Talk:2006 Gaza–Israel conflict

message: ===Part 1===
Casualty numbers havn't changed, and this conflict hasn't gotten a headline essentially since the conflict with Hezbullah has started, and it seems that the Givati brigade has even been transferred out of Gaza.  Given all that, I was wondering whether the status of the outcome of this conflict should be changed to "someones victory," or "indecicive," or something of that nature.
69.118.222.77 23:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are confusing this 2006 conflict with the current conflict. Rami R 15:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a different conflict, just another year into it.  Tundrabuggy (talk) 19:55, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: so, with many support, can we turn it back now? --TheFEARgod (Ч) 13:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: End date

message: Casualty numbers havn't changed, and this conflict hasn't gotten a headline essentially since the conflict with Hezbullah has started, and it seems that the Givati brigade has even been transferred out of Gaza.  Given all that, I was wondering whether the status of the outcome of this conflict should be changed to "someones victory," or "indecicive," or something of that nature.
69.118.222.77 23:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 1

message: Still there are clashes in Gaza between the IDF, still IDF claims it will continue until Shalit isn't freed. Why the infobox now says the conflict ended in July? Remember, this isn't an article about the Operation Summer Rains, with which it was merged. There is no such statement, that the conflict is over. Pls correction. --213.155.224.232 15:49, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are confusing this 2006 conflict with the current conflict. Rami R 15:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a different conflict, just another year into it.  Tundrabuggy (talk) 19:55, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 2

message: Does anyone have any information on when and if the Operation has ended? I know that Israel has begun several more since this began, but I do not know if this means Summer Rains has concluded. ~Rangeley (talk) 14:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 3

message: The conflict is over and should be described as such by wp. The whole article is not updated in months, only 'casualty counter' is working. Article originally was created as a substitute for Operation Summer Rains, it should either be renamed back and 'finished' or should be merged with violence in Palestine-Israeli conflict, and all sub pages updated accordingly.  -- tasc wordsdeeds 15:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: so, with many support, can we turn it back now? --TheFEARgod (Ч) 13:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 4

message: ===Part 1===
People, i think Israel-Gaza conflict is not correct. It's as if Israel and Gaza are in battle and attacking each other, like what happened in 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. But the fact is Israeli attacks Gaza indiscriminately, and Gazans do almost nothing to fight this invasion. In Lebanon, Lebanese resistance forces were fighting israel and then it is called Israel-Lebanon conflict. but its not happened hereNielswik 14:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thoughts? ~Rangeley (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: (or make new names for the operations articles, Israeli-given names for the operations can be POV as article names)--TheFEARgod (Ч) 21:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Operation names generally are not preferable when they are in and of themselves a war, but when they are merely an operation in a pre-existing conflict, such as Operation Medusa, you cant really rename them and represent them accurately (calling it Afghanistan Conflict 2006 doesnt work.) ~Rangeley (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The suboperations can be included in an Operation Summer Rains entry which would largely serve as an overview of this entry, with a focus on the operative level. Only one of eleven suboperations (that I see) has an entry, however. El_C 22:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

text: That is not a suboperation of this, as noted on both your talk page and its talk page. This is not a stand alone conflict, it is a part of a pre-existing armed conflict. ~Rangeley (talk) 22:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Operation Samson Pillars Operation Autumn Clouds, etc. are subops of Summer Rains (see IDF website or the Hebrew Wiki). El_C 23:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia cant be used as a source... you know this. This news article  states that Operation Summer Rains had ended. ~Rangeley (talk) 03:28, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree. Unblock the page and move it back, please. I have never, in any news source heard for the term Israel-Gaza conflict --TheFEARgod (Ч) 15:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

text: hmm, that's OK but I propose an article Gaza Front (al-Aqsa Intifada), that would include all the previous operations (Rainbow...) because the warfare there differs from the intifada-stone revolution of the West Bank. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 21:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: So, here's my proposal: 
*Al-Aqsa Intifada being split into:
**Gaza Front (al-Aqsa Intifada): Israel-Hamas conventional conflict with IDF strikes and Qassam attacks.
**West Bank Front (al-Aqsa Intifada): Intifada. Popular uprisings and stone throwing warfare. 
**Terrorism in Israel during the al-Aqsa Intifada
--TheFEARgod (Ч) 21:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: we must first see if the Intifada is over--TheFEARgod (Ч) 14:36, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: People, i think Israel-Gaza conflict is not correct. It's as if Israel and Gaza are in battle and attacking each other, like what happened in 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. But the fact is Israeli attacks Gaza indiscriminately, and Gazans do almost nothing to fight this invasion. In Lebanon, Lebanese resistance forces were fighting israel and then it is called Israel-Lebanon conflict. but its not happened hereNielswik 14:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thoughts? ~Rangeley (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: (or make new names for the operations articles, Israeli-given names for the operations can be POV as article names)--TheFEARgod (Ч) 21:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Operation names generally are not preferable when they are in and of themselves a war, but when they are merely an operation in a pre-existing conflict, such as Operation Medusa, you cant really rename them and represent them accurately (calling it Afghanistan Conflict 2006 doesnt work.) ~Rangeley (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The suboperations can be included in an Operation Summer Rains entry which would largely serve as an overview of this entry, with a focus on the operative level. Only one of eleven suboperations (that I see) has an entry, however. El_C 22:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

text: That is not a suboperation of this, as noted on both your talk page and its talk page. This is not a stand alone conflict, it is a part of a pre-existing armed conflict. ~Rangeley (talk) 22:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Operation Samson Pillars Operation Autumn Clouds, etc. are subops of Summer Rains (see IDF website or the Hebrew Wiki). El_C 23:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia cant be used as a source... you know this. This news article  states that Operation Summer Rains had ended. ~Rangeley (talk) 03:28, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree. Unblock the page and move it back, please. I have never, in any news source heard for the term Israel-Gaza conflict --TheFEARgod (Ч) 15:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 1

message: The name of this article implies that the reader can read about the Israel-Gaza conflict during the year 2006. As an article on Summer Rains it would deserve a low A grade or a better B but as an article about the Israel-Gaza conflict 2006 it's near to E. It explains only the events during the intial Operation Summer Rains which IDF conducted in late June and July. The timeline of the events described herein ends about tenth of July, with some updates about captured ministers and the humanitary situation from August. Still, it doesn't include any of the events which lead to the IDF-incursion into Gaza nor does it reflect the military actions from mid-July onwards nor does it tell about the political crisis in the PA and the clashes between Hamas and Fatah.
The problem is, that those who moved Operation Summer Rains on 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict considered the initial operation as not concluded (but according to some media outlets IDF ended it [ "during the war in the North"], however I wasn't able to determine a concrete date) whereas press agencies, such as AP or Reuters count casualities from the beginning of the crisis in June (though AFAIR they now say since the beginning of Summer Rain not during Summer Rain, a significant difference!), compare with 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict casualties timeline. The argument which of the two article names is the correct might last for yet a while.
The article Operation Autumn Clouds was created and some ask if doing so was right. I explained it here why I think it is and that's also the reason why I created this article in the German wikipedia.
Recently the article Operation Summer Rains suboperations was created. I consider that title as wrong and I discussed it on the appropriate talk page. Nevertheless, this article could break the stalemate by doing the following steps in order:
# Move 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict back to Operation Summer Rains.
# Move Operation Summer Rains suboperations to 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict.
# Merge Timeline up to 2006 Gaza crisis into the new 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict
# Merge Gaza beach blast into the new 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict
# Merge Muamar family detention incident into the new 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict
# Expand the timeline of "suboperations" and explain what each of these was focused on.
# Include the political crisis within the PA government and the Fatah-Hamas clashes
# Expand Operation Autumn Clouds as a stand-alone article (since it was leading to an UNGA-Resolution)
However, 2006 Gaza crisis might be the better title, as per BBC quoting UN. --213.155.224.232 14:15, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: hmm, that's OK but I propose an article Gaza Front (al-Aqsa Intifada), that would include all the previous operations (Rainbow...) because the warfare there differs from the intifada-stone revolution of the West Bank. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 21:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: So, here's my proposal: 
*Al-Aqsa Intifada being split into:
**Gaza Front (al-Aqsa Intifada): Israel-Hamas conventional conflict with IDF strikes and Qassam attacks.
**West Bank Front (al-Aqsa Intifada): Intifada. Popular uprisings and stone throwing warfare. 
**Terrorism in Israel during the al-Aqsa Intifada
--TheFEARgod (Ч) 21:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: we must first see if the Intifada is over--TheFEARgod (Ч) 14:36, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 2

message: As my discussion remained essentially unaddressed. I propose following major changes:
#Move article to the Operation Summer Rains
#'finish' conflict in August
#made changes to all sub-articles accordingly.
Please, provide your coherent opinion on these issues. If not I'll consider that proposed changes are supported. Thanks, -- tasc wordsdeeds 06:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 3

message: I'm making another proposal:
#move this article to Operation Summer Rains (currently a redirect) and have it focus on that operation (most of it does already).
#merge Operation Summer Rains suboperations into this article.
Thoughts? ~Asarlaí 11:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Part 4

message: There are absent the declarations of the involved leaders...
For my terrorism being invaded this one by a major terrorism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.163.177.155 (talk) 20:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the how 

message: Ok, we have dead israelis, names and all, there are approx 5 times more dead palestinians, let's start collecting all their names and create separate page, note.. be careful when naming certain people militants, many of the people killed by the israeli attacks were just standing there or living close to militants, in Gaza it's really hard to distinguish who is militant who is not, for israel all of them or 99% of them are... especially when somobody gets killed, it's easy to pin point. In Iraq, many who were killed, were simply given guns and photographed with them (by u.s. soldiers and "coalition"_), even though they never had any weapons on themselves or even in the area. Something to ponder about... Who is zeq, why is that post on top instead of below? Who cares about him...
Part of the problem is, many of the Palestinians who are not carrying weapons are still guilty of "aiding and abetting" the militants.  I had little sympathy for the family who was killed when their house was destroyed because Hamas officials were having a meeting there.  Obviously, their domicile was being used as a meeting place and it is highly unlikely that would have been done if the family was not friendly to the idea.  I regret the deaths of the children, but even children in Gaza can be seen throwing rocks and participating in demonstrations alongside militants.
The flipside is, militants themselves often may look like civilians, depending on when they were killed and whether they were carrying a weapon at the time.  The Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, now that the battle is over, simply plan to blend back into the civilian population.  It's not like they are regular troops.  However, I agree that a casualty page for palestinians would be appropriate...I just wonder if it can be done with accuracy, and from which sources?  the_paccagnellan 12:43, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead Palestinians

message: I am only an IP here in the EN:WP, but in the German version I am :de:Benutzer:Matthiasb with 300+ edits within the article Lebanon war one of the main authors of that article and also a lot in :de:Operation Summer Rains -- therefore I know what I am talking about. ;-)
1st) A couple of days ago somebody changed the status of the conflict from ongoing to finished, with a date July 2006 stated. I had reverted that but now the July date is there back again, though marked citation needed. Please see the Reuters news from yesterday, via Yahoo News Israeli troops push into Gaza. Note especially the following statements in the Reuters article: Israeli troops killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and widened a four-month-old offensive on Wednesday by sending tanks to take up positions around the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, residents said. (...) Over the past week, Israel has ramped up its offensive, which it says is aimed at keeping pressure on militant groups, curtailing rocket attacks and finding cross-border tunnels. (...) Around 250 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's operations in Gaza since June. -> The status of the conflict is ongoing. The user who made the changes certainly messed up what the EN:WP now calls 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict and the former article Operation Summer Rains which was merged into this. (see also 2nd)
2nd) About a month ago two articles, 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict and Operation Summer Rains were merged. The latter was named after the code name the IDF had given the event. Nevertheless, that Operation faded away shortly after the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict began. The IDF pulled out and came back into Gaza in early July and this procedure was repeated several times. The main question here isn't to divide the article or not but to determine if the latest operations by the IDF are still part of Summer Rains (the 72-hours-offensive in the last week was code-named Rain Man) or not. I havent found a source claiming or denying that so far, nor I saw any report that Operation Summer Rains was finished.
3rd) The article does not reflect or does not reflect enough the prequels to the capture of the both soldiers, i.e. the contents of Timeline up to 2006 Gaza crisis, Muamar family detention incident and Gaza beach blast. Any of these three isn't worth an own article but are necessary to explain the steps of escalation. In the contrary the part of the Operation Summer Rains should be diverted from 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict and should be put back into the former article. Here only keep the major developments.
4th) The actual clashes between Hamas and Fatah, which began about three weeks ago should be included into this article, since they're partly a result of the ongoing Israeli military operation and economical boycott against the PNA.
5th) The linkbox :Template:Campaignbox Al aqsa contains Operation Summer Rains which redirects in this moment to 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict (that's full circle here). Please link that directly, since the former is actually only a part of the conflict and is only the IDF code-name for its offensive.
And sorry for not being brief. --213.155.224.232 12:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is something wrong with this article 

message: Does conflict in West bank belong here?If not, where does it belong?--Nielswik(talk) 12:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  West Bank 

message: This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it.  Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed.  I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy.  In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright.  If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally.  Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 06:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: I see that there is a disagreement as to how to classify this gentleman, as a civilian or as a soldier. The problem is that he is neither, nor is he a policeman. However, he is also not a civilian, as he is employed by one of the Israeli security branches. Maybe a new category should be opened - security personnel? Cymruisrael 16:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wounding of Amir Peretz's bodyguard 

message: Well, it seems like I didn't check first. Since 12 November page was protected by admin El_C with such comment: protecting from moves, for now. It rather surprising that now can last for 3 weeks. I'm requesting unprotection to move page to the Operation Summer Rains title. I'd also appreciate if protectors make announcement about their activity. -- tasc wordsdeeds 11:52, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Your surprise notwithstdanding, the move protection was placed to alert random admins to fix the damage done by various cut and paste moves. You'll need an admin to move it whether it is protected from moves or not. Use WP:RM. El_C 16:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request unprotection 

message: I've noticed that every picture in this article is of Israeli military vehicles or operations, save for one picture showing aid being delivered to Palestinians via Egypt. Regardless of your views on the conflict, it is quite evident that there is militant activity emanating from Gaza as well. Per WP:NPOV, there should be an equal balance of depiction of these forces. —Aiden 11:29, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible NPOV problem with pictures 

message: It is very well known that the Palestinians abducted a mlitary officer of the Israel thru the media outlets under gov't pressure (usually, like the 911 attack/controversy). Why did they do that? The reasons, told to us by the media outlets, are usually vague. For example, because they are Islam and terroristic (terroristic in media outlet definition). Lets have a lookat this vid: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8182204992793198984&q=israel&hl=en and this site: http://www.representativepress.org/ | Not sure if this guy is telling the truth... but if this is true, Israel's wrongdoings will eventually found out and punished.
Kalnit 18:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Both are not reliable and incorrect resources that have long been dismissed by the entire scholarly community. --Shamir1 10:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The actual CAUSE of Israeli-Gaza Conflict 

message: You live in Israel. Your house gets bombed, it gets reported, and the story goes out to the eyes of the world. They say things like... OMG TERRORISTS!!! and gets remembered longterm.
You live in Palestine. Your house gets bombed, it gets reported, the story is stopped by world gov'ts. The small percentage of the population receives it through civilian video studios, and it gets ignored and eventually forgotten.
The point: we should call them militants, because they are just like the Israel military. Just because they are weaker and only things Palestinians did gets out to the eyes of the world doesn't mean they should get called terrorists.
Kalnit 18:42, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you choose to write unneeded comments make sure they are valid. It is NOT true that that is why we call them terrorists. We do not call them militants because they are just like the Israeli military or weaker. That is false. Their actions and murder of two people were entirely unprovoked. They are the ones not only holding a soldier hostage, but by that they are holding the Gaza Strip hostage. They attempt to blur themselves into the civilian atmosphere to 1) make themselves harder to detect, 2) make Israel hesitant to shoot, 3) If Israel shoots, they evoke sympathy and anti-Israel sentiment. All of the above mentioned are acts of terror. The war stops when the militants stop, not when Israel stops. It stops when they release the kidnapped and stop firing rockets. Israel cannot tolerate any rocket raining on its territory. They must do what is in their power to weaken the enemy. Israel never intentionally targets civilians. As you can see in the article and timeline, the vast majority of Palestinian civilians have been hit either doing mutual gunbattles (their side is firing as well), or were hit in the crossfire. Militants have been driving their rocket-filled cars through popular streets packed with people. Israel has phoned civilian occupants of homes prior to striking. Israel's actions actually mean something. Their actions weaken the enemy and protect their own citizens. Firing rockets in civilian territory does not help them out in any way, except for their main purpose: to kill Jews. They clearly have a greater agenda. Your statements certainly do NOT speak for Wikipedia. Militant, by the way, is just a more neutral-sounding word for terrorist. --Shamir1 10:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

text: There is no need for the term "militant" in this context. There already exists satisfactory terminology for this sort of thing. Terrorists are civilians who attack civilians. Partisans are civilians who organize and fight soldiers. Soldiers are government employed fighters. 'Militant', honestly, could mean any of those things. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.30.22.36 (talk) 21:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we call them Palestinian Terrorists or Militants? 

message: the most accurate definition i have been able to find for terrorist is, "One who utilizes the systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve political objectives, while disguised as a civilian non-combatant". and that is a line from the official EU definition. I think it is important to remember a few things here in deciding on what to refer to combatants as: 1. terrorism is simply a tactic, and those that practice it are terrorists. to me this is important in this because though many prominant palestinian groups use terrorist tactics they do not use them exclusively. for instance, the guy with the ak-47 shooting people couldnt accurately be described as a terrorist because he is not discuised as a civilian-- at least not with an ak-47 in his hand, he is clearly a combatant/militant. my point is, that if you are going to refer to those groups that do use terrorist tactics, a more accurate description would be "militant palestinian groups, who often commit acts of terrorism"... or something to that effect. admitadly that phrasing may be a little clumsy, but you get my point. 
at any rate, i dont think it would be accurate to describe them solely as terrorists. now if your talking about the guy who hid a bomb on his person, then yes that person would be accurately described as a terrorist. 
there are other definitions for terrorist, but this is the only one i could really find that did not say something alng the lines of "some nongovernmet/military, civilian who...". and that is significant, because as i said before terrorism is a tactic used in war and just because you work for the government or military doesnt mean you cant commit a terrorist act. and that goes directly to the anon. person above who said terrorists are civilians who attack civilians. 
bottom line-- they are militant groups who often employ terrorist attacks. Michael t gershon 23:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Michael, please explain to me why the guy in jeans and a coat with a bomb under his coat is a terrorist and the same guy shooting an AK47 is a militant. Cymruisrael 08:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  to the militant/terrorist name issue 

message: When did Operation Summer Rains end? The German article says August 28. Vints 06:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did Operation Summer Rains end? 

message: What about 2007 May 16 Israeli air strike in Gaza? ANd the current in-figthing?--Cerejota 12:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007 May 16 Israeli air strike in Gaza 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Logoprc.jpg

message: At the end of the introduction/overview at the beginning of the article, it mentions how both sides have broken the ceasefire. Someone delete the parenthetical phrase "armed with guns and grenades" after the word militant that describes the killing of the Palestinian militant (after the ceasefire was declared) by Israelis. He's a militant, of course he has guns and grenades. He people who shot him also had guns and grenades. If it is really necessary to add the phrase "armed with guns and grenades" to him, then it should be added after any mention of any combatant involved in the fighting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.222.240.234 (talk) 23:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction Conflict of Interest

message: I have changed the lead to read that Israel's war is with Palestinian militants not the Palestinian people.  Please do not revert without discussion.  This is the language of the 2007-2008 Israel-Gaza conflict article and is factual as well as neutral.  Tundrabuggy (talk) 20:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits in the lead 

message: I've moved the following from the article:
Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar declared to Palestinian students at the Islamic University of Gaza that a cease-fire with Israel is merely a step on the way to the destruction of the Jewish state. “We as Muslims are the owners of this land and we shall not give up a single handful of Palestinian soil,” al-Zahar said. PA Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Salah Alrakab echoed al-Zahar, saying that Islam forbids signing a peace agreement with Jews. “The conflict with the Jews is a religious, existential struggle and is not a conflict over borders,” Alrakab said. “Liberation of the land will be accomplished only by jihad.”
The two sources for this are AIPAC and the Israeli MFA. I'd accept PA sources for statements made by the PA, or independent third party sources, but these two sources are not reliable for PA statements (just as you don't ask Hamas for what the Israeli PM may have said).VR talk 15:22, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Better sources

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message: Removed tag from 2006_Israel–Gaza_conflict#Arrest_of_Hamas_government_members, use  for sentences, then detail issues here. This will help address them in a timely manner. - RoyBoy 18:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV removed 

message: I have a problem, starting with the "Background" section that seems typical of articles involving the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I will list them in summary fashion, and will then propose a solution:
* 1) The first paragraph implies that departures from the Oslo “agreements” were by Palestine. That is only partially true, and hence is cherry-picking. There is no mention of the mutual ceasefire in Jan/Feb 2005.
* 2) “Following disengagement in 2005, Qassam rockets continued to be fired out of Gaza into Israel, and the pace of the attacks quickened in 2006 following the victory of the Islamist group Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections of early 2006.” This imparts a flavour that skews the historic record. It implies a continuous and significant barrage of rockets on Israel. That is not true. It says nothing of Israel’s aggressions against Gaza – the dictate of a “buffer zone” on Gaza territory with undefined boundaries and within which Gazans were shot and killed and residential areas shelled, the strafing of fishing boats, artillery bombardment, targeted executions, physical incursions, air strikes, the killing of orders of magnitude more Gazans compared to Israelis, etc
* 3) The Cherry-picking of the “start” of the conflict leading to Operation Summer Rains. On 8 June a senior Hamas official was assassinated by the IDF in Gaza – no mention. Retaliation came in the form of rocket fire at Israel  – no mention. This rocket fire was the reason for the beach shelling on 9 July – the reason being given no mention. In other words, the full chain-of-events, following an extended period of reasonable calm, has  been cherry-picked clear of its complete cause-and-effect links.
* 4) No mention of the fact of Israeli culpability in the prevention of Hamas exercising its legal right to governance following the 2006 elections and that during the entire period Fatah and not Hamas was in charge of Gaza.
* 5) No mention of the embargo, import-export restrictions, revenue withholding, travel restrictions, marine access, etc imposed by Israel on Gaza, a critical element in the conflict leading ultimately via many precursor steps to Operation Summer Rains.
Bullet point - "On June 10, Hamas formally withdrew from its 16-month ceasefire, and began openly taking responsibility for the ongoing Qassam rocket attacks.[25]" Reference 25 does not contain mention of the second part of the text - about taking responsibility. Suggest deletion of that phrase. Erictheenquirer (talk) 13:15, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. Samhadana's role as a military leader of the PRC is relevant here. All Rows4 (talk) 17:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That is your POV. At the time of his assassination by the IDF, he was in the PA ministry. You have been shown the fully-cited source from YNET for this fact at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2002%E2%80%9306 - in my post timestamped  17:56, 29 March 2015 Erictheenquirer (talk) 18:19, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

text: I repeat my example provided to Averysoda - do you propose that the following becomes a Wiki-accepted form of reporting on luminaries?: "Menachem Begin, leader of the Zionist terrorist organisation, Irgun, perpetrators of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948, ordered the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 by the IDF under Ariel Sharon's leadership." If not, then we don't do it to Samadana either = level playing field necessary. Erictheenquirer (talk) 18:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not interested in your little game. The very article used as a source (Xinhua) describes him as a PRC leader. That is all that matters. All Rows4 (talk) 07:23, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Is this the way Begin is described by most of the scholars and media sources ? Are these the most important deeds in his long career ? If the answer was yes, then this description of him would be acceptable. Of course "terrorist" is not an acceptable word, there are no terrorists on wikipedia, only "militants". Don't forget - level playing field. “WarKosign” 20:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

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While "Gaza-Israel" is alphabetical, BilledMammal pointed to ngrams which show "Israel-Gaza" as being more common.VR talk 12:39, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There is also a consistency case re: the parental Gaza–Israel conflict. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:43, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent move 

message: Change "However, the negotiations stranded" to "However, the negotiations stalled" or "However, the negotiations broke down".
"Stranded" is not a correct English word for this. 69.116.7.205 (talk) 19:40, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Tollens (talk) 03:47, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 14 October 2023