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It took Palestinians just 12 hours to break the ceasefire

Morons | 01.07.2003 01:39

Palestinians declared a ceasefire Monday morning. By Monday afternoon, as Israel did not atack but instead honored it and began withdrawing, Palestinian lust for killing jews gave in and they committed a murder.

It took palestinians a whole 12 hours to break the ceasefire they declared this morning. They'd rather just keep killing jews than allow jews to withdraw and start handing land over to them:

(from the Wash Post)
But the ceasefire -- an all-encompassing ban on killing Israelis anywhere, including soldiers and Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- was violated today when militants ambushed a work crew and fatally shot a 46-year-old Bulgarian, Christo Radkov. One of the groups that agreed to the ceasefire -- the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah party of Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas -- asserted responsibility for the attack in a statement faxed to The Washington Post. It appeared that the group mistakenly believed Radkov was Israeli, although the group did not admit the error in its statement or during an later interview with The Post.

The incident underscores a serious threat to the ceasefire from independent, militant cells aligned with Al Aqsa, a radical offshoot of Fatah that was created after the outbreak of the Palestinians' so-called intifada uprising in September 2000. The group lacks the discipline and organizational structure of other long-time militant groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and it seems that rogue branches of Al Aqsa do not intend to obey their leaders' orders to stop killing Israelis.

An Al Aqsa branch from the West Bank town of Jenin asserted responsibility for today's attack. Yesterday, an Al Aqsa branch in Nablus also announced its opposition to the ceasefire.

"We do not accept the terms of the ceasefire," the Al Aqsa commander for Jenin, Zakaria Zbeida, said in a telephone interview. "I can promise you there will be more operations against the Zionist enemy."

Morons

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Ceasefire?

01.07.2003 02:04

It was a Palestinian hudna (chance to rearm and regroup) rather than a ceasefire anyway, but going 12 hours before breaking a sworn statement is pretty impressive for the Palestinians.

The BBC news website (arab sewage outlet of the year, motto: Hating Jews & Jihadi News) managed to completely ignore the renewal of Palestinian hostilites, pretending the hudna was still intact. If you close your eyes and pretend it didn't happen, maybe it'll go away. They even repeated the hoary Mohammed Al-Dura fantasy on BBC1 - when everyone else, including the Palestinians, knows he was shot by AK47 wielding jihadi arabs.

The Pali terrorists called the hudna because, and only because, they were desperate for breathing space. Israel had been taking them apart one by one, their massive shipments of high tech weaponry were intercepted and their dispicable crimes were eliminating what little international sympathy they had left.

A.Y.C.

Please check the facts and get the whole story

01.07.2003 10:26

It was Islamic Jihad and Hamas that had agreed on a ceasefire, not the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade. It was the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade that was the perpretrator. In addition this 'act' happened in the West Bank, not inside the green line. There is something, perhaps unimportant for Sharon and his cronies, that's called international law. In international law national liberation - including the use of violence - is legal against unlawful occupations. Having said that I do not condone that action, or violence against civilians in any way.

Oh, and didn't u notice that the IDF bulldozed numerous homes and bulldozed 1000 acres of citrus trees in Beit Hanoun before they left?. Not really contributing to the ceasefire.

jackson

Correction...

01.07.2003 12:27

The hudna was also agreed by Fatah, the terror group run by Arafat. Al-Aqsa are a branch of Fatah. Saying Al-Aqsa didn't breach the ceasefire because they didn't sign up to it would be like the Israelis agreeing to withdraw the IDF from Gaza, and then sending apaches 'because no-one said anything about the IAF'.

A.Y.C.

Palestinians 'arrest militants'

01.07.2003 14:12

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3034010.stm

Palestinians 'arrest militants'

The militants who shot dead
a Bulgarian worker in the
West Bank yesterday have
been arrested, Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat has
said.

Mr Arafat did not say how many
members of the al-Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades - which said it
carried out the attack - were
detained, or when. There has
been no confirmation of his
statement.

His announcement comes hours before Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon is due to meet his Palestinian counterpart,
Mahmoud Abbas, who is also known as Abu Mazen.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian
gunman who attacked an army checkpoint in the West Bank,
an army spokesman said.

The shooting, near the city of Tulkarm, is the second blamed
on Palestinians since the main militant groups declared a
ceasefire on Sunday.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have not agreed to observe to
the ceasefire.

High-level talks

Ahead of his meeting with Mr Sharon in Jerusalem, Abu Mazen
told the Palestinian legislature that they would tackle the
issues of Jewish settlements, Israel's policy of killing top
militants, and restrictions on movement in Palestinian areas.

He reportedly said he expected
Israeli troops to withdraw from
all areas occupied since
September 2000 within a month
and a half.

The US peace plan for the
region requires Israel to return
control of Palestinian areas to
the Palestinian Authority.

Israel has already withdrawn
from parts of the Gaza Strip
and is expected to begin a
pullout from the West Bank city
of Bethlehem on Wednesday.

Palestinian and Israeli officials are also due to hold further
talks on security.

Breakthrough?

There has been no claim of responsibility for Tuesday's attack
on the Israeli army checkpoint.

"A terrorist armed with a pistol opened fire at the roadblock,
but no one was hurt. The soldiers fired at him and he was
killed," said an Israeli army spokesman.

The BBC's David Chazan in Gaza
says that while the recent
shootings may not immediately
derail the moves towards
peace, continuing violence
could jeopardise the peace
process.

On Monday, Palestinian police
took over control of northern
parts of Gaza and the main
highway running the length of
the strip, following the Israeli
pullout.

Only one Israeli checkpoint
remains on the highway,
outside the isolated Jewish
settlement of Kfar Darom.

Mr Sharon warned that despite
its security agreement with the
Palestinian Authority, Israel
would not turn a blind eye to
the killing of the Bulgarian labourer, Krastiu Radkov, 46.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades says it carried out the attack
to show it did not support the truce, despite being an
offshoot of Yasser Arafat's Fatah's movement, which has
signed the deal.

Fatah joined the main militant groups, Hamas and Islamic
Jihad, in declaring a suspension to attacks on Sunday, raising
hopes of an end to 33 months of fighting between Israel and
the Palestinians.

Mosque demolition

Meanwhile Israeli bulldozers have begun demolishing the
foundations of a controversial mosque near a holy Christian
site in Nazareth, in northern Israel.

The decision follows a court ruling banning the construction of
the mosque near the Church of the Annunciation.

Hundreds of police were deployed at the scene and a number
of protestors were arrested as they tried to stop the
demolition.

I should Co Co !!
Homepage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3034010.stm

Control of Israeli military - one word. Of palestinian fighters - long and diffi

01.07.2003 20:25

Please be patient.
Ceasefires and withdrawals look like a possible decent start.
And do NOT expect the palestinians to succeed in preventing attacks instantly or completely at first.

Control of the israeli actions is easy and instantaneous for them, by issuing a simple order to a heirarchical and disciplined military structure. They have everything they could possibly need to control their own extremists (settlers etc) as necessary.

For the palestinian authorities it is much more difficult, for obvious reasons, and will take time and huge effort, maybe even commensurate with the difficulties of the uk govt in northern ireland. Particularly since the Israelis have deliberately and systematically demolished the infrastructure necessary for this difficult operation.

It may seem distasteful to some, but the quickest, safest way to stop the violence is by persuasion and agreement with the militant groups, who after all only see themselves as freedom-fighters.

The quickest, safest way is what we need, to reduce the loss of further innocent lives, both palestinian and Israeli.

freddie

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