All cause Israel responded to their rocket attacks finally.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended peace negotiations with Israel on Sunday, demanding it end a Gaza offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
Israel said it was acting in self-defense in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to curb constant cross-border rocket attacks by militants and threatened to intensify its ground and air campaign despite allegations it was using excessive force.
Abbas had ordered “the suspension of negotiations … until (Israeli) aggression is stopped,” a senior aide to the Palestinian leader said in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
But he stopped short of declaring dead the U.S.-brokered statehood talks opposed by Hamas Islamists who seized control of the Gaza Strip from his Fatah movement in June.
Why is it always Israeli aggression? Is Hamas blameless here? Rocket attacks the work of innocents? But not unexpected considering. As for Israel…
“Israel has no intention of stopping the fight against the terrorist organizations even for a minute,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet, facing the new challenge of long-range rockets hitting the major southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
Good, shouldn’t have to lie down and take attack after attack without responding. And anyone has to be nuts to think Israel wouldn’t respond. Of course, Israel will be blamed totally not Hamas who started the whole thing with their rocket attacks. Israel is always blamed.
They’ve broken off peace negotiations? Good Lord! Now Israel will suffer rocket attacks.
Err, that’s what was going on before they broke off negotiations, wasn’t it?
Yes, further in to Israel too into Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 people. That’s a significant threat. So, Israel can’t just ignore it and hope it will go away.