Posted on 07/11/2014 5:25:37 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MOSCOW, July 10. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that armed confrontation in southern Israel and in the Gaza Strip leading to numerous victims among civilians should be stopped as soon as possible. The Kremlin press-service reported this on Thursday.
The conversation was requested by the Israeli side, the Kremlin said. Further bilateral contacts and some other issues of mutual interest were also touched upon, it said. Israeli-Palestinian relations aggravated after June 12, 2014, when three Jewish teenagers were abducted in the West Bank. Later, the teenagers were found killed. Israel accused militants акщь the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), which controls the Gaza Strip, of committing the crime.
The operation to search for the teenagers continued for more than two weeks and was accompanied by searches, arrests of Palestinian activists and shellings of the Palestinian territory.
On July 1, 2014, a 16-year-old resident of the East Jerusalems Palestinian Arab neighborhood of Shuafat was kidnapped and killed. Six ultra-right Jewish activists were arrested for the crime. The death of the Palestinian teenager caused riots among Palestinians.
On July 8, 2014, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the start of the operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip against Hamas militants. The IDF carried out strikes on 50 targets in the Gaza Strip, most of which were launching platforms for rockets. Five Palestinians were killed and some 20 were wounded.
The immediate reason for the operation was that cities in southern Israel were massively shelled by Hamas military wing Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. According to the Israeli armys press service, on July 7, some 90 missiles were fired on Israel from the Gaza Strip. A total of 450 missiles have been fired since the start of 2014.
Israeli premier Netanyahu ordered the IDF to prepare for a possible ground operation. Israel announced mobilization of 1,500 reservists and sent two army brigades to the border with Gaza.
Since the start of their activity on December 14, 1987, Hamas militants set a course for liberation of Israel-occupied Palestinian territories. The group has carried out a few dozen terrorist attacks against military and civilian facilities of Israel.
Hamas regularly shells Israels territory with homemade rockets. In response, Israel shells Gaza and holds military operations there to suppress militant activity and destroy Hamas military structure. According to Hamas, 1,365 Israelis died in 1987-2011 in terrorist attacks made by its militants.
“No the USA is the main enemy of jihadists all over the world both Sunni and Shiite.”
So? The US sees strategic interests in supporting(and propping up) Sunni Jihadists all over the world. As I type right now, both Republicans and Democrats want to arm Sunni Jihadists in Syria. In the 80s, they certainly were supporting the Sunni Jihadists against the commies.
Russia is the number one supporter of jihadist terrorists all over the world and America is their number one enemy.
Moslem societies are quiescent when they are poor from top to bottom. Islamic culture is such that the common people produce very little. Any surplus they produce i.e. more than enough to barely feed and house them, will be taken by the sultan or emir or whatever the head Moslem is called. Any resources in excess of that required to keep a tiny ruling class in opulence and the rest of the society in bare subsistence mode must go for Jihad. It's in the Book. It is central to the religion of Islam.
We turn over huge resources to the Moslems. They have huge amounts of resources then to support Jihad. They wage Jihad. To bring hiatus to the Islamic war requires that the source of funds be cut off and that the saracen forces suffer a defeat so total and destructive that all Moslems understand that Allah does not will for Islam to triumph in the current generation. The Bushes could have accomplished that. They did not even try. Lepanto and the follow-on naval victories of the Christian forces accomplished that. Vienna did that. It is, however, only a hiatus. Another generation will garner resources by conquest or by selling oil and Jihad will resume. The Islamic War will continue until everyone alive is Moslem or until no one is.
Oh so we are only killing thousands upon thousands of haji terrorists because we want to create a worldwide caliphate?
Sorry, but that’s just stupid.
There will never be any islamic caliphate ever again.
Thanks Tailgunner Joe. Of course, the terrorist and dictator Putin continues to help Iran build nuclear weapons, run interference for Iran at the UN, and the Iranian-built missiles raining down on Israel are based on earlier Russian designs.
Well put.
The main source of support for jihadists worldwide — irrespective of the largely irrelevant sectarian differences — is Islamic states, not the US.
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