Two palestinian jihadists were part of a group attempting to plant an IED at the Gaza/Israeli border and Israeli troops, after discovering the activity, returned fire and killed the two. Here's some of the details from the report over at Breitbart:
First of all, the idea insinuated in this article is that shooting these two terrorists might affect ceasefire talks between Hamas and Egypt and Egypt and Israel - and of course that is a mute point because a ceasefire with Hamas is like the police telling a serial killer they won't look for him for 48 hours.
Hamas is notorious for needed periods of regrouping and that is when these ceasefires always come up and every time, it's like the Israelis think that this might just be the first time when it really sticks. It never does. It never will.
What the world has missed along the way is this - members of Hamas are homicidal maniacs. Many of them are verifiably psychotic. They shoot rockets into Israel, they plant IEDs, they strap on suicide vests like you and me head off to work an 8 to 5 job, like we play with our kids at night, like we spend a weekend in the park. Hamas members kill, that is what they do.
Let me make one final observation. In the American justice system, some criminals are convicted of crimes where they are sentenced to either death or life in prison without the chance of parole. That is because those criminals have been determined to always be a threat to society and they cannot be allowed free to kill again. There isn't a member of Hamas that wouldn't be sentenced in that manner.
Israeli troops killed two Palestinian militants Thursday in a new outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip as a key Israeli envoy headed to Egypt to negotiate a cease-fire with the Hamas militant group.
The Israeli military said troops spotted a group of armed Palestinian men planting a bomb near the border with Israel. The army said the gunmen opened fire at the troops, and the soldiers fired back, hitting two of the militants.
First of all, the idea insinuated in this article is that shooting these two terrorists might affect ceasefire talks between Hamas and Egypt and Egypt and Israel - and of course that is a mute point because a ceasefire with Hamas is like the police telling a serial killer they won't look for him for 48 hours.
Hamas is notorious for needed periods of regrouping and that is when these ceasefires always come up and every time, it's like the Israelis think that this might just be the first time when it really sticks. It never does. It never will.
What the world has missed along the way is this - members of Hamas are homicidal maniacs. Many of them are verifiably psychotic. They shoot rockets into Israel, they plant IEDs, they strap on suicide vests like you and me head off to work an 8 to 5 job, like we play with our kids at night, like we spend a weekend in the park. Hamas members kill, that is what they do.
Let me make one final observation. In the American justice system, some criminals are convicted of crimes where they are sentenced to either death or life in prison without the chance of parole. That is because those criminals have been determined to always be a threat to society and they cannot be allowed free to kill again. There isn't a member of Hamas that wouldn't be sentenced in that manner.
Gaza gunmen killed in clash with Israeli troops
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian militants Thursday in a new outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip as a key Israeli envoy headed to Egypt to negotiate a cease-fire with the Hamas militant group.
The Israeli military said troops spotted a group of armed Palestinian men planting a bomb near the border with Israel. The army said the gunmen opened fire at the troops, and the soldiers fired back, hitting two of the militants.
Two Palestinian militant groups confirmed the deaths, saying the men were killed carrying out an unspecified operation. Palestinian medical officials were trying to recover the bodies.
The clash occurred near the Erez border crossing, the Israeli- controlled terminal that regulates the movement of people in and out of Gaza. Palestinian militants frequently attack Erez and other border crossings, viewing them as symbols of Israel's yearlong blockade of Gaza.
Israel imposed the blockade in June 2007 after Hamas, a violent Islamic group that has killed hundreds of Israelis, seized control of Gaza. It has tightened the sanctions in recent months in response to increased rocket fire by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Israel has repeatedly threatened to launch a massive ground offensive in Gaza if the rocket fire persists. But on Wednesday, Israeli leaders decided against an invasion for now, saying they wanted to give Egypt more time to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas. But Israel is convinced Hamas will use a lull to rearm, and said it would therefore push forward with preparations for the offensive.
Israel's point man in the cease-fire talks, Amos Gilad, was traveling to Egypt to help clinch a deal.
Israeli government and security officials said Israel is willing to give the Egyptian mediation efforts about two more weeks to succeed, but if those efforts fail, it will launch its Gaza invasion.
Egypt is acting as middleman in the truce talks because Israel has no contacts with Hamas, which has killed more than 250 Israelis in suicide attacks and rejects the Jewish state's right to exist.
Major points of contention remain, most prominently Israel's demand to link the truce deal to the release of an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for two years, and Hamas' demand that Israel open Gaza's border crossings.
The closure has prevented the vast majority of Gaza's 1.4 million people from traveling abroad, and led to widespread shortages of fuel, electricity and basic goods.
Israelis who live near Gaza are pressuring the government to launch a punishing assault on Gaza to stop the Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks, which have disrupted life in southern Israel and killed four people this year, including a man last week.
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I love how Israel's counter actions are always the threat to peace, never the actions of the thugs. I think in the last 20 years there have been something like 3,241 "cease" fires. Only a fool will think that 3242 will be the "magic" one. I have said it befor, and I will say it again, there will be no real peace there until after they have a "real" war. And by "real" war, I mean the whole enchelada, not this tit for tat action, but the complete and utter anhilation of all of the thugs, from the lowest hamas foot soldier to that asshat hiding in Damascus. Cruel ?, Yes but then there is only one way to deal with a rabid dog, and that is to kill it.
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