, Globe?
Related: Amid Gaza war, UMass Amherst cancels fall programs in Israel
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
AP is no better.
"Israel to eschew talks until rocket fire from Gaza stops; As battles ensue, level of intensity begins to fall" by Ian Deitch and Karin Laub | Associated Press August 10, 2014
JERUSALEM — Egyptian-brokered talks between Israel and Hamas on a new border deal for Gaza were thrown into doubt Saturday after senior officials said an Israeli team would not rejoin negotiations in Cairo unless rocket fire from Gaza stops.
A day after the end of a temporary truce, cross-border attacks continued Saturday, though at a lower intensity than on most days in the past month of fighting.
Gaza militants fired 28 rockets at Israel, the army said, while Israel struck about 50 targets in Gaza that it said were linked to militants, including mosques and homes.
Seven people were killed.
The indirect talks in Cairo — which began earlier in the week with Egyptians shuttling between the Israeli and Palestinian delegations — were meant to produce a sustainable cease-fire and new border arrangements for Gaza.
Israel and Egypt have severely restricted trade and movement in and out of Gaza. The Islamic militant Hamas seized the territory by force seven years ago.
I'm tired of casting lead, but...."Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006.... Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006.... In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections.... Hamas won the last parliamentary elections in 2006.... Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006.... Hamas won a majority in 2006 elections.... won a parliamentary election in 2006," and the AmeriKan ma$$ media obviously knows it.
However....
Yeah, whatever.
The narrative of "the current Gaza war escalated from the abduction and killing of three Israeli teens, with Gaza’s civilians, especially children, have paid a steep price of 1,911 people killed" is wearing thin.
Sorry I'm not wanting to read any more of the Israeli pre$$ relea$e posing as an AmeriKan news report.
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Also see: How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
Hamas, Son of Israel
Israel’s Dirty Secret: Hamas Was Creation Of Zionist Intriguers
Well, there is that, too. Who is firing those rockets and kidnapping Israeli kids?
Another ISIS, isn't it?
You can make your way around from here.
