Posted on 12/31/2008 11:01:46 AM PST by gandalftb
TEL AVIV — Four days into Israel's bombing of Hamas targets in Gaza, one hit in particular -- Sunday night's attack on Islamic University.
Islamic University was more than just a learning institution; it also was a Hamas Qassam rocket manufacturing facility, an outpost, a center for weapons research and development and a Hamas storage facility.
"Because of what was happening there, it lost its civilian status immunity," Robbie Sabel, former legal adviser to Israel's Foreign Ministry, told FOX News.
"The Islamic University is a gathering place for young militants and it has been for many, many years," U.S. Army Major General Robert Scales (Ret.) told FOX News.
International security expert and FOX News contributor Wahid Phrares said leaving the university intact would lead to its graduates being recruited by Hamas into its various wings or international institutions.
"In a sense, the university or some of its departments, believe observers, play the role of a hidden Madrass," Phares said.
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The Islamic University is under complete Hamas control both faculty and students. There were not only regular academic studies but also military, explosives, and jihadist training.
Hamas mastermind Yahya Ayyash, in 1995, hid in the university for several months while being pursued by Israel for numerous suicide bombings in the 90's.
http://stoprapingpalestine.blogspot.com/2008/12/israel-blows-up-major-university-in.html
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/wheres-the-academic-outrage-over-the-bombing-of-a-university-in-gaza/
Israel needs to level Gaza, literally. Bulldoze the whole place into the Mediterranean Sea and be done with them. Let them live in tents and crap in holes in the sand.............
I’m happy to see Israel finally saying “enough.”
Following is a list of dates, places where demonstrations against Israel are scheduled across the UK.
Thursday 010109 -
BRISTOL - 5pm to 6pm. Centre, opposite the Hippodrome
LONDON - 2pm to 4pm. Outside Israeli Embassy, Kensington High Street, London, W4. Nearest tube Kensington High Street (turn right out of tube station and walk along the main road.
Friday 010209 -
BRISTOL - 5pm to 6pm. Centre, opposite the Hippodrome
LONDON - 2pm to 4pm. Outside the Egyptian Embassy, 26 South Street, London, W1K 1DW.
MANCHESTER - 5pm to 7pm. Piccadilly Gardens. Vigil and leafleting.
Saturday 010309 -
BRADFORD 1pm. Infirmary Fields, Bradford - March and City Centre rally
BRISTOL - 3pm to 4pm. Centre, opposite the Hippodrome.
DURHAM - Assemble 10.45am for 11am start. Gaza protest march from Millennium Square (Gala Theatre) through Durham to Cathedral.
EDINBURGH - 12 Noon. Foot of the Mound, Princes Street.
EXETER - 12 Noon at Bedford Square, Exeter High Street Bring flowers and wear black if you can One minute vigils every half hour Well have petitions, leaflets, banners etc. Join in with friends, relatives, EVERYONE!!
GLASGOW - 12 Noon. Outside Lloyds TSB St Vincent Street, then assemble for demo at Blytheswood Square at 2pm
HASTINGS - 3pm Vigil in Harold Place.
HULL - 11am. Queen Victoria Square.
LIVERPOOL - 12 Noon to 2pm St. Lukes Church - top of Bold Street.
LONDON (Major Rally) - 12.30pm onwards. Demonstration and rally: Assemble at Parliament Square/Embankment, SW1. Nearest tube Westminster.
MANCHESTER - Assemble: 12 noon on Cavendish St, All Saints Park on Oxford Rd. Manchester (further down from the BBC) March through city centre to Albert Square.
NEWCASTLE - 12 Noon to 2pm Greys Monument in Newcastle.
NORWICH - 12 Noon to 1pm, Outside St. Peter Mancroft Church in the Millennium Library Square
PORTSMOUTH - 11am. Guildhall Square. Organised by Portsmouth Network for a Just Settlement of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Portsmouth Stop the War Coalition.
SHEFFIELD - Assemble at 12 Noon. Outside Sheffield Town Hall.
TUNBRIDGE WELLS - 12 Noon. Tunbridge Wells shopping precinct
YORK - 1pm. St. Sampsons Square in York.
Hamas made a major blunder by refusing passage of Fatah pilgrims to Mecca recently. Remember Hamas is almost entirely Shia, this is a unspoken background to theis conflict and the reason why Sunni's are privately celebrating Israel's response to the constant rocket attacks.
I couldn’t agree more. I would have suggested a neutron bomb but that would also kill the animals who are completely innocent. Your recommendation is much better.
This fight will never end and a two-state solution will never happen until Hamas is finished.
A two-state solution will never happen. Period. End of story. If it would have worked, Arafat would have accepted it way back when. They want ALL of Israel, not just the West Bank and Gaza, ALL OF IT! Why can’t anybody else see this? Or are they all cowards?........
Bulldozers, lined up, blade to blade, for miles and miles.........Gentlemen, Start your engines!..............
Something to ponder.
Plus the Israelis also bombed a Mosque in Gaza.
The resulting explosion was quite spectacular, many times more than the ordnance employed would cause.
Mosques=Islamic Munitions Storage
That place was no more a “university” than most PA areas are “refugee camps”. Period.
And the MMM have the gall to keep repeating the asinine fiction that Israel is deliberately targeting civilians.
Any home, school, hotel, hospital, mosque that houses and warehouses weapons of war loses all protections of the rules of civilized war.
There is not now, or ever been any question about that, morally or legally.
Yasser would never have accepted the two state solution because he went against the grain of his little Nazi character. What Yasser was a MASTER at was dangling the POSSIBILITY that he would accept the two state solution at some point, if conditions were right, then he’d send a few homocide bombers into Israel, wait for reprisals, then claim that the Palis were the victims of Zionist aggression. The question SHOULD be: why did people repeatedly fall for THAT lie??
President Bush knew a two state solution was impossible, too. His idea was to get the Palis to accept, and then let them face international law when they went back to homicide as usual.
Go Bibi, keep getting that message out.
Hamas made a major blunder by refusing passage of Fatah pilgrims to Mecca recently. Remember Hamas is almost entirely Shia, this is a unspoken background to theis conflict and the reason why Sunni's are privately celebrating Israel's response to the constant rocket attacks.No it isn't. Hamas is sunni. Hezbollah is shi'ite. Both are backed by Iran which shows that necessity makes strange bedfellows.
Exactly.
The Palestinian's plight is self-induced and perpetuated by fellow Arabs.
No.
Blind deaf and dumb.
And it applies to both hammasses and the al-Fatah.
Even a 5-year-old, or any regular idiot can understand the significance of the "palestinian" flag!
Why?
Are you a muslim sympathizer?
Might as well waste time reviewing Nazi propaganda from the 30s...
"This is the future of Islam: Defeated, humiliated, fed to the pigs, and forgotten.".
Now, that would be a great sight....call it the Rachel Corrie Brigade...
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