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Palestinians mourning at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, after their relative was killed in an explosion Friday. (Getty Images)
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Tensions high in Gaza as Hamas cracks down on rival groups
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies
Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas 

Hamas security forces fanned out across a tense Gaza Strip Sunday, following a mysterious weekend car bombing that killed six people and sparked the toughest Hamas crackdown against its Fatah rivals in months.

Human rights groups said Hamas released over a dozen of the some 200 Fatah men it arrested Saturday in connection with the bombing, which killed five Hamas men and a 4-year-old girl. But Hamas police remained deployed in force around Gaza City, manning roadblocks and checking cars.

Meanwhile Palestinian security forces loyal to Abbas detained more than 30 Hamas activists, including two officials, in the West Bank cities of Tul Karm and Jenin on Sunday, Palestinian security officials said. They gave no reason for the arrests.
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The Hamas government said Saturday following an emergency government meeting that the "revolutionary stream" - as former Gaza Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan's supporters are called - were responsible for the beachside blast late Friday.

The explosion occurred at about 8:30 P.M. near the Khalil cafe, a known meeting place for Hamas men. It was followed by the toughest crackdown against Fatah in recent months.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Hamas security forces clashed with gunmen from the Army of Islam, an al Qaeda-inspired group, in the Gaza Strip.

One Hamas commander was seriously wounded and a militiaman killed in the fighting, which started when the Hamas forces sought to arrest some Army of Islam gunmen, Hamas officials and local residents said. Two Army of Islam gunmen were arrested.

The Army of Islam is not allied with Fatah, but is heavily armed and is seen by Hamas as a threat to the public stability it has largely managed to enforce since taking control of Gaza a year ago.

Hamas launched a crackdown on militant groups over the weekend after the series of beachside bombings.

As part of the crackdown, Hamas has arrested more some 200 activists from Fatah, the secular faction of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Islam Shahwan, a Hamas police spokesman, said his men seized huge amounts of explosives and weapons from Fatah in Saturday's operations.

Abbas urges immediate Palestinian reconciliation talks

Meanwhile, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hosted Abbas on Sunday for talks on a number of regional issues. Abbassaid following the talks on Sunday that Egypt plans to relaunch immediate reconciliation talks between his Fatah faction and the militant Hamas group which controls Gaza.

The Palestinian president said he has preconditions for the dialogue.
Abbas' willingness to enter new talks with Hamas comes after he vowed for more than a year not to talk with the Islamic movement unless it first gives up control of the Gaza Strip.

Abbas said Egypt would call representatives of Palestinian factions "within days" for dialogue sessions in Cairo. Mistrust and disputes over conditions and terms for a dialogue had buried several dialogue calls in the past year.

Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said Abbas's call for dialogue with Hamas was "not honest," saying investigations into Friday's killings showed some senior Fatah officials were involved.

"The bombing and killings in Gaza proved that Fatah was not interested in dialogue with Hamas, and all they aspired [to] was to cause anarchy and chaos," the Hamas spokesman said.

Hamas has always rejected Abbas's demand that it relinquish control of Gaza, which it seized last year after routing the Western-backed Palestinian leader's security forces following a brief civil war that left dozens of people dead.

Abbas denied Hamas suggestions he was under U.S. pressure not to restore dialogue with the Islamist group, saying "if something like that happened we would reject it."

Gaza blast

The dead in Friday's explosions were named as Sarin a-Safadi, the 4-year-old; Nihad Masbakh, considered the head of the military wing of Hamas in the Shajaiyeh district of Gaza City; Iyad al-Hayeh, a nephew of one of Hamas' leaders in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayeh (whose son was also seriously injured in the blast); Nidal al-Mbayid and Osama al-Khalu. The identity of the fifth Hamas man is unknown.

More than 20 Palestinians were injured, mostly passers-by.

The explosive charge was set off under a car belonging to one of the Hamas men, which was parked outside the coffee shop.

Sources in Hamas said the Palestinian Authority television in Ramallah broadcast pictures of the car hit in the Gaza blast accompanied by joyful music.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh convened an emergency government meeting on Saturday, after which he issued a statement blaming Fatah for the bombing. The statement called on the Gaza authorities to find the people involved in "the horrible crime yesterday."

"Those guilty will be subject to justice in order to be an example for anyone who might think to shed the Palestinian blood," the statement read. If convicted, the perpetrators could face the death penalty.

Earlier Saturday, Hamas security forces arrested dozens of Fatah supporters, hurled grenades at the home of one Fatah leader and set up checkpoints across Gaza in a crackdown on the rival faction.

A Gaza-based human rights group reported Hamas security officials arrested at least 160 Fatah loyalists, and some 40 institutions connected to the group were raided. Fatah leaders said more than 200 of its people were rounded up, including its top leader in Gaza, Ahmad Nasser.

Fatah leaders denied involvement in the explosion, and an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the consequent crackdown was reducing prospects for eventual reconciliation between the rival groups.

If Hamas was in fact targeted, it would be the deadliest such attack since the Islamic militants ousted Fatah-allied security forces from Gaza in a violent takeover more than a year ago.

Earlier Saturday, Thousands of Hamas loyalists marched in the funeral of the explosion's victims, waving their movement's green flag. Gunmen fired automatic rifles into the air and angrily vowed revenge.

"The collaborators who did this must be hung in Palestine Square and shot," al-Hayeh, the lawmaker, said in a eulogy, referring to Gaza City's main square.

"The people who stand behind this (attack) are from Fatah," al-Hayeh said. "We hold their leaders responsible ... and say, either be nationalists or collaborators, the choice is yours," he said. Al-Hayeh had previously survived two Israeli assassination attempts that killed members of his extended family.

Hamas policemen set up checkpoints on major thoroughfares and roads leading to security compounds, checking suspicious cars and forcing others to slow down.

Dozens of Fatah supporters were rounded up, said Ibrahim Abu Naja, a prominent Fatah leader in Gaza. Abu Naja said Hamas police also raided offices and institutions belonging to Fatah overnight. Abu Naja's own office was raided on Saturday.

The offices of independent lawmaker Ziad Abu Amr and of Zakariya al-Agha, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, were among those targeted. Another senior Fatah leader, Abdel Rahman Hamad, fled his home amid concerns he would be arrested, his family said.

In one attempted arrest, Hamas police fired four rocket propelled grenades at the home of a local Fatah leader and briefly exchanged fire with his guards, witnesses said.

Police then searched the house, but didn't find the wanted man, Mohammed Aweidat.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza reported that some 160 people, Fatah loyalists and members, were rounded up. The Center suggested the number could be higher. Another 40 institutions loyal to Fatah were raided, including a center for disabled, a folkloric center and benevolent charities.

Sawh Abu Seif, a Palestinian cameraman for the German ARD TV network was among those who were rounded up. He was seized from his home by Hamas forces. Abu Seif, 42, is a former Fatah student union member but has been working as a cameraman since the 1990s, once for Reuters and for the past 6 years for ARD.

An unknown offshoot of the Fatah movement, calling itself the Awda Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement to reporters. But the claim could not be verified independently.

In the West Bank, Abbas aide Ahmed Abdel Rahman condemned the explosion and said the Hamas crackdown was irresponsible.

"These measures empower separation [of Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Fatah-run West Bank] and reduce chances of a national dialogue and of restoring unity of the two parts of the country," he said.

Friday's beachside explosion was the third of the day.

The first went off outside the Al Jazera cafe, killing the perpetrator of the attack and wounding three people. The cafe had been hit twice before this year, presumably by hardline Muslims who target record shops and other businesses seen as symbols of Western influence.

Later, a bomb exploded outside the house of a Hamas lawmaker, Marwan Abu Ras, causing some damage, but no injuries. A Fatah activist was arrested as a suspect.

Gaza has been relatively quiet over the past month because of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that went into effect in mid-June.

But the cease-fire has stoked some tensions between Palestinian factions as Hamas has sought to prevent other groups from firing cross-border rockets at Israel.

Gaza also sees internal Palestinian violence, some of it carried out by fundamentalists who oppose what they see as signs of Western cultural encroachment.

In recent years, shadowy groups have firebombed internet cafes, music stores and Christian institutions. The bombings are typically carried out late at night and most have caused no casualties. But in one deadly attack in October 2007, a local Christian activist was murdered.


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      1.   linthwaite`s jews are responsible for this 10:18  |  odles 25/07/08
      2.   He must have provoked the religion of peace. 10:35  |  Allon 25/07/08
      3.   Where`s Durson? 10:43  |  Joker 25/07/08
      4.   another kassam rocket was fired at israel 13:15 13:25  |  odles 25/07/08
      5.   Another one Durson, Dutch, eric, JB, Silvienne, et al 13:26  |  David Teich 25/07/08
      6.   Hamas` idea of peace... 14:16  |  Michael J 25/07/08
      7.   What´s wrong with Islam? It`s in The Economist 14:32  |  Joe Camel 25/07/08
      8.   Freedom of religion in Gaza 15:58  |  * BEN JABO 25/07/08
      9.   4 Odles - Insufficient Pretext 16:41  |  Mark of Lewiston 25/07/08
      10.   The truce is not respected : Hamas should be crushed now. 17:18  |  Jean Van Daem 25/07/08
      11.   Fatah & Hamas fighting each other AGAIN 17:35  |  * BEN JABO 25/07/08
      12.   PURE COINCIDENCE 18:23  |  Steve 25/07/08
      13.   culture vs dignity 18:33  |  Dr Noam 25/07/08
      14.   Muslim extremists strike at Christians 19:14  |  MichaelF 25/07/08
      15.   Bah, Humbug 19:40  |  * BEN JABO 25/07/08
      16.   The silence of the liars 19:52  |  Joe Sittizen 25/07/08
      17.   To Hamas 21:18  |  Jose Marcio 25/07/08
      18.   re Durson, Dutch et al 21:19  |  dmw 25/07/08
      19.   "...Relations between Christians and Muslims have traditionally, 21:38  |  Absolute Israel 25/07/08
      20.   Relations between Palestinian moslems and christians 21:46  |  Ben Alofs 25/07/08
      21.   Ben Alofs`, retarded view askew 22:14  |  Absolute Israel 25/07/08
      22.   This has Israel`s fingerprints all over it! 22:29  |  Richard S 25/07/08
      23.   Ben Alofs 00:48  |  judith 26/07/08
      24.   Stage II of Islamic fascism - targeting `undesirables` 00:56  |  Jeremy 26/07/08
      25.   Is it terrorism when terrorists kill terrorists? 02:46  |  Arie 26/07/08
      26.   Bloodthirsty Palestinians 03:06  |  Murray the Mongoose 26/07/08
      27.   I never thought in a million years I`d give Hamas any credit 03:09  |  Conroy 26/07/08
      28.   "Hamas investigates" Thats funny! 03:30  |  Avram 26/07/08
      29.   Is it terrorism when terrorists kill terrorists? 06:40  |  Fred 26/07/08
      30.   Just another normal day in Gaza 07:05  |  Dan 26/07/08
      31.   #11 Ben Jabo. You missed something, but you are improving. 07:11  |  Maureen Ann 26/07/08
      32.   #20 Ben Alofs - Relations aren`t nearly as good 07:20  |  * BEN JABO 26/07/08
      33.   Israel may very well be responsible.. 07:32  |  BBSNews 26/07/08
      34.   #33\ 08:44  |  DA 26/07/08
      35.   The solution to their distress and misery. 08:57  |  Jean Van Daem 26/07/08
      36.   Ok bbs prove it 09:02  |  Adrian de KLerk 26/07/08
      37.   above 09:29  |  moishe 26/07/08
      38.   Arabs & Christians in Palestine 09:56  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 26/07/08
      39.   about BS 09:58  |  Iz Ray Leigh 26/07/08
      40.   Ben Jabo - wrong as usual... 10:21  |  Palestinian Brit 26/07/08
      41.   "Israel may have" posted in BBS news fantasy! 10:50  |  Alan 26/07/08
      42.   Maureen Anne #31 11:06  |  Zelkha 26/07/08
      43.   Feel sorry for the children 11:13  |  Mimmi 26/07/08
      44.   pal brit # 40 11:26  |  J. B. 26/07/08
      45.   BBS News, Indeed, What does the "B" stand for? 11:31  |  BBC News 26/07/08
      46.   To Palestinian Brit # 40 - YOU may be different..... 11:34  |  Dagma 26/07/08
      47.   To # 40 Palestinian Brit 11:41  |  Michael J 26/07/08
      48.   #40 Palestinian Brit - All wet as usual 11:46  |  * BEN JABO 26/07/08
      49.   what would please israel`s right-wing zionists most?... 11:55  |  eric 26/07/08
      50.   It`s Jews Fault that Arabs Kill Each other 11:58  |  Baruch Gold 26/07/08
      51.   ISRAEL TO BLAME 12:03  |  indrajaya 26/07/08
      52.   Why no Linthwaite, Clickfool, Lakshmi, Labhras, POP,Durson 12:04  |  H 26/07/08
      53.   To Margie in Tel Aviv # 38 - Israel`s Sympathy for Christian/Ara 12:05  |  The Threadmill 26/07/08
      54.   Muslim Intimdation of Arab/Christians 12:18  |  Natasha 26/07/08
      55.   # 5 oh NO david teich; avoid it?...NOT i! 12:26  |  eric 26/07/08
      56.   BEN JABO, your enlightening letters are impressive! 12:32  |  AliciaYasmeen 26/07/08
      57.   # 38 to margie in tel aviv re: christians 12:48  |  eric 26/07/08
      58.   ou know what ??...I feel good 13:17  |  maurice 26/07/08
      59.   Dagma - good and bad 13:23  |  Palestinian Brit 26/07/08
      60.   rhymin` time little eric? 13:29  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 26/07/08
      61.   Ben Jabo.. 13:33  |  Palestinian Brit 26/07/08
      62.   The allegation is that this is an act of israeli outsourcing. 13:39  |  lakshmi 26/07/08
      63.   Natasha - look at the Christian distribution in the arab world. 13:44  |  Palestinian Brit 26/07/08
      64.   #63 christians thrive everywhere except 14:20  |  odles 26/07/08
      65.   May Israel fund both terror gangs many more times like this 14:53  |  Genuine Tosefta 26/07/08
      66.   lakshmi: it didn`t take long.... 15:07  |  The Judge 26/07/08
      67.   Natasha - look at the Christian diminuition in the arab world. 15:12  |  Genuine Tosefta 26/07/08
      68.   #63 odles, I suggest you visit Bethlem and talk to the people 15:14  |  Ben Alofs 26/07/08
      69.   uAkbar bless both Fatah and Hamas 15:14  |  Genuine Tosefta 26/07/08
      70.   PLEASE stop the stories!-Everyone knows plight of the Christians 15:25  |  Alan SA 26/07/08
      71.   55: Ahh, eric did show up with excuses... 16:13  |  David Teich 26/07/08
      72.   To Palestinian Brit # 59 - It seems not quite.... 16:29  |  Dagma 26/07/08
      73.   BBS does the usual leap of hate/faith 16:33  |  David Teich 26/07/08
      74.   The world is terrible 16:57  |  American Christian 26/07/08
      75.   #33 Proof or just spouting off as usual? 17:08  |  DesMnsDave 26/07/08
      76.   Here in Amemeririrca,, there is no want 17:20  |  Akiva P 26/07/08
      77.   Who`s talking? 17:25  |  utagawa 26/07/08
      78.   doesn`t matter who is to blame 17:28  |  Rob 26/07/08
      79.   Arie #25 17:36  |  jodiot mallorqui 26/07/08
      80.   Pal Brit 17:47  |  utagawa 26/07/08
      81.   #62 Lackey says Outsourcing 17:52  |  DesMnsDave 26/07/08
      82.   Checkpoints? Hamas Police?Seached Homes? 17:57  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 26/07/08
      83.   THE JUDGE 18:17  |  indrajaya 26/07/08
      84.   Ben Alofs I visted Bethlehem and talked to the people 18:23  |  Genuine Tosefta 26/07/08
      85.   hung and shot or shot and hung? 18:26  |  Robin 26/07/08
      86.   GT on Bethlehem... 18:46  |  BBSNews 26/07/08
      87.   The usual antisemites are pathetic 19:04  |  Bob 26/07/08
      88.   Oh, Dear! 19:06  |  Jeff Northridge 26/07/08
      89.   71 desMOines,Dave,why not?They are doing it in Iran to the tune 19:16  |  lakshmi 26/07/08
      90.   Give us SCIENTIFIC popul figures of Xtians 40yrs ago and today 19:35  |  Alan SA 26/07/08
      91.   Actually "Doc Holiday"... 20:30  |  BBSNews 26/07/08
      92.   what were the 120 fellow terrorists charged with? 20:46  |  vik 26/07/08
      93.   86: BBS has the gall to talk about Bethlehem 21:36  |  David Teich 26/07/08
      94.   91 BBS News,it is unlike Hamas to make provocative moves such as 21:38  |  lakshmi 26/07/08
      95.   Cute wee little Teich... 21:41  |  BBSNews 26/07/08
      96.   Thank goodness for Indrajaya and Lakshmi 21:51  |  H 26/07/08
      97.   AN ISRAELI ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ?? 21:56  |  RALF 26/07/08
      98.   #88, Jeff NothridgeJeff, 22:01  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 26/07/08
      99.   Cipora Julianna Kohn to Jeff Northridge 22:26  |  alan 26/07/08
      100.   97 Ralf,if you read post 62 you`ll get the gist of it! 22:28  |  lakshmi 26/07/08
      101.   Consider carefully .... 22:30  |  Natalklie Durson 26/07/08
      102.   Meshugoyim, all of them... 22:31  |  Esther 26/07/08
      103.   Ralph the Hamburger 22:33  |  Omzanger 26/07/08
      104.   #38 Margie in TA 22:41  |  Boycott 26/07/08
      105.   Odles 22:42  |  Bobby 26/07/08
      106.   Only a Barbeque Mishap Thing ... Surfin Gaza Gone Bad 23:04  |  Dude Yicks 26/07/08
      107.   Dozens of islamicist terror victims in India-Laksmi not concerned 23:04  |  Voice of Reason 26/07/08
      108.   Hamas has arrested 160 Fatah men 23:10  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 26/07/08
      109.   I wonder 23:12  |  Edifice 26/07/08
      110.   #101, Durson 23:19  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 26/07/08
      111.   Re Natlallie #101... a knee-jerk response... 23:25  |  Esther 26/07/08
      112.   indrajaya & bbs news both wrong again 23:30  |  Adrian de Klerk 26/07/08
      113.   Knee-jerk Durson 23:32  |  Freethinker 26/07/08
      114.   Hamas\ murderous stamped through gaza last year was a fine examp- 23:36  |  26/07/08
      115.   Ralf the capital-letter racist in Hamburg 23:37  |  Freethinker 26/07/08
      116.   hamas` murderous stampede through gaza last years was another 23:39  |  notaforeignobserver 26/07/08
      117.   101-Nat. Dumb Hamas cant figure it out 23:52  |  ami 26/07/08
      118.   Cipora Julianna Kohn # 98 He Won`t Accept The Bet Anyway 23:52  |  Jeff Northridge 26/07/08
      119.   those are act of desperation 00:12  |  Simon Mohammed 27/07/08
      120.   Natalklie Durson 00:47  |  vik 27/07/08
      121.   107 Voice of Reason(Unreason!) I am perfectly aware of the 01:10  |  lakshmi 27/07/08
      122.   Same ol` Same ol` 01:33  |  Elihu 27/07/08
      123.   Somon Mohammed 119 01:54  |  ChanahS 27/07/08
      124.   Dim bulb Durson wrong again 02:51  |  August WEst 27/07/08
      125.   #Zelkha. Some reading for you. 02:52  |  Maureen Ann 27/07/08
      126.   For once Hamas gets it right: 03:03  |  observer 27/07/08
      127.   Durson 03:17  |  samk 27/07/08
      128.   The Pals had Jewish terrrorist teachers... 03:19  |  kiwi girl 27/07/08
      129.   DAHLAN. AGAIN AND AGAIN 03:25  |  indrajaya 27/07/08
      130.   To kiwi girl 03:26  |  Arie 27/07/08
      131.   # 60 to little tel aviv margie sitting so pretty 03:33  |  eric 27/07/08
      132.   kiwigirl-why don`t you put a sock in it? 03:56  |  Jane 27/07/08
      133.   Not aware of Ahmadabad many bombings makes Lakshmi a liar 04:00  |  Genuine Tosefta 27/07/08
      134.   KIWI GIRL There was No Begin Excuse at the Arab Hebron massacre 04:32  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      135.   eric # 131 Reuters Reported That... 05:07  |  Jeff Northridge 27/07/08
      136.   Margie in Tel Aviv. Read Ma`an News. 05:11  |  Maureen Ann 27/07/08
      137.   Has Hamas lost its sense of humour ? 05:16  |  Brutus 27/07/08
      138.   Muslims are always to blame, Indonesia as an example (1) 05:28  |  Genuine Tosefta 27/07/08
      139.   B.ALOFFS How many Christian suicide bombers have there been? V`s 05:39  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      140.   I blame Israel for bringing this tragedy on the Palestinians 05:42  |  Dutch 27/07/08
      141.   #128 Go Girl you tell them 06:12  |  lydia 27/07/08
      142.   Dutch would blame israel if extraterrestials attacked Mecca 06:39  |  Voice of Reason 27/07/08
      143.   134, Goldstein Hebron massacre of Arab worshippers? 07:04  |  lydia 27/07/08
      144.   Kiwi Girl - #128 07:41  |  Michael 27/07/08
      145.   Lydia, # 143 07:46  |  Michael 27/07/08
      146.   #18, dmw... 07:53  |  Silvienne 27/07/08
      147.   What a joke 07:59  |  ScotGuy 27/07/08
      148.   #143 Lydia - Brisbane 08:08  |  * BEN JABO 27/07/08
      149.   Maureen Ann - YOU MISSED THE LATEST NEWS 08:13  |  * BEN JABO 27/07/08
      150.   From Bethlehem - again! 08:29  |  Palestinian Brit 27/07/08
      151.   #146 Silvienne - If you are being paid 09:29  |  * BEN JABO 27/07/08
      152.   bowing prayer? 09:57  |  observer 27/07/08
      153.   Zionist has a wet dream # 35 09:59  |  Clickfool 27/07/08
      154.   A further bloody tightening of security coming in Gaza 10:05  |  Clickfool 27/07/08
      155.   Maureen Ann - This should interest you 10:12  |  * BEN JABO 27/07/08
      156.   Hamas is battling the Army of Islam in Gaza 10:31  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/07/08
      157.   LYDIA. Goldstein was roundly condemned in Israel and 10:31  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      158.   Cipora`s "Army of Islam" # 156 10:52  |  Clickfool 27/07/08
      159.   CFOOL whom is forcing Arabs to do their time honored Arab thing 10:53  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      160.   #13 10:54  |  Michael 27/07/08
      161.   #158, I am not trying to build them up 11:12  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/07/08
      162.   #20 dr ben and colonialism by arabs for 1400 years 11:12  |  victor hardman 27/07/08
      163.   #101 Nat Durson - weak arguments 11:36  |  Shlomo 27/07/08
      164.   Pal Brit... 11:40  |  Linichka 27/07/08
      165.   #162 Victor Hardman....on leadership qualities. 11:41  |  Stephen. 27/07/08
      166.   The bombings 11:49  |  Guy From NYC 27/07/08
      167.   # 159 WHO! peters m, WHO! 11:56  |  eric 27/07/08
      168.   #129 Indrajaya 12:02  |  Daniela 27/07/08
      169.   Where is the evidence it was not a" work accident"? 12:10  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      170.   It is sad to see Americans talking non-sense. (second try) 12:24  |  S 27/07/08
      171.   That`s fine fool @154 13:34  |  Natthan Mizrahi 27/07/08
      172.   95: Still wee`ing, eh BBS? 14:23  |  David Teich 27/07/08
      173.   #139 Peter SM and how many Christian suicide bombers? 14:58  |  Ben Alofs 27/07/08
      174.   what a shame! 15:21  |  bashar 27/07/08
      175.   #51 Indrajaya 15:37  |  Moshe 27/07/08
      176.   #169 PETER SM..Whether it was a work accident or not. 15:43  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      177.   Mujahidin group 16:57  |  Meenakshi 27/07/08
      178.   Too many simple, sloppy observations 17:00  |  THK 27/07/08
      179.   #173 Ben Alofs - That`s some diary you have 17:14  |  * BEN JABO 27/07/08
      180.   A Palestinian unity government coming soon(after Bush and Olmert) 17:15  |  Tosefta 27/07/08
      181.   #40 No such thing as PAL BRIT.... 17:17  |  Mike 27/07/08
      182.   S - are they rally Americans? 17:22  |  David Israel 27/07/08
      183.   PETER SM # 169 Possible But Unlikely 17:26  |  Jeff Northridge 27/07/08
      184.   Ben all-off 17:28  |  Linichka 27/07/08
      185.   THK #178 arabs always violent 17:29  |  marc 27/07/08
      186.   B.ALOFFS Evasion is no answer.The numbers will do 17:33  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      187.   Jeff either way it is very convenient for a Hamas crackdown 18:00  |  PETER SM 27/07/08
      188.   Tosefta #180 18:19  |  THK 27/07/08
      189.   142 It`s the foolishness of the Israeli occupation & settlemnents 18:30  |  Dutch 27/07/08
      190.   Fatah requires suicide bombers 18:32  |  Freddy Kruger 27/07/08
      191.   #180 Tosefta.Are you implying that.. 18:35  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      192.   # 173 Ben Alof 18:38  |  THK 27/07/08
      193.   # 173 Ben Alofs ..JUST A SIMPLE ANSWER 18:42  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      194.   Jeff, Peter, Ben Jabo, Ben Aloufs 18:47  |  Ramius 27/07/08
      195.   #180 Tosefta - Why do you need Hamas now within unity gov`t 19:03  |  Smadar 27/07/08
      196.   Tosefta # 180 Do You Want To Bet On That? 19:18  |  Jeff Northridge 27/07/08
      197.   PREPOSTEROUS "ANTI-ZIONISTS" 19:30  |  Brant 27/07/08
      198.   Jeff, sorry but I have to intervene in the Tosefta-Jeff Show 19:44  |  Ramius 27/07/08
      199.   # 195 Smadar Well Said,BUT! With a Proviso 19:46  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      200.   Ben Alofts; Thank You For Your Lucid Depiction 19:55  |  Gray 27/07/08
      201.   We are to make peace with these people??? 20:07  |  Abraham 27/07/08
      202.   Gray`s antebellum idea of ME history. 20:23  |  Ramius 27/07/08
      203.   #91; BBSNews; you make my point for me, thanks 20:27  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 27/07/08
      204.   Gaza: The Palestinians Punishing themselves. 20:50  |  Akram Zekaria 27/07/08
      205.   # 199 Smadar..Hey,Hey.Just a Thought Came To Me.(1st Attempt) 21:14  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      206.   I make more money from you when you go to Uncle Joe (Jeff N #196) 21:25  |  Tosefta 27/07/08
      207.   Ramius # 198 The Point Is That... 21:25  |  Jeff Northridge 27/07/08
      208.   No "doc holliday", you are obviously less than informed... 21:30  |  BBSNews 27/07/08
      209.   A vision of the future (Smadar #195) 21:30  |  Tosefta 27/07/08
      210.   Hi Jeff 21:48  |  Ramius 27/07/08
      211.   # 197 Brant..Just trying Something on You.(1st Attempt) 21:52  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      212.   #199 & #205 Kathy Some of my friends think like you... 22:12  |  Smadar 27/07/08
      213.   Brant #197 - Good post! 22:14  |  THK 27/07/08
      214.   PETER SM # 187 If Hamas Does That... 22:15  |  Jeff Northridge 27/07/08
      215.   Looking ahead (Smadar #195) 22:19  |  Tosefta 27/07/08
      216.   re Dr Noam #13 `Culture vs dignity.` 22:29  |  Colin Wright 27/07/08
      217.   Ramius & his Palestinian and Bedouin Friends 22:44  |  Gray 27/07/08
      218.   215 Tosefta/Smadar 22:57  |  Well,Duh?? 27/07/08
      219.   #207 Jeff Northridge WB & Gaza not separate entities.... 23:01  |  Smadar 27/07/08
      220.   Colin Wright 23:06  |  Ramius 27/07/08
      221.   100 yrs. NO PEACE 23:20  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 27/07/08
      222.   # 212 Smadar For Your reply Thank You(First Attempt) 23:24  |  KATHY 27/07/08
      223.   #219, Smadar 23:30  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/07/08
      224.   Tosefta # 209 Futuristc Visions 23:48  |  Jeff Northridge 27/07/08
      225.   Just another day in islam 23:50  |  Mahmood 27/07/08
      226.   217 Gray,wow! You certainly have a way with words! 23:55  |  lakshmi 27/07/08
      227.   100 yrs.NO PEACE 2nd part 23:58  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 27/07/08
      228.   # 217 Gray Stop baiting Good Ramius..Tell me 23:58  |  there duh! 27/07/08
      229.   200 posts later... 00:20  |  peter 28/07/08
      230.   Don`t blame Israel for fighting-Pal destiny to live by the sword 00:43  |  PK 28/07/08
      231.   Smadar # 219 They Are Separate In More Ways Than Not 01:10  |  Jeff Northridge 28/07/08
      232.   killings 01:14  |  Nina 28/07/08
      233.   #61 Palestinian Brit 01:31  |  * BEN JABO 28/07/08
      234.   #51 Indra: Don`t Forget To Blame Israel The Next Time You`re ... 01:50  |  Lavi 28/07/08
      235.   # 217 Honi soit qui mal y pense 02:21  |  . 28/07/08
      236.   #218 Well Duh? re: worshipping... 03:46  |  Smadar 28/07/08
      237.   #223 Cipora & #231 Jeff Whole exercise here is how to unite... 04:34  |  Smadar 28/07/08
      238.   Hamas is standing by its word 05:45  |  Gray 28/07/08
      239.   Sad allusions are sometimes based in fact[S]...(2nd try) 05:50  |  eric 28/07/08
      240.   #237, Smadar 08:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/07/08
      241.   GRAY you must have missed all the missiles fired from Gaza. 08:51  |  PETER SM 28/07/08
      242.   hamas standing by its `word`. `Word, meet Hamas` 09:25  |  x-ray 28/07/08
      243.   eric 09:27  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 28/07/08
      244.   Smadar `what`s wrong with building a highway...to connect`? 09:33  |  Jasmine Murphy 28/07/08
      245.   eric about sadness 09:39  |  S 28/07/08
      246.   Have you people seen who Gray #217 is?! 09:44  |  S 28/07/08
      247.   239: True. Sadly, few are those mentioned by eric 11:46  |  David Teich 28/07/08
      248.   189: The foolishness of Dutch the runner (2nd try) 11:46  |  David Teich 28/07/08
      249.   # 245 like i said in my post, "S"; "it doesn`t matter!" 13:13  |  eric 28/07/08
      250.   #246 S Where have You Been????? 15:31  |  KATHY 28/07/08
      251.   # 243 margie in tel aviv (2nd try) 22:06  |  eric 28/07/08
      252.   # 247 to david teich (2nd try) 22:08  |  eric 28/07/08
      253.   252: eric, always with the whining, never with the facts (5th try 16:58  |  David Teich 03/08/08
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