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Rockets Fired From Egypt Miss Israel, Hit Jordan
Things in the middle east are back to normal (which means the usual deadly massacre), although with a twist. An earlier rocket attack on the Israel port city of Eliat missed its target completely, and instead slammed into Aqaba, in neighboring Jordan, located 6 miles away just over the border. Instead of firing the rockets from Israel and prompting immediate airborne retaliation, the launch point for today's attack was Egypt, which prevent Israel (or should that be Jordan) from retaliating. Sky News reports that the reason for the shelling is connected to a recent agreement that will see the
Palestinian authorities talk face-to-face with the Israelis, and radical elements, who do not want that to happen, are escalating the violence as a means to stop it. It is unclear if Jordan will also escalate now that its own territory has been impacted in the ongoing conflict, and it is also to be seen how Egypt will react should it become perceived as a peripheral zone of cross-border attacks.
From Sky News:
A series of rockets fired at the Israeli port of Eliat have hit a Jordanian Red Sea resort instead, injuring at least four people.
Israeli soldiers were searching for at least two devices which did land on their side of the border, but did not hurt anybody.
At around the same time four people were wounded - one of them seriously - when a rocket slammed into Aqaba, about 10km away in Jordan.
The two resorts are located side-by-side on the Red Sea coast, both popular tourist destinations.
One rocket exploded on a main street in front of the city's Intercontinental Hotel, the country's information minister Ali Ayed said.
Officials believe the rockets were fired from militants inside Egypt and they may have overshot their target.
Eilat district police commander Moshe Cohen told Israeli radio his forces were still trying to confirm that the five explosions were caused by shelling.
"It's a little early to say, but it is reasonable to assume that it came from the southern area," he said, referring to Egypt, whose Sinai desert has seen occasional violence attributed to Islamist militants.
"There have been five rocket and mortar attacks coming out of Gaza and into Israel, and there have been two air strikes (in return) by the Israelis.
"When rockets were fired out of here (Gaza) on Thursday and Friday, the response came overnight, back came an air strike immediately.
"If they're fired out of Egypt - and this could be possible why it's been moved down to there - the Israeli air force cannot cross the border and bomb in Egypt.
"So I don't think there will be a retaliation down there. They may retaliate here, but we'll have to wait and see."
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Miss Israel?
http://www.google.com/images?q=missisrael
It must drive the Israelis batty that the Sports Illustrated model is marrying Goyim Leo diCaprio!
It is and there have been many racist articles in Israeli newspapers condemning her for marrying a non-Jew. Interesting how for political gain those who keep complaining to others about being anti-semites do the same type of remarks against non-Jews.
(AIPAC Humor) Darn those self-hating, anti-semites types... even if they are Hasidic Jews who marched in Washington DC to ptotest Israel's actions when Netanyahu visited a few weeks back.
Please don't call them racist, the word isn't any more meaningful than "Heretic" was during the inquisition. Just let everyone discriminate however they wish to, rather than conducting a crusade against anyone who wants to uphold good breeding.
You said, "Please don't call them racist" and "Just let everyone discriminate however they wish to, rather than conducting a crusade...:"
No hypocrisy there, boy, no siree!
Competition for Miss Iran. Note the lousy stance and grip.
rocky, jewish babes have it all over miss iran. and you dont need to shave them daily, either.
looks more like miss russia bis, to me...
Care to point a semitic, there, so that we can trow "anti-semitic" comments at them?
An unfortunate accident.
How long can you rely on incompetence as protective measure?
This should be interesting.
Jordan should attack Israel, so should the US if Americans ever want control of their government. It is my opinion we should not be fighting wars that are clearly for Israel's benefit only.
So because folks in Egypt launch rockets at Isreal and miss, instead hittling Jordan, then Jordan should attack Isreal?
Are you on drugs?
Whoah! Nice shooting, Tex.
You will never know the real truth behind this incident. The Israelis, Jordanians and Egyptians have been stealing the land of the Bedouin for decades. Israel just recently leveled an entire Bedouin village and destroyed all their crops. The Bedouin are Israeli citizens and serve in the army yet the rascist Israelis continue to abuse them. Its possible the Bedouin in Egypt decided to show their displeasure. It is also possible the Israelis paid for the attack to gain some leverage.
Israel is desperate for the water and arable land in Lebanon and the huge nat gas deposits off the coast of Israel, Lebanon and Gaza. By International law Lebanon and Gaza should own 50% of the gas but the thieving Israelis will never allow them to get a penny. The US is blocking any attempt by the Lebanese and Gazans to claim their rights in the UN. Look for the skumbag Israelis to launch another attack into Lebanon to push the Lebanese north of the Litani river. This little endevour and long term occupation will be paid for 100% by the US taxpayer.
The Hasbara rats are out, flagging fine comments like this as spam. 'Anarchist' makes and excellent point!
No, he makes no point at all. That's why his comment is junk, and so is yours.
All he does is post pure speculation based on a deep-seated desire to blame Israel for any and everything, period. There are no facts associated with this event that would enable any logical-thinking person to go off on some tangent about the Bedouin and water resources and natural gas and blah blah blah.
You people that blame Israel instantly, always, are just as bed as your colleagues who defend Israel instantly, always. Morons of a different feather.
off on some tangent about the Bedouin and water resources
Nevertheless, the topic has been broached, so let's not hide our oh-so-superior heads in the sand and have a look at the destruction Israel deals out to Bedouins who have the temerity to live in the middle of nowhere and mind their own business:
Israel leaves 200 children in the desert with No food No water and No shelterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJVWmBcDjU&feature=youtu.be
"...the topic has been broached," and identified as irrelevant. Let's find the Bedouin responsible for this attack and hear their side of the events. Until then, your bullshit is just mental masturbation as you stretch and reach, hoping to make this all Israel's fault, no matter what, regardless of the facts. You are exactly the same as the pro-Israel fanatics you denounce.
Too scared to watch the video, eh?
Refusing to follow the flow of the discussion makes you irrelevant.
Next!
actually, Chump, Anarchist makes a good, researchable point, but you obviously don't care to look into it.
one moment of 'net search brought this up:
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/johal.php?articleid=3205
it's a short article. doubt you'll read it tho'. . .
OK, it's so clear to me now. The Bedouin obviously fled to Egypt intent on revenge. They trained for about six years, got their supplies together, and finally launched a rocket attack to retaliate for their mistreatment by the Israeli state (and mistreatment is putting it lightly, no doubt about that). They missed, killing a Jordanian man and injuring others in the attack.
So your response? Screw Israel. They had it coming. Of course, you have absolutely no idea whether the poor Bedouin were involved in the attack in the slightest. But that doesn't matter, who needs facts? Besides, even if it were conclusively proven to be some other group that hates Israel's existence with a passion, I'm guessing "false flag" would be your next rallying cry.
Yep, you anti-Israel fanatics have the same amount of logical thought as the pro-Israel fanatics: none.
Your momma done good when she named you Chump.
With friends like Israel, who needs friends.
Remember the USS Liberty.
You got that right. Our owned media pounds Americans non-stop how Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East". So what? Democracy hasn't been so good to Americans, and besides that, I can't name one single thing the US gets from Israel. It's a one-way relationship for Israel's benefit.
On many sites, our "free press" will censor a comment like mine. In any case, it makes them look terrible and word is spreading anyway!
Question Israel, get "junked".
Junk me,please!
So much for turn-by-turn directions.
film footage of the militants firing the rockets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGsDm09SE8&feature=related
Drunk israeli settler brags how jews killed Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIXIy6hNc8&feature=related
Jewish Settlers Harass Palestinian Families
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAXh8pjM&feature=related
Israeli soldier shoots arrested Palestinian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2RiEXrJ69o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IV2UuwHrU0
Are you a muslim?
The VC were practiced at improvising Katyusha launch sites from dirt, sandbags, bamboo, etc and actually hitting what they were aiming at.
http://720mpreunion.org/history/weapons_enemy/rockets/index.html
The rockets could be fired from crudely mounted launching positions such as, single metal tubes mounted on wooden boards, with elementary elevation and deflection devices, fired from a a single tube taken from the Soviet multiple rocket launcher, or firing pads could be made of dirt, bamboo frames, crossed wooden stakes, propping it against sandbag mounts, or launched from "road embankments, a dike between two rice fields, the brim of a combat trench, an earth mound, a bomb crater, and termite hills. They accomplished simultaneous launchings by wiring several weapons to two ignition wires and then to a battery. The weapon could be broken down into manageable loads for easy jungle mobility when it was used in this fashion.
The DEBKA take on this attack
http://www.debka.com/article/8944/
If it weren't for the Jews to hate, the Arabs would be continually fighting each other (they do a lot anyway). The question is dis the Egyptians really "miss" their intended target? Is this inter-clan warfare?
Or more false flag ops like the Japanese Tanker to trigger war in the middle east to grab more petroleum assets now that the Gulf was liquidated? Denied by Egypt as theirs for what it's worth...
If it weren't for the Jews to hate, the Arabs would be continually fighting each other
Hero Muslim saves Jew from Christian Thugs on NY Subway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlwc0mE0lCU&feature=related
"A Muslim American saved us when our own people on the train didn't do anything."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8023990.stm
In other news,
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates' looming crackdown on BlackBerry services will extend to foreign visitors using roaming, putting the government's concerns over the smart phones in direct conflict with the country's ambitions to be a business and tourism haven.
The Emirates' telecoms regulator said Monday that travelers to the city-state of Dubai and the important oil industry center of Abu Dhabi will — like the 500,000 local subscribers — will have to do without BlackBerry e-mail, messaging and Web services starting in October.
Emirati authorities say the move is based on security concerns...
... it is also a way for the country's conservative government to further control content they deem politically or morally objectionable.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100802/ap_on_hi_te/ml_emirates_blackberry
Journalists on Gaza flotilla censored and arrestedPress watchdogs have condemned the arrests of several journalists and the censorship. The International Press Institute reported that two journalists from Australia's Sydney Morning Herald - reporter Paul McGeough and photographer Kate Geraghty – were detained after being "transported" to the Israeli port of Ashdod.
Two Bulgarian journalists working for the BTV television station - reporter Svetoslav Ivanov and cameraman Valentin Vassilev - were also arrested during the assault.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jun/01/al-jazeera-press-...