Israeli prison raid sparks violence in Gaza, West Bank

[HuffleClaw]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/03/14/jericho_raid060314.html

"Violence erupted across Gaza and the West Bank Tuesday after Israeli troops raided a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho, searching for a prisoner wanted in the death of an Israeli cabinet minister... ...Israeli forces were looking for Ahmed Saadat, the man believed responsible for the 2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi. He was being held in the Palestinian- guarded jail under British and American supervision."

also, "The Palestinians said they blamed the violence on Britain and the U.S. who had removed their observers from the prison less than an hour before the Israeli raid."

and, "Palestinian officials called the raid a campaign stunt for interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is considered the front-runner in the upcoming March 28 national elections."

hmmmmm. sure sounds like it. with brit/american collusion no less.

[jseankil]

1. Hamas said they were going to release Saadat, Israel had other plans

Israel isn't going to let them release Rehavam Zeevis assassin nor should they.

[jaysunb]

2. Here we go again....

a new cycle of violence that will spark more violence.
When will it ever end ?????????/ :evilfrown:

[cantstandbush]

3. This is outrageous. How can it be that the Israelis are allowed to

raid defenseless men in a jail? Does the rest of the world have no shame at all?

[7102210S]

6. Excuse me?

Defenceless? They are freakin terrorists.
They make it a habit to kill defenceless people, what are you whining about?
Israel had to take them because Abbas was pallning to release them, after which they would go on with their killin sprees.

If you value human life, you would be upset because terrorists are freed continuously after only a month of their supposed prison time by the PA. Not be upset when Israel tries to prevent terrorists getting on the streets again.

[jseankil]

8. Learn the facts before judging, you clearly have not.

The U.S. and U.K. wrote to Abbas complaing about the security situation at the prison, how prisoners were allowed to come and go from it and how they were allowed to use their cell phones. Add this to the fact that they were going to release those who killed an Israeli offical in 2001 and there is total justification for this raid.

[cantstandbush]

10. The fact is this: Iraelis raided a prison. Period! n/t

[jseankil]

12. Brilliant! Can I nominate this post for it's insightfulness? /nm

nm

[Scurrilous]

17. Maybe the family...

....of Alfredo Teller Jr. can prevail upon the US authorities to raid the Israeli prison facility holding Samuel Sheinbein and seize him before he can go home on his scheduled weekend furloughs.

I mean, fair is fair.

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[4morewars]

4. Without brit/american collusion,

There would be no Israel.

[Fredda Weinberg]

7. Israel was born defending herself, thank you

She bought used planes from the Czechs because the Americans didn't want to annoy the Arabs. As for the Brits, remember they left after keeping hundreds of thousands of war refugees, including my father, from our ancestral home.

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[mom cat]

15. Thank you.

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[Scurrilous]

21. Yep...

...makin' the desert bloom! :thumbsup:

[Tom Joad]

26. They never wanted land? They had been living there for generations.

there homes were there. There villages were there. Almost no one, (obviously, you are one of the rare exceptions) accepts the line you are peddling there.

[Coastie for Truth]

20. Actually

Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia were carved out of the former Ottoman Empire by the WW I victors, who then engaged in all manner of colonialistic and imperialistic and militaristic sport to:

a} Keep the oil under their influence, and
b) Have a Mediterranean littoral that could not pose a threat to the Suez Canal, the UK's East African colonies and South Asian colonies, and
c) Preclude the Russians from access to warm water ports.

You might want to read:

a) "A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" by F. William Engdahl, and
b) "Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East' by John Keay, and
c) - a blog run by an alternative energy guy who follows ME politics.

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[cali]

9. Are you suggesting

that this would be a good thing?

[Coastie for Truth]

19. Wiki or Google

Sir Mark Sykes and Sir Ernest Bevin.

Be more accurate to say "Without the Czech's..."

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Saadat now in Israeli hands, accordin to BBC ticker

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[High Plains]

14. Now Israel can prepare to reap what it has sown (again)

Things had been just too quiet lately.

Now the PFLP swears vengeance.

There must be some Israeli politicians desperate to prevent peace from breaking out.

And some British and American collaborators.

[7102210S]

18. what a sick reasoning

Let me get it straight: You are seriously suggesting that terroristm only exists because people fight against it, and if nobody would fight it, it wouldn't exist?

A terrorists attacks Israel, Israel defends itself, and you dare to reasons that if Israel had not done so the terrorism wouldn't exist?

You better pray you're family never depends on you to defend it because they would be doomed.
I can already imagine you trying to strike a compromise with the terrorists!
"How about instead of killing my entire family, you only kill half? No? How about half and you get to keep my house?" SICK

[High Plains]

22. The man has been in jail for what, four years?

Things were pretty quiet. Now the Israelis pull this stunt.

Yes, I am suggesting that they should expect retaliation. Do you doubt it?

You better pray your family doesn't count on you to defend it because your reckless actions will get them all killed.

I can imagine you trying to seek peace with the people under occupation. No, actually, no I can't.

[bemildred]

25. Britain accused after day of chaos and kidnaps in Gaza

Britain was accused of colluding with an Israeli military assault on a Palestinian jail yesterday that prompted the widespread kidnapping of foreigners in the occupied territories and the sacking of UK and EU offices.

The army's day-long siege of Jericho prison ended with the surrender of five men accused by Israel of the 2001 assassination of a cabinet minister, Rehavam Zeevi, in Jerusalem. But at least six foreign aid workers and journalists were still being held by Palestinian armed groups.

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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, cut short a trip to Europe because of the crisis and accused Britain and the US of violating agreements by withdrawing the monitors without informing him.

The speed with which Israeli forces moved into the jail, surrounding it within about 30 minutes of the monitors pulling out, prompted widespread suspicion among Palestinians. Within hours, gunmen kidnapped at least nine foreigners in Gaza and the West Bank, later releasing three of them, including Americans and Australians. Among those still held last night were French and Swiss aid workers and a Korean journalist. A gunmen was killed in a confrontation with the Palestinian police as some of the foreigners were abducted from a Gaza hotel.

Guardian

[bemildred]

27. UN Security Council Fears Israeli Prison Raid Aftermath

UNITED NATIONS (AP)--The U.N. Security Council sought the release of foreigners kidnapped in retaliation for an Israeli raid on a Palestinian prison and expressed serious concern at the raid, but appeared unlikely to come down hard against Israel as Qatar proposed.

Top U.N. officials, meanwhile, warned that the latest violence in the West Bank only heightened tensions in the region and urged both sides to defuse the crisis.

"Israel's violent incursion - as well as the Palestinian actions carried out in response - risk destabilizing even further the already tense situation in the Middle East," Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. undersecretary-general for political affairs, told the Security Council in an emergency meeting on Tuesday.

Representing Arab nations on the council and backed by the Palestinian government, Qatar distributed a draft presidential statement that would call on Israel to end its "continued onslaught" against the Palestinian-run prison.

Nasdaq