Peace Loving Palestinians

Jimmy "hugs and kisses, Israel is the impediment to peace" Carter - pay attention to the following:



Palestinian suicide truck packed with 4.5 tons explosives – most powerful ever – blows up outside Gaza-Israel crossing

May 23, 2008, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that the truck bomb containing 4.5 tons of explosives was the most powerful ever used against Israel - even in the darkest days of the Palestinian terrorist campaign. The explosion occurred early Thursday, May 22, on the Gaza side of the border, 50 meters short of the Erez crossing. It caused no Israeli casualties, but wrecked the border terminal, blasted a big hole in the border wall and shattered windows in Israel buildings.

The bang was heard kilometers away. The truck bomb was followed by a group of Palestinian gunmen in a jeep.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report Israeli forces quickly roped off a large sector outside northern Gaza as a closed military zone, including Netiv Ha’asara and up to Kibbutz Yad Mordecai, to search for possible infiltrators. A second bomb vehicle heading out of northern Gaza was struck by the Israeli air force.

Mortar fire was directed simultaneously at the Sufa crossing to the south. The Palestinians kept up a hail of gunfire, which was returned by Israeli soldiers.


Jihad Islami and a Fatah faction claimed the attacks. Israel briefly closed the Sufa crossing through which the Gaza population has been supplied daily with basic commodities.

Overnight, Hamas announced that the truce talks taking place in Egypt for an informal ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip had ended without results. The Hamas negotiators have returned to Damascus.

During the week, armed Palestinian buffeted the border fence in an effort to force Israel to climb down on its conditions for a ceasefire and demand the abducted soldier Gilead Shalit’s release be incorporated in the deal.


Hamas demanded the release of 350 jailed terrorists “with blood on their hands”, whereas Israel offered 72.

Hamas sought the immediate end of the Gaza blockade, while Israel agreed to open the crossings after the truce took hold.

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A truck with 4.5 tons of explosive
An attack on Israel from the Egyptian side (recall the tens of thousands of Palestinians who broke through the barrier between Egypt and Gaza and have in turn used the incident to permit their actions against Israel from the Israeli side).
An attack on Israel from Gaza at a crossing where 1 Israeli soldier was wounded
An average of 10 rocket attacks INTO Israel FROM Gaza since 2005 when Israel LEFT Gaza.


I suppose those are the actions of people who want peace. It takes a lot Jimmy to plan the above - weeks, even months. Impediment to peace? As long as one member of Hamas lives and does not refute what their organization stands for, they are the impediment to peace, as are you Jimmy.

Do you want peace?

Do the Palestinians want peace?

I think we all do.


STOP rocket attacks into Israel.
STOP attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians
STOP blowing crap up.

Do those 3 things and within 4-6 years you will have a state of Palestine.

Don't do those 3 things and you will never get a state of Palestine, but you will get a lot of dead people. Many innocent of any crime, but believing in an ideal.

It may not be all you dreamed of (the state you get) BUT it is a start, and from that point you can negotiate, and demand, and obsess ... but get a country first, then ask for more bits.

Yasser Arafat came very close to accepting Oslo - but for Jerusalem. SO ... accept the same conditions Yasser refused, and when you have a country - negotiate Jerusalem. You can't go backward at that point, only forward.

Anything less than accepting the conditions, and moving forward in peace, is really a demand for the status quo - death and destruction.