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    Israel Confirms Arms Shipment Sent to Aid Abbas

    JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 — After coordination with Israel and the United States, Egypt has sent a shipment of weapons and ammunition into the Gaza Strip to forces loyal to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, Israeli officials said today.

    Senior Palestinian officials denied the report, including the spokesman for Mr. Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, calling the story “Israeli propaganda aimed at aggravating the situation between Fatah and Hamas.”

    But Israeli officials confirmed a report in the Haaretz newspaper that the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, approved the shipment in his meeting Saturday evening with Mr. Abbas. Four trucks with some 2,000 automatic rifles, 20,000 ammo clips and some 2 million bullets passed from Egypt through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, they confirmed, and were handed to Mr. Abbas’s Presidential Guard at the Karni crossing.
    I completely understand why Israel would support Abbas and Fatah against Hamas, but why publicize it like this? The next Hamas IO move will be to label Fatah and Abbas puppets of the Israelis and the US.

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    Didnt't Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) write a dissertation denying the Holocaust? Wasnt he a member of Black September? I guess an enemy of your enemy, truly is your ally.

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    It's generally in Israel's interest to see the Palestinians as divided as possible, so perhaps this is a good move to weaken the PA in the mind of the Palestinian public while strengthening its security forces at the same time. A good Fatah-Hamas civil war will allow plenty more of this without undue pressure from the Americans or the international community.

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    Default no!!

    This is important for you?
    What about killing of Saddam in next few hours?
    It was a trial or a simulacrum?
    No comment or .....?
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    Israelis blocked the Sufa again - now with farmers! Look here:

    http://samsonblinded.org/news/kibbut...ing-again-2247

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    Quote Originally Posted by tranquill View Post
    Israelis blocked the Sufa again - now with farmers! Look here:

    http://samsonblinded.org/news/kibbut...ing-again-2247
    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1212041443059

    Here is a more accurate and reputable report of the incident.
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    - If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
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    I might add sampsonblinded.org is a notoriously poor source of information. It includes such gems (and I quote) as:

    • Only Israel's cruelty can instill fear in poor Palestinian people
    • Israel must use chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons
    • Humane war is costly and ineffective
    • Israel must abandon the pretense of humane war with Arabs
    • Israel can use large Israel Defense Forces for conquests in the Middle East and Africa
    • Force Arab disarmament and turn Arab states into Israeli protectorates
    • Israel should conquer only militarily weak, economically viable Muslim states
    • Israel may annex foreign land


    ..and so forth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
    I might add sampsonblinded.org is a notoriously poor source of information. It includes such gems (and I quote) as:

    • Only Israel's cruelty can instill fear in poor Palestinian people
    • Israel must use chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons
    • Humane war is costly and ineffective
    • Israel must abandon the pretense of humane war with Arabs
    • Israel can use large Israel Defense Forces for conquests in the Middle East and Africa
    • Force Arab disarmament and turn Arab states into Israeli protectorates
    • Israel should conquer only militarily weak, economically viable Muslim states
    • Israel may annex foreign land


    ..and so forth.
    Yes. These guys are an embarrassment. Google has banned them from banners, and they represent the worst in bad ideas. I suspect they are mainly US and Russian Immigrants, who always seem to be more extreme than those born here.
    Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"

    - The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
    - If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
    Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition

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