Hamas and Al-Qaeda Attack Israel Through Egyptian-Controlled Sinai

[jordan179]

From Amy Tiebel, AP Jerusalem, "Attackers from Egypt kill 7 inside Israel," http://news.yahoo.com/attackers-egypt-kill-7-inside-israel-141615092.html

Squads of gunmen armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from

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Israel Strikes Back!

[jordan179]

Addendum: Israeli aircraft have struck targets in the southern Gaza. Let's hope that this is but the first strike in a major Israeli retaliatory campaign! :D

IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.

[ext_531464]

Ali Abunimah writes:
For Israel, all Arabs are interchangeable: someone attacked you one there? Go ahead and kill some random people in #Gaza.

IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.

[igorilla]

For Americans, all Japans are interchangeable: someone attacked you in Pearl Harbor? Go ahead and kill some random people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Re: IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.

[ext_531464]

Yeah... just because everyone else does it doesn't mean I hate it any less.

muskhalili mustafa khalili
AlJazeera reporting Israeli drone strike kills 6 in #Gaza ... including a child

[igorilla]

UN recognition would boost the power and prestige of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank, which is the last thing that the rulers of a radical breakaway Palestinian city-state would want to see happen.

Traditional American thinking : a good cop and a bad cop, so we need to please the good one. FYI, they both are bad

[jordan179]

I totally agree. I'd like to see Hamas, Hezbullah and the Palestinian Authority (aka Palestine Liberation Organization) all crushed. I wish that Yasser Arafat had ended his days in prison, or on the gallows.

[igorilla]

"Seven" would be bad news, because it would mean that Hamas actually managed to achieve a 1:1 kill ratio

It's excellent ratio, actually. The usual ratio when terrorists attacking civilians is one terrorist to tens civilians or even higher, like in India

[ext_531464]

Makes me wonder what Jordan would propose Israel do if one guy with a rocket launcher killed twenty IDF soldiers before being shot dead himself.

[luagha]

Nuke Iran, of course. Duh.

[jordan179]

Well, on general principles. It also is a cure for global warming and illiteracy in our slums.

[tara_li]

I'm not so sure I agree with you about the border guards. It's *HARD* to put enough troops on a border to cover the entire length of it sufficiently to keep all leakage blocked. Nothing says the attackers came over in one large group, for that matter.

[oronoda]

This. This so hard. Egypt has a lot on their plate right now including dealing with their own militants.

[jordan179]

I think you're right about this, especially since I now know that the Egyptians have been very actively hunting the Al-Qaeda troops.

[hannahsarah]

Egypt has pulled a lot of guards off of the border to work in the city squares to control riots.

The majority of the remaining border guards are Bedouin, which means that they are loyal to none but their own tribe.

[oronoda]

Egyptian Borderguards were among the casualties and they did fight the group of gunmen.

I think you're stretching a little bit with Egypt. While there is a significant amount of the population who hate Israel, at the moment, they are conducting a massive sweep in the Sinai to arrest militants responsible for lighting police stations on fire (there were about 8 or so in the last two weeks). I would call them "overstretched" as the most likely reason. Additionally, Egypt closed the Rafah Crossing after the incident.

I think it is way too soon to implicate Egypt in this act.