Hamas Breaks Cease fire...Once Again

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 10:33 AM PDT

2008/06/25 · 10:33

JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, threatening to unravel a cease-fire days after it began, and Israel responded by closing vital border crossings into Gaza.

Despite what it called a "gross violation" of the truce, Israel refrained from military action and said it would send an envoy soon to Egypt to work on the next stage of a broader cease-fire agreement: a prisoner swap that would bring home an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for more than two years.

The midafternoon barrage, which slightly wounded two people, capped a day of violence that presented the truce with its first serious test. Just before midnight, Palestinian militants fired a mortar shell into an empty area in southern Israel. And in a pre-dawn raid, Israeli troops killed two Palestinians, one of them an Islamic Jihad area commander, in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Islamic Jihad, a militant group backed by Syria and Iran, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire from Gaza. Although the West Bank is not included in the truce agreement, the group said the rockets were retaliation for the Nablus raid.

Hamas has previously agreed to ten ceasefires with Israel, and has broken every single one of them.

Westerners who think that ceasefire means what it says need to understand the Muslim concept of as "hudna" which is a temporary truce called by Muslims to give themselves an opportunity to rearm and when stronger, relaunch attacks against their enemies.

This is exactly what Hamas has done, over and over again, along with the PA (PLO) and Hezbollah.

Olmert's stupid decision to agree to another phony ceasefire will lead to more Israeli deaths and Palestinian deaths.

Israel withdrew from Gaza. How'd that work out? Peace and prosperity everywhere? Israel needs to retake Gaza and kick Hamas out once and for all. That's the only way to stop the rocket attacks.

The Palestinians who are running the show have no desire for peace regardless of what the majority of the peaceful Palestinians want. War keeps the palestinian leaders in power. Peace with Israel would leave them without an agenda. Ask any Fatah (formerly led by Yassir Arafat) member and they will tell you that their sworn purpose is the ultimate destruction of the Israeli state.

If you encourage suicide bombers and the recruiting of children or the mentally handicapped, and grandmothers and women, and you celebrate their deaths with banners and posters all over your city walls, and you have the martyrs make romantic videos on the eve of their suicide bombing - then why are you surprised when they die and cause the deaths of others as a result of their egregious actions? The side that uses their people as cannon fodder should not be surprised when they lose more and more people in their so called "struggle". In fact, given Israel's firepower, its a tribute to their restraint that the body count for the Arabs isn't much higher.

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