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7 Rockets hit Israel from Lebanon- إطلاق صواريخ على إسرائيل من لبنان
سقط عدد من صواريخ الكاتيوشا صباح اليوم من لبنان على شمالي إسرائيل, موقعة أربعة جرحى, في حين ردت القوات
الإسرائيلية بقصف منطقة الإطلاق./nوقال مراسل الجزيرة في القدس إلياس كرام إن خمسة صواريخ أطلقت من قرب بلدة
الظهيرة اللبنانية الحدودية باتجاه منطقتي نهاريا وشلومي شمالي إسرائيل./nبدوره أفاد مدير مكتب الجزيرة في بيروت
غسان بن جدو أن الجهة التي أطلقت الصواريخ لا تزال مجهولة, مستبعدا أن يكون حزب الله وراء إطلاقها. ورجح أن يكون
هذا التطور وراءه إما جهة تمكنت من اختراق جنوب لبنان تأييدا للمقاومة مع غزة, أو أن يكون عملا مشبوها./nتحركات
وفي رده على إطلاق الصواريخ, قصف الجيش الإسرائيلي منطقة الإطلاق بخمسة قذائف مدفعية. كما طلبت قيادة الجبهة
الشمالية بإسرائيل إقفال المدارس في المستوطنات المحاذية للحدود وحثت على البقاء في مناطق آمنة./nوأوضحت مراسلة
الجزيرة في بيروت بشرى عبد الصمد أنه لم يبلغ حتى الآن عن وقوع أي إصابات على الجانب اللبناني. وأضافت أن الطيران
الحربي الإسرائيلي حلق بكثافة فوق القطاع الغربي بالجنوب./nوقالت مراسلة الجزيرة إن مصادر إسرائيلية استبعدت أن
يكون حزب الله وراء عملية إطلاق الصواريخ./nكما بدأت القيادة العسكرية الإسرائيلية في شمال إسرائيل اجتماعا طارئا
لبحث الموقف. وأشارت المصادر العسكرية إلى أن الصواريخ المستخدمة هي من الطراز القديم والقصير المدى./nنفي
واتهامات/nوقد نفت حركة المقاومة الإسلامية (حماس) أي علاقة لها بإطلاق الصواريخ على شمالي إسرائيل. وقال مصدر
بالحركة لوكالة الأنباء الألمانية إن حماس \تقاوم وتحارب داخل الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة\
At least three rockets fired from Lebanon struck near the city of Nahariya. CNN\s Christiane Amanpour reports./nFour rockets struck northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people,
Israeli police and emergency medical services said./nThe Lebanese Army issued a statement, saying the rockets were launched by \an unknown group\ and that the Israeli retaliatory fire inflicted no
casualties./nThe rockets hit near the city of Nahariya, located about six miles from the Lebanese border, police said. The Israeli military said it returned fire toward the source of the rockets after
the attack./nSchools and kindergartens were closed in Nahariya and the nearby town of Shlomi, the Israel Defense Forces reported./nThe Israeli military warned civilians in the western Galilee region
to stay close to shelters in the aftermath of Thursday\s attack./nThe report comes as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, aimed at halting rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to the south,
entered a 13th day./nIsrael fought a similar campaign against the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah in 2006, during which Hezbollah rained rockets on cities in Israeli\s north for a month
before a cease-fire was reached./nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday\s attack.
advertisement/nThe Lebanese Army\s statement also said its troops and the U.N. peacekeeping mission that patrols the border \have taken all necessary measures to protect the population and control
the situation.\/nHezbollah has kept a tight rein on its forces in southern Lebanon since the cease-fire, however, and a number of Palestinian factions operate in southern Lebanon as well.
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a journey to ancient Arabia
Arabia is the name of the country to the west and south of Mesopotamia
There are three main zones can be discerned in Arabia :/n1- the towns in the regions bordering on the Indian Ocean (modern Yemen and Oman)
2- the nomadic interior (modern day Saudi Arabia ,south syria,south Iraq )
3-the northwestern part ( modern Jordan )/nThe Latin names of these three zones are:
1- Arabia Felix, (Happy or fortunate Arabia)
2- Arabia Deserta (Desert Arabia)
3-Arabia Petraea (stoney Arabia )./nin this video well see scenes for some cultures and civilizations in the part called Arabia Felix
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the other two arabian zones,
Arabia Desserta and Arabia Petraea will be presented in the other parts./nkingdoms and cultures of the south of Arabian peninsula wil be presented in this video ,this area used to be called Arabia
Felix now yemen and Oman,/nThe history of Arabia Felix is especially important because itis one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its was recognized by some ancient Greek
geographers like Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia ,(better known in its Latin translation, Arabia Felix) meaning fortunate Arabia or Happy Arabia./nBetween the 12th century BC and the
6th century AD,it was dominated by six successive civilizations which rivaled each other, or were allied with each other and controlled the lucrative spice trade:
Main, Qataban, Hadhramaut, Awsan, Saba and Himyarite./nnot much was known about the ancient history of the pre-islamic Arabia untill about 50 years ago when
a series of excavation works began in the area.
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A Journey To Ancient Arabia P2
hadramout kingdom:/nlocation: Yemen/nHadhramout in Heritage Books is Aad, ad Ahqaf in the Holy Koran, the place which god bestowed with prophets of whom are Hood and Saleh peace upon them. In ancient
history, Wadi Hadramout, was known as wadi Al-Ahgaf as the north eastern part of it is covered with sand dunes known as Ahgaf (plural of Hagf ;which means dune) .Al-Hgaf was mentioned in the holy
Quran and Prophet Hood (peace be upon him) was the messenger of God to the people of Ahgaf .Most historians agree that the grave (Tomb) of the prophet Hood is situated 140 km east of the town of
Seiyun ./nThe name Hadramout is an ancient name referring to the region and the tribe . It had received mention in the Holy Bible . According to Genealogists it was named Hadhramout after it was a
home for Amirprince Bin Qahtan, who was told that once he attended a war he multiplied slaughtering and thus used to say that if he attends then Death attends with him./nMany ancient cities had
flourished in Hdramout , and the goddess temples The Moon spread out and witnessed development in arts, architecture, and development in irrigation systems, dams, political systems, legislation, laws
and reached a high level of progress in such aspects./nHadramout is rich with deep rooted historic antiquities, architecture in particular, represented in embracing the oldest highest buildings which
are still standing in the capital of the ancient Hadramout kingdom Shibam , the remains indicate the monumental ruins of cities, temples and prophets graves (Hud, Saleh) peace be upon them, there to
the remains of the ancient kingdoms spreading all over Hadramout ./n- Petra the Capital of the Nabatean kingdom/nlocation: Jordan/nPetra is one of the new wonders of the world. The Nabateans
constructed it as their capital city around 100 BCE/nThe Nabataeans are of Arab origin who became rich by their monopoly on the trade of incense and spices in particular between the East and the
Roman, Greek and Egyptian empires/nThe site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was discovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as a rose-red
city half as old as time in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as one of the most precious cultural properties of mans cultural heritage. In 1985, Petra
was designated a World Heritage Site. It is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World as determined by the New Open World Corporation ./n-Madain Saleh Hegra or AL-Hijr/nlocation: Saudi Arabia/nMadain
Saleh is an ancient city located in northern Hejaz .In ancient times the city was inhabited by
many arabian tribes like Thamudis , Lihians and Nabateans ,and was part of the Lihian,Dedan,Nabateans civlizations ,the city is also known as Hegra./nSome of the inscriptions found in the area date
back to the 2nd millennium BC. However, all the remaining architectural elements are dated to the period of the Thamudi and Lihyan, civilizations, between the 1st millennium BC and the second century
AD./nIn 2008, UNESCO proclaimed Madain Saleh as a site of patrimony./nThe site includes 131 tombs, a siq, walls, towers, water conduits, and cisterns. Many of the tombs have inscriptions./nNOTE:
Within Saudi society it is considered a cursed place
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-Palmyra
location:Syrian desert/nCalled Tadmor by the Arabs, Palmyra appeared for the first time in the 2nd millennium BC in the archives of Mari and in an Assyrian text. It was also mentioned in the Bible as
a part of Solomons territory./nThe Seleucids practically ignored Tadmor and it became independent. It flourished through trade with Persia, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula. In 41 BC
it had become rich enough to attract the Romans and Anthony attempted to occupy it but failed because of the Palmyreans escaping to the other side of the Euphrates./nIt was fully occupied by the
Romans under Tiberius, Augustus successor and was integrated into the Province of Syria between 14-37 AD. During the next 100 years of Roman rule Palmyra prospered greatly as a trade route linking the
East Asian empires of Persia, India, China, and the Parthians who were Romes enemy for a long time. They managed this by keeping good ties with both the Romans and the Parthians. In 129 AD Hadrian
visited Palmyra and was quite enthralled by it and named it Palmyra Hadriana and proclaimed it a free city. In 212 AD Palmyra was considered as a colony of the Roman Empire and Palmyra took a higher
military role and caravan trade diminished. Trade diminished even more when the Sassanians took over and occupied the mouth to the Tigris and Euphrates./nThe leader Septimus Odeinat (Odenathus) became
quite favored by Rome and in 256/7 was appointed by the Emperor Valerian as Consul and Governor of the province of Syria Phoenice which Palmyra had been transferred to in 194. A few years later
Valerian was captured and murdered by the Sassanian Persians, and in redemption Odeinat campaigned as far as the Sassanian capital Ctesiphon./nPalmyras greatest days however were after the murder of
Odeinat, when his wife Zenobia started ruling Palmyra on behalf of her son Vaballath. Zenobia with the help of her Prime Minister Longinus extended Palmyrean power to the west and took over Bosra and
occupied as far as Egypt (269-270), then she headed for the north and attempted to take Antioch. This sudden expansion posed a threat for the Romans, and after two years in 272 of being flexible
Aurelian retaliated and took back Antioch then Emesa (Homs) and then Palmyra itself. Zenobia tried to escape but was captured and was taken back to Rome as a prisoner./n-
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Hatra
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The remains of the city, especially the temples
where Hellenistic and Roman architecture blend with Eastern
decorative features, attest to the greatness of its civilization.
in the year 240 ad Ardashir I, Sassanid king of Persia destroyed Hatra./nThe city was famed for its fusion of Greek, Mesopotamian, Syrian and Arabian pantheons, known in
Aramic as the house of the god , The city had temples to Nergal(Sumerian and Akaadian)
Hermes(Greek) Atargatis (syro-Aramaean), Allat and Shamiyyah(Arabian) and Shamash ( mesopotamian sun God)/nThe exact details of the site werent known until the 20th century.
An excavation team were hugely surprised when they found a Greek temple on this site.
The marble columns built in Ionic style look exactly like ones found in Greece.
Camel caravans passed through there for a period of several hundred years before and after Christ./nThe Silk Road was then a busy trade route, connecting the Chinese Han and Roman Empires./nHatra was
an important stopover between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean Sea.
The discovery of Allat temple unveiled a different side of Hatra.
The imposing carvings depict camels, which represent wealth and affluence.
This relief could represent the Goddess Allat./nEastern and Western civilizations met here and created a form of art known as the Hellenistan style,
a combination of Greek Hellenism and the Eastern style from Asia. ./nIt is possible to see how Eastern and Western culture is fused here.
The face of Medusa, of Greek myth, is carved at the entrance.
While the temple itself was built in the Iwan style, from Western Asia./nEach God worshipped in the vast area between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean was enshrined here./nHatra thrived by welcoming
and accepting people of different religious faiths./nOnly a part of the town and sacred areas have been excavated so far.
Hatra was a city where an array of cultures and religions coexisted in harmony./n- Kendah kingdom
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existed in the 4th century BC and ended in the 4 th century AD
the capital if the kingdom is called AL-Faw it was fully burried under the golden sands of arabia.
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A UN Spokeswoman Describes The Situation From Inside The Shelled UN Compound
A spokeswoman working for the UN in the compound hit by Israeli shelling describes what is going on at the moment./nIsraeli forces have shelled a hospital and UN compound as they continue to pound
Gaza City while pushing deeper into densely-populated neighbourhoods./nThousands of fear-stricken Gazans fled the advancing Israeli trooops on Thursday, but observers said there was nowhere safe for
them to take refuge in the territory that is under relentless Israeli attack./nOfficials said that a building of the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze./n\They are
phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning,\ John Ging, the director of UN relief
operations, said./n\This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there.\/nBan Ki-moon, the UN
secretary-general, said he was \outraged\ by the attack on the UN compound and demanded an explanation as he met Israeli officials in Tel Aviv./nIntense shelling/nAbout 500 people were inside the
hospital in Tal al-Hawa when it came under attack. Many had taken shelter in the hope of escaping the onslaught./n\The last hit was on the Red Crescent\s operations building and destroyed the
pharmacy. There\s a hole in the roof and a fire is still burning,\ Sharon Locke, a hospital volunteer, told Al Jazeera./nA building housing a number of international media organisations and several
housing blocks were also reportedly hit on Thursday./nAl Jazeera\s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza City, said that the Israeli shelling was the closest to the centre of the city that it had been
during the Israeli offensive./n\There have, no doubt, been a series of air strikes that have destroyed so many of the buildings here in the heart of Gaza City, but this is the first time we have seen
this kind of shelling,\ he said./n\We are getting some very horrific accounts from people trapped in buildings unable to leave.\/nMays al-Khatib, a Gaza resident, was speaking to Al Jazeera on the
telephone when her building came under attack./n\The shelling is continuous since last night, we are here in this place, we are around 500 families here under bombardment,\ she was narrating, when the
telephone went dead./nAl Jazeera sources said she survived, though her building collapsed./nIsrael also hit smuggling tunnels from Egypt into the southern Rafah area of Gaza./n\They used bombs that
went deep into the tunnels and shook the whole Rafah refugee camp. The land trembled beneath our feet,\ Bassam Abdallah, a local Palestinian cameraman, said./nOne of Israel\s stated objectives is to
stop the smuggling of weapons across the border to Palestinian fighters./nThe tunnels are also used to bring in basic supplies for the territory which has been suffering under an Israeli blockade./nAt
least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip on December 27, medics said./nMore than 4,800 people have been injured in the violence./n\Unbearable\
toll/nBan told a news conference in Tel Aviv that the death toll was \unbearable\./n\The time has come for the violence to stop and for us to change fundamentally the dynamics in Gaza and to pursue
again the peace talks for a two-state solution which is the only road for lasting security for Israel,\ he said./nThirteen Israelis have been killed in the conflict, including three
civilians./nHowever, the two sides appeared to be inching closer towards a ceasefire deal on Thursday./nAmos Gilad, a senior Israeli envoy, was expected to meet Egyptian mediators in Cairo after a
Hamas delegation gave its view on the proposed agreement./nMeanwhile, a Greek-flagged vessel trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip with medical aid for the Palestinians was turned back to
Cyprus by an Israeli naval vessel./nHuwaida Arraf, an organiser with the US-based Free Gaza Movement, said that the boat was intercepted about 100 miles northeast of Gaza./n\They got very close and
they threatened that if we continued they would open fire on us,\ she told the Reuters news agency./n\They surrounded us with about four warships making it very difficult to navigate. They said they
would use all means to keep us out of Gaza.\
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Ahmadinejad lashes out at arab leaders and USA - Israel shells hospital and the red cross
Israeli forces have shelled a hospital and UN compound as they continue to pound Gaza City while pushing deeper into densely-populated neighbourhoods./nThousands of fear-stricken Gazans fled the
advancing Israeli trooops on Thursday, but observers said there was nowhere safe for them to take refuge in the territory that is under relentless Israeli attack./nOfficials said that a building of
the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze./n\They are phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate
toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning,\ John Ging, the director of UN relief operations, said./n\This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food,
medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there.\/nBan Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said he was \outraged\ by the attack on the UN compound and demanded an explanation as he met
Israeli officials in Tel Aviv./nIntense shelling/nAbout 500 people were inside the hospital in Tal al-Hawa when it came under attack. Many had taken shelter in the hope of escaping the
onslaught./n\The last hit was on the Red Crescent\s operations building and destroyed the pharmacy. There\s a hole in the roof and a fire is still burning,\ Sharon Locke, a hospital volunteer, told Al
Jazeera./nA building housing a number of international media organisations and several housing blocks were also reportedly hit on Thursday./nAl Jazeera\s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza City,
said that the Israeli shelling was the closest to the centre of the city that it had been during the Israeli offensive./n\There have, no doubt, been a series of air strikes that have destroyed so many
of the buildings here in the heart of Gaza City, but this is the first time we have seen this kind of shelling,\ he said./n\We are getting some very horrific accounts from people trapped in buildings
unable to leave.\/nMays al-Khatib, a Gaza resident, was speaking to Al Jazeera on the telephone when her building came under attack./n\The shelling is continuous since last night, we are here in this
place, we are around 500 families here under bombardment,\ she was narrating, when the telephone went dead./nAl Jazeera sources said she survived, though her building collapsed./nIsrael also hit
smuggling tunnels from Egypt into the southern Rafah area of Gaza./n\They used bombs that went deep into the tunnels and shook the whole Rafah refugee camp. The land trembled beneath our feet,\ Bassam
Abdallah, a local Palestinian cameraman, said./nOne of Israel\s stated objectives is to stop the smuggling of weapons across the border to Palestinian fighters./nThe tunnels are also used to bring in
basic supplies for the territory which has been suffering under an Israeli blockade./nAt least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip on December 27,
medics said./nMore than 4,800 people have been injured in the violence./n\Unbearable\ toll/nBan told a news conference in Tel Aviv that the death toll was \unbearable\/n\The time has come for the
violence to stop and for us to change fundamentally the dynamics in Gaza and to pursue again the peace talks for a two-state solution which is the only road for lasting security for Israel,\ he
said./nThirteen Israelis have been killed in the conflict, including three civilians./nHowever, the two sides appeared to be inching closer towards a ceasefire deal on Thursday./nAmos Gilad, a senior
Israeli envoy, was expected to meet Egyptian mediators in Cairo after a Hamas delegation gave its view on the proposed agreement./nMeanwhile, a Greek-flagged vessel trying to break the blockade of the
Gaza Strip with medical aid for the Palestinians was turned back to Cyprus by an Israeli naval vessel./nHuwaida Arraf, an organiser with the US-based Free Gaza Movement, said that the boat was
intercepted about 100 miles northeast of Gaza./n\They got very close and they threatened that if we continued they would open fire on us,\ she told the Reuters news agency./n\They surrounded us with
about four warships making it very difficult to navigate. They said they would use all means to keep us out of Gaza.\
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Ahmadinejad Urges IDF Troops To Refuse Orders
Video of Gaza street view from today : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the unusual step of addressing Israeli troops on his official website Thursday, and calling on them to disobey their
commanders./nHe also urged esidents of occupied Palestine\, a reference to Israelis and Palestinians, to publicly protest the Israeli offensive in Gaza./nIsrael accuses Iran of providing weapon
More..s to Hamas. Tehran insists it provides financial, humanitarian and moral support./n\You soldiers of the Zionist regime ... Why should you kill innocent women and children? The time has come for
you to protest against your commanders and disobey their orders.\ He wrote./nIranian hardliners have staged a series of protests in support of Palestinians, in particular gathering outside the
Jordanian embassy and Egypt\s diplomatic mission. Both Arab countries have peace treaties with Israel./nProtesters have focused on Egypt, which does not have full diplomatic ties with Iran, for
closing its border with Gaza./nIn an interview with Iran\s Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Alam, Ahmadinejad urged Egypt to open the crossing./nEgypt sometimes allows wounded people and medical
supplies through its border with Gaza but the crossing has been closed to ordinary traffic since Hamas seized control there in 2007./nCairo has also blamed Hamas for the Israeli assault on Gaza.
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This is how Bahrain trains to save footballs. The Australians will not make it past the goalkeeper in the World Cup qualification game.
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BBC argues with Israeli Spokesman over UN School Bombing
nterview where Israeli spokesman Mark Regev is taken to task by Jeremy Paxman over the UN School bombing in Gaza. \You knew what you were doing didnt you?\ is Paxmans combative opening/nForty-two
women and children were killed when an Israeli tank opened fire outside a UN-run school in Gaza today, the third such attack in 24 hours. Two tank shells exploded outside the al-Fakhora school in
Jabaliya refugee camp, spraying shrapnel on those inside and outside the building, where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge from Israeli shelling./nThose who died in the attack today were
people sheltering in the school and local residents. Schools run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have opened their doors to provide shelters for thousands of Palestinians who have fled
their homes. The Israeli government has been informed of this fact by the UNRWA representatives in Gaza. At least 17 schools are sheltering more than 5,000 people. Nine of the schools in the Jabaliya
refugee camp are in the front line of fighting./nMax Gaylard, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said that Israel had the GPS co-ordinates of all U.N. buildings in Gaza
including its schools. Neither homes nor U.N. shelters are safe for civilians, he said in a statement that reaffirmed UN ceasefire calls. These tragic incidents need to be investigated, and if
international humanitarian law has been contravened, those responsible must be held accountable./nIsrael has a history of attacking U.N. shelters holding civilians. In Qana, south Lebanon, the Israeli
army massacred hundreds of civilians when they bombed UN shelters in 1996. This deliberate war crime was repeated in 2006 when Israel again bombed U.N. buildings protecting civilians./nToday we call
on the Canadian Government to condemn this grave war crime, as any justification for this despicable act perpetuated by the Israeli military will only signal that the Conservative government views
Palestinian live as subhuman./nAlso at this moment, we can only reaffirm our commitment in the strongest possible terms to continue mobilizing friends and allies in other progressive social movements
to respond to the call by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations for a comprehensive campaign of boycott, sanctions and divestment/nOne by one the justifications given by Israel for its
latest war in Gaza are unravelling./nThe argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such
as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre-right Israeli intelligence think tanks./nThe Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, whose December 31
report titled \Six Months of the Lull Arrangement Intelligence Report,\ confirmed that the June 19 truce was only \sporadically violated, and then not by Hamas but instead by ... ogue terrorist
organisations\./nInstead, \the escalation and erosion of the lull arrangement\ occurred after Israel killed six Hamas members on November 4 without provocation and then placed the entire Strip under
an even more intensive siege the next day./nAccording to a joint Tel Aviv University-European University study, this fits a larger pattern in which Israeli violence has been responsible for ending 79
per cent of all lulls in violence since the outbreak of the second intifada, compared with only 8 per cent for Hamas and other Palestinian factions./nIndeed, the Israeli foreign ministry seems to
realise that this argument is losing credibility./nDuring a conference call with half a dozen pro-Israel professors on Thursday, Asaf Shariv, the Consul General of Israel in New York, focused more on
the importance of destroying the intricate tunnel system connecting Gaza to the Sinai./nHe claimed that such tunnels were \as big as the Holland and Lincoln tunnels,\ and offered as proof the \fact\
that lions and monkeys had been smuggled through them to a zoo in Gaza. In reality, the lions were two small cubs that were drugged, thrown in sacks, and dragged through a tunnel on their way to a
private zoo./nIsrael\s self-image/nThe claim that Hamas will never accept the existence of Israel has proved equally misinformed, as Hamas leaders explicitly announce their intention to do just that
in the pages of the Los Angeles Times or to any international leader or journalist who will meet with them.
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