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    Egypt: Israel delaying expanding Gaza offensive

    By IBRAHIM BARZAK - Associated Press | AP – Tue, Nov 1, 2011

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Egyptian official said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to briefly delay expanding its military operations in the Gaza Strip to give Egypt time to try to persuade Palestinian militant factions to halt rocket fire on southern Israel.

    Israeli aircraft have targeted rocket squads in Gaza in recent days, but the Egyptian official says Israel has also planned a wider operation. The official says Egypt asked for 24 hours to try to bring all factions into an informal cease-fire and Israel agreed to give Cairo until around midnight Tuesday.

    The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss Egyptian mediation.

    The Israeli defense ministry had no immediate comment.

    The military said there have been no Israeli airstrikes since around midnight Monday. Two rockets were fired from Gaza during that time. The relative calm prevailed through Tuesday afternoon.

    On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned from the podium of the Israeli parliament that Israel would operate "vigorously and resolutely" against those who would threaten its security.

    "A security philosophy cannot rely on defense alone," Netanyahu said. "It must also include offensive capabilities, the very foundation of deterrence."

    Netanyahu summoned his top leadership for a closed meeting to discuss Gaza on Tuesday afternoon.

    The recent flare in violence has been the worst in the area in months, killing at least 10 militants and an Israeli civilian.

    The attacks have disrupted life in southern Israel, forcing schools to close. About 1 million Israelis live within range of rockets from Gaza.

    The Islamic Jihad faction had led the rocket attacks that began last week, but on Sunday agreed to stop the violence if Israel also did. Rocket fire that drew retaliatory Israeli airstrikes persisted afterward, but it was claimed by a different militant group, the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

    Gaza's ruling Hamas group, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in past violence, has not directly been involved in the attacks. But Israel holds Hamas responsible for all violence from the territory.

    Hamas, meanwhile, said Tuesday that the Israeli military had arrested one of its leaders in the West Bank, Hassan Youssef, overnight in his Ramallah home. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the move "a dangerous Israeli escalation against Hamas and against one of the symbols of the elected Palestinian legitimacy."

    Youssef was released from an Israeli prison in August after serving six years.

    The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

    Hamas has controlled Gaza since taking it over in June 2007 during a civil war with its rival Fatah. The West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority, run by President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, who unlike Hamas favors a negotiated settlement with Israel.

     
    • roy
      roy  •  6 mths ago
      we do no read about Jews erradicating muslims in any country, but we do see the erradication of Jews and christians in all muslim countries.
      • B Mchu
        B Mchu 6 mths ago
        why isn't anybody reporting on all the christians being killed in Egypt
      • myob
        myob 6 mths ago
        Because it is Muslim doing the killing and not Jews!
      • Flying Eagle
        Flying Eagle 6 mths ago
        Ben, this is disturbing, that a people fight for freedom of oppression, then oppress others.
    • roy
      roy  •  6 mths ago
      There are 56 muslim regimes in the world. There is only one Jewish nation in the world.
      America first says stop funding Israel. I say stop funding the 56 muslim nations. Let the Saudis (home of the terrorist) fund their terrorist nations.
      • mike
        mike 6 mths ago
        they own you.
      • LORD KABIGON
        LORD KABIGON 6 mths ago
        JWJS
        No drivel from short eyed Mo's toilet scroll?
    • Billy
      Billy  •  Braithwaite, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Palestinians are so stupid that the world has to support them.
    • Marc
      Marc  •  6 mths ago
      Hedgehog, sure the Israelis knew it would happen, but now the rules of the game have changed. It's been established that 1,027 Arab lives equals one Jewish life.

      Just another example of the Arabs getting what they wish for. (Prior wishes granted to them was the partition of India based on religion, which was then applied to Palestine, as well as population relocation after partition, as evidenced by the Muslim expulsion of 850,000 Jews and 7,500,000 Hindus and Sikhs.)
    • WIB
      WIB  •  6 mths ago
      no Israeli airstrikes since around midnight Monday. Two rockets were fired from Gaza
      shows who wants peace and who can't help but be violent.
      this is the kind of action that gives all Muslims a black eye
      especially since none of the peace loving Muslims want to come out and condemn the terrorist type all they ever do is tell everybody we aren't like them but never an ill word toward the terrorists.
      • R
        R 6 mths ago
        what peaceful muslims
      • WIB
        WIB 6 mths ago
        sorry R a slip of the tongue
      • jeff
        jeff 6 mths ago
        and, unfortunately, the same holds true for all of their little buddies that reside and prosper in the USA. we give them reason to laugh at us and mock us. this is truly a sad state of affairs but we do nothing about it.
    • CunningStuntman
      CunningStuntman  •  San Francisco, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Israel shows restraint, haters here still foam at the mouth.

      Priceless!
    • SIS
      SIS  •  Parsippany, United States  •  6 mths ago
      What is the problem we are going to solve by including a stateless UN member? I am confuse. At the end they (israel and Palestine) have to work something out in my opinion.
    • Not given
      Not given  •  Chicago, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I don't mind if they wipe the gaza strip right off the map. If the people of gaza keep using terror and rockets , I say kill them all
    • REALITY CHECK
      REALITY CHECK  •  6 mths ago
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    • ludichrist2000
      ludichrist2000  •  6 mths ago
      'Fighting and dying is the answer to every problem'.
      That sure sounds like a good idea to me - how about you?
      I mean, hasnt that logic always worked out really well for people, throughout history?
    • REALITY CHECK
      REALITY CHECK  •  6 mths ago
      "never put on masks, claimed to be someone else, or impersonated another."..You have a rather hypocritical attitude tinajean...How many dozens of accounts have cloned me in the past year? There were 7 last month alone...and 2 more this month...I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery..
    • ☼☺
      ☼☺  •  6 mths ago
      Pook, the need for the PLO became apparent in the UN from 1947 onward, in which they had literally no voice and were dependent fully on emissaries from the Arab League and other Arab nations to speak for them. The PLO, while it started off with militant roots, eventually and over time became more politicized and the de facto and recognized representative of the Palestinian people. Oslo solidified that position once and for all, and even Israel has accepted them as the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Do you have problems with Israel as well now?
      • Samson
        Samson 6 mths ago
        Thanks to Abbas bungling the situation and going to the UN despite a commitment in Oslo accord NOT TO, it nullifies Oslo accord and void it, thanks goodness
    • Jeff
      Jeff  •  6 mths ago
      Muslims are blowing themselves up and with their own persons goes babies, elderly people, women, children and civilian men.
      Muslims are blowing Christians, Jewish, Buddhists, Hindu, Atheists, and their fellow Muslims..
      If they are acting pursuant to the Koran, how can the Koran not be evil?
      If they are acting against the Koran, say so.
      We do not know what a human being would think authorizes him to do this.
    • dictatorSlime
      dictatorSlime  •  Cranbury, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Littel terrible zealot palistinina hamas... they're like warrior ants, and need to be wiped out. They are capable of living only in state of war. Shootin rockets off, unprovoked... just love shootin them rockets off... love them rockets more than their kids....
    • harold
      harold  •  Charlottesville, United States  •  6 mths ago
      it shows both that Israel has patience as well restraint in this matter but is no longer going to put up with the crap
    • judith
      judith  •  Washington, United States  •  6 mths ago
      It is necessary to protect their citizens even if they have to do it alone
    • thetnrebel
      thetnrebel  •  Nashville, United States  •  6 mths ago
      the towel heads don't want peace... the only time they are at peace is when they a laid out dead
    • Rand March
      Rand March  •  6 mths ago
      Nations, being governed by people, tend to behave as people. Their citizens, as P.H. Pearse, in the 1916 Irish Proclamation of Independence, noted are "the children of the nation"

      The claims that, because no one was killed, Hamas' rocket attacks should incur no retaliation are nonsense

      If I were to fire a pistol at the head of a child and were to miss hitting my target, would it be acceptable for me to say to the parents of the child "You have no right to retaliate, because I missed"? Of course not. The very notion is ludicrous

      But that is EXACTLY what Hamas and its supporters say to Israel when Hamas fires rockets during a "truce"
    • philly57
      philly57  •  Saddle River, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Memo to all Israel bashers: You say Israel doesn't want peace...yet the area was completely calm until the Palestinian terrorists started lobbing rockets. As usual, flare ups of violence are traced to unprovoked Arab aggression (and as always, aimed at civilians). In all the years of conflict that's been the pattern - Arabs attack Israeli civilians and Israel responds by targeting terrorists. And somehow Israel is the bad guy?
    • ☼☺
      ☼☺  •  6 mths ago
      Then what is this repeated and prolonged talk of yours about 'dislocated' Jews, Marc? I don't know which peace agreement you are talking about that the Palestinians 'refuse to enter in to'? Is there one on the table? When do this come about? Please tell us?

      If you are talking about the right of return to their original homes before the war of 1948, I'm sure if Israel grants the right of return to Palestinians, which they affirm they will not, then Palestinians will grant the right of return to Jews. It is a two-way street, you know?
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