Posted on 07/31/2005 8:55:48 AM PDT by anotherview
By Ali Waked
GAZA - Palestinians terrorists have already installed the necessary infrastructure to transfer the Qassam rockets to the West Bank from Gaza, according to Abu Abir, spokesman for the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees terror group.
'The missles won' - Abu Abir says Qassams drove Israel from Gaza
Photo: Reuters
In an interview with Ynet, Abu Abir said that Gaza’s new border would turn into an additional “blue line,” modeled on the border separating Israel and Lebanon.
“It will be like the Hizbullah: Every Israeli transgression of this line or movement of forces towards it will give us the right to respond against the act of aggression,” threatened Abu Abir.
The Palestinian Authority is doing everything to ensure a quiet withdrawal. Will you help their efforts?
“We will do everything so that this defeatist withdrawal, this escape, will be carried out quietly and successfully. We in the resistance committee, along with other factions, caused this escape. But it's important to emphasize that Israel is leaving Gaza as a large prison, while double the fence around it and requesting to control all the entrances and exits of the Strip.”
It’s natural that Israel would strengthen the Gaza border and mark it with a fence after its withdrawal.
“We will relate to the fence like Hizbullah relates to the blue line in Lebanon. That means that if the fence is a border, we will mark it as a dangerous zone, as the area between the blue line and the Sheba farms is marked. If Israel sends forces close to the dangerous zone on the bodrer area, either in the form of ground troops, or armored vehicles, in order to harm the joy and quiet of the Palestinian people – we will respond with full force.”
Sderot residents protest Qassam attacks on their town (Photo: Gadi Kablo)
You’re already talking about full force, while the PA is demanding restraint from the Palestinian factions.
“After the defeatist withdrawal is completed, after the last settler and soldier withdraw, we won’t do anything from Gaza. But we won’t allow Israel to violate the Gaza border. Such a violation will obligate us to respond.”
It seems from your statements that the message to the PA is that you will want a piece of the cake on the day after the withdrawal.
“That’s right. We in the resistance have defended our people, we did this. We did it because there was an occupation and the Palestinian Authority couldn’t do it. Therefore we are now demanding to be part of the collective management of the Strip. We made this demand of the Authority and Abu Mazen when we meet with them, and we asked this of them also via the Egyptians, so that the Authority agrees to set up a higher body to run the withdrawal and whatever will follow it. No one has the rights held by the resistance over this withdrawal. The resistance is the owner of this enormous gain. The Israeli withdrawal is only a result of resistance operations, first and foremost of which are the (Qassam) rockets.”
But the rockets and Israeli responses to them have only caused enormous damage to the Palestinian population and just last week, a group of residents from northern Gaza asked the Palestinian Authority in a letter to stop the rockets.
“I’ll tell you what stands behind that letter. It is, first of all, a tactic by the Palestinian Interior Ministry, that is trying to say that the rockets are a failure and they don’t help anything, that they only cause damage. This is the official line of the Authority and Abu Mazen also says so, and many interests sand behind it. Second of all, the letter is trying to say that if the Qassam rockets caused damage, then they did not cause Israel’s withdrawal and the faction’s demands should not be accepted. Therefore we see this letter as part of a political struggle and it does not influence our own struggle.
"These rockets were the ones that dragged Sharon, Mofaz, and all the army chiefs to have to explain themselves to Sderot residents time and time again. We recognize that there mistakes in our work, and who hasn’t made mistakes? But let’s not forget that the Israelis also admitted that our rockets have become more efficient and accurate. Therefore, its clear to everyone that they brought the victory and liberation in the Strip. And they will continue to serve us in our struggle until the liberation of all of Palestine.”
What is the definition of ‘all of Palestine’ for which the struggle will be continued?
“That means all the area occupied according to law, and we will continue to fight over it. And it means that we won’t give the IDF and the settlers who are escaping from Gaza to the West Bank to abuse our people there. Palestinian blood is one and therefore we are ready to continue the struggle. For this reasons we have already set up the units who work to smuggle the necessary knowledge for fighting techniques, especially to do with the rockets, from Gaza to the West Bank.
Hold on, rockets in the West Bank is a very dangerous thing. Would an (IDF) operation in Qalqilia cause rockets to fall on the Sharon area (central Israel) or on Tel Aviv?
“In principle, yes. But I am not saying that we will fire these rockets left, right and center. These rockets will be activated in proportion to Israeli activity. A small Israeli operation here and there will not tempt us to use the rockets, but a major assassination, or big infiltration into a city like Jenin, would force us to act. But as always, we won’t initiate, we will only respond to Israeli activities.”
(07.31.05, 16:04)
I firmly believe Israel should provide ammunition to Paletinian forces...but only when necessary and at high velocity.
Soon - Because they have parted MY Land..
Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is NEAR!!! in the valley of decision.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Joe/Joe003.html#top
Thanks for the link. Israeli-Arab 'diplomacy' are becoming stranger and deadly by the second.
Could it be (Vichy)French bullets will murder even more Israelis then the current Iranian?
The Israeli Air Force's range:
What does disengagement have to do with the threat by Palestinians to move Qassam rockets into the West Bank? One has nothing to do with the other.
How is this so? Qassam rockets cannot strike Tel Aviv or anywhere in the Sharon region from Gaza. The threat is that the Palestinians will move them from Gaza to the West Bank. It will now be *easier* to totally seal Gaza and prevent that.
Excellent IAF range map. Targeting problems both near & far (Iran).
Those lines keep changing. I remember hearing that if they ever hit Sderot with Kassams all hell would break lose. Now they do it all the time and it is ignored. It is also a crazy policy if it is okay to shell Sderot and not Tel Aviv. Imagine telling some citizens of your nation that you are not important enough to fight or get mad over.
What red lines haven't they crossed? Mass murder at Passover celebrations in your home town? Mass murder of people returning from prayer at the Kotel? Shooting pregnant women and babies at point blank range?
I agree they haven't yet set off a nuke in Tel Aviv, but just wait till they get their paws on a nuke.
That sentiment, about further off red lines, is unfortunate but in a way understandable psychologically.
It's like the example they use about cooking lobster. The lobster boils to death not appreciating the ever rising temperature.
Israel is so psychologically damaged, to shock them is getting harder and harder.
Imagine the response of Israel 1948-1993, to rockers fired daily into an Israeli towns.
I have more faith in our intelligence services and the IDF than you do. If the Egyptians don't do their job on the border we will know and take appropriate actions. No large quantities of missiles (or hopefully any missiles at all) will be allowed in Gaza. Do you seriously believe we will stop monitoring the border?
To answer your question: yes, we provide utilities. We really should stop and let the Palestinians fend for themselves. If they can build rockets they can build desalination plants, no?
You're both right. My choice of words was, at best, unfortunate.
Let's put it this way: at some point a Palestinian action or set of actions enrages the Israeli public so much that the government has no choice but to act. We've seen major terrorist attacks followed by major IDF operations before. Sometimes it was because an attack was particularly heinous but more often than not it's because we reached a point where we couldn't sit back any longer no matter how much Washington protested.
My point is that missiles landing in Tel Aviv would be heinous enough to provoke such a response. I am not saying that any of the attacks you have mentioned is not horrific in and of itself.
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