http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gaza/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 06:19:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419858/posts Gaza terrorists fired two Russian-made 'Grad' rockets at the southern Israeli town of Netivot Thursday night. There are no reports of casualties. Residents said that they heard two explosions. There was no warning siren before the rockets struck. Gaza terrorists fired two mortar shells Wednesday night. They struck an uninhabited area in the Eshkol Regional Council. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419858/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 06:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419485/posts CAIRO – A council of leading Muslim scholars has supported the Egyptian government’s construction of an underground barrier along the border with Gaza to impede tunnelling by smugglers, a report said Friday. The Islamic Research Council of Al-Azhar University, Islam’s highest seat of learning, said that the tunnels were used to smuggle drugs and threatened Egypt’s security, the Al-Masri Al-Yawm newspaper reported. “It is one of Egypt’s legitimate rights to place a barrier that prevents the harm from the tunnels under Rafah, which are used to smuggle drugs and other (contraband) that threaten Egypt’s stability,” the paper quoted the scholars... Saudi Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419485/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418570/posts Candles of Darkness by Ari Bussel It was the last Monday of the year 2009, and at 5PM already dark here in Los Angeles. The weather treated us nicely, so we stood with only one or two layers, signs in our hands (“We Stand with Israel”) along with US and Israeli flags and candles. We were greatly outnumbered, almost five to one. On the other side of the street, just in front the Israeli Consulate building, about 120 anti-Israel protestors, all white-Caucasian, children to the elderly, stood with candles and signs. The darkness and lights of passing cars obliterated them,... "Postcards from Israel - Postcards from America" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418570/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:15:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417869/posts More than 1,000 people from around the world were gathered here on Tuesday for a solidarity march into Gaza despite Egypt’s insistence that the Gaza border crossing that it controls would remain closed to the vast majority of them. The protest, the Gaza Freedom March, was planned for Thursday and intended to mark a year since Israel’s three-week military assault on the territory. On Tuesday, hundreds of the frustrated activists gathered to press their case on the front steps of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate here, holding “Free Gaza” signs and chanting, “Let us go.” Some declared a hunger strike. About... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417869/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:34:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416772/posts More than 400 members of an international aid convoy to Gaza declared a hunger strike on Sunday to protest Egypt's refusal to allow them entry into the Hamas-ruled territory via the Red Sea. Amongst the hunger strikers is an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who came from the U.S. to participate in the planned Gaza Freedom March to commemorate last year's Gaza war. HaAretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416772/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:16:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416098/posts Humanitarian crisis? What crisis? The Arabic-language PalToday website, based in Gaza, recently posted pictures showing a world of plenty for residents, despite more than two years of reports that the area is suffering from a humanitarian crisis. However, its English website for foreign audiences showed a picture of misery, focusing on a girl who wanted her terrorist father freed by Israel. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416098/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:43:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411718/posts A Jewish woman who married an Arab who subsequently tortured her is pleading to the Israeli government to include three of her six Jewish children, trapped in Gaza, in any deal that returns kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411718/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409519/posts Muslim disdain for Christians is so macabre that the Hamas, for example, go to Christian graves along the Gaza strip. Then Muslims dig up the corpses. Why? To pitch them. Read the KORAN http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html Read TRUTH RE MOHAMMED: RAPE, MURDER, MOLESTATION, BEHEADING http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4733940-truth-re-mohammed-rape-murder-molestation-beheading The Magic City Morning Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409519/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408090/posts Britain's relations with Israel have been plunged into crisis after the Jewish state angrily denounced an attempt in London to arrest its former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. The Israeli foreign ministry summoned Tom Phillips, the British ambassador to Tel Aviv, to protest at her treatment and give warning that diplomatic ties had been badly damaged. The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408090/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:46:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407736/posts Monday, December 14, 2009 A Tale of Two Walls By Joseph Farah Egypt is building a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip to cut down on smuggling and penetration by terrorists. When it is finished in 18 months, the super-strength steel wall that cannot be cut or melted will be about seven miles long and extend 60 feet below the ground to inhibit tunnel-digging. It is said to be impenetrable – however, no one doubts that smugglers and terrorists won't try to burrow beneath it. But it is a deterrent – a big deterrent. Interestingly, I... Bible Prohecy Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407736/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:08:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407163/posts Tens of thousands of Palestinians have turned out in the Gaza Strip to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Islamist group Hamas. Supporters filled the streets, waving banners and portraits of assassinated Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The event comes almost a year after a deadly three-week conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Islamist group has controlled Gaza since routing the rival Palestinian Fatah faction from there in June 2007. It is currently engaged in tense mediated negotiations with Israel over the fate of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held in Gaza since June 2006. Under blockade The... bbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407163/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:15:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406938/posts Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. During the meeting, Ahmadinejad told Mashaal that "Iran will always stand by the oppressed people of Palestine," Fars reported. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406938/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:06:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406664/posts "Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries" ... "El Shafie said that between 200-300 million Christians are being persecuted in the world, 80 percent of whom lived in Muslim countries and the rest in communist and other countries" Weasel Zippers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406664/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:11:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403599/posts Statistics provided by the Palestinian Authority show that the so-called blockade of Gaza is far from a blockade. The PA Interior Ministry this week stated that nearly 3,000 Arabs left Gaza for medical care in the last three months. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403599/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:39:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391895/posts The Israel Air Force carried out an air strike against terrorist operations in Gaza overnight in retaliation for a Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev on Saturday. The rocket exploded in the city of Sderot, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office, but caused no injuries or damage. In response, IAF fighter jets targeted and identified hitting two weapons factories in the northern and central regions of Gaza early Sunday. They also struck one smuggling tunnel located in the area of Rafiah, along Gaza's southern border with Egypt. All pilots returned to base safely... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391895/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:24:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391816/posts IAF aircraft bombed two Hamas weapons plants in northern and central Gaza Strip overnight Saturday, as well as an arms smuggling tunnel in the southern Strip. Masked Palestinian terrorists... According to the IDF Spokesperson's Office, the attack was in response to the Kassam rocket launched at Israel on Saturday morning. Palestinian sources said five people were wounded in the attack. On Saturday morning, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit the Sha'ar Hanegev region, causing no casualties or damage. Israel reacted with little enthusiasm to reports on Saturday that Hamas had reached an agreement with other terrorist groups in Gaza... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391816/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:27:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389021/posts GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on Israeli Arabs to abduct Israeli soldiers, but this is the first time that money has been offered. The Waad group from Gaza offered the bounty for Israeli soldiers in an e-mail sent to Palestinian media. The organization, which supports Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, is headed by Hamas' Interior Minister Fathi Hamad. The minister did not return messages seeking comment. http://www.thestate.com/world/story/1033489.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389021/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388642/posts Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before Evans was videotaped directly handing to President Barack Obama a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.The meeting with the Taliban was kept secret by Evans and her group Code Pink in reports she and the group posted from Kabul and in interviews with the media and... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388642/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:27:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387294/posts What did the U.S. military offensive against Shiite militias in Sadr City in April 2008 and the Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza last December have in common? A lot, apparently, and both operations are being held up by their respective militaries as models for a new way of battling irregular fighters in urban strongholds. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus likes to put up a PowerPoint slide in public briefings detailing the forces, intelligence and surveillance assets involved in the Sadr city battles as representative of a new way of fighting. “This is the answer,” Petraeus said at a... Dod Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387294/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:24:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379666/posts Dore Gold Illustrates UN Goldstone Report Bias Against Israel In Brandeis Debate Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ---- November 5, 2009 ..... Israel's defensive war against Hamas terrorism in Gaza moved tonight to the sleepy and tranquil academic halls of Brandeis University. Former Israel UN Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold articulated in the most enlightened manner Israel's right to self-defense against a recognized terror group - Hamas. Justice Richard Goldstone who was appointed to lead the UN Human Rights Council Fact-finding mission on the Israel Gaza Conflict was left stuttering. In all fairness, one could witness that Goldstone is not... Israel News Agency / Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379666/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:52:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379340/posts U.N. Human Rights Council witnesses dramatic face-off when head of controversial UN "fact-finding" mission on Gaza unexpectedly confronted by one of his own witnesses. Dr. Mirela Siderer, an Israeli doctor brutally disfigured by a 2008 rocket attack fired from Gaza into her Ashkelon medical clinic, pointedly accused Judge Richard Goldstone of ignoring her July oral testimony in his report, and of failing to disclose material information concerning the mandate and members of the mission. Both declared Israel guilty in advance. Testimony arranged by the Geneva human rights organization UN Watch. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379340/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378077/posts Israel's military intelligence chief has warned that Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have successfully tested an Iranian rocket that can reach Tel Aviv, the Jewish state's largest urban conurbation. That adds a new urgency to Israel's efforts to develop an effective defensive system capable of shooting down short-range rockets that, if the warning by Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin is correct, are becoming a strategic threat. Yadlin says the rocket has a range of 37 miles, 8 miles longer He did not identify the Iranian system, but there have been reports that Iran has been seeking to smuggle Fajr-5 (Dawn)... UPI via Space War.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378077/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:42:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2373647/posts War Crimes in Gaza or UN Crimes Against Israel? Brandeis University, Thurs., Nov. 5 at 5 p.m. Watch the Debate live at http://www.brandeis.edu/israelcenter/ In what is sure to be a heated debate, South African Judge Richard Goldstone will discuss his report for the first time with a senior Israeli figure. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, will respond to Goldstone in the forum and then both will take questions from the audience. Professor Ilan Troen, who heads the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, said in... Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2373647/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372492/posts Quote: 27 October 2009 MEANWHILE, AT AL-MA'ARK FORUM... ...it is reported that an al-Faloja member was snatched in Gaza (and perhaps another in Saudi Arabia?). Posted on 27 October 2009 @ 13:24 INTERNET-HAGANAH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372492/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:58:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369393/posts The following appeared as an op-ed in Kuwait’s Arab Times. I’ve oft quoted it’s Editor -in-Chief Ahmed al-Jarallah,. He’s no Zionist stooge, gentle reader, and while I oft times disagree with his views I find them fair coming from an Arab editor, in an Arab land. Does Iran want the Palestinian peace process to pass through nuclear reactions? Whenever Egypt expresses its frustration over Hamas activities, demanding that they should deal with it as the largest Arab nation, not as a Palestinian but a Palestinian faction, it shows its despondency. The so-called resistant group has remained adamant for quite a... Arab Times (Kuwait)/Freedom's Cost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369393/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:24:31 GMT