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Hamas policy: Escalation to force Israel into cease-fire in Gaza
By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, and News Agencies
Tags: Israel, Gaza, Qassam, IDF

Palestinians fired some 40 Qassam rockets and two mortar shells at the western Negev on Thursday, lightly wounding two Israelis and causing several others to be treated for shock. Palestinians said they believe this escalation is part of a new Hamas policy aimed at forcing Israel into a cease-fire.

Also on Thursday, Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least five Palestinians, including a senior operative of the Popular Resistance Committees and his wife.

The current escalation began on Tuesday, when the Israel Defense Forces killed 19 Palestinians, mostly armed Hamas operatives. Since then, Palestinians have fired more than 130 rockets and dozens of mortar shells at Israel.
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Hamas was responsible for most of Thursday's launches, and senior IDF officers believe that unless the situation calms down soon, Israel will have to further escalate its military operations.

But Palestinian sources predicted that Hamas would continue the rocket barrages, in an attempt to force Israel to agree to a cease-fire. Hamas, they said, believes that its previous, lower level of rocket and mortar fire allowed the IDF to operate freely in Gaza without Israel paying a serious price.

Moreover, Hamas believes that Israel wants to avoid a major ground operation in Gaza, and therefore, it will have no choice but to call a truce if heavy rocket fire on southern Israel continues. Hamas is currently refraining from firing rockets on Ashkelon lest that reverse Israel's opposition to a major incursion, the sources added.

However, Hamas officials declined to confirm that the recent escalation represents a new policy. Both organization spokesman Ismail Radwan and Ahmed Yusuf, who is Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's political advisor, insisted that the rockets were merely a response to the IDF operations and the resultant Palestinian casualties.

The IDF currently opposes a cease-fire, arguing that continued military pressure on Hamas will enable Israel to achieve a truce on better terms.

On orders from the government, the IDF is currently refraining from ground operations, focusing instead on aerial assaults. In one such strike on Thursday, Raed Abu el-Foul, a senior PRC operative, and his wife were killed by a missile fired at their car. Two other Palestinians were wounded, Palestinian officials said.

Later, another air strike on a car in Gaza killed an Islamic Jihad operative along with a mother and child who were riding in a donkey cart nearby, Palestinian sources said. A second Islamic Jihad man was critically wounded. The IDF said it had targeted the militants shortly after they fired rockets at Israel.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the IDF on Thursday to more forward with planning a large-scale ground operation in Gaza, but stressed that no such operation has yet been authorized. Barak's office noted that the army has been planning such an operation for the past several months, so as to be ready for any contingency.

Barak also decided to tighten economic sanctions on Gaza's Hamas government - inter alia, by reducing the amount of fuel allowed into the Strip. In addition, cargo trucks bringing humanitarian supplies into Gaza will undergo stricter inspections, due in part to the fact that two such trucks were recently found to be carrying material that could be used to make Qassam rockets.

In addition, Barak said that the IDF would "deepen" its military operations against the rocket-launching crews. "It won't be simple, it won't happen this weekend, but we will stop the rocket fire on Sderot," he said, speaking during a tour of the South

Barrages prove Hamas able to stockpile missiles

The barrage of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza this week confirms intelligence assessments that Hamas has upgraded its rocket capabilities over the past few months. The fact it could fire 130 rockets in less than three days proves it has overcome the technical hurdles involved in stockpiling them.

Until a few months ago, Hamas was unable to store Qassam rockets for more than a few weeks, because their launch capability would degrade. Now that this barrier has evidently been overcome, the organization can manufacture and store thousands of rockets, which it can unleash in any future clash with Israel.

Hamas is also thought to have significant numbers of longer-range rockets capable of hitting Ashkelon. It has thus far used such rockets very sparingly, but if its conflict with Israel escalates, that might change.

The organization has also upgraded its launching capabilities: Some of the rockets that hit Israel this week were fired by remote control from buried launchers, which makes it hard for Israeli forces to attack the launch crews. Hezbollah used this tactic extensively during the Second Lebanon War.

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      1.   Lebanon war tactics, with an added advantage to Hamas 05:01  |  Pablo B 18/01/08
      2.   Hamas should give clarification for why wants truce??? 05:16  |  Smadar 18/01/08
      3.   Are you kidding me? 05:48  |  J K 18/01/08
      4.   Stockpiling Weapons... 05:52  |  Ghost of Gush Katif 18/01/08
      5.   IDF will have to destroy qassam arsenals prior to launching 05:57  |  Voice of Reason 18/01/08
      6.   Israel wants to avoid ground war 06:05  |  Rabbi Yakov Lazaros 18/01/08
      7.   IDF should be more aggressive with hamas 06:06  |  Eduard 18/01/08
      8.   Escalation to force Israel into truce?-Stop QASSAMS, HAMAS!!!!!!! 06:09  |  Vittorio 18/01/08
      9.   And Olmert The Village Idiot Sits And Does Nothing 06:11  |  Shepherd 18/01/08
      10.   They are hurting no one while Israel murders civilians daily... 06:17  |  POP 18/01/08
      11.   Go get `em and G-d bless IDF 06:19  |  IsraFan 18/01/08
      12.   Don`t we have a few more cluster bombs 06:26  |  Levi 18/01/08
      13.   Kill Arab Terror or Bend to Arab Terror , 06:38  |  Joseph E . 18/01/08
      14.   IDF should be more aggressive with hamas 06:46  |  Eduard 18/01/08
      15.   It`s a new world. Does Israel prefer peace or war? 07:16  |  Natallie Durson 18/01/08
      16.   in a ground war in Azza keep all exits open to Egypt side, 07:16  |  adam 18/01/08
      17.   Obvious Response 07:18  |  Ron 18/01/08
      18.   feeding war materiel into Gaza earns Egypt economy $500M a year 07:30  |  Charity 18/01/08
      19.   Hamas is desperate 07:31  |  Reid 18/01/08
      20.   This is islam and hamas, hamas is 100% islamic based, read charte 07:34  |  Johnny 18/01/08
      21.   Eduard 07:44  |  Natallie Durson 18/01/08
      22.   Ynet: One cannot kill 18 Gazans and then express stunned lamentat 07:56  |  www.kibush.co.il 18/01/08
      23.   New wave of peace 08:06  |  howiej 18/01/08
      24.   # 14 Natalie, I apprciate your posting 08:34  |  dan 18/01/08
      25.   Qassams: Stockpiled, buried, controlled 08:54  |  Nora 18/01/08
      26.   We have to attack, see, so we can have a truce... 08:55  |  Tom 18/01/08
      27.   Ah,Nazillie Dur d`oreille... 08:56  |  Hastaroth 18/01/08
      28.   For Natallie Durson, on negotiating with Hamas # 14 09:13  |  Clickfool 18/01/08
      29.   Cease Fire or Truce debacle 09:14  |  Ori 18/01/08
      30.   And who said withdrawing from Gava would improve security? 09:17  |  Gilad 18/01/08
      31.   "Starvation blockade".Part of diversionary Pal. propoganda 09:17  |  PETER SM 18/01/08
      32.   #25 US is not occupying Mexico 10:01  |  Ben Sina 18/01/08
      33.   Palestinian territory = attacks on Israel 10:16  |  common sense 18/01/08
      34.   BEN SINA Mexico doesn`t have a policy for detruction of the USA 10:32  |  PETER SM 18/01/08
      35.   Hamas has no strategy 11:24  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 18/01/08
      36.   hamas has all but admitted they are in a panic 11:40  |  harzion 18/01/08
      37.   if israel accepts a ceasefire then we have lost this mini war 11:46  |  harzion 18/01/08
      38.   2 Smadar dream on! Hamas,unlike your collaborator friends will 12:14  |  lakshmi 18/01/08
      39.   hubal 12:23  |  zevulun 18/01/08
      40.   As Arafat said: 12:24  |  Nik Miller 18/01/08
      41.   A boy on donkey died! 12:25  |  Joav 18/01/08
      42.   24 Dan,and other zionists,Dan,have you ever considered that the 12:26  |  lakshmi 18/01/08
      43.   Hamas: We Are All Getting Killed. That Will Show Those Guys We Me 12:27  |  dyinglikeflies 18/01/08
      44.   Justified 13:06  |  ATLAS 18/01/08
      45.   #14 Natalie; I´m afraid you´re overestimating Hamas 13:33  |  AliciaYasmeen 18/01/08
      46.   # 15 N.Durson 13:46  |  17 18/01/08
      47.   # 15 Durson...no time like the present 13:48  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      48.   Durson has complex answers for simple 13:53  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      49.   nothing else to lose 13:54  |  kaled 18/01/08
      50.   # 10 POP...."they are hurting no one" 13:56  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      51.   # 32 Ben Sina ........according to La Raza 14:02  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      52.   Somebody suggested Hamas pay for fuel and food with 14:11  |  Taszilo 18/01/08
      53.   # 40 kaled....Pal misery 14:22  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      54.   lakshmi sounding desperate too 14:26  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      55.   hubal 14:26  |  zevulun 18/01/08
      56.   hubal "i dont care what happened after the fall of saigon" 14:30  |  zevulun 18/01/08
      57.   Now its at least 130 Missiles 14:34  |  Dovid ben Nisan 18/01/08
      58.   hubal "the eisenhower administration and vietnam" 14:38  |  zevulun 18/01/08
      59.   #42; lakshmi interesting rewrite of history 14:46  |  Doc Holliday 18/01/08
      60.   lakshmi the site deserves an explanation 14:47  |  youjudge 18/01/08
      61.   Hamas is only shooting `wizbangs` 15:06  |  leo 18/01/08
      62.   Natallie`s American Strategy 15:11  |  Yonatan 18/01/08
      63.   Kaled 15:14  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 18/01/08
      64.   lakshmi you are remarkably silly 15:18  |  chickenvindaloo 18/01/08
      65.   27 Hastaroth 15:19  |  Nik Miller 18/01/08
      66.   kaled # 49 There`s Nothing Else To Gain Either 15:24  |  Jeff Northridge 18/01/08
      67.   Turn off the tap 15:40  |  peter 18/01/08
      68.   lockshen gets the Tosefta prize 15:46  |  peter 18/01/08
      69.   Israel, Hamas and a cease fire 15:47  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      70.   lakshmi and the "International Tribunal" 15:48  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      71.   On the reliability of Hamas` word 15:49  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      72.   Gaza is a war crime 15:55  |  william 18/01/08
      73.   The problem with this policy 15:55  |  King David 18/01/08
      74.   Escalation met with escalation. Did Hamas anticipate otherwise? 15:57  |  Silly Hamas 18/01/08
      75.   natalie. we don`t know what idf wants. we can 16:26  |  bozhida balkas 18/01/08
      76.   Won`t the Palestinians say enough is enough 16:30  |  Robert 18/01/08
      77.   AN INTERESTING TACTIC 16:36  |  Paul Freedman 18/01/08
      78.   Let me get this straight, they can stockpile missiles 16:39  |  Jacob Blues 18/01/08
      79.   Deja Vu! 16:56  |  Norman F Birnberg 18/01/08
      80.   pablo,you seem eager to offer up innocent civillians as a 17:08  |  terrornator 18/01/08
      81.   Stockpile rochets. 17:29  |  Vital 18/01/08
      82.   hamas policy 17:29  |  marc 18/01/08
      83.   adam,what makes you think the egyptians would want to allow an 17:34  |  terrornator 18/01/08
      84.   #51 Lynn 17:48  |  Space 18/01/08
      85.   Israel, Hamas and a cease fire 17:49  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      86.   Mexico vs. Gaza 17:50  |  ori 18/01/08
      87.   Natalie`s simplicity 17:51  |  john 18/01/08
      88.   On the reliability of Hamas` word 17:51  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      89.   Donkey Died 17:53  |  Ori 18/01/08
      90.   #1 pablo and sheer naivety show once more 17:54  |  v hardman 18/01/08
      91.   lakshmi,egypt and jordan signed that land over to israel when 18:05  |  terrornator 18/01/08
      92.   Do not fire ....you won`t need a cease-"fire".. 18:09  |  Elie 18/01/08
      93.   Hamas policy? 18:16  |  B 18/01/08
      94.   70.owning territory is not important living in peace is? 18:30  |  muslim 18/01/08
      95.   arabist apologists eyes turn brown. 18:35  |  peter 18/01/08
      96.   The fact is that the US does `occupy` Mexico 18:39  |  Gee 18/01/08
      97.   Hamas and missiles 18:40  |  geroge 18/01/08
      98.   Thanks to Mubarak 18:42  |  Sidney 18/01/08
      99.   Why Hamas wants a truce (Smadar #2) 18:56  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      100.   Clickfool Air pollution question 19:18  |  Stranger 18/01/08
      101.   # 63 Tosefta - habitually - repeatedly - wrong 19:21  |  17 18/01/08
      102.   # 65 "On the reliability of Hamas` word" - 19:24  |  17/regurgitation by 18/01/08
      103.   Deja vu! Hamas policy is simple. Emulate Hezbollah 2006... 19:24  |  bat yam 18/01/08
      104.   getting too late to kill ham-ass.. 19:42  |  dav zee 18/01/08
      105.   missiles from gaza 19:43  |  issie 18/01/08
      106.   tosefta "who will buy my flowers and strawberries" 19:44  |  nachson 18/01/08
      107.   cease when they are on the run...NO WAY 19:44  |  jewish doctor 18/01/08
      108.   Imposing a cease fire" question to Tosefta 19:45  |  Jasmine Murphy 18/01/08
      109.   bay of pigs -again 19:50  |  Jewish doctor 18/01/08
      110.   tosefta the terrorists in gaza lose twenty of their men a day 19:53  |  nachson 18/01/08
      111.   Alternative to limited strikes 19:54  |  Avi 18/01/08
      112.   oh and other question Tosefta 19:55  |  Jasmine Murphy 18/01/08
      113.   Dont worry Smadar, Hamas doesn`t want a truce 19:59  |  Avi 18/01/08
      114.   tosefta "hamas is not surrendering to abbas" 20:02  |  nachson 18/01/08
      115.   tosefta i dont believe for a moment that you give 20:04  |  nachson 18/01/08
      116.   Natalie, you mix reason with anti-Israel feelings 20:07  |  Avi 18/01/08
      117.   Tosefta on the reliability of Hamas 20:08  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 18/01/08
      118.   tosefta "a cold reality shower" 20:10  |  nachson 18/01/08
      119.   Trivial questions should be answer by yourself (Jamine M #108) 20:28  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      120.   A special offer to Peter #95, 17 #101 20:31  |  Uncle Joe Institute 18/01/08
      121.   #80 terrornator - My goal is to minimize civilian deaths 20:56  |  Pablo B 18/01/08
      122.   Natlie Shmatalie 21:01  |  leon 18/01/08
      123.   WEST BANK INCURSIONS 21:03  |  JH 18/01/08
      124.   # 84 Space...as soon as a border 21:05  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      125.   #111, leaflets dont work, see the Lebanon 21:19  |  Fritz T. 18/01/08
      126.   this is idiotic 21:35  |  tadchase 18/01/08
      127.   Terronator,Doc.Holliday & Lynn; terronator,don`t make me laugh, 21:36  |  lakshmi 18/01/08
      128.   # 94 muslim...I don`t know if this is to me 21:39  |  Lynn 18/01/08
      129.   Tosefta (#99) 22:40  |  Ralph 18/01/08
      130.   בוקר טוב 22:46  |  מרגי 18/01/08
      131.   Is it hard to hit the lunch crues? 22:59  |  GPS 18/01/08
      132.   Hamas Surrender? 23:08  |  Dorothy 18/01/08
      133.   The imbecile warrior code 23:26  |  Heinz 18/01/08
      134.   can haaretz explain how toosofta is always posted with afull page 23:26  |  v hardman 18/01/08
      135.   Trivial questions should be answer by yourself (Jasmine M #108) 23:34  |  Tosefta 18/01/08
      136.   who will bomb who into a cease fire?!?!? 23:44  |  Adrian de Klerk 18/01/08
      137.   lakshmi #42 (my old football number, too bad it`s wasted on you) 23:53  |  Dave from Chicago 18/01/08
      138.   tosefta you may have illusions of grandeur 23:55  |  andifnot 18/01/08
      139.   Lakshi #42 (continued) 23:59  |  Dave from Chicago 18/01/08
      140.   dorothy "why would hamas surrender?" 00:01  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      141.   #53 Lynn, think for a moment 00:03  |  Outsider 19/01/08
      142.   dorothy "more and more will leave ashkelon" 00:04  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      143.   94 muslim,your post 70 to Lynn is unclear,her post is to me about 00:04  |  lakshmi 19/01/08
      144.   lack of intelligence kaled? 00:07  |  MaryRose 19/01/08
      145.   #82 Marc 00:08  |  Outsider 19/01/08
      146.   tosefta "the rate of rearming would only be marginally 00:09  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      147.   Lakshi #42 (III) 00:09  |  Dave from Chicago 19/01/08
      148.   THE REAL CULPRITS ARE........? 00:10  |  VENI VIDI 19/01/08
      149.   Gee" Whiz - bang! 00:13  |  Mark Lincoln 19/01/08
      150.   tosefta "the egyptians stop whatever they can" 00:14  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      151.   Return of the shallow multi-headed Hydra (aka Nachson) 00:17  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      152.   Everyone looks like a donkey to a talking ass (Peter #95) 00:19  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      153.   tosefta "does hamas control the militias" 00:20  |  yaheskel 19/01/08
      154.   arabist apologist moves from tveria to Georgia 00:22  |  peter 19/01/08
      155.   andifnot 00:28  |  freud 19/01/08
      156.   Sorry kaled... 00:29  |  MaryRose 19/01/08
      157.   #99 Tosefta - to summarize what you`re suggesting then... 00:30  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      158.   tosefta "how many casualties in an invasion" 00:32  |  nachson 19/01/08
      159.   tosefta "casualties in gaza" G-D forbid 00:37  |  nachson 19/01/08
      160.   Clickfool 28 00:40  |  leo 19/01/08
      161.   paublo,your the one that wants to sacrifice women and children 00:44  |  terrornator 19/01/08
      162.   lakshmi #,are you kidding me,the crusades only took place 00:50  |  terrornator 19/01/08
      163.   Why is Slowman so slow on Fridays? 00:58  |  Yuval Azoulay 19/01/08
      164.   #43 dyinglikeflies...Agreed 00:58  |  MaryRose 19/01/08
      165.   137 Dave from Chicago,if you have been reading all my posts from 01:06  |  lakshmi 19/01/08
      166.   Our verbally diarrhetic "flushman"; aka andifnot/yaheskel 01:06  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      167.   tosefta "talking donkey" 01:07  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      168.   tosefta may think his name calling is funny 01:11  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      169.   smadar i am grateful for your secretarial skills 01:21  |  tveiraman 19/01/08
      170.   arabist apologist gets the Lockshen award 01:24  |  peter 19/01/08
      171.   # 137 ew Tosefta - not illusions - delusions of grandeur 01:35  |  17 19/01/08
      172.   #157, Smadar 01:36  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/01/08
      173.   Palestinians must respond to Jewish agression 01:37  |  Yaakov Sullivan 19/01/08
      174.   #161 terronator is very confused 01:41  |  Pablo B 19/01/08
      175.   # 126 - tadchase - "Hamas offered a cease fire, 01:44  |  17 19/01/08
      176.   Tosefta 01:48  |  Slowman`s brother 19/01/08
      177.   162 terronator,the European Crusaders had no business in the ME 01:53  |  lakshmi 19/01/08
      178.   # 154 - Tosefta is not arabist apologist - just 01:57  |  17 19/01/08
      179.   HA HA HA 02:12  |  Danite 19/01/08
      180.   Smadar 02:15  |  Danite 19/01/08
      181.   # 165, YAAKOV SULLIVAN 02:17  |  indrajaya 19/01/08
      182.   pablo b you argue like ballestic,shooting the same ole b.s. 02:26  |  terrornator 19/01/08
      183.   pablo b,im not israeli,i`m american like you,with the exception 02:28  |  terrornator 19/01/08
      184.   Barrages prove Egypt Violation of 1977 Treaty with Israel 02:37  |  Joseph E . 19/01/08
      185.   165 Yaakov Sullivan,bravo! But I am not in principle opposed to a 02:48  |  lakshmi 19/01/08
      186.   # 167 laksmi - 02:51  |  17 19/01/08
      187.   lakshmi all the crusaders were doin was taking back land the 02:58  |  terrornator 19/01/08
      188.   Yaakov Sullivan # 166 03:12  |  ChanahS 19/01/08
      189.   Bravo laksmi you and Natalie Durson are only sane people here 03:54  |  Yaakov Sullivan 19/01/08
      190.   Yaakov Sullivan,181 is a fake Indrajaya! 03:55  |  lakshmi 19/01/08
      191.   #172 Cipora - just the last few weeks Hamas leadership 05:00  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      192.   #180 Danite -One`s perspective is another`s perceived distortion 05:23  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      193.   #189 Turncoat Sullivan 06:02  |  * BEN JABO 19/01/08
      194.   Smadar 07:35  |  Danite 19/01/08
      195.   Smadar dont you get it? 07:36  |  Danite 19/01/08
      196.   #191, Smadar 08:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/01/08
      197.   #173, Sullivan 08:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/01/08
      198.   #173 Re: Arming the Palestinians with F16 09:31  |  Dutch 19/01/08
      199.   Let Hamas Escalate, they Can Not Win This War 09:52  |  Efox 19/01/08
      200.   Alphonse and Gaston are at it again 11:14  |  newageblues 19/01/08
      201.   tosefta is moody and romantic though slightly podgy 11:22  |  smadarsmitten 19/01/08
      202.   "cant you see some humour in tosefta" 11:24  |  smadarsmitten 19/01/08
      203.   "when tosefta calls people names and insults others" 11:27  |  smadarsmitten 19/01/08
      204.   smadar you remind me of those women who write 11:33  |  sigmund 19/01/08
      205.   strategy and tactics 11:40  |  deborah 19/01/08
      206.   Tosefta denying the obvious 12:24  |  Jasmine Murphy 19/01/08
      207.   Escalation has forced nothing but lots of dead Jihadists 13:40  |  PETER SM 19/01/08
      208.   It will only backfire on them. Sheer Stupidity. 14:13  |  De 19/01/08
      209.   Smadar #192- Re Danite`s "Dogging" of Tosefta 14:52  |  Dorothy 19/01/08
      210.   "Slowman`s brother" 15:10  |  Dorothy 19/01/08
      211.   Smadar 15:11  |  hubal 19/01/08
      212.   Hubal to Smadar- You said it better (re sensible debate) 15:22  |  Dorothy 19/01/08
      213.   Smadar about Tosefta & Dorothy 15:30  |  Iz Ray Leigh 19/01/08
      214.   DURSON: Are You A Good Apolitical Artist? 15:38  |  Lavi 19/01/08
      215.   #28 15:42  |  Uzi 19/01/08
      216.   # 210 Dorothy - Tosefta`s arguments? 15:50  |  cut&past ...& past.. 19/01/08
      217.   Great research (Smadar #191; re Meshaal) 15:53  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      218.   Thanks (Dorothy and Hubal #209-211) 16:13  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      219.   # 207 Jasmine Murphy - Tosefta - master of irrelevant - 16:22  |  17 19/01/08
      220.   hubal "tosefta`s considerable acuity" 16:31  |  edward darcy 19/01/08
      221.   #197 " Kohn" re Jaakov Sullivan 16:33  |  Labhras 19/01/08
      222.   The simple road to peace 16:43  |  Doc Holliday 19/01/08
      223.   What is a "promise"? (Jasmine Murphy #206) 16:53  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      224.   17 16:58  |  Jasmine Murphy 19/01/08
      225.   96 Gee, pt. 2 17:06  |  Steve 19/01/08
      226.   smadar`s research of mishal`s quotes 17:07  |  eliyahu 19/01/08
      227.   may we look at the middle east back ground 17:15  |  lord byron 19/01/08
      228.   Busy now to respond to posts... but later will 17:16  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      229.   The ostrich and the chickens 17:18  |  Mark Lincoln 19/01/08
      230.   what has hamas done to show us they would 17:30  |  a e housman 19/01/08
      231.   Tosefta - Let`s hear it from the horses mouth 17:35  |  Avi 19/01/08
      232.   second try to Jasmine Murphy #206 - why Haaretz? 17:48  |  S 19/01/08
      233.   smadar "i will respond later" 17:50  |  devorah 19/01/08
      234.   Tosefta to Jasmine - 17:55  |  Simone 19/01/08
      235.   to S 18:04  |  Jasmine Murphy 19/01/08
      236.   Hamas rocket attacks 18:15  |  Isac 19/01/08
      237.   a friend of tosefta 18:44  |  yaheskel 19/01/08
      238.   Simone #234 18:45  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      239.   Jasmine Murphy 18:45  |  S 19/01/08
      240.   Here is what I said (Avi #231) 19:06  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      241.   tosefta "i will see if an exchange is worth my time" 19:10  |  andifnot 19/01/08
      242.   # 234 Tosefta - please, please, please 20:03  |  17 19/01/08
      243.   Jew-HATERS DECEIVE for Expansionist Islam. Already ARAB Pal State 20:10  |  Linda Rivera 19/01/08
      244.   96 Gee - What would the US do? 20:11  |  Mark of Lewiston 19/01/08
      245.   The WICKED LIE of Occupation. Return STOLEN Jewish Land! 20:12  |  Linda Rivera 19/01/08
      246.   Find the horse in the post (Avi #231) 20:19  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      247.   tosefta and jewish separatism 20:34  |  annabelle leigh 19/01/08
      248.   tosefta and jewish sense of superiority 20:36  |  annabelle leigh 19/01/08
      249.   #240, Tosefta 20:38  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/01/08
      250.   # 141 Ousider yes, pursuing a peace agenda 20:45  |  Lynn 19/01/08
      251.   # 127 lakshmi...on document that isn`t there 20:50  |  Lynn 19/01/08
      252.   Need to use your antennas? (Bird from Outerspace #240) 21:38  |  Tosefta 19/01/08
      253.   tosefta "smadar dorothy and my gofer hurbal 21:49  |  psychopath 19/01/08
      254.   tosefta you are wet 22:06  |  igenius 19/01/08
      255.   Tosefta and the Death Eaters 22:13  |  JK Rowling 19/01/08
      256.   tosefta "here`s what i said" 22:17  |  psychopath 19/01/08
      257.   #237 Yaheskel 22:21  |  JK Rowling 19/01/08
      258.   #252, Tosefta 22:32  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/01/08
      259.   igenius having identity crisis 22:39  |  freud 19/01/08
      260.   j k rowling is certainly amusing 22:47  |  smadar/dorothy/hubal 19/01/08
      261.   LINDA RIVERA 22:50  |  Mikee 19/01/08
      262.   #1 Pablo 23:11  |  Hilda 19/01/08
      263.   Tosefta - I can buy Danite`s interpretation 23:15  |  Avi 19/01/08
      264.   # 101 *17* re:Tosefta is Allways Wrong.He`ll Die,Rather ThanADMIT 23:24  |  Kathy 19/01/08
      265.   #194 Danite 23:24  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      266.   #197 Cipora 23:34  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      267.   simple question for the honourable tosefta 23:35  |  hubal the gofer 19/01/08
      268.   #201,202,203 Who has time to be smitten? 23:50  |  Smadar 19/01/08
      269.   # 252 Tosefta On Jewish Separatism..Please Look Down. 00:20  |  Kathy 20/01/08
      270.   igenius having identity crisis 00:25  |  freud 20/01/08
      271.   Hiya Mark... 00:51  |  MaryRose 20/01/08
      272.   # 246 Tosefta - fresh view on old stupidity 00:51  |  17 20/01/08
      273.   Tosefta #252 You Better Start Practicing What You Preach 01:00  |  Tim R 20/01/08
      274.   # 249 Tosefta And the Rest of The Psychopaths.Watch Out!!. 01:04  |  HAPPY UP HERE 20/01/08
      275.   Yonatan, Nutalie probably thinks... 01:07  |  MaryRose 20/01/08
      276.   # 245 Linda Rivera @ New York 01:38  |  Joseph E . post 1 20/01/08
      277.   # 245 Linda Rivera @ New York 01:39  |  Joseph E . post 2 20/01/08
      278.   # 245 Linda Rivera @ New York 01:40  |  Joseph E . Post 3 20/01/08
      279.   Dorothy please 02:10  |  Danite 20/01/08
      280.   #204 Sigmund darling ...you`re mixing me up with... 02:11  |  Smadar 20/01/08
      281.   #209 Dorothy 02:20  |  Smadar 20/01/08
      282.   I. Danite: Introducing the Epic of Challenges (re Dorothy) 03:28  |  Tosefta 20/01/08
      283.   X. Danite: A helping hand on a cell-phone (re Dorothy) 03:29  |  Tosefta 20/01/08
      284.   Natalie Durson 04:14  |  Sabra 20/01/08
      285.   #268 Danite 05:04  |  Smadar 20/01/08
      286.   Tosefta 05:16  |  Avi 20/01/08
      287.   Tosefta to Danite #277 You`d Be Called A Racist If You Said That. 05:25  |  Tim R 20/01/08
      288.   hamas policy: destroy Israel ... 05:46  |  felix 20/01/08
      289.   the heights will always be in our hands 08:37  |  harzion 20/01/08
      290.   Tosefta `from Tveria` posting at 3.28 am 09:30  |  Iz Ray Leigh 20/01/08
      291.   smadar/dorothy/hubal 09:40  |  JK Rowling 20/01/08
      292.   Tim R 09:41  |  Iz Ray Leigh 20/01/08
      293.   # 131 to GPS 10:52  |  eric 20/01/08
      294.   Avi and Danite- regarding humility 18:49  |  Dorothy 20/01/08
      295.   No need for explanations (Dorothy #294) 21:33  |  Tosefta 20/01/08
      296.   v hardman # 134 can haaretz explain how toosofta 21:37  |  American in NY 20/01/08
      297.   Danite # 195 your right, Smadar doesn t get it 21:49  |  American in NY 20/01/08
      298.   Regarding Tosefta 22:01  |  Jonathan Swift 20/01/08
      299.   Tim R. the Imploding Tosefta (racist) 22:18  |  FOX 20/01/08
      300.   Iz Ray Leigh # 213 about Tosefta & Dorothy 22:23  |  American in NY 20/01/08
      301.   Tosefta- Humility vs a sense of superiority 22:29  |  Dorothy 20/01/08
      302.   Efox # 199 they Can Not Win This War 22:38  |  American in NY 20/01/08
      303.   Amerikan in NY #298 22:47  |  FOX 20/01/08
      304.   Dorothy, while you were in Oz #301 22:54  |  FOX 20/01/08
      305.   # 282 Tosefta to Danite on Comprehension? 00:06  |  Kathy 21/01/08
      306.   #255 JK Rowling..Oh How Nice It Is to Read What I have Said Time 00:17  |  Kathy 21/01/08
      307.   Rabid Fox # 303, get glasses, Number 298 is not my post. 00:22  |  American in NY 21/01/08
      308.   # 205 deborah..strategy and tactics.(You Are My Favorite Deborah) 00:36  |  Kathy 21/01/08
      309.   #173 TURNCOAT Yacub Sullivan 01:25  |  * BEN JABO 21/01/08
      310.   American in NY to Fox #305: And Fox Is Right too 02:28  |  Tim R 21/01/08
      311.   Tim R your Final Solution is similar to one that 22:16  |  American in NY 21/01/08
      312.   American in NY #311 As Usual, You Are Full of It.. 06:05  |  Tim R 22/01/08
      313.   Tosefta #88 Hamas Reliable? Then Look At What They Say! 08:51  |  Tim R 22/01/08
      314.   Tim R the yodelling Yordim yoda 03:02  |  American in NY 23/01/08
      315.   to Tim R #312 - congratulations 06:59  |  zeev 23/01/08
      316.   Zeev #315 While We Are Talking About false Analogies.. 10:05  |  Tim R 23/01/08
      317.   Zeev #315 One More Thing 14:16  |  Tim R 23/01/08
      318.   to Tim R #316 17:06  |  zeev 23/01/08
      319.   to Tim R #317 - and something else 17:42  |  zeev 23/01/08
      320.   Zeev #318 Denying History Will Not Help You 21:46  |  Tim R 23/01/08
      321.   Tim R # 320 Neither will fabricating history help you 23:30  |  American in NY 23/01/08
      322.   Zeev #319 You Are Just regurgitating Your Old cannards 23:56  |  Tim R 23/01/08
      323.   Tim R the Yoda Yordim your preferance for the status quo 00:28  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      324.   Tim R, Your military dream 00:42  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      325.   to Tim R #320 02:00  |  zeev 24/01/08
      326.   Cipora # 35 02:10  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      327.   Oh American in NY Just A Question As An Afterthought 03:00  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      328.   Tim R Yordim Yoda in a country far away from fighting 04:55  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      329.   to Tim R #320 - 2nd try 05:32  |  zeev 24/01/08
      330.   American In NY #321 You Boring Old Man (2nd Try) 06:03  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      331.   Zeev #329 But The Arabs Have To Negotiate Too 06:07  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      332.   American in NY You Are Not trying To Stop The War 06:12  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      333.   American in NY #328 You are Wrong Again 07:55  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      334.   American in NY And Zeev: Stop Pretending About Hamas 09:35  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      335.   Tim R continued lies and unreal analogies. 15:00  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      336.   Tim R How to achieve your goal? and make it binding w/o a state? 15:13  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      337.   to Tim R #334 17:10  |  zeev 24/01/08
      338.   American in NY#250 You Boring Old Idiot: We`ve Been Through This 22:11  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      339.   American in NY #336 What Price They have To Pay.. 22:23  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      340.   Zeev #337 I`m Glad We Agree on At Least Hamas 22:42  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      341.   Tim R where is answer to my # 335? re: yopur lies 22:48  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      342.   American in NY #341 We Have Been Through It Before 23:10  |  Tim R 24/01/08
      343.   zeev Now you can see that Tim R knows zip about history and 23:51  |  American in NY 24/01/08
      344.   to Tim R #340 00:15  |  zeev 25/01/08
      345.   Tim R expects an honest answer but cannot reciprocate 00:50  |  American in NY 25/01/08
      346.   Zeev Now You Can See The Agenda of American in NY 01:46  |  Tim R 25/01/08
      347.   American in NY#344You Wouldn`t Know An Honest Answer If You Fell 02:19  |  Tim R 25/01/08
      348.   Zeev #344 02:58  |  Tim R 25/01/08
      349.   Tim the braggart in starbucks Easy to be Brave when far away 03:34  |  American in NY 25/01/08
      350.   Zeev In Case You Are still Wondering About American in NY 07:40  |  Tim R 25/01/08
      351.   to Tim R #348 10:03  |  zeev 25/01/08
      352.   Zeev #351 What Would They Gain By Stopping Their Qassams? 12:13  |  Tim R 25/01/08
      353.   Tim R s plan for the future 14:31