GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The new Palestinian interior minister named a well-known militant as his top aide on Thursday and announced the formation of a new security branch to be composed of militants.
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Interior Minister Said Siyam issued a decree appointing Jamal Abu Samhadana, the head of the Popular Resistance Committees, as director general of the Interior Ministry. Samhadana’s group is responsible for many of the homemade rockets launched at Israel in recent weeks.
Hmmm, let’s re-write that lede, shall we?
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The new Palestinian interior minister named a well-known terrorist as his top aide on Thursday and announced the formation of a new security branch to be composed of terrorists.
Nothing could go wrong with this plan.
Next, Japan and Korea’s spat over the Islands seem to be continuing. It’s interesting that Japan and America fought a horribly brutal war that involved sneak attacks and atomic weapons –but now we’re best of friends. I guess they can’t extend that same forgiveness to the Koreans:
SEOUL, South Korea – Japanese and South Korean negotiators raced Thursday to avert a clash over disputed islets as Seoul accused Tokyo of imperialistic ambitions and warned of a possible confrontation at sea.
Behind-the-scenes talks on a diplomatic solution came as tensions mounted over a Japanese plan to survey resource-rich waters near the islands, which are occupied by South Korea but claimed by Japan.
Some 20 South Korean gunboats have been dispatched to the area in anticipation of the arrival of Japanese survey ships. The gunboats were scheduled to conduct high seas seizure drills Thursday, but delayed the exercises due to bad weather.
Something to keep an eye on. I doubt this will be more than a diplomatic kerfuffle, but it does seem odd that these two countries would show such open hostility toward each other, and yet remain neutral when North Korea launches a missile or blows up a “mountain.” I suppose the reason is that open hostility toward an irrational communist dictatorship is a lot more difficult than open hostility toward a liberal capitalistic democracy. Such is the world today…
Check out the submarine order of battle for these two highly sealane dependent countries… if it did escalate, they could easily hammer each others economies.
It is much easier being hostile to a sane entity, because you don't have to have the same level of caution about the potential consequences.
Funny that there's no mention of this in the USFK news here. Sometimes what they leave out makes you wonder.
Shocking news ….
Via the AP:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The new Palestinian interior minister named a well-known militant as his top aide on Thursday and announced the formation of a new security branch to be composed of militants.
The moves were part of an ongoing power…
S.Korea and the J.A. Pan company have to work this thing out, They Will.
it is however a good diversion for them to increase military spending in preperation for possible WW3 due to the muslim radical influence.
In which they will be on our side.
The Japanese has always held Koreans in low regard. The Koreans know this. The US and Japan are best buddies because they respect us. They don't respect Korea.
As someone above said, it's easier to be antagonistic towards a rational entity than it is an irrational entity. South Korea will talk things over with them. North Korea would attack.
On the Korean side of the equation, the Japanese occupation of Korea at the beginning of WWII was particularly brutal, and a lot of Koreans remember. Some Korean women were marched around as camp followers and raped repeatedly.
Hoo boy, Nobody here has any real clue to the history of Japan and Korea, do they?
1) Japanese pirates molested the Korean coast for a good chunk of the middle ages.
2) the Shogun Hideyoshi invaded and fought a brutal and nasty war in Korea from 1592-1598. This involved the Chinese fighting the Japanese too.
3) Japan annexed Korea in 1910, occupied the place and tried to stomp out the Korean lanugage (or alphabet at least).
4) The whole 'comfort women' issue during WWII.
5) Japan has yet to atone for any of this really, from what I can tell of the Korean attitudes.
6) The Koreans haven't forgotten any of this, and remind themselves of it pretty frequently.
This is really a Japanese-Korean thing, which will have to work itself out, one way or another.
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