Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The Gaza 'cease-fire' fraud

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/05/the-gaza-cease-fire-fraud/
As Israel continues its military campaign against Hamas terror targets
in Gaza, France has been urging a cease-fire to permit humanitarian
aid to enter. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week sounded
like she was moving in the direction of European Union diplomats who
want a cease-fire right away. Even as Israel was preparing to launch
the ground operation in Gaza that began Saturday, Defense Minister and
Labor Party leader Ehud Barak hinted that he too would support a brief
cease-fire. For now, that idea appears to be off the table, and it
should be. Israel has only begun its campaign to destroy the arms
caches, smuggling tunnels and arms factories that Hamas has embedded
in Gaza with assistance from Iran and Syria. Halting military
operations would only give Gaza-based terrorists a chance to replenish
their weapons stockpiles and training facilities in preparation for
the inevitable next round of warfare against the Jewish state.
That's exactly what occurred in Lebanon following the August 2006
cease-fire with Hezbollah, and it has certainly been the case with
Hamas in Gaza during the recent cease-fire which expired Dec. 19. In
late July, Israel's internal security service reported that since the
last cease-fire (one punctuated by numerous violations by Gaza
terrorists firing rockets into Israel) took effect June 19, Hamas had
smuggled four tons of explosives into Gaza, along with light arms and
material used to manufacture gunpowder and rockets.
From August 2005 (when Israel completely withdrew from Gaza) through
the end of last year, Hamas and other terrorist groups smuggled at
least 113 tons of military-grade explosives into Gaza, including anti-
tank missiles and grenade launchers. Until and unless Israeli security
forces can verify that these massive quantities of weaponry have been
either captured or destroyed, the Gaza operation cannot possibly be
termed a success. On Dec. 30, Hamas provided a vivid demonstration of
how it has expanded its ability to target Israeli civilians, firing a
rocket from Gaza that destroyed a vacant elementary school in
Beersheba, about 25 miles away; before then, no terrorist rocket fired
from Gaza had reached more than 15 miles into Israel, putting 270,000
people within range of fire from Gaza. With that strike in Beersheba,
Israel's seventh-largest city, Hamas demonstrated that 700,000 people
(nearly one in 10 Israelis) are now within range from Gaza.
The premise that Israel's actions have created a humanitarian crisis
in Gaza is false. Last week Israel opened the Keren Shalom border
crossing into Gaza to allow more than 100 trucks filled with
humanitarian aid to enter. The biggest danger to the continued
provision of humanitarian supplies comes from Hamas and its terrorist
partners who have attempted to carry out at least 17 attacks on border
crossings in the past year. The most constructive thing the United
States and the international community can do right now is to put
pressure on Hamas to halt rocket fire into Israel; to stop using
mosques, hospitals and densely populated neighborhoods as hiding
places for its "soldiers"; and to refrain from launching further
attacks on border crossings. In an effort to minimize civilian
casualties, the Israeli military has put its own soldiers at greater
risk: It has made telephone calls and dropped leaflets urging
civilians to evacuate private homes that served as Hamas military
command centers (a point the United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which is not terribly friendly
to Israel, has acknowledged).
The biggest danger right now is that Israel will succumb to pressure
to stop its military campaign before it permanently cripples Hamas'
terrorist infrastructure. U.S. diplomacy should focus on giving Israel
the time it needs to finish the job.
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"i nostri amici ebrei" (Luca Logi / rodewalder)
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http://raionim.blogspot.com/2008/12/luca-logi-e-i-piselli.html

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