Cease. Fire!
A completely typical Palestinian ceasefire went into effect with Israel. They signed it and launched a barrage of rockets into Israel. In other words, Israel ceased and the Palestinians fired.
Despite the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, two Kassam rockets, fired from the Gaza Strip, landed in open territory in the Sderot area on Monday afternoon.
No one was wounded and no damage was reported.
Although the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah party, claimed responsibility for the attack, many in the Palestinian Authority said that the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) were actually the ones responsible as it was one of their group who was killed by IDF forces late Sunday night.
Earlier Monday, a leader of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, Mahmoud Al Saadi, threatened that his organization would carry out suicide bombings deep inside Israeli territory in response to Israeli violations of the cease-fire in the West Bank.
Al Saadi called on his counterparts in Gaza to reject the fledgling truce unless it covered all the Palestinian territories and warned that his group might launch a suicide attack on Israel.
"We live in the same homeland and it is forbidden to divide our homeland, " he said in a statement.
That it is not worth negotiating under such conditions should be obvious to even the most clue proof of the Clue Proof™. That Palestinian promises at a negotiation are completely worthless is, at this point, a given. Yet there are still automatic calls for negotiation from Europe and the West on a continuous basis. How about if we simply automate the entire process to save doing the same thing over and over. The West can simply play a recording demanding negotiations and the Palestinians can do the same saying they're stopping their violence.
It would achieve about the same amount of good.
World news | Gaius Monday, 27 November , 2006
By Quilly Mammoth, Monday, 27 November , 2006 @ 2:03 pm
Check your code, you’ve also got your end statement in the blockquotes. Wordpress does that sometimes.
By Gaius, Monday, 27 November , 2006 @ 2:15 pm
Thanks.