Say, that organization that Jimmy Carter says Israel should deal with because it’s the democratically-elected government of the Palestinians? They just fired rockets at Israeli civilians.
Hamas claimed responsibility Friday for firing two Qassam rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip earlier in the day, for the first time since the militant group seized power in Gaza from Mahmoud Abbas’ rival Fatah movement.
Israel Radio on Saturday quoted the group as saying that the attacks were in response to Israel’s “occupation in Gaza and the [West] Bank,” and were also a warning “to the enemy” over its “aggression.”
One of the rockets hit an intersection and a second fell in an empty field, but no one was hurt, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Say, what exactly were those rockets in “retaliation” for?
Israel sent infantry, tanks and bulldozers into Gaza on Thursday while militants laid mines and fired mortars at soldiers at the Erez passenger crossing between Israel and Gaza.
Nine militants were killed in clashes in and around the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, hospital officials said. Hamas identified six as its fighters, while three remained unidentified. Among the dead was Mohammed Siam, 37, the Hamas field commander in central Gaza, Hamas TV said.
Later in the day, missiles launched by Israeli aircraft killed two more Hamas men, the group said.
Ohhh. The IDF was clearing out terrorists with rocket launchers. Go figure.
Okay, Jimmy Carter, now what should Israel do? Ask Hamas to pretty please stop sending airborne bombs at innocents? Because talking has worked so well in the past. Well, no, it hasn’t—but your side pretends that it has. The only thing that seems to work is, well, exactly the operation that pissed Hamas off: Go in, clear out the rocket launchers (the metal and the human ones) and get out. The next best thing: A Hellfire missile up the asses of a car full of rocket launchers. Either one works for me.
You’re being unfair to Carter, Meryl. In fact he has had specific advice to Israel for just such occasions as this.
Since Hamas wouldn’t be doing this except for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, all Israel has to do is withdraw from the West Bank.
That will satisfy Hamas’s complaints and peace will reign over the area. At least according to Carter it will.
Why single out Carter? There’s at least a dozen Democrats running for President in 2008 that are just as dense when it comes to Foreign Policy.
Robert
“Okay, Jimmy Carter, now what should Israel do?”
Go back to Auschwitz, that’s what Carter would like Israel to do. He’s as anitsemitic as Buchanan, Duke and Farrakhan.