Olmert To Gaza: Get Used To Blockade, Suckers
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that Israel would maintain the tighter blockade that it has imposed on the Gaza Strip since last month.
“We will continue to apply sanctions that are hurtful to the needs of the (Palestinian) population in order for it to be clear that living conditions cannot be altered only from our side,” he told the parliamentary group of his Kadima party in allusion to near daily rocket fire from Gaza.
“Hamas bears responsibility for everything that goes on in the Gaza Strip, and it matters little whether it is or is not directly responsible for any given incident,” army radio quoted him as telling the MPs.
Military sources said four rockets were fired on Israel on Monday, without causing any casualties.
Olmert was speaking just two days after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner urged Israel to lift the blockade, saying the situation in the impoverished territory was “intolerable.”
But Kouchner, on a visit to the region, also urged a halt to the rocket fire in order to avoid such “brutal” responses and said the creation of a Palestinian state was vital for Israel’s security.
In response to the rocket fire, Israel has kept Gaza under effective lockdown since last June following the territory’s takeover by the Islamist movement Hamas. On January 17 it tightened the blockade before easing it again slightly.
Olmert is expected to meet again this week with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in their latest round of peace talks, renewed in November after a seven-year hiatus.
Abbas has also demanded that the blockade be lifted, saying it is “not the people who are firing these rockets.”
(AP)
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I would be telling them get used to daily missile attacks from our Apaches and F-16s on top of that
February 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pmAh ha! The old liberal begins to understand that he has real enemies and that soft soap won’t clean out embedded dirt.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pmWhy don’t we create a Palestinian state on the moon? There’s plenty of room for these assholes to roam around in. And anyhow, they’re already used to deserts.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:10 pmOh? It’s not the people who are firing the rockets? Then perhaps its some form of animal? It is indeed as I had always suspected: people would act in such a wanton and barbarous way. But seriously, where are “the people” who should be stopping this nonsense? If the people can’t stop it, they’re just as guilty as the minority firing the rockets.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:14 pmWhy don’t we create a Palestinian state on the moon? There’s plenty of room for these assholes to roam around in. And anyhow, they’re already used to deserts.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
But what would they brea…Oh…
February 18th, 2008 at 7:34 pmWhy don’t we create a Palestinian state on the moon? There’s plenty of room for these assholes to roam around in. And anyhow, they’re already used to deserts.
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Be nice …
Give `em Mars.
Farther away than the Moon so less chance of them building something to try to get back here.
Takes much longer to travel to Mars, so many will end up being a food source for the others, thereby cutting down on the population.
That “creature” NASA supposedly video taped roaming Mars can have at `em.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Palestinians will live in squalor until the regular folks demand that Hamas behaves like human beings, not the animals that they are now. How much more suffering can these people take? Only they know. Apparently they like it.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am