According to the book of Joshua, Gaza belongs to Israel. Maybe it is time for Israel to take back what is rightfully theirs. May the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Samson, David and many others give sound and convincing victory and favor in all they do...the only one and true living God...Jehovah...aka Jesus.
INTERVIEW
‘We Will Act Again’
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says Israel is intent on teaching the Islamists of Hamas a lesson in Gaza.
Tara Todras-Whitehill
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AP
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (center) at a rocket-bombed school in southern Israel
Published Jan 10, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Jan 19, 2009
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In spite of a U.N. ceasefire resolution passed late last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was talking tough in an interview with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth. She appeared confident that Israel had dealt a setback to Hamas, the Islamist group that governs the Gaza Strip and has been firing rockets into Israel. She warned that further provocations would be met with force. Excerpts:
WEYMOUTH:
How does Israel respond to the pressure for a ceasefire from the global community?
LIVNI: I don't like the term "ceasefire," since it looks like an agreement between two legitimate sides. At the end of the day, this is not a conflict between two states but a fight against terror. We will continue to fight terrorism. We need to fight in Gaza because [Hamas] has targeted Israel for eight years.
Your aim is to weaken Hamas?
To weaken them and to affect their motivation. [Also,] we need to stop the smuggling of weapons [into Gaza].
Is the idea that Egypt will now take a more active role in stopping the smuggling?
This must be stopped by Israel or someone else. In six months Hamas has changed the range of its missiles from 20 kilometers to 50 kilometers. This now threatens 1 million Israelis.
We need to know that at the end of this military operation, we will not face the rearmament of Hamas.
Do you see the hand of Iran behind it all?
Oh, yes, clearly. When Hamas started, the missiles were made in the Gaza Strip. Now they are professional, coming from Iran.
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