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(Palestinian's Qassam) Rockets to threaten Tel Aviv
Yediot Ahranot ^ | 31 July 2005 | Ali Waked

Posted on 07/31/2005 8:55:48 AM PDT by anotherview

‘Rockets to threaten Tel Aviv’

Popular Resistance Committees’ spokesman says central Israel to come in range of Qassam rockets

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)


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuabir; gaza; hizbullah; israel; palestinians; qassamrockets; telaviv; terrorism; westbank
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To: Sabramerican

I firmly believe Israel should provide ammunition to Paletinian forces...but only when necessary and at high velocity.


41 posted on 07/31/2005 11:42:08 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: M. Espinola
If you missed it, the US asked France for help.
42 posted on 07/31/2005 11:42:45 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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To: CWOJackson

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


43 posted on 07/31/2005 12:17:39 PM PDT by Esther Ruth (That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.)
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To: Sabramerican
"If you missed it, the US asked France for help."

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?

44 posted on 07/31/2005 12:20:11 PM PDT by M. Espinola ( Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola
The Qassam-2’s range:

The Israeli Air Force's range:


45 posted on 07/31/2005 12:28:56 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Sabramerican

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.


46 posted on 07/31/2005 12:49:27 PM PDT by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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To: Sabramerican
This article points to the absurdity of the disengagement- which he supports.

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.

47 posted on 07/31/2005 12:50:52 PM PDT by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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To: Polybius
"The Israeli Air Force's range:"

Excellent IAF range map. Targeting problems both near & far (Iran).

The Mullah Express!

48 posted on 07/31/2005 6:26:17 PM PDT by M. Espinola ( Freedom is never free)
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To: anotherview
BTTT

Muslims/Moslems think they are winning because the Jews left Gaza?

I can hear it now: "Go ahead, Muslim, make my day." Stated right after the first Qassam rocket is launched and before it hits the ground.

Muslims want to start Armageddon? The Jewish response will be swift and painful for them.
49 posted on 07/31/2005 7:26:32 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (It translates as "72 raisins of startling white clarity" NOT 72 fair skinned maidens.)
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To: anotherview

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.


50 posted on 07/31/2005 8:20:24 PM PDT by Honestfreedom
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To: anotherview
With completion of Gaza withdrawal and transfer of control over so-called "Philadelphia corridor" to Egyptians, Palestinian Gaza enters new stage in that war. Qassams were just a beginning. Gaza will be getting the same (or higher) level of military support as Hizballah gets from Iran. Today on the Lebanon borders deployed thousands of Hizballah' rockets, able to cover Northern Israel to Hadera. Gaza will cover the South.

BTW, does Israel still supply Gaza with electricity, gas and water?
51 posted on 08/01/2005 11:19:16 AM PDT by Neocon Shavuz
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To: anotherview
My home is in Netanya. I am seven miles from Samaria and I am on the coast. There is no place to move anyone.

Shalom from North Carolina! We returned Sunday from 10 days in Eretz Yisrael. We drove right by you on Thursday last week.

One of the problems with many Americans' view of the land/peace issue in Israel is the lack of perspective on the relatively tiny size of Israel. If the lands were reversed (U.S. in the Land of Israel), there is no way that the American public would be as patient as the Israeli public has been. They would be DEMANDING that the so-called Palestinians be relocated to Jordan.
52 posted on 08/01/2005 11:30:46 AM PDT by safisoft (Give me Torah!)
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To: anotherview
There are some lines the Palestinians have never dared cross. Once they cross certain lines Israeli anger would be too great to contain.

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.

53 posted on 08/01/2005 11:37:55 AM PDT by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: Alouette

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.


54 posted on 08/01/2005 11:44:49 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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To: Neocon Shavuz

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?


55 posted on 08/01/2005 1:10:10 PM PDT by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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To: Alouette; Sabramerican

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.


56 posted on 08/01/2005 1:13:00 PM PDT by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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To: anotherview
If the Egyptians don't do their job on the border we will know and take appropriate actions.

What? Attack Egyptians? Come on, get real.

Do you seriously believe we will stop monitoring the border?

Well, Yes, I sure do. IDF was not able to completely cut Gaza from Egyptian military supplies coming through (and under) the border at Rafiakh. What makes you think that thing would change for better as IDF leaves?

As for utilities, they should be cut off next day after evacuation. The whole point to leave Gaza was to let them swim (and sink) on their own.
57 posted on 08/02/2005 6:03:13 AM PDT by Neocon Shavuz
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To: anotherview
...so much that the government has no choice but to act

And they did... what? Blew up a car with terrorists inside? As Israeli citizen do you consider that an adequate response able to protect TA from further bombardments?
58 posted on 08/02/2005 6:09:27 AM PDT by Neocon Shavuz
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