U.S. Pressured Israel To Halt Missile Strikes On Palestinians
By: David Bedein 11/30/2006 (Special To The Evening Bulletin)
“The cease-fire, which the PA was to produce in exchange for Israel’s agreement to refrain from taking defensive action, has already failed. Palestinian gunners have fired Kassam-class, short-range missiles from the northern Gaza Strip into Israel.”
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Jerusalem – It can now be confirmed that Israel’s failure to respond to Palestinian missile attacks on Israel’s western Negev region was the result of pressure placed on the Israeli government by the Bush administration. The pressure succeeded only days before Israeli armed forces were to launch an incursion into Gaza, following more than 1200 missile attacks emanating from that area in a little more than 14 months.


