Man thats so assbackwards.
Nope.
ML/NJ
Alouette, would you be so kind as to add me to your ping list? I just hope that I can do justice to all your hard work.
I think she should have herself checked out for being possibly one of those 50% in the US that are mentally
disturbed.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
UN Orders Its Workers Out of Gaza Strip Fearing Danger to Come
Isralert.com source: http://www.lekarev.org
What does this tell you?
While the international media is focused on the Gaza withdrawal, United Nations Headquarters in New York quietly ordered all foreign staff, especially UN Refugees Works and Relief Agency personnel, to depart the Gaza Strip by last night, Wednesday, August 17. They fear that any workers remaining in Palestinian areas, especially those adjoining Gush Katif, face extreme danger after the Israeli evacuations. The International Red Cross pulled its staff out last week. Meanwhile, a French journalist of Algerian origin kidnapped by armed Palestinians Sunday, August 14, is still missing.
Most significantly, Washington reversed its 20-month ban on US diplomats’ visits to the Gaza Strip and urgently dispatched a top official, US assistance secretary of state David Welch, for a surprise visit to Gaza Tuesday night. The ban had been imposed after the Palestinian Authority refused to hand over the Palestinian Popular Committees Special unit which murdered three US security agents in a bombing attack on Oct 15, 2003.
Why this urgent mission? US intelligence has confirmed the UN estimate of the extreme security danger prevalent in the Gaza Strip. Intel says that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahamoud Abbas has fallen completely under the sway of the Hamas and the Jihad Islami, which are vying with each other for first grab of evacuated Israeli properties ahead of any claim by the Palestinian Authority. Both have especially drilled guerrilla units who are lurking close to Gush Katif ready to pounce on their prey, each other and above all, Israeli targets.
Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abas) had hoped to bring all the Palestinian groups together into a supreme Palestinian coordinating committee but he was outmaneuvered. Hamas sent its top man, Mahmoud al Zuhair to the panel, followed by the top-ranking operatives in the other terrorist organizations. Abu Mazen’s committee was thus perverted into an instrument for his disempowerment.
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Secondly, the Palestinian Authority's 24 battalions who were to provide a security belt between the evacuation operation and Palestinian areas lack weapons or any means of combat and, worst of all, their deployment was subject to Hamas sanction.
Finally, Washington received confirmation from US intelligence that Abu Mazen had secretly named the late Yasser Arafat’s partner, Jemal Sema Dana, the mastermind behind the assassination of the three US officials, the new Palestinian military intelligence chief. August 15, Abu Mazen sent two special couriers to assure him he had signed the new letter of appointment, upon which Sema Dana accepted the post.
This was just too much for the Bush Administration. Sema Dana is notorious for designing and managing the network of weapons smuggling tunnels from Sinai to the Gaza Strip, which he handed to Gen. Mussa Arafat in 2004. As chairman of the Gaza terrorist umbrella organization, the Popular Committees, he is the most effective terrorist mastermind in the territory. He has been tagged for the May 2, 2004 murder of the Hatuel family on the Kissufim road, deadly attacks on Israeli troops guarding the Philadelphi border strip in the same month and blowing up an IDF position on the Rafah border crossing in December 2004.
The appointment of a super-terrorist and gun-runner to Iraq, who organized the murder of Americans to a key job, to hold joint responsibility with Egypt for border security, through which he ran his smuggling tunnels, was too much for the Bush administration to stomach. On the other hand, they realize that if Abbas fails to make good on the appointment, Sema Dana will choose his moment to unleash the Popular Committees for a barrage of fire that will throw the entire Israeli pull-out into disarray. Welch is in Gaza to seek a way out of this "balagan" - a popular word here in Israel for "one colossal mess"!
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Bwahahahaha.....like that's gonna happen
Tell Hamas and Islamic Jihad whatcha gonna do to the PA if they dont....
You gonna wave your finger at them and scold them real bad?
Oh, BS.
Why doesn't Rice take a few long steps off a short pier.
Rice 08?
I don't think so.
I am terribly disappointed to hear this from Rice. Has she not heard the addage "to the victor go the spoils".
The Arabs began a war and lost. That land belongs to Israel. What are the Palestinians giving up? Nothing.
I'm disgusted to hear this from Condi, who I have admired for years, but she's out to lunch on this one.
Our policy is assinine. Israel took this land after they were attacked. For them to give it back will do nothing to serve the cause of peace. Hammas and the rest of that ilk want nothing more than to drive the Jews into the sea. GWB wake up before its too late!! This is no road map for peace, it's a road map for destruction.
Oh, I get it. Israelis, just pack up and move out of your country, period. Here, we'll help Hamas, Hizballah and Islamic Jihad assist you out. What a crock, what a back-stabbing thing for Rice to say. Forget her!
DO NOT FOLLOW WHAT WE SAY ISRAEL!! If you had followed what people were demanding, you wouldn't have lasted past 1947.
Thanks for the post. Interesting. Very interesting.
If Gaza turns into a base for shooting missiles at Israel and increasing Palestinian attacks, then I think Mr. Sharon should once again show us his enormous courage by bombing Gaza into oblivion. How much more should Israel take for this false promise of peace. The enemies of Israel have made it clear that they want nothing less than the total destruction of Israel, why do we think Iran is racing to build nukes. The more our political leaders try to prevent the innevitable, the more it becomes a reality, it simply can not be stopped.
I love Dr. Rice and President Bush, but on this subject they're wrong! Enough sacrifices from Israel, the next move is now up to Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
I want an explanation. I heard this and just groaned. What more, oh Lord?