Proposal Emerges For 10-Day Truce In Gaza

Hamas And Egypt Negotiate Cease-Fire As Palestinian Death Toll Surpasses 1,000

(CBS/AP)  Egypt and Hamas were negotiating a proposal for a 10-day cease-fire in Gaza, officials said Wednesday, as the Palestinian death toll in the war passed 1,000 and smoke from Israeli airstrikes rose over Gaza City's devastated streets.

Egyptian and Palestinian officials said they hoped to seal Hamas' agreement on a temporary halt in fighting, which would be presented to Israel for approval. Key uncertainties remained for a longer-term deal under which Gaza's borders would be open and Israeli troops would withdraw.

The officials provided details of the deal on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the Egypt-Hamas talks. But Egyptian officials also expressed public optimism that momentum toward a deal was growing.

"We're working with Hamas and we're working with the Israeli side. We hope to reach an outcome soon," Hossam Zaki, a spokesman for Egypt's Foreign Ministry, told the British Broadcasting Corp.

A Hamas spokesman said he also believed an agreement was possible.

"There is good progress in Egypt. We hope that now Egypt will contact Israel and talk about all issues," Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas adviser, told the BBC.

Asked if a negotiated settlement could also include a deal between Hamas and the rival Palestinian administration, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, Hamad said he was hopeful.

"I am optimistic now because I think there is no other choice for us," he said.

However, the Hamas leadership said it still had "certain reservations" over the Egyptian plan, reports CBS News' George Baghdadi in Damascus.

"We responded positively to the Egyptian initiative but there is still several specified points of differences and certain reservations. We hope that these points will be solved over the next few days to meet with the Palestinian national interests," a Hamas source told CBS News in Damascus on condition of anonymity.

In Jerusalem, a senior Defense Ministry official said Israel was sending a chief envoy to Egypt on Thursday to present Israel's stance. The senior official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Amos Gilad's trip has been postponed for days but his presence in Egypt would be a strong signal of progress.

Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said details on the proposed cease-fire would be kept "under a lid of secrecy" until all parties agreed but said issues included an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, opening crossings into the blockaded territory and some kind of international monitors.

Israeli military officials have said talks in Cairo will determine whether Israel moves closer to a truce with Hamas or widens its offensive to send thousands of reservists into crowded, urban areas where casualties on both sides would likely mount.

Hamas has insisted that it would not agree to a cease-fire unless Israel pulls its troops out of the tiny Mediterranean coastal strip and allowed Gaza's borders to the outside world to immediately reopen.

But the temporary cease-fire proposal being discussed in Cairo would allow Israel's military to stay in place and the borders closed during a 10-day period of quiet, the Egyptian and Palestinian officials close to the talks said.

During that time, Egyptian, Turkish and other international mediators would try to negotiate an arrangement for policing Egypt's border with Gaza to prevent weapons smuggling into the territory, the officials said.

This would likely entail some kind of international monitors on the Palestinian side of the border - but the two sides remained far apart on who would make up the force, where they would be deployed and their mission.

Hamas has so far publicly resisted deploying international monitors and has demanded a role in policing the crossings and borders. Israel - like the United States, the EU and other nations - considers Hamas a terrorist group and has always rejected a role for it policing the crossings.

Egypt has also rejected any foreign troops on its side of the border, though it says it would accept foreign technical and financial aid to help control the border, which is riddled with smuggling tunnels.

Only after a deal has been reached on border security - including control of the crossings - would the crossings be opened and Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza, the officials said.

That means negotiators potentially would have only 10 days to work out the contentious details or else risk a return to fighting.

Efforts of Arab countries to contain the crisis were marked by their own divisions. Qatar on Wednesday managed to get enough Arab countries to agree on an emergency summit meeting in its capital of Doha for Friday.

Its efforts succeeded over the strong opposition of Egypt and Saudi Arabia who preferred a meeting a few days later in Kuwait on the sidelines of an economic summit.

In related developments:

Venezuela broke off diplomatic relations with Israel to protest the offensive in Gaza.

The decision by President Hugo Chavez's socialist government comes more than a week after Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador in Caracas and seven embassy staff members.

A Foreign Ministry statement said Wednesday that Venezuela "has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the state of Israel given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people."

CBSNews.com broke the story Wednesday morning of a new audiotape by al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden said the decline of America's dominance on the world stage was one of the main factors which prompted Israel to launch its offensive in Gaza. He called for Jihad to defeat Israel.

Aides say Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stands by his claim that he caused the U.S. to abstain from a U.N. resolution calling for a halt in Gaza fighting. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice negotiated the resolution. Olmert claimed earlier this week that he humiliated Rice by persuading U.S. President Bush to instruct her not to vote for it. Rice spokesman Sean McCormack has called Olmert's claims "100-percent, totally, completely not true."

Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious opinion, or fatwa, declaring the purchase of any Israeli goods or trade with Israeli companies to be forbidden.

Desperately trying to end the fighting, U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon opened a visit to the Mideast on Wednesday urging an immediate halt to the violence.

"My call is (for) an immediate end to violence in Gaza," he said in Cairo after meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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It is intolerable that civilians bear the brunt of this conflict. Negotiations need to be intensified to provide arrangements and guarantees in order to sustain an endurable cease-fire and calm."

Ban Ki-moon
U.N. Secretary General

"It is intolerable that civilians bear the brunt of this conflict," he said, adding that the "negotiations need to be intensified to provide arrangements and guarantees in order to sustain an endurable cease-fire and calm." Ban is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday. He will also visit Jordan, the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Kuwait. His itinerary does not include a stop in Gaza because of the ongoing conflict.

Israel showed no signs of slowing its bruising 19-day-old offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets. One airstrike hit an overcrowded cemetery, spreading body parts and rotting flesh over a wide area. The army said the airstrike targeted a weapons cache hidden near the graveyard.

Guerrillas in Lebanon sent rockets crashing into northern Israel on Wednesday for the second time in a week, drawing an Israeli artillery barrage and threatening to drag the Jewish state into a second front.

The rocket fire in the north caused no injuries, but sent residents scurrying to bomb shelters. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and speculation focused on small Palestinian groups. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed guerrilla group that fought a monthlong war with Israel in 2006, denied involvement in last week's attack.

Israel launched the onslaught in Gaza on Dec. 27, seeking to stop the ruling Hamas militant group from firing rockets into southern Israel. The offensive has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, half of them civilians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The toll included 11 Palestinians killed Wednesday, medical officials said.

Thirteen Israelis have also been killed since the offensive began, four by rocket fire from Gaza.

Overnight, Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships pounded a police court in Gaza City, rocket-launching sites, gunmen, weapons-production and storage facilities and about 35 weapons smuggling tunnels, the military said. Later in the day, witnesses in southern Gaza reported air strikes on the house of a rocket squad leader and a militant's car.

Aircraft also struck the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City, destroying about 30 graves - some just recently dug - and scattering bits of flesh and body parts, residents said.

Maj. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman, said the army targeted a weapons cache next to the cemetery and a nearby rocket-launching site. She said the heavy damage was the result of secondary explosions.

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of using mosques, schools and other civilian areas to stage attacks or store weapons.

Fireballs and smoke plumes from Israeli bombing have become a common sight in the territory of 1.4 million people, who are trapped because Israel and Egypt have blockaded border crossings ever since the Islamic Hamas overran Gaza in June 2007.

Humanitarian concerns have increased amid the onslaught although some aid is reaching Gaza during daily three-hour lulls Israel has allowed to let in supplies. A total of 111 truckloads of food and medical supplies were to pass through on Wednesday, the military said.

Palestinian rocket fire has dropped off dramatically since the offensive began. Twelve rockets were fired at Israel on Wednesday, down from as many as 80 a day early in the operation. Israeli police said Hamas militants fired a phosphorus shell from the Gaza Strip into Israel for the first time. Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said the mortar shell exploded in a field near the border town of Sderot Wednesday evening. There were no casualties.

Human Rights Watch has said Israel used phosphorus shells, which illuminate targets at night or create a smoke screen for day attacks, against targets in Gaza.

Phosphorus shells can burn anything they touch and pose a threat to non-combatants if used in civilian areas. Israeli says it uses munitions in line with international law.

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by martublade March 14, 2009 1:33 PM EDT

http://niconotnow.blogspot.com/

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by doolittle66 January 16, 2009 6:24 PM EST

The bottom line is that Israel is never going to leave and Hamas and 99% of the arab world does not want them there, ever! They are going to fight until they destroy one another. There will never be peace in that part of the world so I will say what people are afraid to say in america ( for fear of being called a racist or facist) Let them kill each other and who ever is left gets to control that part of the world. It is obvious that Hamas like most arab insurgents do not care if they live or die or if they use innocent civilians as shields. Israel has bigger guns and until Gaza and the West Bank can stand toe to toe with Israel they will never have a chance. The Arab world will never defend them because there is nothing to gain from it. There no monetary value to Gaza or The West Bank other than some religious relics that keeps fueling this whole thing anyway. Killem all and let thier god''''s sort them out!!

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by thatiswhy January 15, 2009 10:41 AM EST

"Just seeing the crying of those men at the top sure doesnt make me feel sorry for them it is a desplay of something for the media. IF they didnt want their children and women killed then why the hell do they allow them to be near the area where they know the Israeli forces will target their Rockets. Good gracious the Jews sent flyers out over the city to tell the people to get away from the area yet the Arabs make their children stay there so as they will get killed and go straight to paradise.. Now what normal parents makes their children stay where they know that they will get killed..
And as for Israel, see how the CBS is devoid of any of the hell that the Hamas is doing to Israel, no showing of the women and children killed there eh.. Isnt this bias reporting and it couldnt possibly be because they have a Muslim or Arab who is their correspondent in the area eh..
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Posted by Gaye5

Hey Gay:
I am sure that this picture and other pictures of injured and dead children touch you. But you are in denial. You are using psychological defense mechanism to make you feel better. And you are like "they shouldn''t be close to places where Israel are bombing and Israel has spread flyers". Is there any place Israel hasn''t bombed. Houses Schools, Mosques, Hospitals, UN shelters, even deads are not safe because cemetries are getting bombed and fleshes and bones are spreading everywhere. Do yo have a better idea where they hell they should go?

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by wvu74621 January 15, 2009 10:23 AM EST

Answer to your question of why the don''''t show the hell bieng brought on Israel by Hamas rocket:----Main stream liberal media.


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Posted by wvu74621 at 07:20 AM : Jan 15, 2009

If you want something close to fair and balanced visit Foxnews.com. But you can''t post comments on most of thier stories.

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by wvu74621 January 15, 2009 10:20 AM EST

Just seeing the crying of those men at the top sure doesnt make me feel sorry for them it is a desplay of something for the media. IF they didnt want their children and women killed then why the hell do they allow them to be near the area where they know the Israeli forces will target their Rockets. Good gracious the Jews sent flyers out over the city to tell the people to get away from the area yet the Arabs make their children stay there so as they will get killed and go straight to paradise.. Now what normal parents makes their children stay where they know that they will get killed..

And as for Israel, see how the CBS is devoid of any of the hell that the Hamas is doing to Israel, no showing of the women and children killed there eh.. Isnt this bias reporting and it couldnt possibly be because they have a Muslim or Arab who is their correspondent in the area eh..
There was very little reporting on the rockets that were sent into Israel day after day and the Jews put up with it but 3 years later when Israel retaliated, the media took an interest, but notice, not the damage done to Israel but the damage done to the people if Palestine..


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Posted by Gaye5 at 07:11 AM : Jan 15, 2009


Answer to your question of why the don''t show the hell bieng brought on Israel by Hamas rocket:----Main stream liberal media.

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by gaye5 January 15, 2009 10:11 AM EST

Just seeing the crying of those men at the top sure doesnt make me feel sorry for them it is a desplay of something for the media. IF they didnt want their children and women killed then why the hell do they allow them to be near the area where they know the Israeli forces will target their Rockets. Good gracious the Jews sent flyers out over the city to tell the people to get away from the area yet the Arabs make their children stay there so as they will get killed and go straight to paradise.. Now what normal parents makes their children stay where they know that they will get killed..

And as for Israel, see how the CBS is devoid of any of the hell that the Hamas is doing to Israel, no showing of the women and children killed there eh.. Isnt this bias reporting and it couldnt possibly be because they have a Muslim or Arab who is their correspondent in the area eh..
There was very little reporting on the rockets that were sent into Israel day after day and the Jews put up with it but 3 years later when Israel retaliated, the media took an interest, but notice, not the damage done to Israel but the damage done to the people if Palestine..

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by trishab59-02 January 15, 2009 3:49 AM EST

And what happens after 10 days? This whole idea is silly. Israel needs to finish the job. The Palestinians in Gaza know what they have to do if they want the fighting to stop. The world, too, knows what the Palestinians in Gaza need to do if they want the fighting to stop.
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Posted by rhs648 at 12:01 AM : Jan 15, 2009

-rhs648, you are a heartless, ruthless creature. A barbarian from the third century after Christ. Israel has only gained contempt and condemnation by the whole world. Venezuela (it''s expected) and Bolivia have shut their diplomatic relationships with Israel, over the Barbaric attacks it did in Gaza. In an article I read Bolivia suggests Shimon Perez should be stripped off his Peace Nobel Prize for his inaction over Gaza onslaught by Israeli Defense Forces.

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by entropod January 15, 2009 3:09 AM EST

Israel is a terrorist nation.

A willful, disgusting, and proud violator of humanity itself.
ST

"The head of my child has been split asunder. Please help me gather it."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave

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by rhs648 January 15, 2009 3:01 AM EST

correction

And what happens after 10 days? This whole idea is silly. Israel needs to finish the job. The Palestinians in Gaza know what they have to do if they want the fighting to stop. The world, too, knows what the Palestinians in Gaza need to do if they want the fighting to stop.

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by rhs648 January 15, 2009 3:00 AM EST

And what happens after 19 days? This whole idea is silly. Israel needs to finish the job. The Palestinians know what they have to do if they want the fighting to stop. The world, too, knows what the Palestinians in Gaza need to do if they want the fighting to stop.

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by entropod January 15, 2009 2:33 AM EST

Israel is a terrorist nation.
ST


"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

A Future of the Brave

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by roscoe2400-2009 January 15, 2009 2:15 AM EST

CBS interview today:

Couric: How important do you think it is, Mr. President-elect, to apprehend Osama bin Laden?

Mr. Obama: I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function. My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he''''s in a cave somewhere and can''''t even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.


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Posted by Trapbreaker at 11:06 PM : Jan 14, 2009


Mr. Obama Sir! You need to do better than this. This scumbag , slime ball should never, never, be allowed to rest in peace and tranquility for a single day of his naural life! Never! It''s simply not acceptable!

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by trapbreaker January 15, 2009 2:06 AM EST

CBS interview today:

Couric: How important do you think it is, Mr. President-elect, to apprehend Osama bin Laden?

Mr. Obama: I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function. My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he''s in a cave somewhere and can''t even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.

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by country1st January 15, 2009 1:28 AM EST

Israel and the Palestinians (Fatah) have agreed to have a two state settlement and co-exist in peace. Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and Iran are extreme fundamental Islamists, a religious ideology from the Middle Ages that does not belong in the 21st century, and want to impose their beliefs on infidels and turn countries into fundamentalist Islamic theocracies using the conquest of Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan as a stepping stones. Israel is not fighting the Palestinians just like the USA and its allies are not fighting the Iraqi%u2019s or the people of Afghanistan. These Islamic groups use women and children as suicide bombers to blow up fellow Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Gaza they calculated to sacrifice fellow Palestinians for the cause by attacking Israel with rockets knowing Israel will have to respond then use women and children as human shields. Israel, a small country the size of New Jersey with only 7 million people is shouldering a huge burden fighting the same enemy as America. Unless the world supports Israel to defeat Hamas and Hezbollah, Palestinians and Israelis will continue to suffer and the terrorist threat from these extremists with their backward Middle Ages mentality will grow and present a threat to America much greater than 9/11.

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by sepa2 January 15, 2009 12:45 AM EST

Unfortunately we will also come under the god''s wrath for our leaders'' (who are suppose to look after our interests and good image) spineless subjugation to cruelty

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by trapbreaker January 15, 2009 12:23 AM EST

Israel has demanded a stop to the rockets, international observers in Gaza and at the borders to prevent Hamas from re-arming, and monitors so that more tunnels can''t be dug.

These are simple and not unreasonable requests, considering they have been shelled with rockets for the last two years.

Why would they agree to a 10 day cease fire, which Hamas will use to regroup their forces and prepare their defenses?

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by obsever2008 January 14, 2009 11:51 PM EST

Time to move ''''em out and/or clean ''''em up!

When you come upon rabid dogs you shoot first...done deal!

Posted by TexHillGirl at 07:56 PM : Jan 14, 2009...................................................................
HMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm Is this the holocaust all over again ? Is that what the Nazis taught?

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by rhs648 January 14, 2009 11:04 PM EST

Hopefully Israel will be smart and won''''t agree to anything except Hamas getting out of the country. They don''''t own anything, they''''re just hired THUGS...

Time to move ''''em out and/or clean ''''em up!

When you come upon rabid dogs you shoot first...done deal!


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Posted by TexHillGirl

Good points TexHillGirl. It would be better if the Hamas leaders and fighters are eliminated completely. The Palestinians could stop the bloodshed by turning them over to Israel or by executing the Hamas leaders and fighters themselves. Two ways to achieve the goal.

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by roscoe2400-2009 January 14, 2009 10:53 PM EST

Boss Hogg.....I love him more than I love my sister....


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Posted by FloydZeppd at 07:29 PM : Jan 14, 2009


Give him a big sloppy kiss!!!


Zeppo---- That''s a Jewish name!

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by rhs648 January 14, 2009 10:44 PM EST

Ignoring Hamas only prolongs the bloodshed.


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Posted by ramos937

You are correct. The fastest way for the Palestinians to stop the bloodshed is to turn the Hamas leaders and fighters over to Israel. Or they could string-up the Hamas leaders and fighters themselves. Either way, it is up to the Palestinians to decide whether they want more bloodshed or to end the bloodshed by ridding themselves of their leaders.

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[martublade]

http://niconotnow.blogspot.com/

[doolittle66]

The bottom line is that Israel is never going to leave and Hamas and 99% of the arab world does not want them there, ever! They are going to fight until they destroy one another. There will never be peace in that part of the world so I will say what people are afraid to say in america ( for fear of being called a racist or facist) Let them kill each other and who ever is left gets to control that part of the world. It is obvious that Hamas like most arab insurgents do not care if they live or die or if they use innocent civilians as shields. Israel has bigger guns and until Gaza and the West Bank can stand toe to toe with Israel they will never have a chance. The Arab world will never defend them because there is nothing to gain from it. There no monetary value to Gaza or The West Bank other than some religious relics that keeps fueling this whole thing anyway. Killem all and let thier god''''s sort them out!!

[thatiswhy]

"Just seeing the crying of those men at the top sure doesnt make me feel sorry for them it is a desplay of something for the media. IF they didnt want their children and women killed then why the hell do they allow them to be near the area where they know the Israeli forces will target their Rockets. Good gracious the Jews sent flyers out over the city to tell the people to get away from the area yet the Arabs make their children stay there so as they will get killed and go straight to paradise.. Now what normal parents makes their children stay where they know that they will get killed..
And as for Israel, see how the CBS is devoid of any of the hell that the Hamas is doing to Israel, no showing of the women and children killed there eh.. Isnt this bias reporting and it couldnt possibly be because they have a Muslim or Arab who is their correspondent in the area eh..
.."
Posted by Gaye5

Hey Gay:
I am sure that this picture and other pictures of injured and dead children touch you. But you are in denial. You are using psychological defense mechanism to make you feel better. And you are like "they shouldn''t be close to places where Israel are bombing and Israel has spread flyers". Is there any place Israel hasn''t bombed. Houses Schools, Mosques, Hospitals, UN shelters, even deads are not safe because cemetries are getting bombed and fleshes and bones are spreading everywhere. Do yo have a better idea where they hell they should go?

[wvu74621]

Answer to your question of why the don''''t show the hell bieng brought on Israel by Hamas rocket:----Main stream liberal media.


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Posted by wvu74621 at 07:20 AM : Jan 15, 2009

If you want something close to fair and balanced visit Foxnews.com. But you can''t post comments on most of thier stories.

[wvu74621]

Just seeing the crying of those men at the top sure doesnt make me feel sorry for them it is a desplay of something for the media. IF they didnt want their children and women killed then why the hell do they allow them to be near the area where they know the Israeli forces will target their Rockets. Good gracious the Jews sent flyers out over the city to tell the people to get away from the area yet the Arabs make their children stay there so as they will get killed and go straight to paradise.. Now what normal parents makes their children stay where they know that they will get killed..

And as for Israel, see how the CBS is devoid of any of the hell that the Hamas is doing to Israel, no showing of the women and children killed there eh.. Isnt this bias reporting and it couldnt possibly be because they have a Muslim or Arab who is their correspondent in the area eh..
There was very little reporting on the rockets that were sent into Israel day after day and the Jews put up with it but 3 years later when Israel retaliated, the media took an interest, but notice, not the damage done to Israel but the damage done to the people if Palestine..


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Posted by Gaye5 at 07:11 AM : Jan 15, 2009


Answer to your question of why the don''t show the hell bieng brought on Israel by Hamas rocket:----Main stream liberal media.

[gaye5]

Just seeing the crying of those men at the top sure doesnt make me feel sorry for them it is a desplay of something for the media. IF they didnt want their children and women killed then why the hell do they allow them to be near the area where they know the Israeli forces will target their Rockets. Good gracious the Jews sent flyers out over the city to tell the people to get away from the area yet the Arabs make their children stay there so as they will get killed and go straight to paradise.. Now what normal parents makes their children stay where they know that they will get killed..

And as for Israel, see how the CBS is devoid of any of the hell that the Hamas is doing to Israel, no showing of the women and children killed there eh.. Isnt this bias reporting and it couldnt possibly be because they have a Muslim or Arab who is their correspondent in the area eh..
There was very little reporting on the rockets that were sent into Israel day after day and the Jews put up with it but 3 years later when Israel retaliated, the media took an interest, but notice, not the damage done to Israel but the damage done to the people if Palestine..

[trishab59-02]

And what happens after 10 days? This whole idea is silly. Israel needs to finish the job. The Palestinians in Gaza know what they have to do if they want the fighting to stop. The world, too, knows what the Palestinians in Gaza need to do if they want the fighting to stop.
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Posted by rhs648 at 12:01 AM : Jan 15, 2009

-rhs648, you are a heartless, ruthless creature. A barbarian from the third century after Christ. Israel has only gained contempt and condemnation by the whole world. Venezuela (it''s expected) and Bolivia have shut their diplomatic relationships with Israel, over the Barbaric attacks it did in Gaza. In an article I read Bolivia suggests Shimon Perez should be stripped off his Peace Nobel Prize for his inaction over Gaza onslaught by Israeli Defense Forces.

[entropod]

Israel is a terrorist nation.

A willful, disgusting, and proud violator of humanity itself.
ST

"The head of my child has been split asunder. Please help me gather it."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave

[rhs648]

correction

And what happens after 10 days? This whole idea is silly. Israel needs to finish the job. The Palestinians in Gaza know what they have to do if they want the fighting to stop. The world, too, knows what the Palestinians in Gaza need to do if they want the fighting to stop.

[rhs648]

And what happens after 19 days? This whole idea is silly. Israel needs to finish the job. The Palestinians know what they have to do if they want the fighting to stop. The world, too, knows what the Palestinians in Gaza need to do if they want the fighting to stop.

[entropod]

Israel is a terrorist nation.
ST


"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

A Future of the Brave

[roscoe2400-2009]

CBS interview today:

Couric: How important do you think it is, Mr. President-elect, to apprehend Osama bin Laden?

Mr. Obama: I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function. My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he''''s in a cave somewhere and can''''t even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.


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Posted by Trapbreaker at 11:06 PM : Jan 14, 2009


Mr. Obama Sir! You need to do better than this. This scumbag , slime ball should never, never, be allowed to rest in peace and tranquility for a single day of his naural life! Never! It''s simply not acceptable!

[trapbreaker]

CBS interview today:

Couric: How important do you think it is, Mr. President-elect, to apprehend Osama bin Laden?

Mr. Obama: I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function. My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he''s in a cave somewhere and can''t even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.

[country1st]

Israel and the Palestinians (Fatah) have agreed to have a two state settlement and co-exist in peace. Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and Iran are extreme fundamental Islamists, a religious ideology from the Middle Ages that does not belong in the 21st century, and want to impose their beliefs on infidels and turn countries into fundamentalist Islamic theocracies using the conquest of Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan as a stepping stones. Israel is not fighting the Palestinians just like the USA and its allies are not fighting the Iraqi%u2019s or the people of Afghanistan. These Islamic groups use women and children as suicide bombers to blow up fellow Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Gaza they calculated to sacrifice fellow Palestinians for the cause by attacking Israel with rockets knowing Israel will have to respond then use women and children as human shields. Israel, a small country the size of New Jersey with only 7 million people is shouldering a huge burden fighting the same enemy as America. Unless the world supports Israel to defeat Hamas and Hezbollah, Palestinians and Israelis will continue to suffer and the terrorist threat from these extremists with their backward Middle Ages mentality will grow and present a threat to America much greater than 9/11.

[sepa2]

Unfortunately we will also come under the god''s wrath for our leaders'' (who are suppose to look after our interests and good image) spineless subjugation to cruelty

[trapbreaker]

Israel has demanded a stop to the rockets, international observers in Gaza and at the borders to prevent Hamas from re-arming, and monitors so that more tunnels can''t be dug.

These are simple and not unreasonable requests, considering they have been shelled with rockets for the last two years.

Why would they agree to a 10 day cease fire, which Hamas will use to regroup their forces and prepare their defenses?

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[obsever2008]

Time to move ''''em out and/or clean ''''em up!

When you come upon rabid dogs you shoot first...done deal!

Posted by TexHillGirl at 07:56 PM : Jan 14, 2009...................................................................
HMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm Is this the holocaust all over again ? Is that what the Nazis taught?

[rhs648]

Hopefully Israel will be smart and won''''t agree to anything except Hamas getting out of the country. They don''''t own anything, they''''re just hired THUGS...

Time to move ''''em out and/or clean ''''em up!

When you come upon rabid dogs you shoot first...done deal!


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Posted by TexHillGirl

Good points TexHillGirl. It would be better if the Hamas leaders and fighters are eliminated completely. The Palestinians could stop the bloodshed by turning them over to Israel or by executing the Hamas leaders and fighters themselves. Two ways to achieve the goal.

[roscoe2400-2009]

Boss Hogg.....I love him more than I love my sister....


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Posted by FloydZeppd at 07:29 PM : Jan 14, 2009


Give him a big sloppy kiss!!!


Zeppo---- That''s a Jewish name!

[rhs648]

Ignoring Hamas only prolongs the bloodshed.


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Posted by ramos937

You are correct. The fastest way for the Palestinians to stop the bloodshed is to turn the Hamas leaders and fighters over to Israel. Or they could string-up the Hamas leaders and fighters themselves. Either way, it is up to the Palestinians to decide whether they want more bloodshed or to end the bloodshed by ridding themselves of their leaders.