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What's israel go to do with it?

Reuters has a picture of

Israeli explosives experts survey the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants landed in Netiv Haasara

Despite Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, to the 1967 border, did not change the PA's designs on Netiv Haasara

On Thursday, a 22-year-old woman, sitting with her by-now-wounded boyfriend, was killed in old Israel by a Kassam rocket aimed from Gaza, about to be turned over to the Palestinian Authority (if it can hold it) and (if it can't), in the end, to Hamas, which won't even fake saying that it wants to end the bloodshed with the Jewish state. As The Jerusalem Post pointed out this morning, Netiv Ha'asara, the Negev village in which Dana Galkovitch was murdered in her stunning innocence, had just been certified by "moderate" P.A. minister Mohammad Dahlan to be part of the territory that would have to change hands even in a provisional settlement with Israel. The rub is that this new territorial claim extends to land allocated to Israel by the 1949 Rhodes Armistice Agreement, which is what constitutes the 1967 borders. But the 1967 ceasefire lines are supposed to be sacrosanct.

It's not just that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza has done nothing to satisfy Palestinian claims, it's that there seems to plenty of violence now, even having nothing to do with Israel.
There's violence in Lebanon

Lebanese officials said the clashes between Lebanon's army and guerrillas of the Fatah Uprising group erupted in Wadi al-Aswad, a mountainous area less than two miles from the Syrian border.

The military command said fighting erupted after an army patrol in the Aita al-Fakhar-Yanta area came under fire from armed Palestinians at a newly established position.

The patrol returned fire and was reinforced by additional troops, the military said.

There's violence in Gaza

In the latest spike in tensions, unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead Mohammed Tatar, a senior member of Hamas's military wing, as he drove his car in Gaza city, Palestinian medics and a security source said.

Speaking of Gaza, apparently there are two groups of Hamas related gunmen there.

The offiial ones.

Palestinian militants that are part of a new security force of the Hamas-led Palestinian government patrol the main square in Gaza City, Wednesday May 17, 2006. The Palestinians' defiant Hamas-led government sent a new militant force into the streets of Gaza on Wednesday, disregarding President Mahmoud Abbas' order banning the creation of the security body and raising the stakes in their deepening power struggle. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

The unofficial

Palestinian militants from Hamas, that are not part of a new security force of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, display their weapons as they drive in the streets of Gaza City,Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

It looks like the unofficial ones are better armed. And they also get to wear really nice black face masks too.

Given the fact that there seems to be no shortage of firepower in Gaza why doesn't someone suggest the ultimate way to resolve the guns/butter conflict? The world's largest scale gun buyback program!

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