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

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (19708)	1/22/2007 4:21:03 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

I can make better use of your house, so get the hell out of it. This is your logic. len No the Government said, we are giving this land away to the Jews. The legally constituted authority gave the Israelis Israel. Or some of it. Much of the rest, which they have offered to give back BTW was taken in battle, during which Israel slapped the crap out of the Muslims. If you conquer territory, it is yours. Just wait till Israel takes Damascus...... Maybe this time they won't be so dumb, and simply push the Muslims into the sea. No Muslims should be allowed in Israeli territory. There should be as many Mosques in Israel as there are in iran.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (19708)	1/23/2007 10:14:54 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

hey gr-ASS-so, I suppose this is all israel's fault, right? Militants seize French diplomat and two bodyguards in Nablus By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters Palestinian gunman on Tuesday kidnapped a French diplomat and his two accompanying bodyguards from a restaurant in the West Bank city of Nablus, said a spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed the abductions soon after they were announced. A ministry official said the French consulate in Jerusalem was working to free them. He declined to give any details about the hostages. Weapons carried by the bodyguards initially raised suspicions the men were undercover Israel Defense Forces soldiers, the spokesman said, adding that all three were likely to be released shortly. Advertisement "We have arrested three foreigners, we found them carrying two guns. They claimed they were French, and until now, we are interrogating them to know who they are and why there were in the Old City with guns," said the spokesman, whose group is affiliated with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction. Palestinian security officials confirmed three people had been taken away, but had no other details. Witnesses said the three people were eating in a restaurant when they were captured. They said shots were fired in the air as the men, with their heads covered, were led away by gunmen through the winding alleyways of Nablus' Old City. Palestinian militants have kidnapped a string of foreigners in the Gaza Strip in recent months, but kidnappings in the West Bank have been rare. Meanwhile, masked Palestinian gunmen blew up a vacant resort in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, claiming they belonged to Al-Qaida and that the holiday complex is owned by Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan, its manager said. Dahlan is a top adviser to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah faction is locked in a power struggle with the governing Islamist Hamas movement. "They destroyed the large wedding and conference room with several huge bombs. They planted bombs in some of the rooms, destroying the southern part of the resort," said Bashir Thari, manager of the al-Waha complex. Thari said about 40 gunmen, masked and heavily armed, took part in the attack and abducted, but later freed, three guards. "They asked them whether the resort belonged to Dahlan," Thari said. "The guards said 'no, al-Waha belongs to a Palestinian businessman, not to Dahlan.'" He said the gunmen told the guards: "Al-Qaida has arrived in Gaza and we will destroy every place owned by Dahlan and bomb him, too." Officials close to Dahlan denied he has any stake in the resort. Palestinian officials have denied any Al-Qaida presence in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and Abbas and security officials have said they were working hard to prevent the group from establishing a foothold in the territories. Last week, Dahlan warned Hamas that he would "protect" Fatah members from being killed by gunmen from the Islamist group. In an attack on Tuesday, unknown gunmen shot and wounded Thiab Abu Eida, a Fatah member who runs a post office in the northern Gaza Strip, local residents said. At least 30 Palestinians have been killed in fighting between Hamas and Fatah since Abbas called last month for early presidential and parliamentary elections in the absence of an agreement on formation of a unity government. In continuing tensions, an explosion ripped through the office of Al Arabiya television in Gaza City on Monday, causing no injuries. The newsroom was empty when an explosive device placed outside detonated, police said, destroying the outside door of the office of the Dubai-based Arabic satellite television station and damaging some walls inside. An official at the station said anonymous callers last week threatened to harm employees and burn the Arabiya office following a tape the station aired of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas. Hamas had said Haniyeh's comments were broadcast in a way that took his words out of context and vowed to pursue legal action against the station if it did not apologize to him. Hamas and the Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades condemned the attack on the station, carried out a day after Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal held inconclusive unity talks in Damascus.