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FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,976419,00.html
'Total War' Engulfs
Middle East As Road Map Is Torn To Shreds
Chris McGreal in Gaza
City
Friday June 13, 2003
Israel declared total
war on Hamas yesterday,
with the Islamic resistance movement responding by ordering all its
fighters to immediately mobilise and "blow up the Zionist entity".
The threat of escalation
in an already bloody week for Palestinians and Israelis alike came hours
before the army launched its fifth helicopter missile strike since Tuesday,
killing a Hamas activist and six civilians.
Among the dead were the man's wife and two- year-old daughter.
It brought to 35 the
number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in violence over the past
two days alone.
The US secretary of state,
Colin Powell, announced plans for a meeting of other members of the
quartet backing the US-led road map to a Palestinian state - Russia,
the European Union and the United Nations - in an attempt to save the
process.
The talks will probably
take place in Jordan, the scene of last week's summit between President
George Bush, the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, and the Palestinian
prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, which briefly revived hopes that conflict
might give way to negotiation.
But they are unlikely
to happen for at least 10 days, and a lot more
blood is likely to be spilled before then.
Israel's defence minister,
General Shaul Mofaz, yesterday ordered his forces to "use
everything they have" against Hamas following Wednesday's
suicide bombing on a Jerus-alem bus, which claimed 17 lives.
That attack came in retaliation
for the Israeli army's botched attempt to assassinate
Hamas's political leader, Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi. That, in
turn, was prompted by the killing of five Israeli soldiers to demonstrate
Hamas's opposition to concessions made by the new Palestinian leadership
at the Aqaba summit, including declaring an end to the intifada.
Hours after Gen Mofaz's
order, Hamas responded with its own escalation. "We call on all
military cells to act immediately and act like an earthquake to blow
up the Zionist entity and tear it to pieces," Hamas said in a statement.
"The
Jerusalem attack is the beginning of a new series of revenge attacks
- in which we will target every Zionist occupying our land."
It warned foreigners to leave Israel for their own safety.
The British government
announced yesterday it is to crack down on organisations in Britain
raising funds for Hamas. The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, is discussing
with the US ways to squeeze countries and individuals funding Hamas,
especially wealthy individuals in Saudi Arabia who provide the bulk
of the money, channelled through Damascus to Gaza and the West Bank.
He is also to discuss a clampdown with other European Union countries.
Although Hamas is a proscribed organisation in Britain, the government
has been holding back over the last year to see whether the Islamist
organisation would sign up to a ceasefire.
Mr Straw seemed to concede
yesterday that this approach had failed, saying the chance of a ceasefire
from Hamas was limited.
"One of the things
that has to come out of this appalling outrage is a greater determination
by the international community to clamp down on funding and support
for organisations like Hamas," he said.
At an emergency Israeli
cabinet meeting, Mr Sharon vowed to stick with the road map but derided
Palestinian leaders as "cry-babies who let terror run rampant"
and then complained when Israel retaliated against attacks. Mr
Sharon described Mr Abbas as a "chick without feathers".
"We have to help
him fight terror until his feathers grow," he said. "The
state of Israel will continue to pursue the Palestinian terror organisations
and their leaders to the bitter end."
But a Palestinian cabinet
minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo, dismissed Mr Sharon's comments as duplicitous.
"His
aim is to discredit the Palestinian government and to assassinate his
real enemy, which is the road map," he said.
Mr Abbas said he would
renew efforts to persuade Hamas to agree to a ceasefire, but Palestinian
sources said the chances of fresh talks in the short term were dim.
The Palestinian president,
Yasser Arafat, who unusually described the Jerusalem bus bombing as
"terrorism", called on the US, Europeans and United Nations
to intervene to halt the escalation. "We
are in need of strong pressure to stop this aggression against our people,"
he said.
The latest Israeli assault
on Gaza City came when helicopters fired a barrage of rockets into a
car, killing a senior Hamas activist, Yasser Taha, his family and four
other people. Mr Taha was an aide to another prominent activist, Mohammed
Deif, who was assassinated last year. About 40 people were wounded.
Mussallam Amaireh, a
guard at a neighbouring mosque, said the car was engulfed in flames.
"It was so terrible to see. People were
burning in there," he said.
Furious Palestinians
waved one of the dead infant's shoes and her feeding bottle,
and screamed abuse about Mr Sharon.
"If
Sharon wants blood, we are prepared to shed ours to spill his,"
shouted an enraged young man called Yusuf.
The car was hit close
to a cemetery where a few hours earlier funerals were held for 11 people
killed in the previous day's Israeli missile strikes.
Thousands of Palestinians
marched through Gaza's streets chanting "bombardment
for bombardment and blood for blood" ahead of the funerals.
But not everyone was
enthusiastic about an escalation in the confrontation.
"We have our children
to consider," said Mada Jabali, a middle-aged woman with four children
in tow.
"We don't want them
to go on living under occupation but we do
want them to live.
There have been too
many martyrs and too many of them have been children. We don't want
more."
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Noone - anywhere in the world
should be under any misunderstanding whatsoever.
The so-called "Road Map" by Bush
- is just a part of the deception
used to try and brainwash, hoodwink and justify to the world
the illegal - criminal - armed offensive - using WMD's
against the impoverished - long suffering - nation of Iraq.
Get
it straight from the "horses mouth".
James Moore and Wayne Slater have been close enough -
to know first hand - what Bush is up to.
This is premeditated murder and mayhem
of the worst type possible.
The 'pawns' used this time?
Decent - well
meaning - patriotic - but uninformed -
young and immature American military service personnel
and who - eventually, over time - will die in their thousands
as the afflicted Iraqi's fight - using what limited means they have
to eject the oppressors - murderers and invaders -
who are there for no other reason than to enable
Bush and big money oil to -
plunder Iraq's wealth -
remove their sovereignty -
desecrate and destroy their land - heritage - pride - self esteem
and
ADD FUEL TO THE FLAMES OF TERRORISM.
Once again - Bush will kill as many U.S. servicemen
(pawns)
as it takes
to get what HE WANTS - for greed - money -
power - control.
CAN'T YOU ALL SEE IT??? - THAT IS WHY HE KEPT
SILENT
AND SACRIFICED OVER 3,200 AMERICANS (PAWNS)
ON 11 SEP 2001
IN A DESPICABLE - CRIMINAL GRAB
FOR UNBRIDLED POLITICAL POWER
FOR GREED - MONEY - POWER - CONTROL
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE U.S.
To the people of the United States -
IF YOU LOVE AMERICA - IF THOSE U.S. SOLDIERS
THAT WILL DIE AS (PAWNS) -
ARE YOUR SONS OR DAUGHTERS???
ARE YOU GOING TO LET BUSH
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'FEDERAL' SCANDAL
It is indicative
of how the wrong person - with the wrong motives
in command of the world's most powerful military machine
can be a danger to the American people
equally as much - as the rest of the world.
"...
We Really Don't Need Anybody's Permission ..."
and
then read the
ICOPO
Indictment against George W. Bush.]
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