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Hamas calls for new attacks on Israel

By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 22, 6:26 AM ET

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Islamic militant group Hamas on Sunday called for new attacks on Israel after eight Palestinians were killed in a surge of fighting over the weekend.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum urged Palestinians to be prepared for a new round of confrontation.

"The blood of our people is not cheap," he said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Therefore we are calling on ... (Hamas' armed wing) and the Palestinian resistance groups to be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres."

Eight Palestinians were killed during a 24-hour surge in violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including two militants killed early Sunday during an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. The fighting also included a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern Israeli town of Sderot that damaged one home but caused no injuries.

The violence has threatened a cease-fire declared last November between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. Palestinian officials have also said it jeopardized their efforts to expand the truce to the West Bank.

The Palestinian unity government, which includes Hamas, has called for an expanded truce. Hamas officials in the government have tried to separate themselves from pronouncements by the group's military wing. Israel considers Hamas in all its forms to be a terrorist group.

Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, declined to comment on the Hamas statement issued Sunday, saying he had not yet read it.

But he said the government "condemns the ugly massacres and crimes that reflect Israel's policy of military aggression."

He said the fighting proved that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "is misleading the public when he talks about his willingness to have a peaceful settlement" with the Palestinians.

Hamas calls for new attacks on Israel (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_hamas;_ylt=AvZBhpEjTARhXrhgT3Ikmt8LewgF)

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Hamas calls for offensive against Israel (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_16;_ylt=AkxLsm1uIu9MS2GKBEL3AcsUewgF)

Doesn't seem like that conflict will ever end.   

dreamweaver it will never end until the dogs of war are unleased and allowed to clean house.  As long as the UN keeps influencing israel and keeping them from anhialating the enemy, they will never have any peace.

I know this bareahh, as to your reference of dogs of war.  "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war." is by William Shakespeare, last used by Ernest Hemingway.

Jerusalem, is a trembling cup - - Zechariah 12:2-3 Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup or bowl of reeling to all the peoples round about, and in the siege against Jerusalem will there also be a siege against and upon Judah. 3 And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples; all who lift it or burden themselves with it shall be sorely wounded. And all the nations of the earth shall come and gather together against it.