News Roundup for May 23

Hamas is giving Israel some free, friendly advice.

Hamas’ political leader and its representative in the joint factional office Ayman Taha has warned the Israeli occupation government that any attempt to assassinate any of the Movement’s political leaders would inflict adverse repercussion[sp] on the Hebrew state.

But reperucussions not nearly as adverse as they would experience.

However Hamas’ political leaders had repeatedly asserted that they aren’t afraid of the Israeli threats as they were and still are fighting for a noble and just cause.

They're not afraid, but they are all in hiding.

Many Hamas leaders and activists in the Gaza Strip have gone underground for fear of being targeted by Israel, sources close to Hamas said Monday.

Hamas urged its members to take precautionary measures following reports that Israel was planning to assassinate senior political and military officials of the Islamic movement. The measures include a ban on the use of cellphones and cars, as well as gathering in public places.

Funny way of showing one's bravery.

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Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority is accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing.

Israel has resumed a policy of "ethnic cleansing" through its "criminal acts" in the Gaza Strip, the Fatah spokesman in the occupied West Bank, Fahmi Za'arir, charged on Tuesday. Za'arir accused Israel of targeting "everything" in the Gaza Strip. "They kill people randomly, including civilians," he said.

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For his part, PA information minister Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi described Israel’s brutal atrocities in Gaza Strip as “real war crimes that the world couldn’t ignore[.]” “The IOA gave itself the right to indiscriminately kill and destroy every thing Palestinian be it a child, a woman, or an elderly person”, Barghouthi affirmed.

Well, if that's true (and we KNOW the Palestinians would NEVER exaggerate), what should we make of this report from the same Palestinian news site?

In Khan Younis city, seven Palestinian citizens of Kudaih family were kidnapped at the hands of the IOF troops believing they were resistance fighters after large numbers of IOF troops sneaked into Khuza’a town, east of the city, under intensive air cover and surrounded a number of Palestinian homes in the area.

Hebrew sources affirmed that the IOF troops had “mistakenly” apprehended seven Palestinians and briefly seized them before releasing them after intelligence reports affirmed they weren’t the wanted “catch”.

I thought that "ethnic cleansers" who gives "itself the right to indiscriminately kill and destroy every thing Palestinian be it a child, a woman, or an elderly person" would surely have taken this opportunity to slaughter these people indiscriminately.

That's the problem with the web of lies: it's hard to keep track of them all and, sooner or later, the truth comes out and makes you look stupid.

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And finally...

Either I have missed the news of the century or a very hot place has just frozen over, because the Palestinians talk as if they have been wanting peace.

Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the PA information minister, has affirmed that the statement of Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni rejecting the ceasefire offer made by the Palestinians posed clear evidence that Israel was interested in military escalation.

The PA unity government had proposed a comprehensive, simultaneous, and reciprocal ceasefire, but the Israeli occupation government turned down the proposal.

Rockets have never ceased to fall on Israel since the withdrawal from Gaza in the summer of 2005, despite the many so-called "ceasefires" the Palestinians have offered. In light of the "ceasefires" that fall daily between factions in Gaza, who could possibly imagine that this has a single shred of credibility at all?

He lashed out at Livni’s rejection of the proposal charging that the IOA threats of launching military operations against the Gaza Strip unveils that there was no Israeli peace partner.

Having a peace partner precludes the notion of wanting peace in the first place, which is contrary to the current Palestinian government's platform of exercising their "right" to "resist", or commit terror.

Moreover, Barghouthi condemned the Israeli threats of targeting Palestinian leaders and ministers, asserting, “Such unwarranted threats clearly reveal that the IOA wasn’t interested in reaching peace and stability in the region, and that it prefers the language of aggression and violence over the language of calm and rational[sp]”.

Well, leaving terror leaders alone has only increased the terror everywhere, so maybe ridding the world of the sources of hate and violence can't possibly do anything except create better conditions for peace, if there ever will be peace.

Maybe this is just a satire piece and I'm misreading it.