Israel plans attack on Gaza

[december]

The Times on line reports:

ISRAEL’s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there.

According to senior Israeli military sources, the plan calls for 20,000 troops to destroy much of Hamas’s military capability in days.

The raid would be triggered by Hamas rocket attacks against Israel or a resumption of suicide bombings.

Barak, who is expected to become defence minister tomorrow, has already demanded detailed plans to deploy two armoured divisions and an infantry division, accompanied by assault drones and F-16 jets, against Hamas.

The Israeli forces would expect to be confronted by about 12,000 Hamas fighters with arms confiscated from the Fatah faction that they defeated in last week’s three-day civil war in Gaza.

Details of the plan emerged as Fatah forces in the West Bank stormed Hamas-run buildings, including the parliament in Ramallah, where they tried to seize the deputy speaker.

Israeli officials believe their forces would face even tougher resistance in Gaza than they encountered during last summer’s war against Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

A source close to Barak said that Israel could not tolerate an aggressive “Hamastan” on its border and an attack seemed unavoidable.

“The question is not if but how and when,” he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1942918.ece


Well, apparently the will of Palestinian people to ellect Hamas members goes against the plans of USA and Israel...

[december]

The Old Testament (or Tanakh) is a set of Jewish laws which the Jews MUST obey.
So, let's open the Old Testament and read what it says:

Deuteronomy, 20:10-16

When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.

When the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, put to the sword all the men in it. As for women, the children, the livestock and eveything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.


Gaza is already under siege...

Israel allows first food into Gaza since Hamas takeover

19/06/2007 06:02:02 PM GMT

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel allowed 12 truckloads of desperately needed food and medicines to cross into Gaza Tuesday in the first real easing of the blockade it imposed after Hamas's takover of the impoverished territory.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=13049

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9810/18/mideast.summit.01/israel.jerus.gaza.map.lg.jpg

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/01/xin_52020201085149265692.jpg

Palestinian women mourn over the body of a 10-year-old girl during her funeral in Rafah refugee camp January 31,2005. Israeli army gunfire killed Noran Deeb in a schoolyard in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses said, in an incident that clouded a new spirit of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/01/content_414001.htm


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Five Palestinians killed Thursday in ongoing Israeli invasion of Balata refugee camp
by Kole on Thu 23 Feb 2006

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http://intothemiddleeast.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2006/2/23/1780676.html

[december]

How Israelis Torture Captives
'Now you are paralyzed, as we promised'

By Gideon Levy

"We have to make you do a little sports," the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture. The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his feet. He sits in his wheelchair, dressed in a fashionable quasi-military suit, super-elegant, new Caterpillar-brand shoes on his paralyzed feet.

"I love this color," he says about his uniform. "It's the color of the soldiers who came to arrest me for the interrogation that did all this to me."

His smile is captivating, his Hebrew rich and incisive. He is a young man whose world fell apart. He entered prison sound of body and mind and emerged a broken man. For four days and four nights nonstop, he says, he was interrogated and subjected to torture of the most brutal kind. The result is the person we see before us in the wheelchair, in the elegant home high in the village of Saida, north of Tul Karm, which was placed at his disposal by a friend after he was released from Israeli prison a month ago.

Was there a judgment by the High Court of Justice? There was. It banned precisely the types of torture he underwent: the "banana posture," the "shabah" (body stretching with hands tied to a chair), "invisible" blows and the "frog posture" (being forced to stand for hours on the toes in a crouching position) - all the way to a vicious kick to his chest that bent his body backward while he was tied to a chair with his arms and legs, and which was the probable cause of the partial paralysis of his legs.

Throwing up with the vomit entering his nostrils, losing consciousness and being given only saltwater to drink, relieving himself in his pants, not sleeping or resting - all of that for four consecutive days and nights.

READ MORE -

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/871239.html



A qoute from the Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 7:1-3:

When the Lord your God brigs you (THE JEWS) into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you. When the Lord your God hands these nations over to you (THE JEWS) and you conqure them, you must completely destroy them.

Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy.

Source - Deuteronomy 7:1-3, the Old Testament.