AVO Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 (edited) Gazans knock down border, flee to Egypt Gazans destroy wall, pour into Egypt Israel Wants To Starve Innocent Gazans To Death Group of Gazans arrives in Jordan for free medical treatment Edited January 24, 2008 by Yervant1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Avo, I was reading about this story on MSNBC just a couple of minutes ago, but still didn't have a clue what this thread was about when I read "Gazans"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashot Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Avo, chishtel grelen Gazan, ba chishta sagh endegh gazanen, namanavand et israeltsiq... bayts lsi jogeles vor israel anun@ shat motka ismael anunin... there is somesing fishy going on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVO Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 From wikipedia Ishmael is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Quran. Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers regard Ishmael as the Abraham's eldest son http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashot Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 told you something is funny going on in here!!! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elle Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 The West tried Slobodan Milosevic for alleged "genocide" when the NATO was bombing the same Serbs and Albanians were murdering Serbs and destroying Serbian Orthodox churches, but no one is willing to try Ariel Sharon and his Zionist gang in Hague for their crimes agains the Palestinians....Gaza is an example. Can't belive people can sustain themselves in these types of living conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVO Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 You know the funny name aside, I really feel bad for the Palestinians, at least Egypt says that its not gonna close the border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashot Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 I feel sorry for them too, they do need some type of a help from outside sources... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elle Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 (edited) All the Arab countries only like to talk out of their a$$es as far as I'm concerned! They claim they're all brothers, but they can't even assist their Palestinian brothers, especially in Gaza, since it's the poorest Palestinian occupied territory. The unemployment has been sky rocketing for the past decade I think. Can't belive how these Arab politicians and the kings/sheiks alike are sitting under so much oil and having all that leverage because of their oil reserves are failing in humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians. I know that Hezbollah has done some type of humanitarian work, but it's definitely not enough. None of these oil rich Arab countries are lifting fingers on fixing the povery situation among the Palestinians. They can easily help out through Hamas and Hezbollah, but in larger scale! Arabs are not smart politicians. With so much oil and leverage, they managed to get their 3 Arab a$$es kicked during the Israeli wars they waged and LOST it! How embarrassing for them! Now all they do is whine about Israel, but they're not even lifting their finger when just recently Israel yet again managed to bomb Lebanon! If that isn't a major failure on the Arab side, then I don't know what is! They should stop their whining about Israel when they can't even collectively do something...couldn't do it before and won't be able to do it in the future. Just remembered while typing this.... wasn't it Egypt that ended up signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1970's I think (1979?)......well that just goes to show you how hypocritical even the Arab nations are and all they do is talk big, but each of them is covering their own a$$es. If they're not willing to support each other, then no need to call each other brothers or see themselves as one people because they're sure not acting like one. Saudi Arabia's position just amazes me....not in a good way of course! Edited January 24, 2008 by elle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyethga Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 The Գազանs or Arabs from Gaza? Me so confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armenak Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Arabs are not smart politicians. With so much oil and leverage, they managed to get their 3 Arab a$$es kicked during the Israeli wars they waged and LOST it! How embarrassing for them! Now all they do is whine about Israel, but they're not even lifting their finger when just recently Israel yet again managed to bomb Lebanon! If that isn't a major failure on the Arab side, then I don't know what is! They should stop their whining about Israel when they can't even collectively do something...couldn't do it before and won't be able to do it in the future. With a little Anglo-American help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVO Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 (edited) The Գազանs or Arabs from Gaza? Me so confused. News agencies are calling Arabs of Gaza - Gazans. And the Gazans are doing gazan things, like tearing down walls to get food. Edited January 27, 2008 by AVO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyethga Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I keed, i keed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-47 Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 (edited) Yesterday: --------------------------------- Israel warns Palestinians of 'holocaust' Deputy Israeli Defence Minister Matan Vilnai said today the Palestinians would bring on themselves a "bigger holocaust" by stepping up rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip. Israeli air strikes on the coastal territory, controlled by Hamas, have killed at least 32 Palestinians, including five children, in the past two days. Israel said it was responding to rocket fire by Gaza militants, which killed one Israeli in the southern border town of Sderot on Wednesday, and it threatened to launch a larger-scale offensive unless the barrage stopped. "The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Mr Vilnai told Army Radio. "Holocaust" is a term rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War Two, and many Israelis would not use the word to describe other contemporary events. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has so far been wary of starting a major ground offensive, which could incur heavy casualties and derail US-backed peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. But domestic pressure is growing for such as move. Source: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/...ng1.html?via=me Edited March 2, 2008 by AK-47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-47 Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Today: -------------------------------- Israel Takes Gaza Fight to Next Level in a Day of Strikes GAZA — Israeli aircraft and troops attacked Palestinian positions in northern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 54 people and wounding more than 100 in the deadliest day of fighting in more than a year. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded, the military said. Hamas militants staked out positions in the northern Gaza Strip during an incursion by Israeli troops on Saturday. The Israeli attacks, mostly from the air on a clear, bright day, were aimed at stopping rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, the Israelis said, especially after Ashkelon, a large city 10 miles from Gaza, came under fire from more advanced, Katyusha-style rockets of Iranian design. Half the dead were reported to be Hamas gunmen or those belonging to affiliated groups like Islamic Jihad. But at least 19 Palestinian civilians also died in the heavily populated area, including four children, according to Dr. Moawiya Hassanain of the Gazan Health Ministry. More than 80 Palestinians have died since fighting surged on Wednesday; an Israeli died in Sderot from a rocket, and six Israelis were wounded Saturday from rocket strikes in Ashkelon. The fighting brought harsh criticism from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, who reportedly threatened to call off negotiations with Israel over a peace treaty. “We tell the world: watch and judge what’s happening, and judge who is committing international terrorism,” Mr. Abbas said in Ramallah, on the West Bank. Mr. Abbas, who has referred to the rocket firing as useless provocation, said last week that armed conflict remained an option if negotiations failed. An Israeli spokesman, David Baker, said that Israel was conducting “defensive measures” to protect its civilians from rocket fire against cities, which Mr. Baker called terrorism. “We have over 200,000 Israelis in range of Palestinian rockets. We cannot allow this to go on. These rocket attacks on Israelis are sheer terror, designed to kill or maim as many Israelis as possible.” The Israeli deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, said the military was engaged in “an enlarged operation and not a major ground operation” of the type Israeli politicians have been pressing for. Mr. Vilnai told Israel Radio that “we are using mostly air units” and that Israeli forces “are permanently engaged in Gaza, and what we are doing now is within the scope of such activities.” On Friday, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, which also means catastrophe, Mr. Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe if the rocket firing continued. After something of a lull on Friday, about two dozen rockets landed in Israel on Saturday, including seven Katyusha-style rockets that struck in or near Ashkelon, lightly wounding a woman and two children just after midnight. Saturday afternoon, another rocket hit the Ashkelon marina shopping center, wounding three others, the Israeli military said. Israeli troops began their operation just after midnight, concentrating on a hilly area near crowded Jabaliya, within two miles of the Gazan border, where many of the rockets have been launched from among the civilian population. Late Saturday, the Israeli military confirmed that two soldiers had been killed and that seven others, including an officer, had been wounded. In Gaza on Friday, Hussein Dardouna, 50, was burying his son, Omar, 14, killed while playing with his friends by an Israeli strike aimed at a rocket-launching team. “I couldn’t identify the body of my son,” he said. “It was very hard until I found the head of my son. I’m against these rockets, but I am afraid. What can I do? If I protest they will hit me, they will kill me.” A woman at the funeral said: “Everyone is afraid now. Where is Abu Mazen, where is Haniya?” she asked, referring to Mr. Abbas and the Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniya. “Come and protect us.” Another woman, fully veiled, and a Hamas supporter, yelled at a reporter for asking questions. Neither woman would agree to be identified. The Israeli operation killed at least 10 fighters from Hamas, which has run Gaza since it drove out Fatah forces in fierce internal fighting last June. The dead included the son of a Hamas legislator, Muhammad Shihab. Most residents hid in their homes. The Palestinian dead on Saturday included at least four children, two of whom, brother and sister, 11 and 12, respectively, died in their beds from shrapnel, medics said. Hamas said that one girl, Malak Karfaneh, 6, died Friday night from an Israeli strike on Beit Hanun in northern Gaza, but residents said that a Palestinian rocket had fallen short and landed near the house. Israeli officials say that up to half of Palestinian rockets — mostly crude, inaccurate Qassams — fall inside Gaza. But when Hamas broke open the border with Egypt, Israeli officials say, the militants were able to bring in more of the manufactured Katyusha-style rockets as well as antitank missiles and concrete, for building fortifications. The United Nations agency that deals with Palestinian refugees closed down the 37 schools it runs in northern Gaza. “We are living in the middle of the battle zone,” Rami Muhammad Ali, 21, told Reuters by phone from Jabaliya. “We wanted to flee the house, but we’ve been trapped since last night.” He described the scene, saying, “Rockets and missiles are whistling by all the time, and the building has been shaken by mines the Palestinians are setting off against the Israeli soldiers.” A Hamas military spokesman who calls himself Abu Obeida said, “The Zionist forces have failed in Gaza before.” Hamas, under some political pressure from the effective isolation of Gaza and deteriorating conditions there, seems to be trying to lure Israel into a major ground operation. The Israelis have been cautious, with little desire to reoccupy Gaza and take full responsibility for its 1.5 million inhabitants, nearly 70 percent of them refugees or their descendants. The Israeli security cabinet will meet during the week to discuss Gaza, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arriving as well. She has defended Israel’s right to defend itself but has urged restraint. A major Israeli operation would most likely put a crimp in American-sponsored peace talks between Mr. Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/world/mi...?ref=middleeast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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