The young Israeli soldier was apparently shot in the head soon after his abduction. The Palestinians had no intention of trading him for prisoners.


Hamas leaders arrested; Israeli executed

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister and dozens of other Hamas officials early Thursday and pressed their incursion into Gaza, responding to the abduction of one of its soldiers.

Adding to the tension, a Palestinian militant group said it killed an 18-year-old Jewish settler kidnapped in the West Bank. Israeli security officials said Eliahu Asheri's body was found buried near Ramallah. They said he was shot in the head, apparently soon after he was abducted on Sunday.

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

mmm

Thats not the soldier the soldier is a Cpl Shalit.
Thats a "settler" in the West Bank.

You're right. I didn't know they had kidnapped someone else. Things are getting wild over there right now.

Did you hear this?:

Palestinians Claim Chemical Attack

“Gunmen” from Mahmoud Abbas’ “loosely linked armed wing,” the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, claim that they fired a rocket into Israel tipped with a chemical warhead.

GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

“The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead” at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza."

If true, we may soon find how what Sadda did with his wmd.

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

I understand the chemical stuff but if they launch the biolagical stuff they are idiots it will kill more palistinians then israelis.

The use of any chemical/biological/nuclear weapons against Israel is suicidal. The wind will blow the fallout into neighboring areas and countries quickly enough, and the environmental damage is even worse.

And I strongly doubt that any 'chemical' weapons they possess are beyond any crazy undergrad chemist's capacity. They have to be manifactured there, as smuggling would be nearly impossible, and the Palestinian territories aren't known for manufacturing savvy.

JP5 has got two Israelis confused. The man shot was not the missing Israeli soldier, but rather an Israeli settler (a civilian squatting on Palestinean land).
He could also try to explain how Israel is justified in terrorizing a population of hundreds of thousands of people (the Palestineans in the Gaza Strip) in order to try and get one man back.

If he or anyone else objects to the term 'terrorizing', what else would you call the strikes on two key bridges and the power plant. It would be as if there was a terror cell in a small American city and Homeland Security decided to tackle the problem by cutting off almost all the city's electricity and blowing up the main bridges over the river which bisects the city. This may be a nuisance to the terrorists, but it is clearly aimed at the entire population.

The seizing of Hamas politicians (many elected ones) is a separate issue which really deserves its own thread. I would say that it definitely escalates the stakes for both Israel and Hamas. As for JP5, he should be more careful and not let his prejudices make him jump to false conclusions.