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Israel's Insanity Revealed In Threat To Murder Elected Head of State
(Martin Chulov, The Australian, 01 July 2006)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed the military will do all it can to avoid civilian deaths once they begin the new holocaust, their ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Israel last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed. . . . The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter as Israel debated a deal offered by Hamas to free Corporal Gilad Shalit. . . . It came as Israeli military officials readied a second invasion force for a huge offensive into Gaza. . . . Hamas's Gaza-based political leaders, including Mr Haniyeh, had already gone into hiding. . . . But last night's direct threat to kill Mr Haniyeh, a democratically elected head of state, sharply raised the stakes. . . . Thousands of Hamas supporters protested in Gaza City late on Thursday over the arrest by Israeli forces of up to 32 Hamas MPs on the West Bank that day. . . . A Hamas spokesman said the group would never recognize Israel, in spite of a deal its leaders signed this week offering implicit recognition of the Jewish state in return for easing an economic blockade. . . . Israeli fighter jets bombed 20 targets in Gaza, including the Interior Ministry, which it said had been used by militants to stage meetings, while artillery hit the northern strip with 500 shells in the 24 hours until yesterday morning. . . . Much of Gaza, including two main hospitals, was without power and running water as a UN aid chief warned that the 1.4 million residents of the strip were three days away from a humanitarian crisis. . . . "They are heading for the abyss unless they get electricity and fuel restored," said emergency relief co-ordinator Jan Egeland, who urged militants to free Corporal Shalit and stop firing rockets into Israel. . . . Residents complain that sonic booms caused by Israeli jets traumatise children and that shelling confines families to their homes. . . . Egypt and the neighbouring Arab states of Jordan and Lebanon fear a war between Israel and the Palestinians could lead to uprisings within their own borders, which house many Palestinian refugees

[COMMENT by Lorenzo: How can anyone continue to support the murderous Israeli regime. They have declared themselves and their citizens outside the law, much as has the insane tyrant Bush, and do not deserve either the support or continued sympathy of any sane and peaceful person on this planet.]

posted by LoZo 5:07 PM