CINA

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DAY 7 & 8 (水/木)

 

 

A MAN WHO WANTED TO BE ENTERTAINED AND GOT A BIG SURPRISE

A short story

 

Rami Avraham, who lives nearby (in Ashkelon), told: "I was sitting in my house's balcony and waiting to see if the army was firing at the (Gaza) Strip. Suddenly I heard a loud whistle and saw the rocket flying with fire and a lot of smoke, and then I heard a very loud explosion."

 

 

 

Wednesday in the late evening the military wing of Hamas was launching again two Qassam rockets, hitting the second time in two days the south Israeli coastal town Ashkelon. In the night before IAF was attacking again Palestinian govt buildings in Gaza.

 

After the latest rocket attack against Ashkelon the situation on the battle field, especially in the northern part of Gaza was/is intensifying hour by hour. During fierce fights between IDF and resistance fighters only in the last hours about 16 Palestinians were killed.

 

 

Here the latest news:

 

10 dead after fighting in Gaza (Guardian)



Palestinians run for cover during armed clashes between Palestinian militants

and Israeli soldiers in Beit Lahiya. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty
 

Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen fought throughout today in the biggest outbreak of violence since the abduction of an Israeli soldier almost two weeks ago. By this afternoon there were reports of the death of at least 10 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier. It was not clear if the dead Palestinians were fighters, civilians or both.

 

In the early hours of this morning Israeli forces took over settlements they evacuated 10 months ago in northern Gaza and pushed to the outskirts of Beit Lahiya. There has been little progress in international negotiations on the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, 19, but Israel increased its offensive against Gazan militants after three Qassams rockets hit central Ashkelon, an area that was previously out of range...

 

Read the full article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1814291,00.html

 

 

Israelis Push Farther Into Gaza Strip (Washington Post)

 

 

 

 

IDF takes swath of northern Gaza to end rocket fire (Haaretz)

Eleven Palestinians, including one civilian, were killed by the Israel Defense Forces in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia on Thursday afternoon, bringing the death toll to 17 since the start of an incursion in northern Gaza aimed at ending Qassam fire. Palestinian officials said eight people were killed and 20 more wounded when an Israel Air Force aircraft fired a missile and two shells at a group of armed militants in Beit Lahia. Three others were killed and another 35 wounded in further clashes... http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735455.html     16 Palestinians killed in Gaza battles (Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth)   Heavy fire exchanges ensue in northern Gaza Thursday afternoon; sources in the Strip report of at least eight killed by direct hit of IDF artillery shell, another two shot dead by soldiers in Beit Lahiya. Palestinian death toll stands at 16 since operation has been launched Wednesday night. IDF claims attacks were aimed solely at terrorists. Meanwhile, Qassam fire on Israel continues... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272040,00.html     Meanwhile.. ..UN calls on Israel to halt Gaza operation http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272141,00.html

The very latest:

 

Just a short while ago the first Israeli soldier was killed in northern Gaza.. (BBC World)

 

 

 

Soldier killed in Gaza (Ynet)

 

Soldier shot in the head by snipers in Atatara area in northern Strip, sustains critical injuries and later dies of wounds in hospital. Popular Resistance Committees claim responsibility for attack. Meanwhile, army reports of heavy fighting in Gaza...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272210,00.html 

 

..occupational hazard!!

 

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Already in the last weeks the Arroyo regime in Manila was announcing that it want to finish the "conflict"(actually a kind of civil war since over 30 years) with the Communist Party, the NDF and the New People's Army soon by force. Now, even the CPP/NDF is willing to resume talks with the govt, it seems that the regime is ready to launch the final deadly battle against the left opposition in the country.

 

Al Jazeera reported yesterday following:

 

Philippines forces merge in crackdown

Arroyo said she wanted to end 'revolutionary taxation'
  

The president of the Philippines has ordered the police and the military to combine forces to finish off the country's 37-year-old communist insurgency.

In a speech at the national police headquarters on Wednesday, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she would soon sign an executive order designed to create a police and military "partnership in the battle against the left".

 

Last month, Arroyo announced a campaign against the communists backed by millions of dollars to buy helicopters and other equipment.

 

"As we run to ground the armed core of the terrorist left, we will erase the fear they want to instil in our people and we will defeat their objectives through nation-building," Arroyo said.

 

She also said that the police and the military would end the "revolutionary taxation" levied by communist fighters and protect those who refuse to pay.

 

 

"Butcher of democracy"

 

 

On Tuesday, Arroyo's spokesman, Ignacio Bunye, dismissed communist calls to resume peace talks, saying they must first agree to a cease-fire.

 

The communists broke off Norwegian-negotiated talks two years ago to protest against the government's refusal to lobby for their removal from US and European terror lists.

 

The National Democratic Front, which represented the fighters in the negotiations, has called for the talks to resume and for the end of a government crackdown on left-wing groups.

 

More than 600 activists and supporters have been killed and more than 170 others have gone missing since 2001, the group said.

 

"Unless the Arroyo regime wants to continue to be known as the butcher of democracy and political activists, it must issue an order to its military, police and paramilitary forces to cease and desist from these atrocities," the group said in a statement.

 

The communists say they will not sign a cease-fire before agreeing a political settlement.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7E877E4B-6CEA-4144-9FC0-19481F5D69D9.htm

 

 

The Philippine(bourgeois) Daily Inquirer wrote yesterday this:

 

Gov’t sticks to war, rejects Reds’ peace bid

NDF works out revival of talks in Norway

 

MALACAÑANG remains committed to pursuing its all-out war against communist rebels even if exiled leaders of the communist-led National Democratic Front have asked Norway to convince President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo to return to the negotiating table.

In a statement, the NDF said it had sent its top leadership to Oslo on Monday for four days of consultations with the Norwegian foreign ministry...

 

Please read the full article here:

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view_article.php?article_id=8166

 

 

Bulatlat:

Bishop Says Arroyo’s All-Out War Promotes Death

A Catholic bishop said that the all-out war declared by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) is a promotion of death. He also said the declaration of all-out war after the abolition of the death penalty is a “contradiction of policy.”...

http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-21/6-21-bishop.htm

 

 

To learn more about the history of the "conflict" please check out for example wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army

 

 

Just now I'd to learn that the web sites of CPP, NDF.. are disappeared...(what a surprise! It's already WAR!)

 

 

 

 

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Actually comrades wanted to report daily in English, but until now..

 

But here are some first photo impressions(by VoP):

 

Short after the begin of Peace March. Sejong-no, near Gwanghwamun

 

1st Evening culture festival..

 

..at Dang-san subway station

 

 

On 민중의 소리/Voice of People I found following article(in Korean) 

about the first day of the Peace March:

"285리를 걸어 285만평의 땅을 되찾자"

1일차 행진 성공리에..촛불집회 마치고 과천으로

 

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North Korea test- fires 7th missile (IHT/NYT)

 

North Korea test-fired at least six missiles over the Sea of Japan on Wednesday morning, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that apparently failed or was aborted 42 seconds after it was launched, White House and Pentagon officials said.

Later Wednesday, North Korea launched a seventh missile amid international outrage that had erupted over the first missile test, the Associated Press reported, citing an official at the South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff. The launchings came in defiance of warnings from President Bush and the governments of Japan, South Korea and China. Of the launchings, intelligence officials focused most of their attention on the intercontinental missile, called the Taepodong 2, which American spy satellites have been watching on a remote launching pad for more than a month. It is designed to be capable of reaching Alaska, and perhaps the West Coast of the United States, but American officials who tracked its launching said it fell into the Sea of Japan before its first stage burned out. "The Taepodong obviously was a failure - that tells you something about capabilities," Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser, told reporters in a phone call on Tuesday evening in Washington. But other officials warned that even a failed launching was of some use to the North Koreans, because it will help them diagnose what went wrong with the liquid-fueled rocket. The missiles have been the source of considerable diplomatic tension in recent weeks, because of North Korea's declarations that it already possesses nuclear weapons. American intelligence agencies have told President Bush they believe that North Korea has the fuel for such weapons. However, the country is not believed to have developed a warhead small enough to fit atop one of its missiles, and it has never conducted a nuclear test, to the knowledge of American officials. The other missiles that the North fired Wednesday morning appeared to be a mix of short-range Scud-C missiles and intermediate-range Rodong missiles, of the kind that the North has sold to Iran, Pakistan and other nations. Those missiles also landed in the Sea of Japan. None of the launchings were announced in advance. But the first came just minutes after the space shuttle Discovery lifted off in Florida - an event the North Koreans could monitor on television. Administration officials said they could only speculate as to whether the missile launching had been timed to coincide with the shuttle launching, or with Independence Day, but outside analysts had little doubt. "It's very in your face to do it on the Fourth of July," said Ashton Carter, a Harvard professor who, with former defense secretary William Perry, had urged the Bush administration to destroy the Taepodong missile on the launching pad, advice the administration rejected."Hooray if it failed," Carter said. While the test itself was a sign of North Korea's defiance of the United States, for the administration, the outcome was as favorable as officials could have hoped for: the North's capacity was called into question, and the North's enigmatic leader, Kim Jong Il, has now put himself at odds with the two countries that have provided him aid, China and South Korea. "Our hope is that the Chinese are going to be furious," said one senior American official, who declined to be identified. Another official noted that only days ago, the Chinese indicated that they were trying to put together an "informal" meeting of the long-dormant six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program. The North has boycotted the talks since September, citing American efforts to close down the banks it uses overseas. But North Korea had apparently not responded to the Chinese invitation, and American officials said last week that the Chinese would not have made that gesture if they believed that they were about to be embarrassed by the country that they once considered a close ally. The launching also makes it difficult for the South Koreans to continue their policy of providing aid and investment to the North, a program that has caused deep rifts with Washington. Administration officials said that Christopher Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the main negotiator with North Korea, would leave for Asia on Wednesday, and that they expected him to use the launchings to try to bring South Korea and China into the fold on imposing some kind of sanctions. At the same time, the launching is likely to strengthen the hand of hard-liners in the Bush administration who have long argued that the six-party talks were bound to fail. They now have what one American diplomat called "a clear runway" to press for a gradually escalating series of sanctions, which some officials clearly hope will bring down Kim's government. But it is far from clear that China - which provides the North with its oil and much of its food - would go along with any move for sanctions. As one central figure in American policymaking told visiting Asian officials late last month, "the Chinese are very worried about collapse," and likely would try to prevent that form happening. The firing ended weeks of speculation about the intentions of Pyongyang, which had rolled out the Taepodong 2, its new long-range missile, in full view of American spy satellites, and came despite severe warnings from the United States and countries in this region that a test would entail further isolation and sanctions. The first missile was fired around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Japanese government. American officials said they believe the Taepodong 2 was the third missile fired, with the U.S. Northern Command saying that it was launched at 5 a.m. on Wednesday. American and Japanese officials immediately condemned the launchings Wednesday morning. But American officials had never considered it a serious threat to the United States, especially because there was no evidence the missile was equipped with a warhead. Bush's spokesman, Tony Snow, only went so far as to call the launching "provocative behavior." The Japanese government said it would take "severe actions" against the North, possibly including economic sanctions. Those could include shutting down the ferry service to North Korea and attempting to stem the flow of the transfer of cash to the North from Koreans in Japan, though officials acknowledge that would be difficult. At the United Nations, John Bolton, the United States ambassador, was "urgently consulting" with other members of the Security Council to try to schedule a meeting of the panel, according to his spokesman, Richard Grenell. Later in the evening, it was announced that the Council would meet to take up the matter at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the request of Japan. Hadley acknowledged that "what we really don't have a fix on is, you know, what's the intention of all this, what is the purpose of all this? " He noted it was a violation of North Korea's previous pledges to hold to a moratorium on missile tests. He said one possibility was that the North was attempting to seize the spotlight from Iran, whose efforts to develop its nuclear program - which is years behind North Korea's nuclear abilities - had grabbed all the headlines. But he noted that "it's hard to get a sense on what they think is to be achieved by this." It was also unclear why it fired short- and mid-range missiles, which it has tested successfully in the past and of which it is said to own several hundred. "One theory is that they knew that there was a probability that things with the Taepodong 2 wouldn't work, so it was good to fire off a few missiles that would actually work," said a senior Bush administration official, who asked that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak about this issue. In 1998, the last time the North tested a missile outside its territory, Pyongyang fired the Taepodong 1, which flew over Japan before falling into the sea. That test set off a negative reaction in the region, especially in Japan, which responded by strengthening its military capabilities and its alliance with the United States. Wednesday morning's tests are likely to increase calls inside Japan to strengthen its missile defense efforts with the United States, and could increase support for hawkish candidates in the race to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who is scheduled to retire in September. Shinzo Abe, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, who is the leading candidate to succeed Mr. Koizumi and who has gained popularity in recent years by being tough on North Korea and China, said the tests were "a serious problem from the standpoint of our national security, peace and stability of the international community and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." The tests are sure to anger China - which expended considerable diplomatic prestige in pressing the North not to go ahead with the launching and to rejoin the six-nation talks - and raise doubts anew about the real extent of Beijing's influence on Pyongyang. The Chinese foreign ministry said it had no comment to make yet on the launching. In South Korea, whose government publicly urged the North not to test-fire but privately played down the risk, opponents of the government's engagement policy toward the North might gain support in presidential elections next year. Intelligence from American satellite photographs indicated in mid-June that the North was proceeding with the test-firing of the Taepodong 2 at a launching pad on North Korea's remote east coast. Satellite photographs showed that the North Koreans had taken steps to put fuel into the missile, but the missile sat there until Wednesday morning, leading to speculation that the North was simply staging the event in order to gain attention from the United States. American officials had suggested that they might use missile defense to shoot down the Taepodong 2 in midair. Bad weather in this region was said to have delayed the launching, because poor visibility would prevent the North from tracking its missile.

But the North contradicted expert opinion by launching its long-range missile in predawn darkness today

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/05/asia/web.0705missile.php

 

North Korea Test-Fires Seventh Missile (Washington Post)

 

Anger at N Korea missile tests (Al Jazeera)

Australia predicts more launches 

 

 

N Korea's missiles met by Japanese sanctions (Asia Times) 

Just hours after North Korea's provocative series of missile launches, Japan has reacted by banning the docking of the Mangyongbyon-92, a ferry that shuttles between Wonson in North Korea and Niigata, and which is the main direct link between the two countries...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HG06Dg02.html

 

 

 

Here the latest news by IHT/NYT:

 

UN Security Council meets to discuss North Korean missiles

China caught off guard, but strong rebuke is unlikely

 

 

CNN reported a short while ago(ha, now its already 7.05, 11 P.M. CET..) following:

U.S.: World firm against NK threat

 

 

 

 

 

Later perhaps more about the issue..

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평화가 무엇이냐..

by 돕헤드同志

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DAY 6

 

 

Here just the latest news:

 

Guardian:

 

Palestinians end talks on Israeli hostage


Palestinian students stand around the rubble of a building destroyed following an

Israeli missile strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City.

Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty
 

 

 

Palestine Information Center(a news"agency" close to Hamas) wrote about the arrests in Ramallah/El Bireh(see also the article before by Ynet) following story: 

 

IOF storm El-Bireh police station, kidnap three citizens

 

IOF troops at an early hour Tuesday stormed the main police station in El-Bireh city and arrested three citizens working in the Palestinian national security force, witnesses in the city reported.

They said that around 50 IOF soldiers encircled the building in Balo' suburb north of the city and called on all those inside via loudspeakers to surrender or else they will be killed.

The soldiers fired at the building live bullets and sound bombs then broke into it and arrested the three, no information are available on those citizens so far.

The IOF troops prevented journalists and correspondents from approaching the scene and detained them hundreds of meters away from the police headquarters.

Local sources noted that the IOF troops last night burst into the Balo suburb and used trained dogs in combing the suburb under heavy gunfire other than the presence of reconnaissance planes overhead.

IOF disguised soldiers used civilian cars to roam the streets of the suburb at the pretext of looking for citizens who took part in abducting and killing the Israeli conscript Eliyahu Asheri early last week.

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_19008.shtml

 

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Well, here the very, very latest news for today:

 

Olmert: Hamas will be first to get hurt (Ynet)

 

In first response to rocket fired at Ashkelon, prime minister says 'this serious act and this criminal attempt to hurt Israel's citizens will have far-reaching consequences.' Cabinet to convene Wednesday for emergency meeting. Sources in Jerusalem: Harsh response expected...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271253,00.html

 

 

Aeh~ I think he(Olmert) just wanted to say: "NOW we really wanna FUCK Hamas!", or something like that..

 

BTW.. only few hours before IAF missiles were "landing" in the University of Gaza.. 

 

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KCNA, a.k.a. NK's state agency to publish politacal jokes, reported yesterday following stuff:

 

Rodong Sinmun on Anti-U.S. Struggle of South Koreans

The nation-wide movement for independent national reunification requires to put an end to the U.S. policy of making south Korea into its military base and drive the U.S. imperialist aggressors out of south Korea, which is a vital issue related to the destiny of the nation and an urgent demand of the times that brooks no further delay. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The U.S. military presence in south Korea is a brigandish act of violating the demand and desire of all the Korean people for national independence and sovereignty and a vicious crime of turning south Korea into a springboard and an advanced base for a war of aggression and blocking the reunification and independent and unified progress of the nation.
    The anti-U.S. struggle in south Korea is rapidly developing into a mass struggle.
    The south Korean people's awareness of anti-U.S. independence growing after the adoption of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration gives impetus to an extensive anti-U.S. struggle. Most of south Koreans regard the U.S. as the biggest obstacle standing in the way of reunification and assert that the U.S., not the north, should be designated as the principal enemy.
    The anti-U.S. struggle is now becoming a common slogan transcending class and strata, affiliation and position, progress and conservatism.
    The anti-U.S. struggle of south Koreans has recently intensified and developed in broad and diverse forms in combination with the movement for reunification.
    The movement for national reunification in Korea is inseparably linked with the anti-U.S. struggle. It is impossible to achieve national reunification without the anti-U.S. struggle. It is none other than the U.S, who has divided Korea into two and kept its troops stationed in south Korea, standing in the way of Korea's reunification for more than 60 years.
    The south Korean people are intensifying their struggle, converting different forms of the movement for national reunification into the anti-U.S. struggle this year, too.
    What draws attention in their anti-U.S. struggle is that international support and solidarity with it are increasing day by day.
    The anti-U.S. struggle is the requirement of the times and the unanimous desire of all the fellow countrymen. Voices demanding the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea are growing in the U.S., too.
    The U.S. should stop its anachronistic policy of domination over south Korea, its moves to make it a military base and take a bold decision to withdraw its aggression troops from south Korea.

 

HARRHARR..

 

 

 

..of course there's ONLY ONE SOLUTION!!

(DPRK-style WORLD REVOLUTION^^)

 

 

 

 

"USFK Bastards Out Now!"

주한미군철거가

우리나라

 

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Four days ago(6.30) the German(bourgeois) magazine Der Spiegel made a interview with Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook..

 

 

..the second Hamas' commander in Syria:

 

"No Matter What, the Violence Will Never Stop"

 

Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is second in command of the political Hamas leadership in Syrian exile. In an interview, he tells SPIEGEL ONLINE that the agreement with Fatah on the foundation of a Palestinian state does not mean that his organization will recognize Israel. Hamas, he say, will remain committed to violence against its occupier.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Israel has accused the political office of Hamas of organizing the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Was this kidnapping ordered by Damascus?

 

Abu Marzook: No, that is not true. Israel has often falsely accused us in similar instances. It is not our task to make such decisions: They are made by the military wing. The military and political wings work independently of each other.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: That means that the political leaders are not consulted prior to an action?

 

Abu Marzook: We are no experts here on military issues. We never know in advance about military actions, when or how they take place.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: That would indicate that there is no coordination between the wings of Hamas.

 

Abu Marzook: But of course there is, because our actions relate to the same strategy, under which everything is organized. And that strategy is to resist the occupation of Palestine. A part of Hamas pursues this goal politically, and another pursues it militarily.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Now, Hamas has approved the so-called "Prisoners' Paper," which recommends a two-state solution. Does that mean that Hamas is now prepared to recognize the state of Israel?

 

Abu Marzook: With this agreement, we have primarily agreed to strengthen the resistance in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Aside from that, we have agreed on the goal of establishing a Palestinian state in these areas.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Doesn't that mean that Hamas inevitably accepts the Israeli state in the rest of that area?

 

Abu Marzook: The paper does not say that at all. It is purely about the future of our people and about how a government uniting all Palestinian factions can work on building their independent state.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: And does Hamas also believe that an Israeli state can exist alongside a Palestinian state?

 

Abu Marzook: Hamas has always said clearly: We will never accept the occupation, because it is not legal, not correct and not just.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Hamas approved the agreement at the very moment the Israeli invasion began. Did Hamas hope that this concession would ward off the military action?

 

Abu Marzook: The one has nothing to do with the other. Hamas said from the start: 90 percent of the paper is good. But we wanted to push through some changes. For example, we insisted on including a paragraph that says that we will never recognize the legitimacy of the occupation. In addition, we wanted to more strongly emphasize that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have the right to resist. When Fatah accepted these changes, Hamas supported the paper.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: After the abduction of the soldier, Israel began to bomb Gaza. Would that not suggest that such actions only lead to violence against Palestinians?

 

Abu Marzook: The Israeli aggressions will never stop anyway. In the last two weeks alone, 11 Palestinian children have been killed in attacks. Now it is about one soldier who was taken in combat. And suddenly the whole world rises up and demands that he be set free. At the same time there are more than 400 Palestinian children in Israeli jails. No one asks about them.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Looking at the consequences, one has to recognize that violence against Israel will never really help the Palestinian people.

 

Abu Marzook: Of course such actions help. Because every Israeli now knows that there will always be a reaction to violence. If Palestinians are killed, Israelis will be killed. That should be clear to all Israelis.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: It is hard to imagine that approach would ever bring an end to reciprocal violence.

 

Abu Marzook: No matter what, the violence will not stop. We are on the weaker side and we do whatever we can. The Palestinians have no other choice.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Palestinian head of government Ismail Haniyeh, also from Hamas, recently showed himself to be more diplomatic than the political leadership in Damascus. That suggests a certain lack of unity in Hamas.

 

Abu Marzook: No, there is no split, just various approaches. The government, the military wing and the political office all follow the same strategy, but each one works in a manner appropriate to his tasks.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Now Hamas is no longer only a terrorist group or a resistance group, but also a governing party. Do you think - given all the chaos since the election success - that Hamas has carried out this transformation successfully?

 

Abu Marzook: Our task was not to change. The Palestinian people live under occupation, so we are still a resistance movement. The people elected us because they did not get the feeling that all the negotiations by Fatah had brought them closer to having their own state. We respect their choice, but we did not seek to be in the government.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: But now that Hamas is in the government: Should it not handle its conflicts with negotiations rather than attacks?

 

Abu Marzook: Of course. On the other hand, we are not a government like any other independent state. We are a government under occupation. And the task of such a government is to carry out resistance, in every possible way. I think that every single Palestinian should resist, and should keep it up until there is an independent Palestinian state.

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE: In other words, not even the current military attacks by Israel will lead Hamas to change its strategy?

 

Abu Marzook: No. I think that our strategy is a promising one, and that it will eventually bring the Palestinians to a point where they can build their own state.

 

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From the Blue House to Daechuri: March for Peace

Beginning on July 5th, anti-war and human rights activists will march from the Blue House (Korea's Presidential Residence) to Daechuri, in Pyeongtaek, the site of the U.S. military's Camp Humphreys.

The 285 li (a li is a traditional Korean measure of distance) march will protest the Korean and American governments' expropriation of the 2,850,000 pyong (1 pyong = 3.3 meters squared) of land currently belonging to the farmers of Daechuri and Doduri.

On July 5th, the march will begin with a press conference at 10am at the Blue House and will then pass through Gwanghwamun, move on to Seoul Station, and will pass Yongsan Garrison, the U.S. military's headquarters on the peninsula. There will be a performance in front of the Korean Ministry of National Defense at 1pm. The march will then cross Seoul's Dongjak Bridge and will hold a 7pm candlelight vigil at Sadang Station. The day's march will then continue to Gwacheon where the marchers will rest for the evening.

On July 6th, the march will resume with a 10am rally in front of the Government Complex at Gwacheon. The march will then continue to Anyang Prison and the Keyonggi-Do police Headquarters. A 7pm candlelight vigil will be held at Suwon Station.

On July 7th, the march will begin at 10am in front of Suwon Airbase. The route will pass Byeongjeom Station and Osan College Station before holding a 7pm candlelight vigil at Osan Airbase (located in Songtan). The marchers will sleep outside the main gate of Osan Airbase.

On July 8th, the march will resume at 10am from Osan Airbase and will continue to the Pyeongtaek City Council Building. A 1pm rally will be held at the Pyeongtaek jail, where Kim Jitae and others are being held. This will be followed by a 7pm candlelight vigil at Pyeongtaek Station. The marchers will then continue on to Daechuri village.

July 9th, a general demonstration will be held in Daechuri.

 

http://www.saveptfarmers.org/

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DAY 4 & 5 (日/月)

 

 

First of all the latest news: It seems that the three militant Palestinian groups(PRC's Salah Ed-Din Brigade, Islamic Army and Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing) who kidnapped one week ago the Israeli soldier G. Shalit want to push the current situation now to the final battle. Just a few while ago they announced a ultimatum in which thay gave the Israeli govt. time until 6 AM local time(Gaza/Tel Aviv/Jerusalem, 5 AM CET, 12 AM KST) to release 1,000 Arab/Palestinian prisoners. "Military Communique 3" Issued on Monday by Hamas' armed wing and two other factions said: "If the enemy does not agree to our humanitarian demands ... We will regard this case as closed."(Ynet) Israel's first reaction: "FORGET IT! NO WAY!!" ..of course!!

So - likely - in the next few hours the situation on the ground will be increasing extremely.

Already in the last 24 hours more attacks by the IDF/IAF against Palestinian targets, such as PA institutions but also militants' facilities were reported. But also clashes between Palestinan militants and the IDF were increasing in the last hours, mainly with deadly results on the Pal. side. Since the morning, local time, the first time some(smaller) IDF units are operating in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

 

 

Here the latest news by int'l news agencies, newspapers..:

 

Guardian, GB:

Soldier's captors issue ultimatum to Israel



Relatives of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel demonstrate at the headquarters

of the Red Cross in Gaza city. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
 

Ynet/Yedioth Ahronot:

 

Palestinian terrorists issue ultimatum

 

Factions behind Corporal Gilad Shalit's kidnapping give Israel until 6 a.m. Tuesday to meet their demands for release of Palestinian prisoners, threaten Israel will bear 'full responsibility for consequences' if it fails to comply. Israel not likely to meet ultimatum..

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3270345,00.html

 

Israel rejects Palestinian ultimatum

 

Statement issued by PM's office in reply to Palestinian ultimatum regarding hostage's release says: We will hold no negotiations over prisoners' release..

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3270554,00.html

 

 

Haaretz:

 

PM's bureau says Israel won't succumb to extortion

Israel rejects militants' ultimatum on prisoner exchange   The bureau of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that Israel rejected an ultimatum issued earlier in the day by Palestinian militants holding an Israel Defense Forces soldier, saying that Israel would not give in to blackmail. The three militant groups behind the kidnap of Corporal Gilad Shalit said they were giving Israel until 6 A.M. Tuesday to agree to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners or "pay the consequences.".. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/733789.html     IHT/AP: Ultimatum from militants   IHT/NYT: Israel steps up raids in bid to free soldier

Washington Post: Israel Orders Army to Free Soldier at All Costs .......................

Here, how I promised some days before, (a part of) my opinion about the future of the "crisis":   When I read articles like that (Ynet reported this today)..   Muhammad Deif presents: Hamas' military academy   In al-Jazeera interview, senior wanted Palestinian terror suspect presents academy which prepares thousands of activists to fight against Israel; 'Jew that came to lands of Palestine is a murderer, occupier and he is the one we fight.."... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3270338,00.html (I was asking Palestinians here who are able to see Al Jazeera TV, and they nearly confirmed this article..)       ..I’m convinced that there will be no solution in the Israeli/Arab, Palestine conflict in the near future. Even the Isreali govt will meet the demands of the Palestinian militants to release Shalit, the IDF will withdraw from Gaza... What will be happen? Likely the militant groups will resume the Qassam attacks against s. Isreali towns and villages – just for example.. (how they did this immediately after the complete withdrawal of the Isreali Occupation Forces last year).   Until now for the majority of the Palestinian "resistance" organizations the "liberation of Palestine" means the "67-territories"(West Bank and Gaza) and "48-teritories", a.k.a. the entire present State of Israel.   Even secular organizations, such as PLO, PFLP, DFLP (the last two were called in the past as "communist" parties), see Palestine only in the borders of 1948(even at this time this territory had no real borders, because there was no state).   PLO   PFLP   DFLP     And until now for this kind of Palestine they want to fight... by all means. .....................................       Finally here the latest news(perhaps the latest for today/local time):   Haaretz: Israel rejects militants' ultimatum on prisoner exchange Minister Ramon: IDF operations in Gaza will be 'far far worse' if Shalit harmed Justice Minister Haim Ramon on Monday warned of a harsh military response in the Gaza Strip if an abducted Israeli is harmed by his Palestinian captors. Justice Minister Haim Ramon made the threat after the militants holding Israel Defense Forces Corporal Gilad Shalit implied the soldier would be killed if Israel does not begin releasing Palestinian soldiers by Tuesday morning. "If God forbid, they should hurt the soldier, our operations will be far far worse," Ramon told Channel 2 TV.. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/733789.html   Ynet/Yedioth Ahronot:   Minister: Unprecedented price if Gilad harmed   Hours before deadline set by kidnappers of IDF soldier runs out, Absorption Minister Boim says: 'We will work according to the Jabotinsky doctrine – respond to pressure with pressure.' Soldier’s father: 'I hope State doesn't retrieve deterrence on the back of my son'    Interior Minister Ronnie Bar-On has warned that the kidnappers of Gilad Shalit will pay "an unprecedented price if they harm the soldier."   Bar-On spoke with Ynet on Monday hours before the ultimatum set by Shalit's kidnappers expired.   "There's no connection between this incident and past incidents. This is a kidnapping of a soldier inside the State of Israel by a terror cell which set out from Gaza. This government's worldview is that it won't surrender to blackmail. We have done everything possible and appropriate under the circumstances. Despite the ongoing military and diplomatic pressure, the results are clear: There's no one to talk to," he said.   "We probably won't talk with them," Bar-On said. "We need to remember that we left Gaza and they set out from there to harm us and kidnap a soldier. It is unfathomable that we will hold negotiations under these circumstances.".. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3270674,00.html   IHT/NYT:   Israel shuns ultimatum from militants

I have to stop it now. Later more about it. (That's just the beginning of MY thoughts..)