The same people are behind them both -and for the same purpose: The Zionists, with their fanaticism & extremism, hatred & greed are victimizing the Muslims.

Israel has pounded Hamas targets with missiles and heavy machine gunfire on the Gaza Strip, for over two weeks now, alleging that the reason for these large-scale attacks on Gaza (a pretext, really) is to stop an increasingly determined campaign by the the Palestinian resistance, who has been firing rockets at the Israeli settlement of Asderot.

Israeli missile attacks have so far killed 56 Palestinians, 15 civilians - and 41 resistance fighters from the Palestinian Homeland defense - the Israelis have mostly targeted the resistance of the Hamas organization. But the Israeli Zionists have failed to stop the rocket fire of the Palestinian resistance, nearly 250 rockets were launched at the Israelis since May 15, killing two Jews, and wounding 20 more -forcing hundreds of them to flee the Southern town of Asderot.

On Tuesday the Israelis killed two members of the Hamas movement in Gaza - and the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian communities imprisoned on the Gaza Strip continue. This morning, in a targeted assassination attack, Israeli drones (killer robots) fired missiles, shelling a building in the eastern parts of the Jabalyia Camp. The residence belonging to Issa Hamoda, was hit by one missile. Two Palestinians were killed. The Martyrs are Omar Sha'aban Rehan 25 and Mahmoud Issa Hamoda 23.

On Wednesday on the "walled" and separated communities on the West Bank - Israeli Zionist death squads arrested a senior official of Mahmoud Abbas's and Mohammed Dahlan's Fatah party, near the old Palestinian city of Nablus -the very first time in more than a year that a lawmaker from the Fatah organization has been seized.

Jamal al-Tirawi, a spokesman for Fatah‘s parliamentary faction, and a local leader of the Fatah armed group, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was detained in Balata camp outside Nablus. Also in the occupied West Bank in the city of Ramallah, Palestinian medical sources report that a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was shot dead during an Israeli incursion late on Tuesday evening.

Palestinian security sources report that another resistance fighter, a member of the Islamic Jihad, was killed in a similar raid by Israeli death squads - in the city of Jenin, in the northern parts of the "walled-off " Palestinian West Bank...

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Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday - that he planned to address the residents of the Gaza Strip in the coming days. He did not specify how he would do so. The warlord and commander of the Zionists entity, Ehud Olmert said he would "explain to "them" [the Palestinian people] that they are the first victims of fanaticism of some among them, the hate of certain of their organizations and the extremism of leaders ready to sacrifice their blood"!!!!!

The Hamas movements politburo chief Khaled Mashal, said on Wednesday in an interview with news media that "it is only a matter of time until the armed Palestinian resistance would eventually drive out the Israelis from occupied territories" - "What caused Sharon to leave Gaza, Barak to leave Lebanon in 2000?" - "And look what is going on in Iraq - where the greatest power in the world is facing confusion. Because of the strong and determent Iraqi resistance - to drive out the occupant!"

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In Iraq, the US coalition continues to wall off the Baghdad neighborhoods in an attempt to break the ability of the resistance to strike back against the US coalition of death squads. The US-based coalition of Zionists operating world wide, believes it is critical for the occupation power to prevent revenge attacks from the Iraqi resistance. According to the U.S. Army General, (the Jewish) David Petraeus, the movable barriers that are erected in Baghdad (and similar to those in the Israeli West Bank), that now are separating Baghdad's neighborhoods, are there to help the occupation forces limit the night-time movements of the Iraqi resistance. -This is what David Kilcullen (another Jew) alleges. He is himself involved in terrorism against the Iraqis and the Palestinians. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Australian army reserve and spent many years studying methods for defeating the resistance on the occupied Palestinian territories and in the occupied Iraq.

"What we have tried to do is to put in a series of barriers to stop the terrorist violence from increasing, to reduce the number of our people killed in attacks from the "insurgents" and the resistance, by limiting the scale and frequency of the attacks, Kilcullen explains. He uses the term "gated community" to describe the strategy of walled-off neighborhoods. The first Baghdad neighbourhood to be enclosed was of course the Sunni Muslim community of Adhamiyah in April this year. The decision to wall off a particular area is made by Israeli "advisers", experts on torture and psychological warfare, working with the U.S. battalions on the ground.

The Iraqis in Bagdad can be compared to the Palestinians on the West Bank - they are also fighting the separation walls erected by the US and the Israeli Zionists. The barriers in Bagdad are being erected in an attempt to deepen a conflict -instigated by the occupants- to create internecine fighting, similar to what happened on the Gaza Strip between the Islamist Hamas and Islamic Jihad movement on one hand and on the other, the nationalist sectarian Fatah movement, and is meant to prevent efforts aimed at reconciliation.

But Davis Kilcullen maintains that the separation walls in Bagdad's Adhamiyah community and other neighborhoods in Bagdad are only temporary, comparing these separation walls to a compression bandage. "It is something you do when a patient is bleeding to death. But you do not leave it there forever, or it causes damage - the negative psychological effects of barriers are outweighed by "the negative effects of people getting killed."!

"Barriers are only one tactic of a new U.S. approach in Iraq" Kilcullen says - adding that - "smaller, dispersed patrol bases, a renewed reconstruction effort and stepped-up "air patrols" - are all measures intended to "reduce feelings of intimidation" among everyday Iraqis thereby - "creat[ing] more space for compromise and political reconciliation!"

Kilcullen hopes that this "will be a multi-year activity" adding that - "we are going to get there, but it's not going to look like the United States. One of the major remaining obstacles is creating a "single narrative" for Iraq - that is embraced by the Iraqi reconstructed government and its international partners" [collaborators]. "We are still in the process of changing from one way of "doing business" to another.- The single narrative the Americans used to pursue was -" they stand up as we stand down and that is not terribly comforting to the Iraqis."

The US coalition is focused on creating "security", according to David Kilcullen - he says.. " Sometimes [see the Palestinian occupied territories] - in the purpose of building a wall - the presence of coalition forces in Iraq, was only supposed to be temporary and now a further twenty one thousand US troops are on their way. A "second surge" would bring a total number of (combat and support) to over 200,000 - and if this barrier policy continues the neighborhoods in Baghdad will in a very near future look like the Palestinian communities on the occupied West Bank. - Admits David Kilcullen! -This is the future Iraq that the Zionists have long planned for -the destruction of Iraq and a disastrous future for the Iraqi people!

No separation walls can stop the Iraqi and the Palestinian resistance - nor can the unity among the Iraqis and the Palestinians be destroyed, because there are unbreakable bonds between them: they are bound by blood and a mutual interest in their fight for a victory over a common, predatory enemy - the Zionists entity and its supporters in crime.

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© 2007 Hiyam Noir

From Palestine Free Voice