Een Israëlische analist antwoordde als volgt op de vraag van het Palestijnse Ma'an hoe een hernieuwde Israëlische inval in de Gazastrook te voorkomen:
One analyst was asked what might prevent an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and his response was: firstly, a prevention of arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza, secondly, an end to the manufacture of projectiles and thirdly, the cessation of the launching of projectiles at Israel.
Aangezien er sinds november een staakt-het-vuren is tussen Israël en de Gazastrook is het sowieso, laten we zeggen, een beetje vreemd, dat de Palestijnen zich met bovenstaande activiteiten bezighouden. Dat dit vroeg of laat tot een Israëlische reactie zal leiden mag eigenlijk niet verbazen, en dat bij gevechten in dichtbevolkt gebied burgerslachtoffers zullen vallen evenmin. Toch is dit laatste een belangrijke reden dat Israël een dergelijke aanval blijft uitstellen, ondanks veelvuldige waarschuwingen van het leger en inlichtingendiensten over de grootschalige wapensmokkel, wapenproductie en trainingsactiviteiten van de militaire vleugel van Hamas in de Gazastrook. De vraag is wat eerder komt: een Palestijnse raketaanval waarbij dodelijke slachtoffers aan Israëlische kant vallen, of een einde aan de raketten en de wapensmokkel.
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Emergency quartet formed to prevent Israeli attack on Gaza Strip
Date: 31 / 03 / 2007 Time: 14:34
www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=20812
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli TV revealed that a quartet committee from Egypt, Israel, Palestine and the United States, was formed recently to prevent an escalation between the Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli TV Channel 2 said that the committee was formed during United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent visit to Ramallah and Jerusalem.
Egyptian mediators
The committee will convene in Egypt soon but no exact dates have been announced. The representatives from each of the four nations will discuss security issues such as monitoring the Rafah crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and arms smuggling, in addition to the launching of projectiles from the Gaza Strip into Israeli areas.
Israeli analysts said that the Israeli leadership hopes that this committee will succeed in preventing projectile launching. Other analysts believe that the Israeli military commanders are pushing for a military confrontation in the Gaza Strip, but that the political leaders are less inclined to create an escalation in Gaza.
One analyst was asked what might prevent an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and his response was: firstly, a prevention of arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza, secondly, an end to the manufacture of projectiles and thirdly, the cessation of the launching of projectiles at Israel.
The red line
When asked if there was a line that Palestinians could cross to provoke an attack, he said "the landing of a projectile during the Jewish Easter feast on an Israeli Jewish family and if that kills the Israelis; that will be enough to launch an attack on the Strip."
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Date: 31 / 03 / 2007 Time: 14:34
www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=20812
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli TV revealed that a quartet committee from Egypt, Israel, Palestine and the United States, was formed recently to prevent an escalation between the Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli TV Channel 2 said that the committee was formed during United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent visit to Ramallah and Jerusalem.
Egyptian mediators
The committee will convene in Egypt soon but no exact dates have been announced. The representatives from each of the four nations will discuss security issues such as monitoring the Rafah crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and arms smuggling, in addition to the launching of projectiles from the Gaza Strip into Israeli areas.
Israeli analysts said that the Israeli leadership hopes that this committee will succeed in preventing projectile launching. Other analysts believe that the Israeli military commanders are pushing for a military confrontation in the Gaza Strip, but that the political leaders are less inclined to create an escalation in Gaza.
One analyst was asked what might prevent an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and his response was: firstly, a prevention of arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza, secondly, an end to the manufacture of projectiles and thirdly, the cessation of the launching of projectiles at Israel.
The red line
When asked if there was a line that Palestinians could cross to provoke an attack, he said "the landing of a projectile during the Jewish Easter feast on an Israeli Jewish family and if that kills the Israelis; that will be enough to launch an attack on the Strip."
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