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2 PETER 3:8-13-16-18
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us–ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,(ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS) and the elements (ATOMIC BOMBS) shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.(WW3 3 BILLION DEAD)
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,(FRYED FROM NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS) what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements (MEANS NUKES)(NUKES IN THE DICTIONARY U GO TO ELEMENTS) shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.(AFTER ALL THE ATOMIC BOMBS KILL 3 BILLION-JESUS REFURBISHED THE EARTH BACK TO HEALING THE EARTH WHILE HE RULES FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER)(IITS NOT A NEW EARTH-THE EARTH IS JUST REFURBISHED OR REKNEWED BY JESUS WHILE HE RULES-OR THE EARTH IS REHEALED FROM ALL THE NUKE BOMBS THAT DESTROYED IT DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD)
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
PSALMS 90:1-17
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten;(70) and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,(80 YRS) yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCURR.
ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."
PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
UPDATE 6:20PM JULY 10,14
OK ISRAEL IS PRETTY WELL READY WITH 30,000 TROOPS GETTING READY TO SURROUND GAZA AND START BLOWING THESE JACK-ASSES TO BITES FOR SHOOTING ALL THESE ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.AND WE HAD ANOTHER JACK-ASS MAEN ARAKAT ON FOR THE MADE UP PALESTINIAN POLITICAL MURDERERS OF INNOCENT ISRAELS..AND LIKE ALL THE OTHER LUNATIC ARAB NEGOTIATORS. THIS ARAFAGKAT BLAMING ISRAEL FOR EVERYTHING INCLUDING KILLING POOR MADE UP PEOPLE PALESTINIANS THAT DON'T EXIST-THERE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF MURDERING ARABS DESQISES AS HUMANS.THESE DEVILS THINK THEY CAN MURDER EVERY ISRAELI.OK ISRAEL-SURROUND GAZA TONIGHT OR TOMORROW MORNING AND BLOW EVERY BUILDING TO SMITHERS.LET THESE MURDERER ARABS HAVE WHAT THEY WANT.DEATH.BUT IT WILL NOT BE ISRAELIS DYING.IT WILL BE THE MADE UP POLITICAL PALESTINIAN ARABS-GOD WILL TURN THE ROCKETS AND NUKES ON ALL GAZAS POPULATION FOR TRYING TO KILL INNOCENT ISRAELI-WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
ISRAEL 30,000 IS A GREAT NUMBER - 3 =TRINITY AND IN WAR FOR EVER 1 ISRAELI DEAD-1,000 ENEMIES DIE.THIS TELLS US THE TRINITY WILL KILL OFF 1,000 ARABS IN GAZA FOR 1 DEAD ISRAELI.YAY JESUS PROTECTS ISRAEL AND KEEPS HIS PROMISE TO ISRAEL.PRAISE GOD OUR AND ISRAELS MESSIAH.
EZEKIEL 39:1-23
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee,(300 MILIION RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou,(RUSSIA) and all thy bands,(RUSSIA SUPPORTED WITH WEAPONS-ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
Israel masses forces on Gaza border, ahead of possible ground offensive-Elderlay woman dies on way to shelter after siren sounds in Haifa; two Palestinians killed in overnight aisrtrikes; Netanyahu tells Israelis to brace for continued conflict amid speculation that a ground offensive is imminent-By Ricky Ben-David July 11, 2014, 2:10 am 62-The Times of Israel
Operation Protective Edge entered its fourth day on Friday. By nightfall Thursday, over 350 rockets had been fired at Israel, about 90 of them intercepted by Iron Dome, and the Israeli Air Force had carried out almost 900 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip; Palestinian reports said at least 90 Palestinians had been killed. Late Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis to brace for a lengthy conflict, and Israel was massing increased forces on the Gaza border for a possible ground offensive. The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold. (Wednesday’s liveblog is here.)
05:34-Palestinians report 2 casualties in recent air strikes-Palestinian media reports that two people were killed in earlier air strikes by the Israeli Air Force, including a child.According to the report, Anas Abu al-Kass, 33, was killed during an airstrike on a building in Gaza City’s Tel el-Hawa neighborhood, and a 10-year-old child died of shrapnel wounds after a strike in the Rafah area near Egypt, bringing the Palestinian death toll since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge to 92, according to Israel Radio.Al-Kass’s parents reportedly both died during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009.
05:06
Elderly woman in Haifa collapses, dies on way to shelter-A woman in her 70s collapses and dies on her way to take shelter following sirens warning of an incoming rocket in Haifa and the surrounding region.Emergency services called to the scene attempted to resuscitate her but were forced to pronounce her dead
04:01
Rocket intercepted by Iron Dome over Hadera-One rocket intercepted over Hadera, south of Haifa, after a salvo of projectiles was fired from the Gaza Strip in the direction of northern Israel.Residents in the north report hearing several booms indicating possible additional interceptions.Hamas says it fired an R160 rocket in the direction of Haifa.
03:31
Sirens wail in northern Israel-Code Red sirens warning of incoming rockets wail in Haifa and the Hof Hacarmel Regional Council just south of the city.No immediate reports of interceptions, damage, injuries or (rocket) landings.
03:18
Hamas says it’s prepared for escalation that could last months-Hamas says it’s prepared to keep fighting, even if the current round of violence with Israel goes on for months.Hamas co-founder and senior official Mahmoud A-Zahar tells the group’s television channel, al-Aqsa, that rocket attacks on Israel will stop only if Israel abides by its conditions, namely ending the blockade on the Palestinian enclave and releasing 56 Hamas members freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange deal for Gilad Shalit and re-arrested in the West Bank during an 18-day operation in search of the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers abducted on June 12 and found murdered on June 30.Hamas says the arrests are a “red line” and cannot be overlooked.The group’s leadership has gone underground since the start of Operation Protective Edge on Monday for fear of targeted assassinations.
03:14
Israel’s UN envoy sounds the alarm-Earlier Thursday, in a moment of drama at the UN, Israel’s ambassador suddenly played the piercing 15-second siren that warns Israelis to run to bomb shelters to escape rocket attacks — a move designed to highlight the threat his country faces. Ron Prosor told the council that Hamas is “intentionally and indiscriminately” threatening 3.5 million Israelis and “no nation, no people and no government could tolerate this.”Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said he had no props for his appeal to the council “to stop the bleeding” and revive the Palestinians’ “dying hopes” for an end to the conflict and peace with freedom. “I speak on behalf of the suffering and grieving Palestinian people, who are enduring yet another barrage of death, destruction, trauma and terror,” he said.Diplomats said Jordan has circulated a press statement, which is not legally binding, for the Security Council’s consideration that would call for a cease-fire.The draft calls for “immediate calm and ending the hostilities in Gaza including the launching of rocket attacks,” restoration of the 2012 cease-fire and resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at a comprehensive peace agreement and a two-state solution. It also calls for protection of civilians.– AP
03:13
US: We won’t talk to Hamas, but Egypt, Turkey or Qatar could-Following President Obama’s phone call to Prime Minister Netanyahu a few hours back, in which he offered US help in negotiating a cease-fire, AP is quoting a senior administration official making clear that the US still considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization and won’t have direct contact with its leaders.Instead, the official says other players in the Mideast could act as intermediaries, as was the case when Egypt and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton worked to secure the November 2012 cease-fire. Egypt, Turkey or Qatar are all possibilities, says the official, AP reports.Trouble is, Egypt has other preoccupations and little time for Hamas, Turkish-Israel ties are in the deep freeze, and Israel would hardly trust Qatar as a mediator.– AP, Times of Israel staff
03:06
Iron Dome intercepts rocket over Ashkelon-Iron Dome intercepts one rocket over Ashkelon as sirens wail in several Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.The interception came after a slight pause in rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave.
02:36
Air strikes in Gaza target tunnel areas near Sinai-Palestinian media reports that the Israeli Air Force targeted several sites in Gaza, injuring a yet-undetermined number of Palestinians.Known tunnel areas between the enclave and Egypt’s Sinai region were targeted, according to Palestinian media cited by Israel Radio.Gazan sources also told Israel Radio that the targets included homes of Hamas members and sites belonging to group’s security and police forces.
02:12
Defense minister backs Gaza ground operation-Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon supports a limited ground operation into the Gaza Strip, sources close to the defense minister told Channel 10.According to the report, should Israel pursue a ground incursion, it would focus on targets that cannot be destroyed from the air, specifically Hamas’s infamous tunnels near its border with Israel.At the end of a security cabinet meeting Thursday night which lasted over seven hours, Ya’alon said that so far in Operation Protective Edge, Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza have been dealt a serious blow.He added that Israel would continue to “hit” Hamas and to “extract from it a heavy price.”
South Africa’s ruling party compares Gaza op to Nazi crimes-Local Jewish community demands apology after ANC claims Israel turning Palestinian areas into ‘permanent death camps’-By Raphael Ahren July 11, 2014, 4:52 pm 26-The Times of Israel
South African’s ruling party issued an extremely harsh statement on Operation Protective Edge Thursday, comparing Israel’s actions with those of Nazi Germany and accusing Jerusalem of turning the Palestinian territories into “permanent death camps.”The local Jewish community immediately condemned the statement as “obscene” and “venomous” and demanded a retraction and apology.“The African National Congress (ANC) condemns in the strongest terms the barbaric attacks on the defenseless Palestinian people of Gaza,” the party’s deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, wrote in a statement. “As we move towards the month of August and are reminded of [t]he atrocities of Nazi Germany, surely we must ask the people of Israel has the term ‘lest we forget’ lost it[s] meaning.”The statement, which contained more than a few factual inaccuracies, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, went on to list how many Palestinians were killed, wounded and “traumatized” during Israel’s current operation in Gaza. “The State of Israel,” Duarte wrote, “has turned the occupied territories of Palestine into permanent death camps.”She did not refer in any way to rockets fired at Israeli civilians from Gaza.“Of course the killing of any child irrespective of race color or creed must be condemned and the death of two Israeli young people is surely as senseless as any other death,” she continued, apparently referring to the killing of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Sha’ar and Naftali Fraenkel last month. “But for the State of Israel, the notion of an eye for an eye has become perpetual massacre with merciless revenge which has lasted for more than 60 years. It is time to stop the killing now.”Israel’s “horrendous” attack on Gaza will further isolate Israel in the international community, Duarte warned. “Apartheid South Africa’s wanton killing of our people during the 1980s lead to its isolation, it would seem that Israel is taking a similar path of isolation by embarking on these attacks.”Mere hours after the ANC’s statement was issued, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the country’s Zionist Federation put out a joint press release condemning Duarte’s words.“Such naked invective is something one expects to find only on the more extreme wing of the anti-Israel lobby; coming from our country’s ruling party, it is nothing short of disgraceful,” the statement read. The groups said they were “particularly appalled over the shameful comparisons” between Israel’s actions and the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.“Comparisons between Israel and the Nazi regime are obscene, not only because they are so grossly defamatory towards the Jewish State but because they belittle the unspeakable crimes of Nazism itself. It is self-evident that casualties resulting from a necessary and unavoidable military operation – casualties that Israel goes to considerable lengths to minimize – cannot be remotely equated with the systematic mass murder of millions solely on account of their being Jewish.”Duarte is well aware of this but chose to make such a comparison anyway, “for the purpose of causing the maximum hurt and offense,” the statement charged. In doing so, she was “grossly insulting world Jewry and the memory of all the victims of Nazi tyranny.”The joint statement also took Duarte to task for failing to mention the hundreds of rockets fired at Israel in recent days and weeks.“It is unacceptable in any decent, democratic society for a responsible political organization to propagate such venom and bigotry, let alone a party that has been entrusted with the reins of government,” the statement continued.The two most important Jewish organizations in South Africa called on the ANC to distance itself from Duarte’s “repugnant comments” and to apologize to the country’s Jewish community.On May 7, the ANC won 62 percent of the vote in national elections.
Hamas drifts into Gaza fight it doesn't know how to finish-Reuters-By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Noah Browning JULY 10,14-YahooNews
GAZA (Reuters) - The latest mini-war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began with the Gaza-based militants eager to strike a blow, but the escalation that followed has left them physically and diplomatically exposed, with no ready way out.Hamas has sent its rockets streaking into Israel after a month of army raids in the occupied West Bank - in search of three missing Israeli teenagers - that landed more than 900 Palestinians in jail, many of them Hamas members.The self-styled Islamic Resistance Movement was further prompted to action by widespread anger at the burning alive of a Palestinian youth by suspected Jewish extremists last week, an apparent revenge attack after the missing teens were found shot dead in the West Bank - murders Israel blames on Hamas.Hamas said it hadn't sought a war, but now hundreds of Israeli bombs continue to pound the coastal strip, killing scores of Gazans - almost all of them civilians, according to Palestinian medical officials.It says the onus for ending the hostilities is on Israel, where the rocket attacks have caused no fatalities and whose missile defense system has intercepted many of the Hamas projectiles."Yes, we want calm. We don't like escalation, and we didn't make an escalation. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu imposed this aggression upon us," Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said in a speech broadcast on Wednesday."To end his aggression, first end his policy of occupation, settlement, Judaisation, detentions, killings and demolitions. End that first. Our people deserve to live free," he added.
HAMAS ORPHANED
Previous lopsided battles between Palestinian militants and Israel's powerful military - most recently an eight-day conflict in 2012 and a month-long tussle that began in late 2008 and included a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip - have left Hamas's position mostly intact.The group would claim victory, buoyed by some international sympathy, speedily replenish their cache of rockets through Gaza's porous border with Egypt and maintain its broad presence in the West Bank.But much has changed since.In Egypt, the military has ousted the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, a key ally to the Gaza government, which helped mediate a truce in 2012.And it will be harder to restock when hostilities end now that Egypt's new government has stepped up efforts to demolish the cross-border tunnels that fed not only the blockaded coastal strip's weapons caches but its entire economy.Gaza was once the favored cause of regional powers, but with Egypt now openly hostile and stalwart backers Turkey and Qatar distracted by the lightning rise of Islamist extremists in Iraq, Hamas has found itself orphaned."Turkey and Qatar may play a role in trying to restore calm, but they have no direct influence on the occupation, which makes their position weak," said Hamza Abu Shanab, a Gaza political analyst.In the West Bank, too, where it is always under the jealous eye of secular Palestinian rivals, Hamas's fortunes have hit a new low with Israel's arrests."Israel is holding all Palestinians responsible for the killing of the three Israelis, and that's what it's doing with the campaign of arrests everywhere in the West Bank, and it's extended this policy of collective punishment now to Gaza," Hamas MP Fathi Qarawi told Reuters."Hamas was forced to make a response, and events have developed. We want a truce ... Egypt can still play a role and a good role in pressuring Israel to stop its attacks," he said.
BLEAK BARGAIN
Securing a truce, however, is not simple when a determined military showing is considered a matter of pride and honor.Hamas chief Meshaal expressed glee at the group's ability to lob its long-range rockets at Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv and for unprecedented distances deep into its north.Despite the death and pain wrought on Gaza's citizens, Hamas says it has the means to carry on a long campaign if it must."Whoever thinks Hamas's ammunition will run out in days, weeks or months is delusional. We have lots in our pocket," senior Hamas official Mushir Al-Masri said on Wednesday."We want to bring you to your knees and achieve victory," Masri told Aqsa TV.The tough rhetoric, however, is in part a cloak for weakness at home, where deepening poverty and hardship in Gaza helped push the group into a troubled unity government with the Fatah party headed by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas."Hamas is extremely weak now. Weaker than ever before. It capitulated entirely to Abbas's demands in forming a reconciliation government. Gaza is in economic crisis. Hamas is bankrupt and doesn't have a friend left in the world," said Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist and analyst.Baskin ran back-channel negotiations that led to the release in 2010 of an Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas in exchange for over a thousand Palestinian prisoners. He says fractures within the group may hinder a quick ceasefire."There are power struggles within (Hamas) ... and it lacks an authoritative command. It's a mess inside. But if there's one thing all parts of its organization agree on, it's that an Israeli attack on Gaza builds up sympathy for it there, the West Bank and the Arab world," he told Reuters.If so - and Israel has hinted it could launch a ground offensive into the Strip to decisively pare back Hamas's capability - it is a bleak bargain.An infantry and tank drive may give Hamas more opportunities to impose casualties and even abduct Israeli soldiers and trade them for Palestinian prisoners, said Firas Abi Ali, an analyst at IHS Country Risk in London."Our backs are to the wall and we have nothing to lose," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said on Thursday."We are ready to undergo the battle up to the end, and we are determined to confront the occupation," he added.(Editing by Will Waterman)
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2 PETER 3:8-13-16-18
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us–ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,(ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS) and the elements (ATOMIC BOMBS) shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.(WW3 3 BILLION DEAD)
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,(FRYED FROM NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS) what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements (MEANS NUKES)(NUKES IN THE DICTIONARY U GO TO ELEMENTS) shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.(AFTER ALL THE ATOMIC BOMBS KILL 3 BILLION-JESUS REFURBISHED THE EARTH BACK TO HEALING THE EARTH WHILE HE RULES FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER)(IITS NOT A NEW EARTH-THE EARTH IS JUST REFURBISHED OR REKNEWED BY JESUS WHILE HE RULES-OR THE EARTH IS REHEALED FROM ALL THE NUKE BOMBS THAT DESTROYED IT DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD)
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
PSALMS 90:1-17
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten;(70) and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,(80 YRS) yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCURR.
ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."
PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
UPDATE 6:20PM JULY 10,14
OK ISRAEL IS PRETTY WELL READY WITH 30,000 TROOPS GETTING READY TO SURROUND GAZA AND START BLOWING THESE JACK-ASSES TO BITES FOR SHOOTING ALL THESE ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.AND WE HAD ANOTHER JACK-ASS MAEN ARAKAT ON FOR THE MADE UP PALESTINIAN POLITICAL MURDERERS OF INNOCENT ISRAELS..AND LIKE ALL THE OTHER LUNATIC ARAB NEGOTIATORS. THIS ARAFAGKAT BLAMING ISRAEL FOR EVERYTHING INCLUDING KILLING POOR MADE UP PEOPLE PALESTINIANS THAT DON'T EXIST-THERE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF MURDERING ARABS DESQISES AS HUMANS.THESE DEVILS THINK THEY CAN MURDER EVERY ISRAELI.OK ISRAEL-SURROUND GAZA TONIGHT OR TOMORROW MORNING AND BLOW EVERY BUILDING TO SMITHERS.LET THESE MURDERER ARABS HAVE WHAT THEY WANT.DEATH.BUT IT WILL NOT BE ISRAELIS DYING.IT WILL BE THE MADE UP POLITICAL PALESTINIAN ARABS-GOD WILL TURN THE ROCKETS AND NUKES ON ALL GAZAS POPULATION FOR TRYING TO KILL INNOCENT ISRAELI-WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
ISRAEL 30,000 IS A GREAT NUMBER - 3 =TRINITY AND IN WAR FOR EVER 1 ISRAELI DEAD-1,000 ENEMIES DIE.THIS TELLS US THE TRINITY WILL KILL OFF 1,000 ARABS IN GAZA FOR 1 DEAD ISRAELI.YAY JESUS PROTECTS ISRAEL AND KEEPS HIS PROMISE TO ISRAEL.PRAISE GOD OUR AND ISRAELS MESSIAH.
EZEKIEL 39:1-23
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee,(300 MILIION RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou,(RUSSIA) and all thy bands,(RUSSIA SUPPORTED WITH WEAPONS-ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
Israel masses forces on Gaza border, ahead of possible ground offensive-Elderlay woman dies on way to shelter after siren sounds in Haifa; two Palestinians killed in overnight aisrtrikes; Netanyahu tells Israelis to brace for continued conflict amid speculation that a ground offensive is imminent-By Ricky Ben-David July 11, 2014, 2:10 am 62-The Times of Israel
Operation Protective Edge entered its fourth day on Friday. By nightfall Thursday, over 350 rockets had been fired at Israel, about 90 of them intercepted by Iron Dome, and the Israeli Air Force had carried out almost 900 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip; Palestinian reports said at least 90 Palestinians had been killed. Late Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis to brace for a lengthy conflict, and Israel was massing increased forces on the Gaza border for a possible ground offensive. The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold. (Wednesday’s liveblog is here.)
05:34-Palestinians report 2 casualties in recent air strikes-Palestinian media reports that two people were killed in earlier air strikes by the Israeli Air Force, including a child.According to the report, Anas Abu al-Kass, 33, was killed during an airstrike on a building in Gaza City’s Tel el-Hawa neighborhood, and a 10-year-old child died of shrapnel wounds after a strike in the Rafah area near Egypt, bringing the Palestinian death toll since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge to 92, according to Israel Radio.Al-Kass’s parents reportedly both died during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009.
05:06
Elderly woman in Haifa collapses, dies on way to shelter-A woman in her 70s collapses and dies on her way to take shelter following sirens warning of an incoming rocket in Haifa and the surrounding region.Emergency services called to the scene attempted to resuscitate her but were forced to pronounce her dead
04:01
Rocket intercepted by Iron Dome over Hadera-One rocket intercepted over Hadera, south of Haifa, after a salvo of projectiles was fired from the Gaza Strip in the direction of northern Israel.Residents in the north report hearing several booms indicating possible additional interceptions.Hamas says it fired an R160 rocket in the direction of Haifa.
03:31
Sirens wail in northern Israel-Code Red sirens warning of incoming rockets wail in Haifa and the Hof Hacarmel Regional Council just south of the city.No immediate reports of interceptions, damage, injuries or (rocket) landings.
03:18
Hamas says it’s prepared for escalation that could last months-Hamas says it’s prepared to keep fighting, even if the current round of violence with Israel goes on for months.Hamas co-founder and senior official Mahmoud A-Zahar tells the group’s television channel, al-Aqsa, that rocket attacks on Israel will stop only if Israel abides by its conditions, namely ending the blockade on the Palestinian enclave and releasing 56 Hamas members freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange deal for Gilad Shalit and re-arrested in the West Bank during an 18-day operation in search of the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers abducted on June 12 and found murdered on June 30.Hamas says the arrests are a “red line” and cannot be overlooked.The group’s leadership has gone underground since the start of Operation Protective Edge on Monday for fear of targeted assassinations.
03:14
Israel’s UN envoy sounds the alarm-Earlier Thursday, in a moment of drama at the UN, Israel’s ambassador suddenly played the piercing 15-second siren that warns Israelis to run to bomb shelters to escape rocket attacks — a move designed to highlight the threat his country faces. Ron Prosor told the council that Hamas is “intentionally and indiscriminately” threatening 3.5 million Israelis and “no nation, no people and no government could tolerate this.”Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said he had no props for his appeal to the council “to stop the bleeding” and revive the Palestinians’ “dying hopes” for an end to the conflict and peace with freedom. “I speak on behalf of the suffering and grieving Palestinian people, who are enduring yet another barrage of death, destruction, trauma and terror,” he said.Diplomats said Jordan has circulated a press statement, which is not legally binding, for the Security Council’s consideration that would call for a cease-fire.The draft calls for “immediate calm and ending the hostilities in Gaza including the launching of rocket attacks,” restoration of the 2012 cease-fire and resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at a comprehensive peace agreement and a two-state solution. It also calls for protection of civilians.– AP
03:13
US: We won’t talk to Hamas, but Egypt, Turkey or Qatar could-Following President Obama’s phone call to Prime Minister Netanyahu a few hours back, in which he offered US help in negotiating a cease-fire, AP is quoting a senior administration official making clear that the US still considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization and won’t have direct contact with its leaders.Instead, the official says other players in the Mideast could act as intermediaries, as was the case when Egypt and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton worked to secure the November 2012 cease-fire. Egypt, Turkey or Qatar are all possibilities, says the official, AP reports.Trouble is, Egypt has other preoccupations and little time for Hamas, Turkish-Israel ties are in the deep freeze, and Israel would hardly trust Qatar as a mediator.– AP, Times of Israel staff
03:06
Iron Dome intercepts rocket over Ashkelon-Iron Dome intercepts one rocket over Ashkelon as sirens wail in several Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.The interception came after a slight pause in rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave.
02:36
Air strikes in Gaza target tunnel areas near Sinai-Palestinian media reports that the Israeli Air Force targeted several sites in Gaza, injuring a yet-undetermined number of Palestinians.Known tunnel areas between the enclave and Egypt’s Sinai region were targeted, according to Palestinian media cited by Israel Radio.Gazan sources also told Israel Radio that the targets included homes of Hamas members and sites belonging to group’s security and police forces.
02:12
Defense minister backs Gaza ground operation-Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon supports a limited ground operation into the Gaza Strip, sources close to the defense minister told Channel 10.According to the report, should Israel pursue a ground incursion, it would focus on targets that cannot be destroyed from the air, specifically Hamas’s infamous tunnels near its border with Israel.At the end of a security cabinet meeting Thursday night which lasted over seven hours, Ya’alon said that so far in Operation Protective Edge, Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza have been dealt a serious blow.He added that Israel would continue to “hit” Hamas and to “extract from it a heavy price.”
South Africa’s ruling party compares Gaza op to Nazi crimes-Local Jewish community demands apology after ANC claims Israel turning Palestinian areas into ‘permanent death camps’-By Raphael Ahren July 11, 2014, 4:52 pm 26-The Times of Israel
South African’s ruling party issued an extremely harsh statement on Operation Protective Edge Thursday, comparing Israel’s actions with those of Nazi Germany and accusing Jerusalem of turning the Palestinian territories into “permanent death camps.”The local Jewish community immediately condemned the statement as “obscene” and “venomous” and demanded a retraction and apology.“The African National Congress (ANC) condemns in the strongest terms the barbaric attacks on the defenseless Palestinian people of Gaza,” the party’s deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, wrote in a statement. “As we move towards the month of August and are reminded of [t]he atrocities of Nazi Germany, surely we must ask the people of Israel has the term ‘lest we forget’ lost it[s] meaning.”The statement, which contained more than a few factual inaccuracies, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, went on to list how many Palestinians were killed, wounded and “traumatized” during Israel’s current operation in Gaza. “The State of Israel,” Duarte wrote, “has turned the occupied territories of Palestine into permanent death camps.”She did not refer in any way to rockets fired at Israeli civilians from Gaza.“Of course the killing of any child irrespective of race color or creed must be condemned and the death of two Israeli young people is surely as senseless as any other death,” she continued, apparently referring to the killing of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Sha’ar and Naftali Fraenkel last month. “But for the State of Israel, the notion of an eye for an eye has become perpetual massacre with merciless revenge which has lasted for more than 60 years. It is time to stop the killing now.”Israel’s “horrendous” attack on Gaza will further isolate Israel in the international community, Duarte warned. “Apartheid South Africa’s wanton killing of our people during the 1980s lead to its isolation, it would seem that Israel is taking a similar path of isolation by embarking on these attacks.”Mere hours after the ANC’s statement was issued, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the country’s Zionist Federation put out a joint press release condemning Duarte’s words.“Such naked invective is something one expects to find only on the more extreme wing of the anti-Israel lobby; coming from our country’s ruling party, it is nothing short of disgraceful,” the statement read. The groups said they were “particularly appalled over the shameful comparisons” between Israel’s actions and the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.“Comparisons between Israel and the Nazi regime are obscene, not only because they are so grossly defamatory towards the Jewish State but because they belittle the unspeakable crimes of Nazism itself. It is self-evident that casualties resulting from a necessary and unavoidable military operation – casualties that Israel goes to considerable lengths to minimize – cannot be remotely equated with the systematic mass murder of millions solely on account of their being Jewish.”Duarte is well aware of this but chose to make such a comparison anyway, “for the purpose of causing the maximum hurt and offense,” the statement charged. In doing so, she was “grossly insulting world Jewry and the memory of all the victims of Nazi tyranny.”The joint statement also took Duarte to task for failing to mention the hundreds of rockets fired at Israel in recent days and weeks.“It is unacceptable in any decent, democratic society for a responsible political organization to propagate such venom and bigotry, let alone a party that has been entrusted with the reins of government,” the statement continued.The two most important Jewish organizations in South Africa called on the ANC to distance itself from Duarte’s “repugnant comments” and to apologize to the country’s Jewish community.On May 7, the ANC won 62 percent of the vote in national elections.
Hamas drifts into Gaza fight it doesn't know how to finish-Reuters-By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Noah Browning JULY 10,14-YahooNews
GAZA (Reuters) - The latest mini-war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began with the Gaza-based militants eager to strike a blow, but the escalation that followed has left them physically and diplomatically exposed, with no ready way out.Hamas has sent its rockets streaking into Israel after a month of army raids in the occupied West Bank - in search of three missing Israeli teenagers - that landed more than 900 Palestinians in jail, many of them Hamas members.The self-styled Islamic Resistance Movement was further prompted to action by widespread anger at the burning alive of a Palestinian youth by suspected Jewish extremists last week, an apparent revenge attack after the missing teens were found shot dead in the West Bank - murders Israel blames on Hamas.Hamas said it hadn't sought a war, but now hundreds of Israeli bombs continue to pound the coastal strip, killing scores of Gazans - almost all of them civilians, according to Palestinian medical officials.It says the onus for ending the hostilities is on Israel, where the rocket attacks have caused no fatalities and whose missile defense system has intercepted many of the Hamas projectiles."Yes, we want calm. We don't like escalation, and we didn't make an escalation. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu imposed this aggression upon us," Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said in a speech broadcast on Wednesday."To end his aggression, first end his policy of occupation, settlement, Judaisation, detentions, killings and demolitions. End that first. Our people deserve to live free," he added.
HAMAS ORPHANED
Previous lopsided battles between Palestinian militants and Israel's powerful military - most recently an eight-day conflict in 2012 and a month-long tussle that began in late 2008 and included a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip - have left Hamas's position mostly intact.The group would claim victory, buoyed by some international sympathy, speedily replenish their cache of rockets through Gaza's porous border with Egypt and maintain its broad presence in the West Bank.But much has changed since.In Egypt, the military has ousted the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, a key ally to the Gaza government, which helped mediate a truce in 2012.And it will be harder to restock when hostilities end now that Egypt's new government has stepped up efforts to demolish the cross-border tunnels that fed not only the blockaded coastal strip's weapons caches but its entire economy.Gaza was once the favored cause of regional powers, but with Egypt now openly hostile and stalwart backers Turkey and Qatar distracted by the lightning rise of Islamist extremists in Iraq, Hamas has found itself orphaned."Turkey and Qatar may play a role in trying to restore calm, but they have no direct influence on the occupation, which makes their position weak," said Hamza Abu Shanab, a Gaza political analyst.In the West Bank, too, where it is always under the jealous eye of secular Palestinian rivals, Hamas's fortunes have hit a new low with Israel's arrests."Israel is holding all Palestinians responsible for the killing of the three Israelis, and that's what it's doing with the campaign of arrests everywhere in the West Bank, and it's extended this policy of collective punishment now to Gaza," Hamas MP Fathi Qarawi told Reuters."Hamas was forced to make a response, and events have developed. We want a truce ... Egypt can still play a role and a good role in pressuring Israel to stop its attacks," he said.
BLEAK BARGAIN
Securing a truce, however, is not simple when a determined military showing is considered a matter of pride and honor.Hamas chief Meshaal expressed glee at the group's ability to lob its long-range rockets at Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv and for unprecedented distances deep into its north.Despite the death and pain wrought on Gaza's citizens, Hamas says it has the means to carry on a long campaign if it must."Whoever thinks Hamas's ammunition will run out in days, weeks or months is delusional. We have lots in our pocket," senior Hamas official Mushir Al-Masri said on Wednesday."We want to bring you to your knees and achieve victory," Masri told Aqsa TV.The tough rhetoric, however, is in part a cloak for weakness at home, where deepening poverty and hardship in Gaza helped push the group into a troubled unity government with the Fatah party headed by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas."Hamas is extremely weak now. Weaker than ever before. It capitulated entirely to Abbas's demands in forming a reconciliation government. Gaza is in economic crisis. Hamas is bankrupt and doesn't have a friend left in the world," said Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist and analyst.Baskin ran back-channel negotiations that led to the release in 2010 of an Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas in exchange for over a thousand Palestinian prisoners. He says fractures within the group may hinder a quick ceasefire."There are power struggles within (Hamas) ... and it lacks an authoritative command. It's a mess inside. But if there's one thing all parts of its organization agree on, it's that an Israeli attack on Gaza builds up sympathy for it there, the West Bank and the Arab world," he told Reuters.If so - and Israel has hinted it could launch a ground offensive into the Strip to decisively pare back Hamas's capability - it is a bleak bargain.An infantry and tank drive may give Hamas more opportunities to impose casualties and even abduct Israeli soldiers and trade them for Palestinian prisoners, said Firas Abi Ali, an analyst at IHS Country Risk in London."Our backs are to the wall and we have nothing to lose," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said on Thursday."We are ready to undergo the battle up to the end, and we are determined to confront the occupation," he added.(Editing by Will Waterman)
