Idf Kills Four Terrorists, Preventing Major Attack

Israel National News (Arutz 7) ^ | June 27, 2003

[Alouette]

ping

[carton253]

Why would an Israeli want to live in Gaza?

[dennisw]

Only good Jehadis are the dead ones.

 

 

Wed Jun 25, 2:38 PM ET

Palestinians react at the scene of an attack by Israeli helicopters at two cars that killed two people near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Wednesday, June 25, 2003. The Israeli military said the helicopters fired two missiles at a Hamas cell that was about to fire mortar shells at a Israeli settlements. The attack came minutes after Palestinian officials announced that Hamas and other militant groups had agreed to a three-month halt to attacks against Israelis. (AP Photo/Yakoub Galowa)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Good stuff!

[Coop]

No telling how many innocent lives were saved by the termination of these terrorists.

[Thane_Banquo]

May they rest in hell.

[dennisw]

Why would an Israeli want to live in Gaza?.......

They have some big agricultural enterprises there. Growing flowers and more. Likely citrus too. Much goes to Europe and that's why Sharon is moderate. He has to walk a tightrope otherwise you get an European trade boycott. I am positive such threats are made behind the scenes. Trade boycott means the IDF is paralyzed by lack of funds

[balrog666]

Not rest, roast!

[carton253]

I was just wondering. I've always been told that Gaza was the armpit of the Arab world... so bad that when Israel offered it back to Egypt at Camp David, Egypt wouldn't take it.

[dennisw]

The big plus of Gaza is good Mediterranean climate. Good for agriculture. Good rainfall unlike 90% of the Middle East and unlike the West Bank. Much of coastal Israel has same good agricultural conditions but credit must also go to the Jews who drained the swampy, malarial coastal areas so they could be farmed. The rainfall was there but the soil had to be healed for crops.


West Bank .... hilly and dry. Many Biblical sites for Jews. Is Judea and Samaria

Gaza. ...... fertile costal plain. I'm ignorant of Gaza's Biblical references.

 

 

 

 

What do the names Judea and Samaria refer to?

Judea and Samaria, located west of the Jordan River, with Jerusalem approximately in the center, are historical parts of the Land of Israel. They are currently called the "West Bank", a name created by Jordan after the War of Independence in 1948 when Arab armies overran Judea and Samaria. Despite the fact that virtually the entire world rejected Jordan's annexation, and even after Israel drove the occupiers back across the river in the 1967 Six Day War, the phrase "West Bank" has stuck, and is used to the near total exclusion of any other.

The mountains of Judea are first named in the Book of Joshua, in the account of the conquering of Canaan by the Israelites during the creation of the Land of Israel. From that time to the present, more than 3,000 years, the name Judea has been consistently used to describe the territory from Jerusalem south along the Judean mountain ridge line, extending east from the mountains down to the Dead Sea.

The hill country north and west of Jerusalem has been known as Samaria since the days of King Jeroboam, first king of the breakaway ten northern tribes of Israel after the death of King Solomon.

Judea and Samaria have been known by these names for unbroken centuries, and were registered as such on official documents and maps, by international institutions and in authoritative reference books right up to about 1950. When the correct names became a problem for Palestinian Arabs trying to make their newly-minted claim on the land, it somehow became "politically correct" to use "West Bank" or "occupied territories" instead of the historically accurate names Judea and Samaria.

Photo © Jack Hazut

View of Judean Mountains

Some examples of reference works using the names Judea and Samaria:

• A map published by the US State Department designating the Middle East's "Military Situation" on July 18, 1948 calls the "Arab held" area north of Jerusalem "Samaria"
  
  
• In A Survey of Palestine prepared by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in December 1945 and January 1946 the authors used the titles "Judea" and "Samaria" as a matter of course when referring to what later became the "West Bank"
  
  
• In United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 adopted November 29, 1947, the world body referred to Judea and Samaria by those historical names
  
  
• Every edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, up to the latest (1994) writes extensively concerning the areas politically called the West Bank, and calls them by their historically accurate names: Samaria and Judea. The fact that the "West Bank" is not mentioned once in the 1954 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica indicates just how recently this title entered popular usage, and just how quickly, and deeply, it has taken root.

Sources and additional reading on this topic:

• What did Rome call the Land of Israel and where were its borders?
• It's All in a Name
• Judea and Samaria
• Shomron (Samaria)
• Communities in Yesha and Jordan Valley

[Darksheare]

IDF, thumbs up and "Good Kill."
Mission accomplished.

[dennisw]

I was just wondering. I've always been told that Gaza was the armpit of the Arab world... so bad that when Israel offered it back to Egypt at Camp David, Egypt wouldn't take it.

Gaza is like a clown car in the circus. But with 93 clowns inside hitting, biting, punching and cursing each other.

Gaza has very dense population with one of the world's highest birthrates. Parts are very 3rd world with open sewers and trash piles in the empty lots. Gaza means chaotic, aggressive, terminally pissed off and ready to rumble. That's why Egypt didn't want them. Prolly figured they would move to Cairo and make Cairo a chaotic pit  ...... or at least more of one than it is now.

 

[Darksheare]

Uhh.. that's a good copy.
Roger on that.

Egypt pretty much backed up waving tehir hands and shaking their heads.

[E Rocc]

I'm ignorant of Gaza's Biblical references.

My understanding is there really aren't any, except what P.J. O'Rourke describes as "some exploits of Samsons's" in Judges 16.

There's really no reason for any "settlements" in Gaza except general obnoxiousness, and perhaps something to trade for some of the blocs contiguous to Jerusalem. Still, Hamas shouldn't have sanctuary there...or anywhere, until they agree to at least discuss peace. Sounds like a good job by the IDF.

-Eric

[dennisw]

There's really no reason for any "settlements" in Gaza except general obnoxiousness....

By now I'm sure you know that the Pallies made terror attacks on Israel pre 1967, before it had Gaza. Matter of fact Ariel Sharon came up with some of the counter terror measurs.

IOW rocc, my genius of the Middle East: 
Jihad is Jihad to destroy Israel irrespective of whether Jews live or don't live on the West Bank/Gaza. In time you may even admit this is true

[sheik yerbouty]

Shi'ite happens!

[sheik yerbouty]

That is correct. Sadat adamantly refused it.

[adam_az]

Much of coastal Israel has same good agricultural conditions but credit must also go to the Jews who drained the swampy, malarial coastal areas so they could be farmed.

Good thing there were no busybodies around trying to "save the wetlands! save the midget hairy dwarf mosquito! save malaria!!!"

[adam_az]

There's really no reason for any "settlements" in Gaza except general obnoxiousness, and perhaps something to trade for some of the blocs contiguous to Jerusalem.

I have a good idea. Once YOU get all the Arabs to move from Judea and Samaria, which are historic Israel, I'll start working on the Jews in Gaza.

After all, there's really no reason for Arab villages in Israel except for general obnoxiousness, right?

I know - you can move the Arabs from Judea and Samaria to Gaza.

;)