Hamas 'must stop rockets:' White House: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted December 29, 2008 1:00 PM

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by Mark Silva

The White House is again calling on Hamas to refrain from rocket attacks against Israeli territory that have prompted a massive retaliation by Israel forces in the Gaza Strip at a cost of many lives and dashed hopes for peace in the region.

"Last week, Hamas substantially increased its rocket and mortar attacks on the people of Israel,'' said Gordon Johndroe, deputy White House press secretary, in a statement delivered today from the "Crawford White House.'' The attacks, he said, underscore the administration's belief that Hamas is "a terrorist organization'' committed to the destruction of Israel.

President Bush, vacationing in Texas, is receiving daily briefings on the situation.

"In order for the violence to stop,'' Johndroe said, "Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to accept a sustainable cease-fire.''

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Well that ought to take care of that!


Doesn't a cease-fire work both ays?

Anyhow, Obama will have a real mess on his hands if the Israelis do ramp up their military actions. All good will in the Arab world will disappear if PEBO merely toes the usual presidential line on Israel.

http://www.political-buzz.com/


Who's the young Ivy Leaguer at the microphone?
What a joke! The beaten ones must just let the bullies have their way.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/392156/obama_should_engage_now_fo
r_middle_east_peace?rel=hp_picks


Don't worry. The Israelis and Palestinians are just getting out a little bloodletting before peace breaks out throughout the world on Jan. 21. Everything will be fine.


How many Israelis have died int the rocket attackes? None.

How many Paletinians hgave died in the response? Hundreds.

How many Plaestinian children will never grow up because of the response? 8 so far?

Is rocket fire a provocation? Yes.

Is starving an entire people and denying them critical medical supplies a provocation? Yes.

Is either side innocent? No.

Do both sides have blood of the innocent on their hands? Tragically, criminally, unacceptably, yes.


The Israeli's should stop answering terrorist rocket attacks on their civilian population and cities with surgical attacks aimed at Hamas targets, and return rocket for rocket. Hamas targets civilian centers, Israel should do the same. Rockets are terror weapons, because no-one knows where they will come down, like the buzz-bombs and V2's Hitler rained down on London. The Palestinian people cheer when Hamas sends rockets to kill Israeli civilians, because they know Israel doesn't send rockets back, let's see if they still cheer when Israel sends rockets to kill THEIR families, they deserve no less. The whiners in the UN, etc. who never condemn Hamas, only Israel's attempts to protect themselves, are beneath contempt. Hamas is not freedom fighters or martyrs, just insatiable mad, murderous, cowardly dogs to be destroyed. Freedom fighters do not strap bombs on children, or murder men, women, children (including other Muslims) in stores and cafes.


The Israeli's should stop answering terrorist rocket attacks on their civilian population and cities with surgical attacks aimed at Hamas targets, and return rocket for rocket. Hamas targets civilian centers, Israel should do the same. Rockets are terror weapons, because no-one knows where they will come down, like the buzz-bombs and V2's Hitler rained down on London. The Palestinian people cheer when Hamas sends rockets to kill Israeli civilians, because they know Israel doesn't send rockets back, let's see if they still cheer when Israel sends rockets to kill THEIR families, they deserve no less. The whiners in the UN, etc. who never condemn Hamas, only Israel's attempts to protect themselves, are beneath contempt. Hamas is not freedom fighters or martyrs, just insatiable mad, murderous, cowardly dogs to be destroyed. Freedom fighters do not strap bombs on children, or murder men, women, children (including other Muslims) in stores and cafes.


Freedom fighters do not strap bombs on children, or murder men, women, children (including other Muslims) in stores and cafes.


Posted by: lightnin | December 29, 2008 11:28 PM


So Menachem Begin was a mad dog who should have been destroyed? Should the British have slaughtered the Jewish civilians in Palestine by the thousands in the late 1940's?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence#Haganah_attacks


Once again, our news media gets the angle wrong. It is not about people denied basic human rights lobbing a rocket and 'provoking' their own genocide by Israel.
It's about Israeli aggression.
Call it what it is:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/
20090112/falk?rel=hp_currently


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