fucking animals

[tribal]

Israeli Woman Stabbed to Death in a Wave of Violence

By JAMES BENNET

JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 — Capping a violent week in which militants jailed by the Palestinian Authority at Israeli request were released, a group of Arab youths in the Forest of Peace here repeatedly stabbed a 24- year-old Israeli woman, the police said.

The woman, who died at a hospital soon afterward, was taking a walk in the park, which is set between Jewish and Arab areas of the city. Masked Palestinians were spotted running away and the police said they caught four of them.

One collapsed and died at the scene, though the police said that he had not been shot or wounded and that an autopsy would be performed.

In the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, thousands of supporters of the Islamic group Hamas gathered for a rally in which performers acted out a rocket attack on a Jewish settlement. "We are ready to explode!" the crowd chanted.

Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a pediatrician who is a top political leader of Hamas, addressed the crowd, in his first public appearance since he agreed with the Palestinian Authority to submit to house arrest in December.

That deal, together with a limited cease-fire declared by Hamas, appears to have collapsed in the recent exchange of attack and counterattack.

In a reference to suicide attacks, Dr. Rantisi declared to the crowd, "I say it clearly, that Hamas will continue the martyrdom operations."

"Let's not care if they say that we are terrorist organizations," he said. "Your choice is your gun."

As the violence has flared recently, Yasir Arafat has repeatedly called for a cease-fire, and the Palestinian leadership did so again today.

But Dr. Rantisi told the crowd, "Whoever wants to stop the intifada wants to tear us apart."

"I swear that one day all Israelis will run away from your land," he told a throng of Palestinians.

The Hamas supporters also watched a skit in which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was portrayed as driven to distraction by Hamas. In the end, the Sharon character went crazy, but there was no room for him in the mental hospital.

Israeli officials do not believe Mr. Arafat truly wants to end the conflict. They have been studying his appearances before crowds this week in his official compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he is confined by Israeli forces. He repeatedly called for "resistance," and in one appearance led a chant calling for "millions of martyrs" to march to Jerusalem.

A senior Israeli military official said that the Palestinian Authority had released almost all the men on a list of 33 whom Israel had asked it to apprehend.

"At the peak they arrested 10 out of 33," said a senior Israeli military official, "and now that they let everyone run away, they don't have more than one or two."

Palestinian officials say that they cannot safely imprison militants with Israeli forces bombing the security compounds where prisoners are held. During airstrikes in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday night, officials freed 25 accused militants from prison.

It has become a familiar cycle. Prisoners were also released in Nablus last May, when Israeli warplanes attacked the same compound in retaliation for a suicide bombing.

In the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday night, gunmen marched on a makeshift prison, the more secure jail having been destroyed in previous raids.

Saying that they feared an Israeli attack, they demanded and secured the release of 10 to 15 men, Palestinian officials said.

But the Israeli military official described Mr. Arafat's behavior as a deliberate relinquishing of control. "He's not losing control — he doesn't want to have control," the official said.

Palestinian officials assert that Mr. Arafat is not powerful enough to act against militants while negotiations have stopped and Israeli forces blockade Palestinian cities and operate freely in Palestinian-controlled territory.

In northern Israel today, at least two Palestinians died when their car exploded. The Israeli police said that the men apparently blew themselves up accidentally while on their way to an attack.

Also today, Israeli forces swept into the West Bank town of Tamoun in armored vehicles.

The army said that the troops were seeking militants connected to an attack Wednesday night on the nearby settlement of Hamra, in the Jordan Valley. A reservist and two settlers — a woman and her 11-year- old daughter — died in that attack, at the hands of a Hamas gunman dressed as an Israeli soldier.

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these people dont deserve their own country.

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it's just so damn sad. things will never change there. i personally dont think there will ever be peace in the middle east.

[sonicinfusion]

tribal why dont you fuckin discuss politics with ur friends and not on the board pls ....

cause this gets very intense