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'Palestinians' make mileage out of truce


By Stan Goodenough
June 27, 2008

As they have done since earlier on this week, the Palestinian Arabs continued to play Israel for the fool Friday, on the one hand saying that they supported the truce, and on the other firing missiles from Gaza in the hope of killing Jews and torpedoing it.

Two mortars were fired from Gaza into the Western Negev in the morning, hitting near a kibbutz but causing no injuries or damage.

The Fatah faction of the PLO's Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades claimed credit for the attacks. Just hours earlier a senior spokesman for Fatah chairman and Palestinian Authority "President" Mahmoud Abbas said the PA was thankful for the ceasefire and was hoping it would hold.

Friday's firings followed two earlier rocket attacks in breach of the truce. On Thursday a Kassam rocket exploded near a gas station in the battered town of Sderot, and on Tuesday three rockets slammed into the same town, badly damaging a house and sending a number of people into shock.

Hamas Friday purportedly condemned the rocket firing of the day before.

While Israel has yet to respond militarily to the attacks, the Arab side is making a great deal of mileage out of it, proclaiming its "victory" over Israel by getting the IDF to sign a ceasefire in the face of multiple barrages on Israeli territory, instead of sending a ground force into the Strip as it threatened to do.

At the same time, by continuing to hit at Israel while its mighty military machine sits castrated in the sand around Gaza, the "Palestinians" are only strengthened in their conviction that, together with their god, they will ultimately vanquish the Jewish state.

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