I have not commented, of late, on the situation in Israel and seemingly endless barrage of rockets and mortars that the Hamas led government in the Gaza strip insist on sending over the border into Israel on a daily basis.Reading reports like this one from the BBC makes me wonder just how much longer Israel will put up with such acts of aggression?
No shortage’
Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for Israel’s defence ministry, insisted the power station had enough fuel to continue functioning.
Israel says border closures will stop if the rocket attacks end
“If they shut it down, it’s not because of a fuel shortage, but because they want to create the impression of a crisis,” he said.
He described the closure of the power station as “not comfortable but not a humanitarian crisis”.
Israel, which shut the borders on Thursday, has reduced the flow of petrol used in cars and diesel to the strip but says fuel oil and cooking gas are not affected.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said the border closures were intended to apply pressure to the Palestinian authorities to stop militants in Gaza firing rockets at Israel.
“If they stop the rockets today, everything would go back to normal,” he said.
More than 200 rockets and mortars have hit Israel from Gaza since an Israeli operation against militants on Tuesday which left 18 Palestinians dead, the military says.
Israeli ministers meeting on Sunday decided to maintain the border closure for the time being, an unnamed source told AFP news agency.
Hamas said its attacks on Israel would not cease because of the sanctions.
“We will not raise the white flag and we will not surrender,” spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told the London-based independent Quds Press web news agency.
The thing that occurs to me is that when you are dealing with a regime. like Hamas, whose leaders have a medieval mindset then you have to be prepared to use a medieval methodology to get them to stop. There is no more appropriate method than to besiege them and starve then into surrender. The jihadists in power in Gaza have repeatedly demonstrated that they are unwilling to negotiate in good faith, or to keep any agreements that have been made by previous Palestinian regimes so I really can’t see any thing other than a military solution to this situation…
But going by the whining from the usual minions of the left at the current, very limited retaliations by the IDF, one can only suggest that when the IDF does finally do what seems necessary ( to wipe out Hamas, and Islamic jihad) that all sensible people should invest in some good ear plugs.
Cheers Comrades
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‘Hamas ’spent months cutting through Gaza wall in secret operation’
The wall had already been sliced through before the explosions brought it down
James Hider at the Rafah border crossing
As tens of thousands of Palestinians clambered back and forth between the Gaza strip and Egypt today, details emerged of the audacious operation that brought down a hated border wall and handed the Islamist group Hamas what might be its greatest propaganda coup.
Hamas, which took control of the coastal territory last June after a stand-off with Fatah, has denied that its men set off the explosions that brought down as much as two-thirds of the 12-km wall in the early hours.
But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches….
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Among those returning were Osama Hassan, 25, who went shopping with his 17-year-old fiancee Sarah for their wedding essentials. He bought a special mattress for his injured back; she brought kitchen supplies.
“I’m Fatah, but today, I wish I could see (Hamas prime minister Ismail) Haniya and kiss his forehead, because without the gunmen doing this, we would have been stuck in the Gaza Strip,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3238615.ece