worldwide condemnation for israel
Oh dear snooks. At it again with your character assassination and slurs?
Your typical approach is to attempt to denigrate those with opposing views. At one stage you even accused me of being a holocaust denier. I really had a smile (a grim one) about that, given that my grandmother was indeed gassed by Hitler's minions. Deny it as much as you will, you can not change the fact that I am Jewish by birth (if not by practice). You can also not change the fact that your and yaks behaviour on this forum is an affront to jews of conscience who believe that Sharon's policy to the Palestinians violates all the principles of decency and is, simply, stupid because it will never work and only serves to inflame world tensions to the point that threaten us all.
It is interesting that there are no muslim posters on this site who attempt to incite hatred against jews yet you and yak are continually doing this against muslims.
There is no doubt that there are anti semitic posters on this site and they should be condemned but you must take a good deal of responsibility for a lot of this posting. Your constant incitements to racial hate have had a very negative effect and have inflamed passions.
So that you may consider the dangerous activities of the IDF further and come to an appreciation of their outrageous actions I have posted todays article which describes the worldwide condemnation.
Israel kills 19 Palestinians in Gaza raid Israel's Army has killed at least 19 Palestinians in the heaviest raid in the Gaza Strip for years as tanks and infantry thrust into Rafah refugee camp.
The assault on the militant stronghold has drawn condemnation from the United Nations and European Union given Israeli threats to destroy hundreds of Palestinian homes in Rafah.
Thousands of Palestinian houses have been razed since Palestinians began a revolt in occupied territory in 2000, according to UN figures.
But the army says there are no plans for any systematic demolition during what it called an open-ended operation to stop the smuggling of weapons through tunnels from nearby Egypt.
United States President George W Bush called the Gaza bloodshed "troubling" but told the powerful pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC that Israel "has every right to defend itself from terror".
A White House spokesman said it was in touch with the Israelis on the humanitarian impact of their incursion and was assured its goal was to stymie smuggling, not level homes.
Medics say the 19 deaths overloaded Rafah Hospital's morgue and five bodies were shifted to vegetable freezers in a nearby market for preservation.
Violence has worsened in Gaza since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon proposed evacuating troops and Jewish settlers in a plan backed by most Israelis and the United States, but held up by opposition from hardliners in his right-wing party.
Ground assault
Commentators say Israel amassed more forces in Gaza for the latest raid than at any time since occupying it 37 years ago.
The raid comes a week after militants killed 13 soldiers in Gaza, the biggest blow to the Army in two years.
Before the ground assault, Israeli helicopter gunships killed seven Palestinians, at least three of them gunmen and another a civilian, outside a mosque, witnesses said.
Other Palestinians, including at least one fighter, were shot dead during street battles. A teenage brother and sister were among the dead.
Palestinian medics say soldiers held up ambulances that were trying to evacuate wounded. The Army said it gave passage to all emergency service vehicles once roads were secured.
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said "a big massacre" had happened in Rafah and called for international intervention to stop Israel's "military escalation and ugly crimes".
Army sources said soldiers had fired only at militants, hitting at least 15 of the gunmen.
Troops took vantage points in bullet-pocked dwellings in Rafah's volatile Tel al-Sultan district as soldiers searched house-to-house for militants and battled Palestinian gunmen.
Dozens of people were wounded in air attacks and street clashes.
Militants fired rockets and set off hidden bombs in the cinderblock camp of 90,000 people, founded in 1949 for some of the 700,000 Palestinians uprooted by Israel's independence war.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees set up tents to take in 1,500 newly displaced people.
Amnesty International, in a new report, said Israel had destroyed more than 3,000 Palestinian houses since 2000.
It said demolitions were "punitive" and done without military necessity in most cases, constituting a war crime under international law.
Israel's Foreign Ministry responded by saying the Army razed only buildings used as gun nests or hiding smuggling tunnels.
