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Breaking News: Israel to ease blockade of Gaza
BBC News ^ | 21 January 2008

Posted on 01/21/2008 9:17:45 AM PST by Aristotelian

The Israeli government has said it will allow medicines and some power plant fuel into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, easing a controversial blockade. Defence Minister Ehud Barak agreed to ease the curbs hours after the territory's sole power plant shut down, plunging Gaza City into darkness.

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1 posted on 01/21/2008 9:17:45 AM PST by Aristotelian
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To: Aristotelian

Olmert wins the milquetoast prize for the day, backing down like that, and inviting Hamas to resume its rocket attacks on Israel.


2 posted on 01/21/2008 9:20:17 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: Aristotelian

Bad move.


3 posted on 01/21/2008 9:21:28 AM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: Aristotelian
The EU says Israel is "collectively punishing" the Hamas-run territory.

Euroweenies...its not their citizens in small border towns facing the threats of Q-rockets launched helter-skelter into those neighborhoods.

4 posted on 01/21/2008 9:28:20 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Aristotelian
Idiot. It was just announced today that UN was going withdraw from giving help to the Gaza until conditions 'improved'.
5 posted on 01/21/2008 9:32:25 AM PST by AU72
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To: Aristotelian

Good guys 0, bad guys 1. This seems to become the trend in world politics.


6 posted on 01/21/2008 9:34:10 AM PST by 353FMG (Vote for the Person who will do the least damage to our country.)
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To: Aristotelian
Imagine easing the blockades of Japan and Germany during WWII...

Foolish.

7 posted on 01/21/2008 9:38:22 AM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: Aristotelian
The Israeli government has said it will allow medicines and some power plant fuel into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, easing a controversial blockade.

Yet the rockets being launched into Israel aren't controversial at all.

8 posted on 01/21/2008 9:39:52 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: 3AngelaD
Gutless. I suppose the rockets into Israel will continue. What was the point in the first place ?
9 posted on 01/21/2008 9:43:24 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Aristotelian

If the rockets keep flying into Israel then Israel should publically announce that they will no longer make incursions into Gaza. Instead, they will stay in their own territory and start launching rockets on Gaza, randomly and at a ratio of 5 to one... for every Q rocket coming from Gaza, Israel will launch 5 of its own unguiided rockets into Gaza. They will land wherever they land.


10 posted on 01/21/2008 9:49:44 AM PST by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: Aristotelian
Gee, does this mean if they keep firing rockets they can get everything they want now?

Israel, what happened the thee.....

11 posted on 01/21/2008 9:52:19 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Aristotelian

Israel seems much less concerned with the lives of its citizens than it does about being called nasty names by the UN.


12 posted on 01/21/2008 9:53:37 AM PST by joebuck
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To: Aristotelian

Breaking News: Israel to ease blockade of Gaza....

more breaking news.....the f’n pali muzzie terrorists hae resumed firing rockets into Israel!!!!

olmert is such a f’n dope!!!!


13 posted on 01/21/2008 11:17:48 AM PST by nyyankeefan
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