One Israeli Killed as Hamas Begins Retaliation

[tekisui]

Source: The Hindu

DUBAI: The Palestinian group Hamas has begun its retaliation to Saturday’s wave of airstrikes by Israel by firing rockets which have killed one Israeli national and injured four.

Nearly 25 Qassam and longer range Grad rockets were fired into southern Israel on Saturday. The Palestinian response came after the death toll from Israeli air strikes in Gaza rose to 195. An estimated 300 persons were injured during the attacks, said Palestinian sources.

“Hamas will continue the resistance until the last drop of blood,” the group’s spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, told Gaza radio station. A Hamas spokesman had earlier broadcast a message for its fighters.

“We call on all units to avenge with force against the enemy,” he said.

A statement from Hamas’ ally in Gaza, Islamic Jihad, also called on “all fighters” to “respond to the Israeli slaughter.”

There has been a wave of protests in the Arab world as the news of the attacks spread.

In Lebanon, the militant group Hizbollah staged a huge rally in its Beirut stronghold of Dahiyeh.

Angry residents of the Ain el-Helwe, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Lebanese city of Sidon also demonstrated in large numbers. Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the U.N. headquarters in the Jordanian capital Amman, while protests were also held in Syria’s Al-Yarmouk camp, on the outskirts of Damascus.

more: http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/28/stories/2008122855811100.htm

[Vegasaurus]

1. Sigh--the true definition of insanity

is Hamas.

They just never seem to learn.

[tekisui]

2. Israel just dropped 100 tons of bombs on them.

You can't bomb someone into peace. Neither side. Violence begets violence.

[Joe the Revelator]

6. In retaliation for this same type of terrorism by Hamas

If you want the cycle to end, the instigators need to end it.

[tekisui]

7. Both sides have to end it.

[Lithos]

9. You are correct

Peace is integral to both sides making changes which incorporate respect for the other.

L-

[aquart]

10. Really? Both sides?

Reading DU I assumed only the Jews are being called upon to be peaceful. Would you be peaceful with a missile flying into your backyard? Just curious.

[tekisui]

11. They are both in the wrong, IMO.

All sides. They all have blood on their hands, they have all committed atrocious acts. They have all practiced policies of violence.

It will require both sides working towards peace to ever find peace. Of course, with the latest escalations that process is horribly wounded again.

[sam sarrha]

3. after your country and family are dead.. they have nothing to lose

[cali]

8. the only problem with that theory is the firing of rockets out of Gaza

commenced almost immediately after the Israeli pull out from Gaza.

[sam sarrha]

12. what else happened.. or didn't happen. you are cherry picking, the on going siege of Gaza is reason

enough for many.. besides neither side is using reason at this point. it is reported that police stations were bombed and 2 graduation ceremonies.. i assume that was police academy ceremony's
..
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox/browse_thread/thread/4673c728f6220f67?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cause+of+hamas+to+attack+israel+dec+2008

[sam sarrha]

13. theory..? i have lived in an Islamic Republic, they hold blood grudges all the way back to the days

of Mohamed.. hell the Sunni Shiite slaughter is just a 700 year old family feud

reason isn't congenital in islam

nothing is simple here.. especially with all the lying and spinning to keep out tax dollars paying for all the bullshit there

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

4. Yeah, this really worked last time too.

[sam sarrha]

5. only problem with an eye for an eye is that pretty soon everybody's blind an their children are dead