Considering the timing, that's all it could be.
Or else...
"5 Palestinians die in Gaza during Israeli tank incursion; Action comes day before peace talks" by Rushdi abu Alouf and Ken Ellingwood/Los Angeles Times December 12, 2007
GAZA CITY - An armored Israeli incursion into southern Gaza Strip killed five Palestinians yesterday, a day before Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were to begin laying the groundwork for peace talks. Another Palestinian was killed in an air strike.
Israeli Army officials described the operation as a routine action against Gaza-based militants who fire rockets across the border into southern Israel. Palestinian officials said the incursion could undermine the talks before they start.
Palestinian witnesses said 30 armored vehicles moved into the area between Khan Yunis and Rafah. But an Israeli Army spokesman said "a few" tanks took part.
Two Islamic Jihad militants and an unidentified man died when Israeli fire struck a house in southern Gaza, Palestinian officials said. A member of Hamas's military wing died in another clash, and a commander of the Popular Resistance Committees was killed later in the day. Four Israeli soldiers suffered minor injuries.
In a separate encounter, an Israeli air strike yesterday killed an Islamic Jihad fighter in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, Israeli officials said.
Palestinians said Israeli troops had taken positions 2 miles inside Gaza, which would be the military's deepest penetration since Hamas took sole control of the coastal strip in June. However, the Israeli Army spokesman said troops moved less than a mile into Gaza.
Israel has carried out limited incursions and numerous air strikes along the edges of Gaza, from which militants have fired more than 2,000 rockets and mortar rounds into Israel since Jan. 1. Israeli defense officials drew up plans to reduce the flow of Israeli-generated electricity into Gaza in response to the persistent rocket attacks, but they held off this month after the nation's Supreme Court asked for a fuller explanation of how the action would avoid harming civilians.
Well, that is a DAMN LIE right here in my paper!
Hawkish Israeli politicians have urged a broad military offensive to target rocket teams and a stockpile of smuggled arms that Israeli intelligence officials say is increasingly potent and of longer range. But troops could become bogged down in bloody urban fighting, and a major offensive might torpedo the peace effort.
Prodded into talks by the Bush administration, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have vowed to try to reach a peace agreement by the end of 2008. Abbas could lose backing among Palestinians for continued talks if Israel moves into Gaza with great force.
Some Israeli analysts, though, have suggested that only Israel is powerful enough to topple the Hamas forces that have run Gaza since routing Abbas's Fatah faction in fighting over the summer.
Yup, going to "topple" -- translation: liquidate -- Gaza and Hamas for Abass!
That victory in effect left Palestinians ruled by rival governments: Hamas in Gaza and a Cabinet loyal to Abbas in the West Bank. Israel holds Hamas ultimately responsible for the rocket salvos, even though other groups claim responsibility.
What ASSHOLES is the SHITSTINK STATE of ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!
Abbas spokesman Nabil abu Rudaineh said Israel's actions yesterday were aimed at "thwarting and obstructing" the planned peace talks.
Negotiation teams led by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qureia are to meet at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem today in a session billed as the formal start of negotiations after the US-hosted peace conference last month in Annapolis, Md.
However, the meeting is expected to be devoted mainly to setting up a framework and procedures for talks, rather than bargaining over issues at the center of the conflict."
Yup, SAME OLD, GET-NOTHING-DONE SHIT -- per the wonts of IZ-RAY-HELL!!!!!!!
