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What does the Arab world care about most: establishing Palestine or eliminating Israel? Or do these remain, in Arab eyes, the same goal?

But the root cause of the tragic distortion of the ICRC's creed is not the professionals braving battle zones and disaster areas to save lives, nor the organization itself in Geneva, but the decision of Arab and Islamic nations to exploit even humanitarian organizations in their campaign to eliminate Israel. Indeed, the voting puts the lie to the Arab line that it stands four-square behind a peace process seeking two states for two peoples, living peacefully side by side. What better embodiment of the two-state solution could there be than simultaneously voting in Israel and "Palestine"? And what greater enmity to Israel could there be than one that would hold Palestine's membership hostage to the need to demonize Israel?

All this opposition was not - banish the thought - to allow Israel to use its own unadulterated symbol, the red Star of David. Nor was it to admit Israel without breaking the ICRC's own rules to admit "Palestine." Nor was it to accept Israel in a political body where nations are supposed to vote on matters of national interest.

No, the vote was to accept Israel and Palestine together into an organization whose sole job is to save lives, and which is supposed to embody the ability of a neutral body to rise above national distinctions and conflicts for sake of all humanity. MDA, for example, does not check the politics of the victims stricken in Muslim countries by earthquakes or tidal waves before rushing in with its unfortunately battle-tested expertise. Is there no forum to which official Arab enmity against Israel - not a particular Israeli policy - does not extend?

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While sticking to its demand for the establishment of an independent inquiry into a blast on a Gaza beach 10 days ago that killed seven Palestinian civilians, the Human Rights Watch conceded Monday night for the first time since the incident that it could not contradict the IDF's exonerating findings.

Garlasco told Klifi during the meeting that he was impressed with the IDF's system of checks and balances concerning its artillery fire in the Gaza Strip and unlike Hamas which specifically targeted civilians in its rocket attacks, the Israelis, he said, invested a great amount of resources and efforts not to harm innocent civilians.

"We do not believe the Israelis were targeting civilians." Garlasco said. "We just want to know if it was an Israeli shell that killed the Palestinians."

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Annan retracts remarks on IDF's Gaza blast probe

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Taliban militants killed 32 friends and relatives of an influential lawmaker in southern Afghanistan and 10 others are missing, the legislator said. MP Dad Mohammad Khan told AFP that 27 of the men had been killed in Helmand province when they had gone to the scene of an earlier attack in which five others were shot dead. "Yesterday morning in Taliban attacks, 32 of my relatives and friends were killed," said Khan, the influential former intelligence chief of the province. "Ten relatives of mine are still missing and five are wounded," he said.

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Taliban used women and children as shields, British troops say

The exchange ended when Apache attack helicopters were called in, used for the first time in battle, to hit the main building where the rebel fighters were located. Soldiers then poured into the compound to search houses, finding a few "bits and pieces" but nothing significant. A while later, 12 of the militants -- who were believed to number between 50 and 100 in total -- returned. The fighting started again and the rebels took shelter in the compound. A while later they pushed out 10 to 15 women and children, some of them as young as four. The troops stopped firing straight away, said Corporal Quintin Poll, 29, who was in charge of the platoon involved in the exchange. "I immediately thought, 'Ceasefire', as I could not get a clear shot at the target. I had to control my troops and pull back slightly," he told AFP. Then six grenades were thrown out from the compound. "The troops actually made a conscious decision not to throw grenades back because they did not know if there were more women and children inside the compound," Tootal told a briefing of British journalists at Camp Bastion.

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MDA reported that a school bus carrying a group of 16-year old girls was making its way Monday afternoon to the Ofra settlement near Jerusalem when shots were fired at the bus from the direction of the neighboring Arab village of Kafr Sinjil. An MDA paramedic at the scene told The Jerusalem Post that three girls were being treated for light wounds to the back and to their hands. Two of the girls were being treated for shock. Six bullet holes were discovered in the side of the bus.

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Two explosions this weekend in Thailand's troubled deep south killed one victim and injured eight others, including four policemen, media reports said on Sunday. On the fourth consecutive day of explosions in Narathiwat, a roadside bomb blast on Sunday seriously injured four police patrolmen and two women, reported the state-run Thai News Agency. It followed an explosion Saturday night at the Yala Rama Hotel's karaoke bar that killed one man and wounded two women. Over the past four days a spate of explosions in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, Thailand's majority Muslim three southernmost provinces, have killed four and left more than 30 injured.

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 Algiers - Three people have been killed in attacks blamed on armed Islamic radicals in Algeria, reported the country's newspapers on Saturday. A customs official and a civilian were beheaded in Gouraya, in the Tipaza region, on Wednesday. On the same day, an army captain was killed by a bomb explosion during an operation to flush out Islamists near Sidi Bel Abbes, 370km further west. The killings are blamed on the rebel Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), said to be linked to al-Qaeda. Ten people, including four members of the Algerian security forces, have been killed since the beginning of June, according to official reports

While the hamas terrorists and their useful idiot western leftist supporters cry poverty, somehow hamas is able to afford weapons. 

The Gangs of Gaza Killers are on the loose in the Palestinian territories—and they're not just targeting Israeli enemies. Fears of 'all-out chaos' are growing.

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