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The Economist: Stop the rockets,but lift the siege . o" r3 W' r' _( a$ qTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Jul 26th 2014tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb5 ]% r+ }& Q2 [4 h& P0 d
& }. K) {4 [# C$ g4 T6 h8 I* WAny ceasefire will be temporary unless Israel starts negotiating seriously with the Palestinians / _9 {2 H+ x, Z+ J8 ] . `: }$ M+ g- V9 H( ^TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。# s0 x* p8 W2 D: l4 j" q: G# g
THE mounting toll of innocents in Gaza is reason enough for anyone with compassion to demand a ceasefire. Since July 8th,when Israel began its campaign to clobber Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that has run the Gaza Strip since 2007, at least 700 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians and many of them children, along with at least 35 Israelis, including three civilians. After Israel undertook a ground invasion of Gaza on July 18th, the casualty rate on both sides soared.Hospitals have been hit and scores of buildings flattened, often with civilians inside. A Palestinian family of 25, said to have been hosting a Hamas fighter during a supper to break the Ramadan fast, was wiped out. 6 b+ V7 R& P! _+ k: F公仔箱論壇( ~0 P- Y( A" c: D: y% [% p* ~
Yet it would be a grievous mistake to bring about a ceasefire that achieved nothing more than to revert to the status quo.In the longer run, if a more durable peace is to be built, the Israelis must seek a sovereign state for Palestinians, who, including Hamas, must in turn reiterate their support for a government that disavows violence and recognises Israel. Unless a ceasefire is couched in such terms, the poison will in time well up all over again and the cycle of violence will resume, as it has done repeatedly since 2007. / L% t* ]6 B( G$ yTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 N8 }. ~7 _% W7 F6 {3 A( ~; t
Only three months ago talks on a peace deal foundered. Could it be any different this time? One reason to think so is that both sides have seen how that collapse paved the way for a war that neither really wanted and which is now causing higher military casualties than Israel had been expecting. ! }/ I: z1 L. V9 I3 Ltvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe talks broke down chiefly because of Israel, said John Kerry, their sponsor and America’s secretary of state. In frustration, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinians’ moderate leader, formed a unity government that Hamas was persuaded to back. Whereas America cautiously welcomed this development, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, railed against it, fearing a united Palestinian front. When on June 12th three Israeli students were kidnapped and murdered on the West Bank, Mr Netanyahu instantly blamed the crime on Hamas, which unusually refused to claim responsibility for it, and rounded up at least 500 of the group’s members. Its retaliation, the multiplying rocket fire at Israel, led Mr Netanyahu to unleash his assault on Gaza.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; k0 r$ `! U: F& U l0 \/ P
# c7 L9 D6 H0 y. m- ^! U9 W7 K公仔箱論壇The Israelis’ first stated military aim is the legitimate one of destroying Hamas’s stockpile of rockets, thousands of which have been fired indiscriminately—indeed, criminally and foolishly—into Israel in the past decade, killing around a score of Israelis and frightening millions more, as the missiles’ range and sophistication have increased. A newer aim, also legitimate, is to destroy Hamas’s military infrastructure,especially the tunnels that provide access to Israeli territory in the hope—among other things—of sending in guerrillas to murder Israelis, or kidnap them to barter for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.公仔箱論壇; C! p6 r: u% w% I1 ]1 v H" o
But war is about conduct as well as aims.Israel is wrong to hit buildings with no evident military purpose and houses packed with civilians, even if they harbour Hamas fighters or officials and the army gives warnings. It may also be counterproductive. Hamas knows that, as the death toll among its own people rises, it has a better chance to promote its cause.os.tvboxnow.com6 G9 N3 p9 i S" h
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To stop the fighting Hamas must promise not to fire its rockets into Israel. But in return Israel should agree to honour an agreement dating to 2012 to lift the siege that has immiserated Gaza’s inhabitants since 2007 in an effort to enfeeble Hamas. And it should free, or put on trial, some of the hundreds of Hamas prisoners rounded up in the past month or so on the West Bank, the bigger bit of a would-be Palestinian state. ' K, M* k% i1 l! stvb now,tvbnow,bttvb 5 O. e) D0 W) ]# ?3 i, o' D8 Nos.tvboxnow.comBut the catastrophe befalling Gaza stems fundamentally from the refusal of Israel to negotiate in good faith to let the Palestinians have a proper state encompassing both Gaza and the West Bank. Mr Netanyahu still allows the building of Jewish settlements there, which makes a workable Palestinian state ever less likely to emerge.& S& ~( {: F; A6 r' \ R8 U
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Real mediation must be resumed. Egypt has to be involved, since it shares with Israel the keys to the prison that is Gaza,but its new military rulers hate the Islamists of Hamas as much as Israel does.Turkey and Qatar can help prod Hamas towards moderation but are loathed by Israel. America is still the one actor that has the weight, however diminished,to bring everyone to the table. Though bruised by his previous fruitless efforts,Mr Kerry must do more than just stop the rockets.os.tvboxnow.com0 ~2 J" r& |6 Q9 o
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TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。! o6 l1 ]" H8 M l: q( z Palestinian baby laid to rest the same day as Israeli soldiers mourn fallen comrades hours after UN chief declares Hamas AND Jewish state guilty of war crimes公仔箱論壇; o3 v/ X) B0 W M) i& L
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Kerem Ebu Zeyid, a 40-month-old baby, given funeral service in Gaza today
Israelis also held funeral for Staff Sergeant Guy Algranati killed yesterday
Navi Pillay said both sides committed war crimes by striking civilian areas
She accused Israeli government of deliberately defying international law
Also condemned U.S. financially supporting Iron Dome but ignoring Gaza
Human rights chief went on to call for daily 'humanitarian pauses' in fighting
Earlier Israel announced it was calling up an additional 16,000 reservists
Decision to call-up extra troops comes amid stalled efforts to end the war
Offensive has already killed at least 1,360 Palestinians and 56 Israelis
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Palestinian mourners gather at the funeral of Kerem Ebu Zeyid, a 40-day-old baby, in Gaza today T: [" {" Y) Ztvb now,tvbnow,bttvbos.tvboxnow.com6 L3 L; X5 X w! I) v5 ^
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" y$ L3 F3 Z/ {8 \4 MIsraeli casualty: An honour guard carries the coffin of Staff Sergeant Guy Algranati during his funeral in Tel Aviv this afternoon. He was one of three Israeli Defence Force soldiers killed in a booby-trapped Hamas tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday * _$ J6 k/ n( N0 R$ [) s* C公仔箱論壇 7 A0 m9 I6 d: u9 D: \# i" HTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。4 |- O- c r5 i+ q6 V1 L
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Obliterated: Around 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 59 Israelis, mainly soldiers, have been killed in the latest violence. Pictured smoke is seen rising over Gaza City following another Israeli air striketvb now,tvbnow,bttvb: a% [: f. T m+ L; h
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Taken out: Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket defence system is seen destroying a Hamas rocket. The UN's human rights chief Navi Pillay has attacked the U.S. for providing financial support for the scheme while refusing to protect Palestinians from Israeli shells , c' s' I, X1 y6 F# T$ ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb- t3 p7 W8 u. \7 h; f0 M
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6 X4 ]! t: A. q" @3 P- wtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb $ p% v& i$ F" S' c$ M' _. I公仔箱論壇Shelling: Israel is planning to call-up additional 16,000 military reservists, allowing them to potentially widen the Gaza offensive in a war that has already claimed the lives of at least 1,360 Palestinians and 59 Israelis * G, s% H! e! l, rTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。
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" G2 F4 h) \3 S! @$ sPalestinian Heygar Jendiyah, left, points to where the kitchen once stood in her family home. The building in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City was destroyed by an Israeli air strike公仔箱論壇1 r4 n- J/ t' n' O
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6 L; w4 K9 n3 {" M# l4 v % u0 u$ ?4 Y" G1 Htvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAttack: Fires spews from the cannon of an Israeli artillery vehicle as it fires into the Gaza Strip from a base in southern Israel this morning d& d* T) H( e3 I% L/ n公仔箱論壇# B8 l' B9 E/ R8 i7 }7 W
3 \, `( J. V" B9 G* M- v+ I4 _$ Rtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb l& f' \) b7 B, f; o 7 W0 e& R p7 t公仔箱論壇Grief: A man is seen weeping over the death of a relative following an Israeli air strike at a crowded market in the Shejaiya neighbourhood. At least 15 people were killed and 150 people wounded in the attack / n/ T6 L( v/ @5 F( M* P* g' M2 o公仔箱論壇 8 W6 T |+ @/ Z6 u' f4 C- Htvb now,tvbnow,bttvb- H/ [. O m/ N2 F
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Heavy weapons: An Israeli soldier carries a shell as he and his fellow soldiers prepare their tanks for a fresh bombardment of the Gaza Strip 6 \' E) j7 H2 Y! |os.tvboxnow.com& S& h) U6 `" H1 O" b
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Under threat: The strike in Gaza's Beit Lahiya area early this morning damaged water tanks on the roof of a building near the mosque, sending shrapnel flying into the adjacent UN school compound (pictured) . R" I. V0 ~" `5 |8 {' { % H2 N" t! n& T- n, Atvb now,tvbnow,bttvb
6 w2 O: v( R4 ^tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb哈馬斯高級官員馬祖卡(Musa Abu Marzouk)表示,在停火前,該名士兵已經被擄,另擊斃兩名以軍,指責以色列無理撕毀停火協議。由於有士兵被擄,以色列拒絕派出代表,參加開羅的更長久停火談判。 % P& G5 k6 n O D3 X( I( d $ w2 f" d" Z0 M- t, l: W7 k0 A/ X' v另外,加薩的衞生官員指,雙方短暫「停火」前後,加薩南部已有超過50名巴人被殺,令這場持續25天的衝突中,接近有1,500名巴人被殺。 6 T7 y5 b; P) w; KTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 - {7 j, Y4 F1 c6 V' F' Y路透社/德新社TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。% M' I& W% g2 d+ `9 y& T
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% p _% O9 P' w0 x0 B8 T2 b$ I5 x- z7 YTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。'If we don't get our soldier back, we should start levelling Gaza': Palestinians face new wave of bloodshed as ceasefire breaks down after British-Israeli soldier is' kidnapped by Hamas' ; d/ X! F4 n$ P( P. x2 L4 [. I4 D9 ~& y" ]1 e
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Lt Hadar Goldin, 23, believed to be from family of British Jewish immigrants and cousin of Israeli defence ministerTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。( \( v6 P' H, F; T
'Abduction took place when militants emerged from tunnel and detonated bomb vest, killing two other soldiers'5 m5 ]6 X6 h5 g+ c9 P) C7 C. G( P
Israel resumed shelling in Gaza just two hours after start of ceasefire after accusing Hamas of snatching soldier' w. `! A: ^& A& H0 }$ j
Military wing of Hamas claims kidnapping happened before the truce and accused Israel of 'violating' peace deal - S# @+ o! s4 Z/ V! Wos.tvboxnow.com
Gaza officials claim at least 50 Palestinians were killed and 200 injured in 'random' shelling in the town of Rafah: I: @9 U- y# p
Truce started at 8am local time (6am BST) to give Gazans chance of humanitarian relief and time to bury the dead
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Israel has accused Hamas of kidnapping Lt Hadar Goldin (left), who is believed to be from a family of British Jewish immigrants, as the ceasefire collapsed (right) : b9 e/ S8 b5 I7 S0 N j4 K/ Utvb now,tvbnow,bttvb9 Q% W3 V; G5 J7 _2 H, E4 K7 ?
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5 z/ m: g' z$ \$ c: y1 @! OHomeless: Members of the Al Kafarna family react as they inspect the rubble of their destroyed house in the town of Beit Hanun % \* ?$ ^$ g) N" w- a2 J1 S, D公仔箱論壇TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 f# U$ k' N( J2 C8 D* x
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" X5 O9 K, c4 eNowhere to go: A Palestinian woman carries her belongings from her destroyed house in the Shejaia neighborhood after it was hit by Israeli shelling 3 Z( _+ X' s* Y, I c& Y: ios.tvboxnow.com ) Y, L) b" c4 M+ f. a$ x% @' u4 Z公仔箱論壇os.tvboxnow.com6 |$ Q5 w5 l8 b/ I: {3 w
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Innocent victims: A mother cradles her two children, while other toddlers lies on a mat next to her, at a hospital in Rafah / \1 `5 y+ r* z/ QTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。& g0 p- b/ q/ k0 o# O
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Traumatised: Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said that in addition to the dead, some 200 Palestinians were wounded in 'random' Israeli shelling of the Rafah area . r& e L& B' G2 Q. K, X" B vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb ' V+ I, c% M3 b( Gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbos.tvboxnow.com8 q$ i- |# R- J! k! y# m
Shocking: A Palestinian girl injured in an Israeli assault on Rafah cries as she receives treatment at the Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Gaza City : l* Q! d" J/ R4 V公仔箱論壇
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Near miss: Palestinians look at an unexploded Israeli shell that landed on the main road outside the town of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza StripTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 F/ n) |' P& r) R' x
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Reduced to rubble: Medics said at least 35 people were killed and 150 wounded in intensive Israeli shelling on buildings in southern Gazatvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) l7 }. @1 g6 {; W4 B `" Y
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Onslaught: Israeli soldiers stand on an armoured personnel carrier outside the Gaza Strip as they fire mortar shell towards Gaza before the ceasefire was due to begin, b% m! s0 l1 D
( L1 l1 B* c' I% f7 _ ( {7 _1 M% h" P9 u- a' v" _tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb , h! U! }8 c# w" nFleeting peace: Gaza City seen shortly before the start of a 72-hour ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas to allow for bodies to be recovered and funerals held
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The Economist: Winning the battle, losing the wartvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; d, F) \7 o2 B- {7 I
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HAMAS has ruled Gaza since 2007 and there is not much to admire. The Islamist party is harsh, narrow-minded and intolerant of dissent. Its charter is anti-Semitic.It fires rockets into Israeli territory and builds tunnels under it to kill or kidnap Israeli soldiers. It knows that the Israeli attacks it provokes will kill hundreds of Palestinian civilians, which will garner sympathy around the world. It is also weaker than it was, for it is now losing the military battle against Israel. : `/ b& r- H7 N. K" uos.tvboxnow.comTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。6 K+ Z+ u7 R9 [( q6 S1 A- D
By contrast Israel is the most successful state in the Middle East. It is the region’s only true democracy—a hub of invention, enterprise and creativity. Israel has overwhelming firepower in the fight in Gaza. Most of its people are united behind their soldiers and have the firm backing of America’s Congress. Yet, though Israel is winning the battle, it is struggling in the war for world opinion(see article). That matters in part because Israel is a cosmopolitan trading country that looks to its American ally for security, but also because Israel needs to hear some of what its critics are saying. $ r- @. T- v3 A& B8 A) J公仔箱論壇 # T- W! u9 x3 Ttvb now,tvbnow,bttvb 9 I* b* T, `: KAnti-Semitism: a very light sleeper + `' f$ k n" ?+ xos.tvboxnow.com0 A8 I$ q2 ^% j
A generation ago, Israel had the best of the argument with Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation, in many ways a less vile outfit than Hamas. Young Europeans spent their gap years on kibbutzim.The Western world cheered when Israeli commandos rescued Jewish hostages from the terminal building in Uganda’s Entebbe airport in 1976. / x' f6 U" ]! S9 I+ y# l& i" X/ y, Ktvb now,tvbnow,bttvb 2 X! A: o) u1 f$ z8 \公仔箱論壇But as the occupation of Palestinian territory has dragged on, sympathy has seeped away. In a poll published in June, before the destruction of Gaza, the citizens of 23 countries put the balance of those who think Israel is a good or bad influence on the world at minus 26%, ranking it below Russia and above only North Korea, Pakistan and Iran. A growing number of Europeans call Israel racist(with the sinister flourish that Israelis, of all people, should know better). And even in America, where a solid majority backs Israel, the share that thinks its actions against the Palestinians are unjustified has risen since 2002 by five percentage points, to 39%. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, Israel is backed by just a quarter.( r5 G& T' c% t9 H
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Many Israelis, and their most fervent supporters in Congress, see today’s hostility as the culmination of along process of demonisation, double standards and delegitimisation.They have a point. Holding a country to high standards, as Israel’s critics do,can be a compliment—yet against Israel, morality is often used as a cudgel. The common slur that Israel is an apartheid state ignores the fact that Israel’s minorities, such as the Druze, Arabs and Bahais, are protected by the country’s independent courts—including the highest, which has a sitting Arab Israeli judge. The “BDS” campaign to impose boycotts, encourage divestment and introduce sanctions calls not just for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and for equal rights, but also for the right of return of all Palestinian refugees—in other words, for the erosion of Israel as a Jewish homeland.Protests in France against the fighting in Gaza led to attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses. $ k% R4 c# j8 ?8 Q: _0 K7 b4 ? ' z% s5 Z; A' X2 g; f* }. ?No wonder that many Israelis feel that the world is against them, and believe that criticism of Israel is often a mask for antipathy towards Jews. But they would be wrong to ignore it entirely. That is partly because public opinion matters. For a trading nation built on the idea of liberty, delegitimisation is, in the words of an Israeli think-tank, “a strategic threat”. But it is also because some of the foreign criticism is right. " M+ ^+ D$ j8 J2 Jos.tvboxnow.comtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 D! w; M; C" L! T
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; Y, O+ Z0 r! m3 zThat begins with the scale of the violence in Gaza. Some 1,400 Palestinians have died in the past few weeks, compared with 56 Israeli soldiers and four civilians. Even allowing for Hamas’s brutality, no democracy should be happy with a military strategy that results in the death of so many children (let alone the crass claim from Israel’s ambassador to Washington that its soldiers deserve a Nobel peace prize). The destruction is driving support towards Hamas and away from the moderate Palestinians who are Israel’s best chance for peace.os.tvboxnow.com3 }" _5 p5 w# u2 D
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But more than that, Israel needs to hear what its critics say about the need for a two-state solution,which remains the only one that will work. Time is not on Israel’s side.Palestinians may already outnumber Israelis in the lands they share. Without two states, Israelis and Palestinians will be left with one that contains them both. The risk for Israel is of either a permanent, non-democratic occupation that disenfranchises Palestinians, or a democracy in which Jews are in a minority. Neither would be the Jewish homeland with equal rights for all that Israel’s founding fathers intended. ( P6 V9 }& }6 ]& X; QTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。4 m) L5 z7 v. w: i$ [$ R
America’s secretary of state, John Kerry, has made a Herculean effort to forge peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians along the lines of two states for two peoples. When the talks broke down, a few months ago, he blamed Israel’s settler lobby. That outraged right-wing Israelis. And now the left has joined in the derision because he proposed a ceasefire in Gaza that Israelis thought favoured Hamas. But Mr Kerry is right. If Israel continues to build settlements in the occupied territory, it will gobble up land that would belong to an independent Palestinian state, making peace harder to reach. # E u) ]: w+ G2 w7 {os.tvboxnow.com' @ G" W$ I8 Q2 O3 f$ [
The same goes for what appears to be Israel’s strategy towards both Gaza and the West Bank. Having created a huge open-air prison in Gaza, Israel remains committed to a blockade that contains Hamas—but also ensures that ever more Palestinians grow up angry. On the West Bank, Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has gone backwards:he has said that Israel cannot relinquish security control of the West Bank for fear of Islamist attack. That implies an intention to consolidate the occupation, thus withdrawing all hope from Palestinian moderates. The West Bank would be likely to explode too, then, while the demographic clock ticked on. & H1 B) s, S# O, U: L% B' m7 ?tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。' L3 H) T8 _) S$ |: h( B
For all the blood and misery in Gaza, Mr Netanyahu will soon have a chance to show he has heard the critics. Having won his battle, he could return to the negotiating table, this time with a genuine offer of peace. Every true friend of Israel should press him to do so.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。: W; A1 F q6 ?5 \6 d
本帖最後由 felicity2010 於 2014-8-3 11:11 PM 編輯 - L! c( S- C; Y! @4 ?6 I% s) ios.tvboxnow.com 1 @" ~% S6 k1 D: tHumanitarian crisis in Gaza as half a million are made homeless, medical supplies run out, morgues overflow and ANOTHE Rrefugee shelter gets bombed as UN says: 'It's simply intolerable'tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 q. Q j8 y) ]8 ]- `$ ]1 c
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UN said air-launched missile struck gates of the boys' school in Rafah, killing 10 people inside and out and injuring 35 : A6 o9 ~) x1 k9 e
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As 27th day of conflict began the death toll stood at more than 1,700 Palestinians and 67 Israelis including 64 soldiers TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。: r8 B0 ]2 o' d8 q% l
Tanks seen withdrawing from Gaza Strip amid reports tunnel destruction was complete - but attacks renewed today 2 L8 o* Z6 j8 U+ Vos.tvboxnow.com
British Foreign Secretary declares: 'The situation in Gaza is simply intolerable. We have to get the killing to stop' 6 e) a5 Y {6 q4 O4 \% m7 r
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Bloodshed: Palestinians aid people injured this morning in another Israeli attack, reportedly on a UN school in Rafah, southern Gaza, where hundreds were sheltering. Reuters reported the attack was on the entrance of the school itself, while the Associated Press wrote that it hit people who were queuing for food handouts nearby _4 H, O) K H9 {' OTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 1 h) l- Q8 n+ k: {6 `& |5 B公仔箱論壇 + ]( {0 c4 p& f公仔箱論壇 - b0 |: L1 H9 ]+ S # w1 A! w. ]& ?: s
With blood on his sandals and on the ground, a Palestinian man runs with an injured child after the Israeli military strike on a UN school in Rafah this morning * X: s$ j' H8 ^, \; T/ `6 Zos.tvboxnow.comtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb. U1 V% M; b$ }& J9 L( g( z* O) K
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Blood-spattered: People carry a wounded man following a reported Israeli air strike at the gates of a United Nations-run school sheltering 3,000 Palestinians公仔箱論壇( ~% e) y" Y; t7 e7 T, W
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Anguish: Palestinians react as wounded and dead people lie on the ground following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike at a UN-run school in Rafahos.tvboxnow.com2 T4 P! O4 Q o0 e0 y& @0 y; }6 d3 V
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Hurt: A Palestinian man runs in the street with an injured child after the reported Israeli military strike on a UN school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Stripos.tvboxnow.com& [. K( n8 ]$ }9 Q' E3 G" M
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" _" {- o% W, ~2 {, jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb Anguish: A relative carries the body of one of the nine members of the al-Ghol family who were killed in a strike early today in Rafah, southern Gaza/ S9 F5 e( X4 o, e8 w
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Death: Palestinians carry the body of a girl who was found this morning under the rubble of a house where at least nine members of the al-Ghol family died in Rafah + `# ~1 H# l5 J! ~. Q( h0 t, P% s公仔箱論壇 0 N0 P* d0 p' o' gTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。- k8 N& h' O4 E, g6 h* f
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Wounded: A boy is evacuated from the rubble of the house. At least 40 people were inside the home at the time when it was reportedly hit by Israeli jet fighterstvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) o, u7 f: }0 i$ R: a9 |; d0 Z
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Apocalyptic: The sun rose today on another day of bloodshed in Gaza as dozens of Palestinians were killed in dawn shelling with little sign of a truce. Pictured: Beit LahiaTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。- I1 \1 Y1 }! N0 W: Q3 Y
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N6 y0 U* U4 i) s+ a9 z3 IThumbs up: Israeli soldier celebrated from their tanks as many ground troops pulled out of Gaza today - but attacks continued, including on a UN school
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Convoy: Israel's tanks began withdrawing from the Gaza Strip after military tunnels were destroyed, but there was no clear end in sight to the bloodshed in the region , |; n4 C( t- k$ z# x; s2 r' E. ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* {* f4 Y0 `5 t9 u$ r
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Bloodied: A medic stands among bodies which have been placed hastily in a walk-in vegetable fridge in Rafah, Gaza. Other images are too graphic to publish in full% s" S% R s% V( L' K) \: \ E
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# R6 n' c: d- O4 \$ ]- j The supporters of Israel gathered to condemn rocket attacks by Hamas, hundreds of which have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence systemTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。( a4 l# b: F7 s- L: y
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The protesters in Sydney held banners which declared 'Zionism = Apartheid' and featured heavily the red, green, white and black colours of the Palestinian flag 3 H O5 g6 w) R# y* ?3 T公仔箱論壇0 Q: \& U: A* P9 G