Posted on 06/26/2006 11:10:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Fatah terrorist faction has claimed the capability of chemical and biological weapons and has threatened Israel with a WMD attack, according to the Jerusalem Post. Leaflets distributed in the Gaza Strip state that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has spent the last three years developing the capabilty, the start of which seems oddly coincidental to the fall of Saddam Hussein (via Reliapundit):
The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel.In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group, which belongs to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, said the weapons were the result of an effort that has lasted for three years.
The statment was a response to an Israeli Security Cabinet decision to give the IDF the green light to prepare all the forces necessary for a military operation against Gaza terror cells. As of 9:00 p.m. large amounts of Golani and Givati Brigade infantry troops were amassing on the Israeli side of the Gaza security fence.
According to the statement, the first of its kind, the group managed to manufacture and develop at least 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons.
The group said its members would not hesitate to add the new weapons to long-range rockets that are being fired at Israeli communities almost every day. It also threatened to use the weapons against IDF soldiers if Israel carried out its threats to invade the Gaza Strip.
If they're bluffing, they're making a very big mistake. And if they're not bluffing, then they have just signed the death warrants of both Hamas and Fatah and quite possibly the Palestinian Authority.
If these terrorists have acquired chemical and biological weapons, the IDF will rightly assume that they know have a choice only between which genocide will succeed. Given their history and strong sense of survival, they will certainly make the right choice -- and that will mean the end of the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The only reason the Israelis don't push them into the Jordan and Egypt is because of their identification with Western values that rejects ethnic cleansing as any solution.
Once the first chemical or biological weapon gets launched against Israel, that decision will have been taken out of their hands. The Israelis will almost certainly launch a massive strike against the Palestinians in both directions -- and while Hamas and Fatah do moderately well at targeting unarmed civilians, the IDF will slice through them like butter. And if the Palestinians expect the West to stop them, they will have miscalculated badly.
The question will be where they acquired these weapons. They do not have the research facilities to have developed WMD on their own. If they actually do possess them, it seems a probablility that someone supplied Fatah with WMD.
Who has WMD? What country stocked them, until three years ago? And where does Hamas and Islamic Jihad, at least, have themselves established? Syria -- who has long rumored to have received the Iraqi stockpiles in 2002 and 2003, just ahead of the American invasion.
The Palestinians have just tipped us off to where the WMD went, and now we know where at least some it may have ended up. The Israelis may not be alone in marching through Gaza and the West Bank.
The Palestinians have escalated their continuous attacks on Israel from Gaza, which no longer qualifies as occupied territory, by raiding Israel. 'Militants' crossed over into Israel using tunnels, killed two soldiers and apparently kidnapped another, before crossing back into Gaza:
Palestinian militants launched on Sunday their first deadly raid into Israel from Gaza since an Israeli pullout last year, killing two soldiers and abducting another in an assault in which two attackers died.The infiltration, through a tunnel militants dug under the Gaza border fence to reach an army post, raised tensions along the frontier to their highest point since Israel completed its withdrawal last September after 38 years of occupation.
Israeli forces scrambled into the Gaza Strip to search for the missing soldier, who the army said had been kidnapped. There was no immediate claim from any of the militant groups that took part in the dawn raid that they were holding him.
A strong Israeli military response to the assault, claimed by the armed wing of the governing Hamas group and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) after recent air strikes that killed 14 Palestinian civilians, seemed likely.
The Israelis have fired missiles into Gaza in response to missile attacks by Islamic Jihad that started almost immediately after the Israelis withdrew from Gaza. The Palestinian Authority has refused to take any action to stop the rocket attacks by the Islamist terrorists, and Israel shortly afterwards started returning the fire.
Now that the Palestinians have escalated the conflict by invading Israel, we can surely expect a response in force by Israel. Their withdrawal from Gaza makes the invasion an act of war, although Israel will not likely try to invest Gaza again. What they will likely do is stage a raid in force by the IDF to clear out the region where the attacks originate and create a buffer area that they can patrol for long enough to make their point. They will also escalate their targeted attacks on terrorist leadership, including that of Hamas.
This will undermine both sides in the pending Palestinian civil war. Ismael Haniyeh will find himself having to go underground to avoid Israeli attacks, especially if their kidnapped soldier turns up dead. Abbas' efforts to return to negotiations will have to wait for the Israeli military response to reach its conclusion, and that may take a while. The best Abbas can expect will be a quick raid that might capture some of the rocket-launching terrorists, removing a headache for Fatah. Otherwise, both factions will find it difficult to reach any kind of understanding on proceeding with peace talks, and that will push them towards civil war. Sunday, June 25, 2006
exactly. of course, if you want to slow down or halt a new development, you just have to find any evidence that someone dumped 5gallons of leaded paint or some deiself fuel on the sight. NOW THAT'S DANGEROUS. Sarin, Mustard and other nerve agents... they are harmless after 14yrs according to Demoncats.
"Give the Israeli's a heads up and then start letting fly the tactical nukes."
Can['t do that. Wind.
But they could seal up Gaza and The WB and launch an ebola strike.
Well looky here...
How convenient Gaza Jews aren't in Gaza anymore. Just do it, Israel.
Hey Freepers,
Do as I did and send this article to all your liberal and Jewish/liberal friends.
They certainly don't mind shoving their views in my face, so I return the favor every chance I get (grin).
Actually, my judgment is that we'd immediately secure a regime change in Iran were a massive war to break out.
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June 26, 2006: The captured Israeli soldier is a big deal, mainly because the Israelis will go to greater lengths than the Palestinians to save the lives of their soldiers. Negotiation is normal in these situations, and Israel will typically release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to retrieve one of their own. But if the negotiations fail, the Israelis will use troops, and be very aggressive doing so. For that reason, no Palestinian group has admitted they have the captured soldier. The Egyptian government has already started negotiations with the kidnappers, who are being very cautious. Israel has a good intelligence network in Gaza, and can eventually find out where the captured soldier, who is apparently wounded, is being held . The capture of an Israeli soldier is considered a major victory for the Palestinians, although in practical terms, it's nothing. It's all about propaganda and media spin, as the Palestinians have very little economic, military or diplomatic power.
The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel.
I don't want to tell them what to do, or how to live their lives....BUT if it were me I'd think 6 or 7 times before I used them.
Assuming it's true and not just chest thumping by Fatah.
And my observation is we conveniently have an additional 75K troops in the area. Could be time. I hope so.
They must be suicidal. Nobody would claim bio or chem weapons. Nukes, maybe.
Sooner Rather Than Later
-Sentinel
I'm sure the liberals will just say it's jusr a coincidence
Yes, they are brain damaged, from banging their head against the ground 5x a day. They also have sustained considerable damage from inhailing the fumes from the koranus bowing in front of them!
We dont respect Jeffrey Dahmer, or Charles Manson,
Why muuuhhhamhead (Pigs be inseminating him)??
These guys really have a death wish!
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