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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 10:36 AM       
Lebanese Army finds rockets near Israel border
By BASSEM MROUE The Associated Press
Thursday, December 25, 2008; 12:49 PM

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanese army officers say troops have discovered seven rockets set up with timers that were on the verge of firing near the border with Israel .

Two senior officers say troops are dismantling the Katyusha rockets, discovered Thursday near the border town of Naqoura.

They say the rockets' timers were activated, and one of the officers says the rockets were to have fired overnight. They would not say if the rockets were directed toward Israel. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of military rules.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122500485.html

Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel amid Gaza offensive

An Israeli cabinet minister blamed Palestinians in Lebanon, not Shi'ite Hezbollah guerrillas -- with whom Israel fought a war in 2006 -- for firing the rockets.

"I think these are isolated incidents," Rafi Eitan, a senior minister in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government, said on Israel's Channel 2. "We expected this."

A Lebanese minister also said he doubted Hezbollah had fired the rockets, which came from an area controlled by U.N. peacekeepers and the Lebanese army, 3 km (two miles) north of the border. Hamas sources in Lebanon denied involvement.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7817408.stm
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 10:42 AM       
So israel have decided to retaliate even though nobody knows who fired these rockets into northern israel?

Israel fires missiles at Lebanon

Tel Aviv has launched five missiles at Lebanon claiming the assault was in retaliation to rocket attacks on northern Israeli towns.

According to Israeli officials four rockets landed on northern Israel early on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported. Israeli sources said 4 settlers were injured in the attack.

Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the rockets landed around the town of Nahariya, 8 km (5 miles) south of the Lebanese border. Tel Aviv claims the rockets were launched from southern Lebanon.

Lebanon's Hezbollah, however, says it is not responsible for the alleged firing of rockets at Israel.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 12:41 PM       
Palestinians really need Jew haters around the world to start pushing convoluted and false stories from Iran's notoriously free press.

It's not like Iran, one of the States sponsoring the katyushas, didn't just send a delegation to meet with Hamas leadership in Syria this week.

As of 12:30pm EST the only Israeli retaliation, according to reports in the mainstream press (filed by a reporter very sympathetic to Hamas) was a few rounds of gunfire.

By stating Hezballah, and Lebanon aren't responsible, Israel has decreased the opportunity for a larger front on the war.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 01:25 PM       
I posted this on my facebook titled "understanding gaza"

A friend of mine who is jewish himself had made it clear for me that while its antisemitic to promote hatred and destruction of judaism, it is not antisemitic to speak against the jewish state, Israel's policies. Their brutal bombing campaign toward gaza strip, west bank/palestine, lebanon, etc is clearly not for purpose of national security to protect their homeland from the enemies' rockets but driven by politics, economy and territory expansion. The rockets that were fired into Israel by their enemies, whether real or a false flag, presents an opportunity for Israeli politicians to implement their counter-attack plans to roll back the population, economic and education system of their enemies' lands. If anyone disagrees, don't hesistate to leave a comment. This article that summarizes Israel's genocidal actions toward Palestinians was written by an Iraqi-born Jew who moved to Israel and served in IDF so you'd know there is no serious case of bias.

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions

Avi Shlaim
The Guardian, Wednesday 7 January 2009

The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this assault, have reopened the question.

I write as someone who served loyally in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s and who has never questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel within its pre-1967 borders. What I utterly reject is the Zionist colonial project beyond the Green Line. The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the June 1967 war had very little to do with security and everything to do with territorial expansionism. The aim was to establish Greater Israel through permanent political, economic and military control over the Palestinian territories. And the result has been one of the most prolonged and brutal military occupations of modern times.

Four decades of Israeli control did incalculable damage to the economy of the Gaza Strip. With a large population of 1948 refugees crammed into a tiny strip of land, with no infrastructure or natural resources, Gaza's prospects were never bright. Gaza, however, is not simply a case of economic under-development but a uniquely cruel case of deliberate de-development. To use the Biblical phrase, Israel turned the people of Gaza into the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, into a source of cheap labour and a captive market for Israeli goods. The development of local industry was actively impeded so as to make it impossible for the Palestinians to end their subordination to Israel and to establish the economic underpinnings essential for real political independence.

Gaza is a classic case of colonial exploitation in the post-colonial era. Jewish settlements in occupied territories are immoral, illegal and an insurmountable obstacle to peace. They are at once the instrument of exploitation and the symbol of the hated occupation. In Gaza, the Jewish settlers numbered only 8,000 in 2005 compared with 1.4 million local residents. Yet the settlers controlled 25% of the territory, 40% of the arable land and the lion's share of the scarce water resources. Cheek by jowl with these foreign intruders, the majority of the local population lived in abject poverty and unimaginable misery. Eighty per cent of them still subsist on less than $2 a day. The living conditions in the strip remain an affront to civilised values, a powerful precipitant to resistance and a fertile breeding ground for political extremism.

In August 2005 a Likud government headed by Ariel Sharon staged a unilateral Israeli pullout from Gaza, withdrawing all 8,000 settlers and destroying the houses and farms they had left behind. Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, conducted an effective campaign to drive the Israelis out of Gaza. The withdrawal was a humiliation for the Israeli Defence Forces. To the world, Sharon presented the withdrawal from Gaza as a contribution to peace based on a two-state solution. But in the year after, another 12,000 Israelis settled on the West Bank, further reducing the scope for an independent Palestinian state. Land-grabbing and peace-making are simply incompatible. Israel had a choice and it chose land over peace.

The real purpose behind the move was to redraw unilaterally the borders of Greater Israel by incorporating the main settlement blocs on the West Bank to the state of Israel. Withdrawal from Gaza was thus not a prelude to a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority but a prelude to further Zionist expansion on the West Bank. It was a unilateral Israeli move undertaken in what was seen, mistakenly in my view, as an Israeli national interest. Anchored in a fundamental rejection of the Palestinian national identity, the withdrawal from Gaza was part of a long-term effort to deny the Palestinian people any independent political existence on their land.

Israel's settlers were withdrawn but Israeli soldiers continued to control all access to the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air. Gaza was converted overnight into an open-air prison. From this point on, the Israeli air force enjoyed unrestricted freedom to drop bombs, to make sonic booms by flying low and breaking the sound barrier, and to terrorise the hapless inhabitants of this prison.

Israel likes to portray itself as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. Yet Israel has never in its entire history done anything to promote democracy on the Arab side and has done a great deal to undermine it. Israel has a long history of secret collaboration with reactionary Arab regimes to suppress Palestinian nationalism. Despite all the handicaps, the Palestinian people succeeded in building the only genuine democracy in the Arab world with the possible exception of Lebanon. In January 2006, free and fair elections for the Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority brought to power a Hamas-led government. Israel, however, refused to recognise the democratically elected government, claiming that Hamas is purely and simply a terrorist organisation.

America and the EU shamelessly joined Israel in ostracising and demonising the Hamas government and in trying to bring it down by withholding tax revenues and foreign aid. A surreal situation thus developed with a significant part of the international community imposing economic sanctions not against the occupier but against the occupied, not against the oppressor but against the oppressed.

As so often in the tragic history of Palestine, the victims were blamed for their own misfortunes. Israel's propaganda machine persistently purveyed the notion that the Palestinians are terrorists, that they reject coexistence with the Jewish state, that their nationalism is little more than antisemitism, that Hamas is just a bunch of religious fanatics and that Islam is incompatible with democracy. But the simple truth is that the Palestinian people are a normal people with normal aspirations. They are no better but they are no worse than any other national group. What they aspire to, above all, is a piece of land to call their own on which to live in freedom and dignity.

Like other radical movements, Hamas began to moderate its political programme following its rise to power. From the ideological rejectionism of its charter, it began to move towards pragmatic accommodation of a two-state solution. In March 2007, Hamas and Fatah formed a national unity government that was ready to negotiate a long-term ceasefire with Israel. Israel, however, refused to negotiate with a government that included Hamas.

It continued to play the old game of divide and rule between rival Palestinian factions. In the late 1980s, Israel had supported the nascent Hamas in order to weaken Fatah, the secular nationalist movement led by Yasser Arafat. Now Israel began to encourage the corrupt and pliant Fatah leaders to overthrow their religious political rivals and recapture power. Aggressive American neoconservatives participated in the sinister plot to instigate a Palestinian civil war. Their meddling was a major factor in the collapse of the national unity government and in driving Hamas to seize power in Gaza in June 2007 to pre-empt a Fatah coup.

The war unleashed by Israel on Gaza on 27 December was the culmination of a series of clashes and confrontations with the Hamas government. In a broader sense, however, it is a war between Israel and the Palestinian people, because the people had elected the party to power. The declared aim of the war is to weaken Hamas and to intensify the pressure until its leaders agree to a new ceasefire on Israel's terms. The undeclared aim is to ensure that the Palestinians in Gaza are seen by the world simply as a humanitarian problem and thus to derail their struggle for independence and statehood.

The timing of the war was determined by political expediency. A general election is scheduled for 10 February and, in the lead-up to the election, all the main contenders are looking for an opportunity to prove their toughness. The army top brass had been champing at the bit to deliver a crushing blow to Hamas in order to remove the stain left on their reputation by the failure of the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in July 2006. Israel's cynical leaders could also count on apathy and impotence of the pro-western Arab regimes and on blind support from President Bush in the twilight of his term in the White House. Bush readily obliged by putting all the blame for the crisis on Hamas, vetoing proposals at the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and issuing Israel with a free pass to mount a ground invasion of Gaza.

As always, mighty Israel claims to be the victim of Palestinian aggression but the sheer asymmetry of power between the two sides leaves little room for doubt as to who is the real victim. This is indeed a conflict between David and Goliath but the Biblical image has been inverted - a small and defenceless Palestinian David faces a heavily armed, merciless and overbearing Israeli Goliath. The resort to brute military force is accompanied, as always, by the shrill rhetoric of victimhood and a farrago of self-pity overlaid with self-righteousness. In Hebrew this is known as the syndrome of bokhim ve-yorim, "crying and shooting".

To be sure, Hamas is not an entirely innocent party in this conflict. Denied the fruit of its electoral victory and confronted with an unscrupulous adversary, it has resorted to the weapon of the weak - terror. Militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad kept launching Qassam rocket attacks against Israeli settlements near the border with Gaza until Egypt brokered a six-month ceasefire last June. The damage caused by these primitive rockets is minimal but the psychological impact is immense, prompting the public to demand protection from its government. Under the circumstances, Israel had the right to act in self-defence but its response to the pinpricks of rocket attacks was totally disproportionate. The figures speak for themselves. In the three years after the withdrawal from Gaza, 11 Israelis were killed by rocket fire. On the other hand, in 2005-7 alone, the IDF killed 1,290 Palestinians in Gaza, including 222 children.

Whatever the numbers, killing civilians is wrong. This rule applies to Israel as much as it does to Hamas, but Israel's entire record is one of unbridled and unremitting brutality towards the inhabitants of Gaza. Israel also maintained the blockade of Gaza after the ceasefire came into force which, in the view of the Hamas leaders, amounted to a violation of the agreement. During the ceasefire, Israel prevented any exports from leaving the strip in clear violation of a 2005 accord, leading to a sharp drop in employment opportunities. Officially, 49.1% of the population is unemployed. At the same time, Israel restricted drastically the number of trucks carrying food, fuel, cooking-gas canisters, spare parts for water and sanitation plants, and medical supplies to Gaza. It is difficult to see how starving and freezing the civilians of Gaza could protect the people on the Israeli side of the border. But even if it did, it would still be immoral, a form of collective punishment that is strictly forbidden by international humanitarian law.

The brutality of Israel's soldiers is fully matched by the mendacity of its spokesmen. Eight months before launching the current war on Gaza, Israel established a National Information Directorate. The core messages of this directorate to the media are that Hamas broke the ceasefire agreements; that Israel's objective is the defence of its population; and that Israel's forces are taking the utmost care not to hurt innocent civilians. Israel's spin doctors have been remarkably successful in getting this message across. But, in essence, their propaganda is a pack of lies.

A wide gap separates the reality of Israel's actions from the rhetoric of its spokesmen. It was not Hamas but the IDF that broke the ceasefire. It di d so by a raid into Gaza on 4 November that killed six Hamas men. Israel's objective is not just the defence of its population but the eventual overthrow of the Hamas government in Gaza by turning the people against their rulers. And far from taking care to spare civilians, Israel is guilty of indiscriminate bombing and of a three-year-old blockade that has brought the inhabitants of Gaza, now 1.5 million, to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.

The Biblical injunction of an eye for an eye is savage enough. But Israel's insane offensive against Gaza seems to follow the logic of an eye for an eyelash. After eight days of bombing, with a death toll of more than 400 Palestinians and four Israelis, the gung-ho cabinet ordered a land invasion of Gaza the consequences of which are incalculable.

No amount of military escalation can buy Israel immunity from rocket attacks from the military wing of Hamas. Despite all the death and destruction that Israel has inflicted on them, they kept up their resistance and they kept firing their rockets. This is a movement that glorifies victimhood and martyrdom. There is simply no military solution to the conflict between the two communities. The problem with Israel's concept of security is that it denies even the most elementary security to the other community. The only way for Israel to achieve security is not through shooting but through talks with Hamas, which has repeatedly declared its readiness to negotiate a long-term ceasefire with the Jewish state within its pre-1967 borders for 20, 30, or even 50 years. Israel has rejected this offer for the same reason it spurned the Arab League peace plan of 2002, which is still on the table: it involves concessions and compromises.

This brief review of Israel's record over the past four decades makes it difficult to resist the conclusion that it has become a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction and practises terrorism - the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. Israel fulfils all of these three criteria; the cap fits and it must wear it. Israel's real aim is not peaceful coexistence with its Palestinian neighbours but military domination. It keeps compounding the mistakes of the past with new and more disastrous ones. Politicians, like everyone else, are of course free to repeat the lies and mistakes of the past. But it is not mandatory to do so.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 02:43 PM       
Yeah well as the son of an Iraqi Jewish refugee let me call bullshit.

Avi Shlaim has in fact questioned the States legitemacy, you Geggy are in fact a blatant Jew hater, but clearly it was the Zionists who stole your brain.


Here is one blog's impeachment of Avi Shlaim's bullshit:
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2...vi-shlaim.html

I'll cut to the quick though. There is a segment of the population in Israel who didn't arrive in Israel out of choice. They were forced out by events like the Farhud in Iraq, when it had fallen under the influence of a Nazi + Pan-Islam marriage. They miss their lives in Iraq, and resent having to live inside Israel. I have family who are bitter and identify more with Arab culture too... but ask them if they want to live under Arab rule again? Hell no they don't. Anyway, who really gives a shit what this clown has to say about Gaza? The essay is riddled with errors and the entire notion that this incursion was what set him off is ignorant of this frauds body of lies and revitionist history. If anyone thinks he's made a single good point, I'd be happy to refute it with factual evidence where possible.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 05:23 PM       
Im no expert on this subject. Im not even going to pretend to know a lot about the history of Palestine. However... didnt the area know as "Palestine" belong to Israel and in the mid 90s they sat down and agreed to basically hand control over to the PLO in hopes it would lead to peace? Only to get spat in the eye?
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 06:50 PM       
Don't mind me, just dropping by to see if the ABC was still around to explain the IDF's right to defend itself against the UN and the Red Cross to the less enlightened readers of this forum.

Personally, I can understand their plight. Some dipshit kid is throwing rocks at your head while you are holding a rifle, that kid deserves to get his head blown off. It's evolution at work.

But I was hoping ABC could put it more intellectually.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 08:23 PM       
They're surrounded by countries that want to destroy them any little attack could be a precursor to their complete destruction. Can you really blame em for kicking ass and not giving a shit about the rules?

I'm surprised Belgium never snapped from constantly being overrun by the French and Germans between 1810 and 1945.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 08:54 PM       
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 08:54 PM       
Does anyone actually agree with Vaportrail? Not to minimize the obviously psychologically jarring effect that the Qassam rocket attacks have on Israeli civilians, but how exactly do primitive WWII-era munitions consist of an existential threat to one of the strongest militaries in the world?

As for Israel's other neighbors, trade with Israel is a central part of many middle eastern countries' economies, and an attack on Israel would open them up to a devastating air assault, possible nuclear strike, as well as a highly unfavorable military or economic response from the United States and/or Israel's other allies.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 09:07 PM       
I agree with his statement of just letting them duke it out. As long as Americans aren't dying over there I could give a damn. Israel does reserve the right to defend itself, and I hate chicken shit tactics. If you target civilians you deserve to get punched in the fucking mouth.
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Old Jan 8th, 2009, 09:12 PM       
I always wonder just what the hell Israel is exporting anyways.
But anyways, it's like the Balkans or The Caucuses they're just gonna keep fighting forever.

to put it in perspective.
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how exactly do primitive WWII-era munitions consist of an existential threat to one of the strongest militaries in the world?
They're not aimed at military targets, they're aimed at population centers, and kindergartens with a range effecting over 1 million Israelis.

Qassams didn't exist in WW2. They're about ten years old. The Katyushas are modified versions.
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I always wonder just what the hell Israel is exporting anyways.
Not sure where that question came from, but chances are the chips in your computer, the cell phone technology you use, and any instant messenging programs you use were Israeli exports. They're pretty advanced in terms of medicine, agriculture, and technology.
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and banking amirite guys?
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They're not aimed at military targets, they're aimed at population centers, and kindergartens with a range effecting over 1 million Israelis.

Qassams didn't exist in WW2. They're about ten years old. The Katyushas are modified versions.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...mas-qassam.htm
Wouldn't it be more accurate to call Qassam rockets modified versions of Katyushas, which is the name given to the weapons system used in WWII?
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Well I know the Israelies are modern techwise, I was just wondering what they're primary export was.
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Old Jan 9th, 2009, 02:40 AM       
As for exports, you could say they "export" bombs and artillery rounds! Zing!
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Old Jan 9th, 2009, 12:31 PM       
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...an attack on Israel would open them up to a devastating air assault, possible nuclear strike, as well as a highly unfavorable military or economic response from the United States and/or Israel's other allies.
Any of this is better than Israel's ground assault?
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Old Jan 9th, 2009, 04:17 PM       
Well, looks like they've both told the UN to fuck off.
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Wouldn't it be more accurate to call Qassam rockets modified versions of Katyushas, which is the name given to the weapons system used in WWII?
No. It wouldn't be accurate.

And by the way....Bullets are pre-Civil War era technology, but they're still deadly.
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Great point.
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Old Jan 9th, 2009, 04:43 PM       
The Qassam is a half-assed home brewed knockoff of the Katyusha. usually contructed out of sheet metal and old piping. It would most accurately be described as an airborne pipe bomb.

And for the purists, a real Katyusha must also be launched from a Dodge flatbed.
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Old Jan 9th, 2009, 07:11 PM       
Hamas rocket capabilities have hit a range of 22 miles, forcing Israel to evacuate entire cities (shutting down schools, banks, etc.)....but hey, if you want to downplay that.....

http://idfspokesperson.com/2009/01/0...es-9-jan-2009/

They're also using Chinese made long range missiles.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/1...chinese-a.html

Mind you, we don't really know what they have. It's a proxy war at this point.
[qoute]Hezbollah says Israel would be surprised by Hamas rockets [/quote]
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Old Jan 9th, 2009, 10:51 PM       
Well, they probably do have modern military rockets as well, but the Qassam is a homebrew.
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