Hamas threatens to renew violence if Israel prevents Gaza reconstruction

So let there be an explosion. Israel should reassert that there will be no reconstruction without disarmament. At the same time Israel should be pushing for resettlement rather than rebuilding. Ted Belman

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam spokesman warns ‘the fight is not over,’ saying ‘if the siege on Gaza and the obstacles for reconstruction remain, there will be a new explosion.’

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destruction1RAFAH – The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Thursday of renewed violence unless Israel allows the reconstruction of the war-battered Gaza Strip.

“We are saying to all sides – if the siege on Gaza and the obstacles for reconstruction remain, there will be a new explosion,” said Abu Obeida, spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

A devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that ended on August 26 killed more than 2,140 Palestinians, and 73 on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.

Gaza has been under a stringent Israeli blockade since 2006, with construction materials tightly restricted for fear terrorists could make use of them to forge arms or build fortifications.

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The United Nations brokered a deal allowing the delivery of construction materials to Gaza by ensuring they will not be diverted by Hamas terrorists.

Last week, the UN announced the temporary reconstruction mechanism was to be launched under the auspices of a newly-formed Palestinian unity government.

“We hold the enemy fully responsible for an explosion if the reconstruction does not begin,” Abu Obeida said at a rally in Gaza City, warning that “the fight is not over.”

Hamas official Khalil al-Haya, also speaking at the rally attended by dozens of gunmen and around 1,500 people, called for renewed dialogue between his movement and rival Palestinian faction Fatah.

Hamas and Fatah earlier this year signed a reconciliation deal to end seven years of bitter and at times bloody rivalry which has left the West Bank and Gaza ruled by separate administrations.

But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after a series of bombings in Gaza last week targeting property of his Fatah party accused Hamas of trying to destroy unity efforts.

Haya, whose movement has denied any link to the blasts, urged Abbas not to use the attacks as “a means to evade reconciliation” and called on Fatah “to return to a partner-based dialogue.”

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  4. a Gen’l Sherman did during the US civil war, flatten or burn every commercial building and government house, destroy all power and water. make Gaza uninhabitable unless they disarm, stop maligning Israel, and decide to live peacefully. The people must pay the price for violence. They elected them; they are all responsible. When reasonable, Israel must take control of the school system and media and promote only pro Israel and pro Jewish information.

  7. honeybee Said:

    Here I thought it was you sixth grade teacher.

    I loved my sixth grade teacher, Miss Zucker, a real beauty in every way. The 6th grade boys were in a perpetual swoon, she would pinch my cheek and tell me how cute I was. Our mantra was: zucky the cookie with the wiggly tucky…. our thoughts were simple then.

  11. @ honeybee:

    Now why did I know I would be put in my ignorant place. 🙂

    I am always willing to be put in place when I show an obvious ignorance of details. Thanks, I will from now on acquaint myself with facts before opening trap. 😉

  12. @ yamit82:

    You display the formidable knowledge that only a “city boy” can display when it come to wolves and cattle. Wolves kill cattle cause their easy prey. Elk and Deer run and wolves prefer “easy calories”. The Govt. no longer allow ranchers to leave dead cattle for predator as once was the practice. Wolves are also programed to hunt. There is not problem with the abundance of game in the USA. Hunting and hunters has done more the increase of wild game, then its depletion.

  13. @ honeybee:

    Seems like it would be profitable and conservationist to just leave enough meat around for the wolves so they wouldn’t need to attack live cattle. needn’t be saleable meat but stuff discarded in slaughter houses good for wolves but no one else. The States that raise livestock should provide such a service.

    Over hunting wild game is a cause. Reduces the food supply and sources from the wolves and other predators.

  18. yamit82 Said:

    Isolation I – How not to be Ill

    The antidote to the Ill-effect is remaining convinced of our inner truth.

    the analogy is excellent, however, I do not agree with sara honig conslusion above. Ill could have remained convinced of the truth but that would not be enough of an antidote or deterrence to murder. I am sorry to say, as a cynic, that the only real deterrence is that ALL those participating in these evil deeds somehow become convinced that such an endeavor will result in their certain demise in the most horrifying of manner; and perhaps a small demonstration of that end would be most efficacious. WMD are more convincing than inner truth and there is more than one kind of WMD and delivery system.

  19. @ bernard ross:

    Graphic enough for me! 🙂

    Isolation I – How not to be Ill

    Natan Alterman. A founder of the Land of Israel Movement, Alterman was acutely pained by the fact that (already in his day) doubts began to be cast on the legitimacy of Israel’s existential struggle, portraying it as the aggressor and dismissing Jewish claims to the Jewish homeland. To him these were dark omens portending a Jewish mental aberration that could precipitate Israel’s downfall.

    After his death in 1970 several unpublished works were discovered in his literary estate. The most evocative of these poems, “Then Satan Said” (which I translated), became his heavy-hearted, somber last legacy.

    There Alterman conjured an allegorical evil stratagem in which:

    …Satan then said:
    How do I overcome
    This besieged one?
    He has courage
    And talent,
    And implements of war
    And resourcefulness.
    …only this shall I do,
    I’ll dull his mind
    And cause him to forget
    The justice of his cause.

  22. yamit82 Said:

    I retract my cynicism.

    not so fast 🙁

    A call to Muslim prayer rang Friday through the cavernous Washington National Cathedral for the first time in the religious landmark’s century-old history.

    Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/14/national-cathedral-1st-ever-muslim-prayer-service/#ixzz3J5wwqsKc
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    at least it wasn’t the Wahington National synaguogue (yet)

    Director of the District office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Br. Haris Tarin said those in attendance should remind anyone curious about the day’s event that “there is nothing more Christian, nothing more Muslim, nothing more American than praying together.”

    😛 😛 ………….. 🙁