Hamas launches attacks...Israel responds....Hamas claims Israel is causing hardships.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
We used to have kids like Hamas in grade school. You know the type...they’d pick on you, trip you in the hall, goad you into a fight and when you finally had enough, you’d punch the daylights out of him.
The next day, you’ve been suspended and are facing legal action.
Last I checked, Gaza shares a 10 mile border with Egypt and has a 25 mile Mediterranean coastline.
Israel should immediate install two Phalanx “C-RAM” defensive systems to protect Sderot. Though it has been observed elsewhere they they are probably concentrating them in the North to protect against Hezbollah’s far more lethal katyusha rockets.
Firing 20mm airburst rounds, one or two Phalanx C-RAMs would make Gaza rockets useless against Sderot. The biggest problem is that they are very noisy.
How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb?
None—they would rather sit in the dark and blame the Jews.
Similar headlines: Big Media and Democratic Party create financial crisis, blame George Bush.
The Palestinians got an independant state in Gaza. They voted in Hamas. Why should Israel supply either Hamas or the people who voted them in anything?
The United States had a Congress that passed mortgage ‘fairness’ lending laws that is causing the subprime meltown. Greedy Wall St. types and members of our government we either hire or vote in further manipulated and fleeced the system.
Now domestic and global investors are reacting by putting their money elsewhere. Unless you are one of the above who created this problem then your like me, suffering through others bad choices as part of a system of government known as a nation.
So now that I am suffering economically, should I have a camera man come in, takes some video, air it nationally and then blame Canada for my suffering because we share trade and some ethical heritage with the Canadians?
No, We the People voted the bums into the White House and we will vote them out. And if that is not enough, we know what to do after that point to force accounability and freedom back into our nation.
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Abdel Rahman Rashed, a Saudi national serving as general manager of the pan-Arab Arabiya news channel, said Hamas was responsible for the suffering of some 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
"Hamas committed a stupid act when it gave the Israelis an excuse to launch attacks in retaliation for a few antique rockets," Rashed wrote in the London-based daily Asharq Al- Awsat.
"Prior to that, Hamas committed a big crime against the Palestinian people by overthrowing the Palestinian Authority [in the Gaza Strip]. The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have suffered a lot because of Hamas's actions. Hamas is bringing Israel back into the Gaza Strip after it was liberated by the Palestinian groups."
Rashed questioned the wisdom of firing rockets and mortars at Israel which, he said, was only increasing the suffering of the Palestinians, let alone that they were not causing much harm to Israel. He pointed out that "only" 10 Israelis were wounded in the recent attacks as opposed to the "huge disaster" that has befallen the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Rashed is regarded by many Arab journalists as an unofficial spokesman for the Saudi royal family. He previously served as editor-in-chief of the Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper and his writings regularly reflect the views of the Saudi establishment.
PA officials in Ramallah have joined the bandwagon by blaming Hamas for the looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The charges came only hours after the PA openly held Israel responsible for the fuel shortage that has plunged large parts of the Gaza Strip into darkness since Sunday night.
PA Information Minister Riad al-Malki said the latest crisis was the result of Hamas's "insistence on creating an Islamic republic in the Gaza Strip." He also accused Hamas of seeking to evade responsibility for the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip by blaming the Ramallah-based government of PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad.
Both Fayad and al-Malki left Ramallah Monday for a tour of a number of EU countries aimed at solving the crisis in the Gaza Strip. According to PA officials, the two are expected to visit Britain, Germany and Spain.
A top PA official in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post that Hamas was "holding more than 1.5 million Palestinians hostage" in an attempt to rally the Arab and Muslim masses against the PA and Israel.
"Of course, we strongly condemn the Israeli measures against the residents of the Gaza Strip, but Hamas is also responsible for what's happening there," he said. "Unfortunately, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are paying a heavy price for Hamas's irresponsible actions."
The official also accused Hamas of ordering owners of bakeries to keep their businesses closed for the second day running to create a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. "Hamas is preventing people from buying bread," he said. "They want to deepen the crisis so as to serve their own interests."
The official said that contrary to Hamas's claims, there is enough fuel and flour to keep the bakeries in the Gaza Strip operating for another two months. "Hamas members have stolen most of the fuel in the Gaza Strip to fill their vehicles," he said.