War boosted extremists in Gaza, says U.N. official

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE50M3OB20090123


Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:50pm GMT

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) - Israel's invasion of Gaza has strengthened the hand of extremists and only a credible independent investigation into alleged wrongdoing can quieten growing Palestinian anger, a U.N. aid official said on Friday.

John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, called for new U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell to talk to ordinary people in Gaza as part of a "new track" in diplomacy.

U.S. President Barack Obama named Mitchell, a former U.S. Senator who helped settle the conflict in Northern Ireland, on Thursday to try to jump-start Arab-Israeli peace talks.

"My first request to the U.S. administration is talk to the ordinary people in Gaza. Come to Gaza and talk to the ordinary people -- the mothers, fathers, leaders of civil society, the people who are not involved in politics," Ging, speaking from Gaza, told reporters in Geneva.

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1. OMG NO WAY!

Who could have seen THAT coming?

I hope the people of Israel have finally had enough of this kind of warmongering crap.

[aquart]

2. Well, yeah.

That and the happy little murder spree Hamas and Fatah are having right now to weed out the wishy-washy.