Free Palestine
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When did I ever defend all Jews? You've failed to read my posts. But you forget the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the First Intifada. Before you start preaching of respect you should remove your signature and your accusations on Israel!
You again fail to find an excuse for Israel to kill Palestinians ! . First Intefada was in 1987 and Muslim Brotherhood fighted Israel only after Jews started to do massacres and stealing the land .
I read your posts which prove that you look to the case using the Israeli spectacles !. You are so sad for few civilians killed in Israel since 1948 , but you seem happy for killing thousands of civilians from Palestinians.
You claim that Palestinians are terrorists , but you don't give a definition for terrorism ! . Give the definition and let us all see who match it , Palestinians or Israelis ??! . And about the signature, I will remove it if I get persuaded that Israel is not a terrorist state .
First of all, trusting the UN who has been actively financing school books that preach hatred on Palestinian children, is not something I choose to do.
I choose to trust the story of how the Palestinians did build, to defeat the Jewish existence in the world.
You seem to trust the UN when it considers the Palestinian Organizations as terrorist organizations and even repeat the same description , but on the other hand , you don't believe it when it condemns Israel !! .
You have no idea about the story, the story is that the Jews have been killed in Europe . European were the first side who tried to get rid of Jews. We feel sad for killing any innocent from Jews and from any side . But we don't pay the price for European crimes against Jews ! . So , let Russia or Germany give the Jews a state in Europe . We were not the side who killed Jews , but Europeans were . And when they ( I mean Europeans) decided to get rid of Jews , they brought them to Palestine and supported them by weapons to build their state .
Qassam
Production of the shorter range Qassam rocket began in September 2001, following the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. The rockets have been manufactured and deployed primarily from the Gaza Strip although Israeli Defense Forces have seized rockets in the West Bank. The Qassam rocket is cylindrical and contains a small warhead on its tip. The rocket contains four small stabilizing wings on one end, a middle section containing the engine, and an attached warhead with a detonating fuse on the other end. The rocket is constructed from iron approximately 2.5-3mm thick.
The rocket gets its name from Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam [less commonly, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim], a militant Syrian preacher who advocated rebellion against European colonial powers in the Middle East during the 1920s and 1930s. Izza-Din Al-Qassam, a Muslim Brotherhood member, fought the French in Syria, lost and then took his fight against the British and Jewish Haganah in Palestine. He preached Jihad (holy war) and revolution against both the British and the Zionists, and organized and led the first Palestinian guerilla group. He was killed in action on 19 November 1935 in the first Palestinian guerilla action against British forces. His martyrdom triggered the Great Revolt of 1936-39. Hamas has named part of its organization after Qassam and in recent years developed the Qassam rocket.
The Qassam rocket was first launched into Israeli territory on March 5, 2002, by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. While the rocket lacks a guidance system and is very inaccurate, the initial psychological effect of the rockets upon Israel has been significant. Prior to the Qassam, Palestinian militants lacked the means to conduct long range attacks. The simple nature of the small rocket makes it exceedingly hard for Israeli officials to shut down its production. The IDF has noted that militants commonly hide a Qassam in a commercial truck, drive to a clearing near the Gaza border and launch the rocket. One Hamas website states that this takes only 15 minutes.
In response to Qassam rocket attacks, the Israeli government has launched raids against production factories and launching sites within the Gaza Strip. The Israeli goverment has also installed early warning radar systems to notify communities of Qassam launches and to instruct residents to move to bomb shelters.
Numerous variants of the Qassam rocket have been developed and launched. The Qassam-1, first used in October 2001, had a maximum range of approximately 3-4.5km. The rocket was approximately 60mm in diameter and weighed about 5.5kg. The Qassam-2, used primarily from 2002-2005 was approximately 180cm long, had a maximum range of 8-9.5km and could carry a payload of 5-9kg. Beginning in 2005, newer types of Qassam rockets known as the Qassam-3 were developed, possessing a maximum range of 10-12km and carrying a payload of 10-20kg.
A total of about 450 Qassam rocket attacks were launched against Israel over the two years 2003 and 2004.
In November 2003 Israel Television Channel Two Military Affairs Correspondent Ronnie Daniel reported that the Palestinians were testing stages of a new generation Qassam 4 that was to have a range of 17 kilometers. Since September 2005, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades developed a Qassam rocket with a maximum range of 15-16.5km range and two rockets with diameters of approximately 115mm and 155mm, respectively. Additionally, in June 2006 and again in July 2006 the Brigades fired a Qassam rocket equipped with two engines.
During 2004 HAMAS was responsible for an increase in Qassam rocket attacks. A rocket attack on Sderot on June 28 was the first fatal attack against Israelis using Qassam rockets. Two Israelis died in the attack. In September, two Israeli children were killed in Sderot from another Qassam rocket attack. In response to the continued Qassam rocket fire, the IDF launched a three-week operation on September 28, in which 130 Palestinians (among them 68 HAMAS and Palestine Islamic Jihad militants) and five Israelis died, according to press reports.
HAMAS activity dropped significantly in 2005, in part because of its adherence to the ceasefire. After agreeing to the ceasefire, Fatah's militant wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, claimed credit for Qassam rocket launches from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev desert that destroyed property and injured Israeli civilians and soldiers.
During 2006 Israel grappled with the problem of Qassam rocket launches from the Gaza Strip. On numerous occasions, rockets struck Israeli communities in the western Negev desert, including Sderot, or landed near or in the city of Ashkelon. Evidence suggested that Palestinian terrorists were able, on occasion, to improve the range of the Qassams. On at least three occasions, longer-range Katyusha rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip. To address the problem of rocket launches from populated areas, the IDF modified its rules of engagement to permit its forces to fire on targets a few hundred meters from Palestinian homes and police positions. Early in 2006, Israeli security officials said Israel was not targeting HAMAS because it forbade its members to participate in Qassam rocket launches. The Israelis maintained, however, that HAMAS activists were providing assistance to militants from other terrorist groups launching Qassams.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas-qassam.htm
Come on ! What a Qassam rocket can do against the F18 and the modern US weapons which were used to burn children ??! . If you want , let us make a comparison between the number of victims killed by Qassams and the number of victims killed by the Israeli weapons , and see the result !! .
Since the clashes in 2000 , Israel first started to use tanks, Apache , F18 and forbidden weapons against Palestinian civilians which in turn forced Palestinians to develope those simple rockets just to defend themselves and to let Israeli citizens see how brutal it is when you feel that you are not safe even at home ! .
You clearly don't know your history. The Jews never lived in the United States until they were hunted down like animals in Russia. If you're talking about the Ashkenazi Jews, yes, they are from Europe. But we all know that the eldest religion in the World is Judaism, and they spoke of Jerusalem long before the Muslims were ever thought of.
We believe that Judaism was before Islam , it is not something new ! . We believe in Moses . But we deny the claims that Jews lived in Palestine before Arabs . This is what we absolutely reject .