Tuesday - June 27, 2006

Showdown!

Memo To Paleosimians: The Israelis aren’t kidding this time. I’m afraid you have finally crossed the line in the sand with this ridiculous tunnel and raid that killed two Israeli soldiers and kidnapped a third. If Corporal Shalit is not returned promptly, unharmed, without a scratch on him then you might be able to talk your way out of this mess. Otherwise there will be a sound like thunder as the tanks roll across the desert and all over your miserable ass. I can’t put it any clearer than that.

I truly don’t believe the Israeli government can afford to back down on this one. The Paleosimians have been ankle-biting the Israelis for too long and this latest act has enraged the Jews. What we’re about to see is going to be Old Testament “wrath of God” type stuff unless the Pallies come clean and back off. I can’t say I blame the Israelis for finally having enough of these dimwitted asshats. It is time to send a clear message to the Pallies. An eye for an eye ... and then some.

Israel Masses Forces Near Gaza
_{January 27, 2006 08:20AM ET}

NIZMIT HILL, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli tanks and troops massed near Gaza on Tuesday for a threatened offensive against Palestinian militants as the government said it would target Hamas leaders if an abducted soldier was not freed.

In northern Gaza, Palestinians blocked roads with dirt and barbed wire. Militants wielding automatic rifles and anti-tank rockets rigged explosive devices along a road as tensions hit their highest since Israel quit Gaza nearly a year ago.

The United States urged Israel to give diplomatic negotiations a chance to win the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was seized on Sunday by militants who also killed two soldiers in a raid on a military border post.

Israel said leaders of the ruling Hamas movement could become assassination targets, including the group’s supreme chief Khaled Meshaal who lives in exile in Damascus. Hamas’s armed wing says it carried out Sunday’s attack with other factions but has not said it was holding Shalit.

“They have to understand one thing, that nobody is immune, including Khaled Meshaal,” cabinet minister and former general Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said on Army Radio. Clutching an AK-47 assault rifle, Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, warned: “The enemy will regret the moment they raid Gaza. The price will be so heavy.”

At Nizmit Hill, just across from northern Gaza, around 100 Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers faced the coastal strip. Officials have not said when troops might go in. Israeli media said the government had approved a contingency plan to cut food, water and gas supplies to the
Gaza Strip if the conscript was not freed. Israel has shut Gaza’s crossings.

Hamas’s armed wing and the other factions involved in the raid, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and the Islamic Army, have said Israel would not get information about Shalit unless it freed all jailed Palestinian women and youths. Israel has rejected the demand.

- More on this story at Yahoo News ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/27/2006 at 09:14 AM   
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