Saturday, March 08, 2008

9- Israel’s Battle for Peace - Prewar Updates 2008

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Saturday
, March 08, 2008 ...
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(Note: This post on top most of today – Scroll for newer post below this one)
Let’s get the day started off with this report from Telegraph.co.uk...
Israeli officials believe Iranian support for Hamas is behind the increasing number of terrorist attacks - including Thursday's deadly shooting in Jerusalem.
>> Hamas 'plotted the seminary bloodbath’
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Thousands join in silent grief at Israeli funerals
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Massacre fuels fears of another Intifada
Their warnings that Hamas' use of stronger rockets and larger-scale incursions into Israel represent the escalation of a proxy war were echoed on Friday by Jordan's King Abdullah... "Those in the Iranian government that are pursuing this policy have hijacked the Palestinian corps," he said in Washington... "The failure of the peace process will get them to increase their ambitions in the region."...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran supports Hamas violence, says Israel
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* IHT.com
has this short report today...

Six underground tunnels used to smuggle weapons and contraband between Egypt and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were detected and destroyed, Egyptian authorities said on Saturday...
Egypt discovers and destroys six smuggling tunnels
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* Reuters.com reports...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for talks with Israel despite a surge of violence and said that a just peace was his people's goal... "We condemn all the attacks, we demand peace and we are determined to make peace, and there is no other path but the path of peace based on international justice," Abbas told a rally at his headquarters...
Abbas demands peace after surge of Mideast killing
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* NETNews.com has this report out this afternoon...
'Just as we achieved deterrence against Hizbullah, which hasn't dared to fire a single rocket in a year and a half – so we will achieve deterrence against the terror organizations,' vows Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Thursday's terror attack in Jerusalem...
MFA File Photo- EHUD OLMERT
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There’s one thing I’ve noticed about today...
* Silence *
Something Heavy Fisted is fixing to go down, I’d say.
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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Saturday, March 08, 2008

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