Jordan worried about West Bank rockets

[Phx_Dem]

Senior Palestinian source tells Ynet Palestinian president's surprise visit to Amman related to rocket launching attempts. According to source, Jordanians expressed their concern that northern West Bank will become new version of Strip. Abbas to reporters: Israel to blame for escalation.

Not only Israel is worried: Jordan is very concerned over the possibility that a significant Palestinian rocket infrastructure is being created in the northern West Bank, a senior Palestinian source told Ynet Tuesday.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3273974,00.html

[acmejack]

1. Have you read the "Catastrophe?"

The story of al-Nakba in 1948 as related by Sandy Tolan? It is most fascinating read, it was first published on Tom Dispatch but I read it today at Salon.

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The Arab-Israeli war of 1948, known in Israel as the War of Independence, is called al-Nakba or the Catastrophe by Palestinians. For generations of Americans raised on the heroic story of Israel's birth, especially as written by Leon Uris in Exodus, there is no place for al-Nakba. Yet this fundamental Palestinian wound, and the power of its memory today, cannot simply be wished away.

The obscure anniversary in question, July 11-15, is little known outside of Palestinian memory. Yet it helped forge the fury, militancy, and Palestinian longing for land in exile that helps drive the conflict today. In fact, it's not possible to understand today's firefights without first understanding the Nakba, and especially what transpired under the brutal sun just east of Tel Aviv in the midsummer of 1948.

[AnOhioan]

2. Thanks for the link. I had not read that before.

The last few paragraphs seem especially worthy of noting here;

The latest attacks by Israel in Gaza, ostensibly on behalf of a single soldier, recall the comments by extremist Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, in his eulogy for American Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein, who in 1994 slaughtered 27 Palestinians praying in the Cave of the Patriarchs, part of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. "One million Arabs," Perrin declared, "are not worth a Jewish fingernail."

Israelis, too, are a traumatized people, and Israel's current actions are driven in part by a hard determination, born of the Holocaust, to "never again go like sheep to the slaughter." But if "never again" drives the politics of reprisal, few seem to notice that the reprisals themselves are completely out of scale to the provocation: For every crude Qassam rocket falling usually harmlessly and far from its target, dozens, sometimes hundreds of shells rain down with far more destructive power on the Palestinians. For one missing soldier, a million and a half Gazans are made to suffer. Today, Israel's policy is a case of "never again" gone mad.

The irony is that, contrary to helping build the safe harbor they have sought for so long, the Israeli government, just like the U.S. in Iraq, is only sowing the seeds of more hatred and rage.

[acmejack]

3. I will be buying the book!

[Behind the Aegis]

4. What in the hell does this have to do with the OP?!

:shrug: