Posted on 03/13/2008 3:11:10 AM PDT by Nony
Gaza erupted in celebration last week to the news that a Palestinian had murdered Jewish religious students in Jerusalem. And almost daily terrorists send rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities, hoping to kill civilians and provoke Israeli counter-responses — and perhaps start another Middle East war.
This is not the way some imagined Gaza two and half years after the Israelis withdrew both civilians and soldiers from the territory in September 2005. At the time, the Palestinian Authority controlled Gaza, but in early 2007, Hamas took over in a violent civil war, claiming legitimacy after once winning a popular election.
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Israel should make Gaza look like Berlin in 1945.
That's because they live in "Imagination-Land!"
Anybody who didn't think that giving radical islamists their own "homeland" would be a perfect place for them to coordinate their attacks on Israel are just off their collective rockers.
Mark
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How is that proposal to rename Gaza coming along?
Have they decided if the new name will be Riceton or Condiville?
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