Word: mortars
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...Just what does this tussle contribute to the sum of the violence? At the start of last week, Hezbollah attacked an Israeli position on the border with Lebanon, killing an Israeli soldier. That attack prompted a jealous Hamas to step up its mortar offensive along the Israel border, firing for the first time on a town inside Israel. Desperate to demonstrate that it can still do more than put on a defiant show at the funerals of its "martyrs," Hamas fired a series of 82-mm mortars on the Israeli town of Sderot. "We have to prove ourselves," the Hamas...
This is not the way the Bush administration wanted it, but the Middle East has a way of confounding the best-laid plans. Israeli tanks and troops rolled into Gaza Tuesday in response to a Palestinian mortar attack on an Israeli town, with some of their commanders vowing that they could stay for months. Then Colin Powell spoke, condemning the Israeli reaction to a Palestinian provocation as "excessive and disproportionate" - and within hours the Israelis had retreated. Asked whether the U.S. criticism has influenced the decision, Dore Gold, an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told CNN, "We pay very...
...will Palestinians read Tuesday's intervention by Secretary of State Colin Powell that appears to have prompted Israel to withdraw after reoccupying a piece of Gaza in the wake of a mortar attack on Israel...
...certain boundary. When Saddam Hussein entered Kuwait, that led most of the Arab states to support the U.S. in the Gulf War. So the Americans could not keep silent in the face of what had happened in Gaza, even if they believed Israel had been provoked by the mortar attacks...
...ground things have moved to the point that it's becoming a war. Hamas on Monday claimed responsibility for the mortar attack on Sderot. If that had happened a year ago, 20 Hamas leaders would have been arrested on the spot and the Palestinian police and intelligence would come down hard on the organization. Instead, today, they talk about coordination of protest activities on the ground between the Islamists and Arafat's organization. I don't see a conflict between Arafat and the Islamists at this stage - that would arise only if Arafat declared a truce with the Israelis...