{"id":6587,"date":"2008-12-30T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2008-12-30T06:48:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:48:43","slug":"israel-rejects-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6587","title":{"rendered":"Israel rejects truce?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, we read from Reuters that “Israel rejects truce, presses on with Gaza strikes<\/a>“. It hints that the Palestinians offered a truce after losing more than 300 dead, doesn’t it? Here’s a screen shot of the headline;<\/p>\n

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But actually, we find out in the eighth paragraph, the truce appeal didn’t come from Hamas at all;<\/p>\n

The United Nations has called for an immediate truce. But Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said “there is no room for a ceasefire” with Hamas until the threat of rocket fire had been removed.<\/p>\n

“The Israeli army must not stop the operation before breaking the will of the Palestinians, of Hamas, to continue to fire at Israel,” he told Israel Radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, so it was the United Nations that asked Israel to unilaterally stop shooting. I wonder if the UN asked Hamas to stop shooting since they’ve been shooting for the last six weeks of the “ceasefire”. In fact, most of the news sources make it sound as if israel is the aggressor here. The Washington Post<\/a> paints them as lunatic war mongers;<\/p>\n

While previous Israeli assaults on Gaza have pinpointed crews of Hamas rocket launchers and stores of weapons, the attacks that began Saturday have had broader aims than any before. Israeli military officials said Monday that their target lists have expanded to include the vast support network that the Islamist movement relies on to stay in power in the strip. The choice of targets suggests that Israel intends to weaken all the various facets of Hamas rather than just its armed wing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Jerusalem Post<\/a> reports that the strikes over the weekend were ill-considered acts of near-terrorism;<\/p>\n

The announcement came as sources close to Hamas said that the movement’s armed wing had hardly been affected by the IDF operation that began on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The sources told The Jerusalem Post that many of the casualties in the first two days of the operation were “ordinary” policemen who had been recently recruited to various branches of the security forces.<\/p>\n

“These policemen were being enlisted to direct the traffic and fight crime,” the sources said. “These are not the militiamen who are responsible for the rocket attacks on Israel.”<\/p>\n

This explains why Hamas did not rush to evacuate the headquarters of the “civilian” police force in Gaza City before the IDF offensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reuters<\/a> reports that a clerical group in Iran is enlisting volunteers to help Hamas in Gaza;<\/p>\n

A group of Iranian hardline clerics is signing up volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israel’s\u00a0 airstrikes that have killed\u00a0 at least 300 Palestinians, a news agency reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

“From Monday the Combatant Clergy Society has activated its website for a week to register volunteers to fight against the Zionist regime (Israel) in either the military, financial or propaganda fields,” the semi-official Fars news agency said.<\/p>\n

Israel patrols the coastal waters around Gaza and has declared areas around the enclave a “closed military zone”.<\/p>\n

The hardline Iranian group, which is headed by some leading clergy, says it has no affiliation with the government and was formed shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the Iranians are afraid of an Israeli air strike because their head cleric issued a fatwa ordering all Muslims to defend Hamas according to Ynet<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday, ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel’s\u00a0 attacks on Gaza, state television said.<\/p>\n

“All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world’s pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr,” state television quoted Khamenei as saying in a statement outlining the fatwa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so Israel accepting a truce from the UN would do a lot of good, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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