Israel may go after Gaza rockets

NY Times:

Israeli generals threatened Friday to re-invade the Gaza Strip if Palestinian rocket attacks continued, keeping up a war of words and weapons even as Jews, Muslims and Christians celebrated their holy days.

"I do not rule out ground operations if requested by the southern command of Israel," the army deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinski, told the nation's biggest selling daily, Yediot Aharonot, in one of a spate of bellicose interviews in weekend newspapers. "If the time comes, we will launch them."

As thousands of Palestinians rallied after Friday Prayer to protest Israeli shelling and the cutoff of international aid, the new Hamas leadership was no less adamant.

"We will not give in, and attempts to isolate the government will fail," Prime Minister Ismail Haniya told a cheering crowd at a mosque at the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. "We are prepared to eat salt and olives."

In the past week, 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli tank and artillery attacks. The latest victims were two gunmen from Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade who were killed on Thursday as they tried to get through a fence. On Thursday and Friday, Israeli troops, with armored bulldozers, ventured several dozen yards inside Gaza searching for explosives.

General Kaplinski maintained that the Israeli military pressure was "beginning to bear fruit." He added, however, "More should be done to stop rocket attacks."

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Palestinians seem to think they are entitled to rocket Israel without response and threaten its destruction without consequence. Since none of this is logical, it has to be based on some bizaar thinking involving something else.

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