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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (9944)	9/13/2005 9:02:52 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 32591

That's traitor Peres' "PEACE" Center all right. He's been making "PEACE" with his "Palestinians" and betraying Israel for years.

To: Scoobah who wrote (9944)	9/14/2005 5:18:13 PM
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Israel: Massive arms smuggling into Gaza in past 3 days SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 TEL AVIV — Israeli military sources said hundreds of weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank rockets and bomb components, have been smuggled over the last three days from the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip. The sources said Palestinian insurgents brought the equipment from Egypt in wake of the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. So far, more than 10,000 Palestinians have crossed the Gaza border and made their way to towns in eastern and northern Sinai. The sources said they included hundreds of operatives from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, some of whom directed the flow of Palestinians into Sinai. On Wednesday, Egyptian authorities continued to allow thousands of Palestinians to freely enter Sinai, Middle East Newsline reported. Many of the Palestinians were said to have made their to Rafah and El Arish. El Arish, the largest town in the Sinai, has been a major way-station for weapons smuggling to Palestinian insurgency groups. "In the first moments of Israel's abandoning of Gaza they smuggled weapons," Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz said. "The ink on the agreement has not even dried and the Philadelphi route [Egyptian-Gaza border] is being used for massive weapons smuggling." "I am not optimistic," Col. Yoav Mordechai, the outgoing military liasion with the Gaza Strip, said. "We are walking on very thin ice. One attack could result in major retaliation by the military." The sources said the PA has ordered SA-7 surface-to-air missiles from Egyptian smugglers in the Sinai. They said the amount of weapons brought to the Gaza Strip this week exceeded the volume of that smuggled via tunnels in all of 2005. "Many of these weapons, particularly the anti-aircraft missiles, had been stored in eastern Sinai, but could not be brought into the Gaza Strip — at least not in large quantities — because of our presence along the border," a source said. "These stockpiles are now being depleted." Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has warned that Israel would not honor its commitments to ensure the free flow of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip unless its border with Egypt was immediately closed. Mofaz also ordered the military to reinforce its presence along the new border with the Gaza Strip. "This [smuggling] not only harms us but Egyptian sovereignty," Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's political-military division, said. "We have relayed our feelings to the Egyptians. They claim that they haven't completed their [border] preparations." The military sources said many of these Palestinians could seek to infiltrate Israel from the Sinai. "They are exploiting this for the smuggling of weapons and ammunition," Gilad said. "They could use this for attacks. If this continues for too long, it could mark a precedent." [On late Tuesday, Palestinian insurgents hurled a grenade toward an Israeli military patrol in a kibbutz adjacent to the northern Gaza Strip. Hours later, Palestinian insurgents opened fire toward Israeli soldiers around the evacuated Jewish community of Kadim in the northern West Bank.] PA officials have acknowledged that arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip has intensified. They said Egypt and the PA would impose order by the weekend. Egypt plans to complete the deployment of 750 police commandos along the 14-kilometer Gaza-Egypt border by next week. But the sources said the military, despite a border security agreement signed earlier this month, doubts whether Egypt would stop the flow of weapons to the Gaza Strip. At a counter-terrorism conference of the Herzliya-based Institute of Counter-Terrorism, Israel Navy deputy commander Rear Adm. Yuval Zur said the PA would use the new Israeli-approved port south of Gaza City to import large amounts of weapons. Zur said the PA has sought to obtain anti-aircraft missiles, medium-range rockets, assault rifles and ammunition. "It [the Gaza port] will help the transformation from smuggling to import," Zur said on Tuesday.

To: Scoobah who wrote (9944)	9/16/2005 1:48:18 PM
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Hamas asserts power in Gaza ............................................................. Jerusalem Post ^ \| 9/16/5 \| JPOST STAFF AND AP On Friday afternoon, thousands of masked Hamas gunmen marched in formation at a large victory rally in this empty Jewish settlement Friday, the Islamic terror organization's latest show of strength since Israel completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Channel Two news reported Friday night that the islamist terror organization had also taken up military-like positions along the Philadelphi Route, as well as a rumor that the greenhouses still standing for Palestinian use were preserved because Hamas had warned civilians not to harm the valuable asset. The border issue and visible Hamas presence pose a serious challenge to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is trying to assert control in Gaza. With elections approaching in January, Hamas and Abbas' Fatah faction are locked in an increasingly bitter power struggle and each is trying to use the pullout for political gain. Abbas, under heavy international pressure to crack down on terror, has urged Hamas to disarm. Hamas has rejected the calls, and one commander Friday said his group instead plans to build up its arsenal. "These weapons will only increase in strength. We will increase our production capacity and the purchase of weapons," said Fathi Hamad, a Hamas commander in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. Several thousand Hamas masked gunmen walked in formation through the ruins of Neve Dekalim, which weeks ago was the largest Israeli settlement in Gaza. Gunmen fired machine guns into the air, and Hamas vehicles displaying homemade Qassam rockets and grenade launchers on their roofs drove over an Israeli flag. Some 10,000 people, many of them waving green Hamas flags or wearing green baseball caps, cheered on the militants, and the group's senior leadership watched the procession from a makeshift stage. A delegation from Egypt's Muslim brotherhood, a banned opposition group, joined the celebration. Earlier Friday, hundreds of masked Hamas gunmen in military-style fatigues paraded through the abandoned settlement of Netzarim. A Hamas member, who identified himself as Abu Masab Hamad, warned the Palestinian Authority not to bow to Israeli and international demands to disarm the group. "If it (the Palestinian Authority) gives in we will oppose it. We shall cling to our arms like we cling to our religion." Abbas, meanwhile, was headed to the southern border town of Rafah, where Palestinians have freely crossed into Egypt all week for shopping sprees and family reunions. Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu Khoussa said the flow had slowed to a trickle by Friday morning. He said police had seized 500 kilos of narcotics - mostly marijuana - and an unspecified number of weapons. But late Friday afternoon, thousands of Palestinians broke through Egyptian and Palestinian security lines for a second straight day. The surge started when Palestinians pelted their own security forces with stones at the Saladin gate, the main informal crossing. When Palestinian security officials gave way, the crowd pushed through the iron gateway and tackled the Egyptian police. Overwhelmed policemen unsuccessfully tried to beat the crowd back with sticks.

To: Scoobah who wrote (9944)	9/16/2005 2:08:51 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 32591

The Terrorists' Gaza Peace March Al Qaeda News ^ \| Sept 16, 2005 \| Steve Stakem In the United States, the news events making headlines center around the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice nominee John Roberts, among other things. The bigger story that isn't making the same headlines is in the Gaza Strip, where terrorists are setting up camp as if it were a field day. It's been roughly one month since Israel began the mistake of moving its own out of Gaza. The IDF has most recently departed and since doing so, hate-filled 'Palestinians' have taken joy in the burning and destruction of anything Jewish, most namely the synagogues. Even worse, Islamic terrorists of all makes and models have run roughshod into the region setting up more camps, bringing in more Jihadists, and bringing in more weapons with which to further their mission of destroying Israel. Sharon, Bush and other world leaders might want all to believe it's a good thing. You know, Israelis have left 'occupied' land and the 'Palestinians' are a step closer toward a sovereign state. It has all been done in the name of peace. Yeah, maybe, but tell that to the terrorists. It was one thing that Al Qaeda and other like-minded terror groups were beginning to set up shop before the Gaza withdrawal. It's another thing what has happened since. According to numerous reports from the standard press to various levels of intelligence sources, the terrorists are on a mission and gaining ground. Along with Al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and other missionaries of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord have smuggled tons of explosives, rockets, RPGs and missiles into Gaza. They want their field day turned into a lasting picnic. Unfortunately it is a picnic celebrating death and war, not life and peace. Terrorists have been entering Gaza freely for weeks now. There seems to be no end in sight. Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Security Forces along with Egypt haven't helped the situation, only enabled it. Many of the terrorists have crossed into Gaza via the breached border Israel's southwestern neighbor said it would guard. They are either a direct conspirator to the terrorist problem, or they have wilted under their threats with a 'it's not our problem' attitude. According to DEBKAfile, local Hamas chief Abu Atiya warned Egyptian guards not to seal the border after the terrorists blew an opening in the concrete security wall. "If you close this hole," he declared, "we’ll open 10 others." Egypt turned a blind eye, and through this hole have entered scores more Jihadists, their weapons and their ability to rebuild Gaza with their architects of death. Something tells me the terrorists will open more holes anyway. They won't stop trying at least, until they've marched into Israel. The Palestinian propaganda machine is in full swing, too. In the days since the IDF moved out of Gaza, the message has been clear: The destruction of Israel is more than attainable and well within reach. Palestinian Authority Television has broadcast several programs reiterating this premise, including a piece declaring that Israel has no right to exist, because all of Israel is 'Palestine'. It also claims that Israel's continued existence, by its very nature, is a threat to the entire Arab world. They even displayed a map of Israel and marked it 'Palestine' under the PLO flag. Palestinian Media Watch does well in chronicling this hate-filled propaganda and its presentation by media, religious, educational and political leaders. At least someone is paying attention and working to counter the hate by displaying those who promote it. Surely peace is on the march. Boy was the Washington-Jerusalem decision to get out of a Gaza a good one. It seems to be working toward peace flawlessly, so long as that 'peace' sees the destruction of Israel. Just ask Hamas, Al Qaeda and their terrorist brethren seeking to kill all who don't see the world as they do. Steve Stakem The Orator Network