Cease-fire? What cease-fire?
Published Wed, Dec 27 2006 4:22 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, War on Terror
Is it a cease-fire if all sides don't stop shooting? Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a truce with Israel, but they're not the only terrorists in the neighborhood. Islamic Jihad has been deliberately trying to sabotage the truce, and they promise to step up their efforts if Israel strikes back. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (supposedly loyal to Fatah) is also not honoring the truce... From Haaretz:
The Iranian-backed militant group Islamic Jihad is firing Qassam rockets at Israel with the intention of sabotaging the month-long Gaza truce and provoking Israeli retaliation, members of the group said Wednesday.
"That's one of the main reason for resuming [rocket] attacks," said Abu Ahmad, a spokesman for the group.
Meanwhike [sic] two rockets fired at Israel Wednesday evening landed south of Ashkelon. There were no injuries or damages in either incident.
An Islamic Jihad rocket attack Tuesday evening on the nearby Negev town of Sderot seriously wounded two 14-year-old boys and triggered the Israeli decision to resume targeting the rocket squads.
In the wake of the Tuesday night strike on Sderot, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Wednesday morning instructed the Israel Defense Forces to resume pinpoint operations targeting rocket launching cells in Gaza.
A short time later, another Qassam rocket struck an open area north of the western Negev town, causing no damage or injuries.
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According to the Prime Minister's Office statement, the IDF has also been instructed to uphold the cease-fire in general. "In parallel, Israel will continue to maintain the ceasefire and work with the Palestinian Authority so that immediate steps are taken to halt the Qassam firings."
Government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said Israel would do its best to preserve the truce, even while attacking rocket-launching cells. "Israel has shown restraint," she said. "Israel will continue to be restrained, and we will only take pinpointed action against the launching cells."
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Islamic Jihad, however, threatened to increase the rocket fire in response to the decision.
"Stop the attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip immediately or expect more rockets on Sderot and on Ashkelon and beyond," warned a leaflet issued by Saraya al-Quds, the military arm of Islamic Jihad.
"There will be no truce with the Israeli enemy at the expense of the blood of our people," the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also threatened, the semi-official, semi-independent armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas' opposition Fatah party.
So Islamic Jihad has said that they have begun attacking Israel to provoke a response. At the same time Islamic Jihad has said that if Israel responds to those attacks, they will fire even more rockets. Israel can't win as far as Islamic Jihad is concerned, without responding with total war. The only way that Israel will see peace from Islamic Jihad is when every member of Islamic Jihad is realizing the truth through experience -- There are no virgins awaiting them in Hell.
How long will it be before Tehran owns up to their responsibility in pushing this war of aggression against Israel? Time and again Israel has tried to make peace with the Palestinians only to have that peace threatened by militant terrorists that can't be negotiated with, both from inside and outside Palestine. How much longer must this go on before the world sees the truth?
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting. You can bet that it won't be too long before someone at the United Nations twists this bit of news into yet another resolution condemning Israel. It probably won't be long before President Carter or David Duke calls the restrained actions the IDF takes against the rocket launching cells "unprovoked".
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 | Great post Perri...A-rabs wont relent until Israel and America are no more..cease fire?..Ha! |
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