Could this fact play any role in what is happening in the middle east right now?

Is there any update to the following deal that was being worked on in the past?

BG Group at centre of $4bn deal to supply Gaza gas to Israel

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article1826739.ece

The British energy firm is set to agree terms of a $4bn, 15-year deal over gas discovered off the Gaza coast

Steve Hawkes and Sonia Verma in Jerusalem

BG Group (which is a British energy firm) was working on a $ 4 billion (£2 billion) deal to supply Palestinian gas to Israel from a discovery off the Gaza coastline, according to The Times.

Representatives from BG had been scheduled to meet a team of negotiators chosen by the Israeli Cabinet to work on a 15-year contract.

The deal would allow BG Group, the former owner of British Gas, to develop an offshore field (that is, acc to The Times) the Palestine Authority’s only natural resource.

There would be enough gas to provide 10 per cent of Israel’s annual energy requirement, and the Palestinians would receive total royalties of $1 billion.

…rose up and fought against our troops. ‘I understand why the Palestinians rise up.’

I didn’t call you a neocon.

Can YOU read?

For someone who is so concerned about what labels are applied to you. You certainly have no probelms doing the same to others though.

Anyway, just like I was concerned about the Iraqi citizen when the US invaded, I am concerned for the Palestinian citizens. Why is that so hard to understand?

Just like I understand why some of the Iraqi citizens rose up and fought against our troops.

However, no one is claiming that someone with a rocket isn’t volunteering to die. Geez…when Larry posted several times a tactic to kill those volunteers. People like you went off the deep end that this was a pro-PLO, pro-Hama site.

Nevermind the fact that offering an example of how to kill a terrorist, isn’t being a terrorist sympathizer. But I do understand why they fight…because I have common sense and use it daily.

All these questions asked of what would you do if rockets landed?

Well, there is nothing wrong with asking, what would you do if an occupation force stole your home/farm?

Frankly, and I’ve said this before. I think Britain split apart Palestine to give the Middle East something to fight about. While the west stole the oil.

Under that theory, everyone there is a victim of a greedy plan to steal resources. So, I feel for them all. It isn’t their fault that both sides are set up to be target practice for the other

I am being consistant with my concern for all human life. And how those big money interests can have huge impacts on people’s lives.

In the US, big money, just picked a President, and ran off with what is left of the Treasury. Yes, I think we lucked out so far on what our citizens suffer verses the Israelis and Palestinians though.

Do you think all the elections we’ve had have been on the up and up?

50% of the voting populaton in the US doesn’t vote.

Why is that so hard to wrap around?

Do you really think Hamas won’t scare people into not voting?

I know most voted for them for the wrong reasons and are wanting the extremists in.

Seems like the extremists are taking over on everything. The extremist Christians, Muslims, Jews, Non-believers. And politics too. Everyone is getting less and less tolerant of other’s differences or differences of opinions.

I really am beginning to think that we are basically in the times of “judgment days” but not in the biblical sense. Everyone is judging everyone. It’s almost like we have to tell ourselves we are soooo great that anyone different than us is not just wrong, but evil, ignorant, and a bigot…take you pick of words. I see a LOT of hyprocracy – and even see my own too. And I mean everywhere, I’m not talking about this site.

Maybe we’ve always been like this. Maybe we’re better today than we have been in our past history, and I’m just now noticing it. People just don’t care about anything but themselves these day.

I’m a bit too contrarian to “sit down and shut up” however, so I just keep plugging away with the truth, because popping the bubble of their denial and cognitive dissonance is my mission in life. That goes for all sides. I’m neither pro_Israel or pro_Hamas. But I reserve the right to maintain that people who support war should know damn well what it is they are supporting. I’m pro_human rights; pro_justice; pro_common sense; pro_dignity of man and woman; mostly pro_honesty and anti_hypocrisy.

It Breaks My Heart To See Israel’s Stupidity

Rabbi Michael Lerner

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5446519.ece

Israel Rains Fire on Palestinians With Phosphorous Shells

Charles Heyman, a military expert and former major in the British Army, said: “If white phosphorus was deliberately fired at a crowd of people someone would end up in The Hague. White phosphorus is also a terror weapon. The descending blobs of phosphorus will burn when in contact with skin.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece

Chaos in Gaza After Israeli Blast Hits Vegetable Market

Nobody knows what kind of shell it was that hit Gaza City’s main vegetable market yesterday morning: the explosives were falling so thick and fast that it could have come from an Israeli naval vessel, an F16 fighter-bomber, an Apache helicopter gunship, an unmanned drone, an artillery cannon or a tank.

The results, however, were unmistakable. With Gaza’s ambulance service stretched far beyond its normal capacity, the first mangled bodies arrived in private cars as locals scrambled to save the lives of the shoppers caught up in the carnage. The first to be carried in was a boy, his face masked in blood from a head wound, as medics hurried him into the overcrowded emergency rooms. The next car delivered a girl, perhaps 12 or 13 years old, her entrails blown out through a hole in her back by shrapnel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5445498.ece

Video of the carnage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMH21Y3vBk

Chaos in Gaza After Israeli Blast Hits Vegetable Market

Nobody knows what kind of shell it was that hit Gaza City’s main vegetable market yesterday morning: the explosives were falling so thick and fast that it could have come from an Israeli naval vessel, an F16 fighter-bomber, an Apache helicopter gunship, an unmanned drone, an artillery cannon or a tank.

The results, however, were unmistakable. With Gaza’s ambulance service stretched far beyond its normal capacity, the first mangled bodies arrived in private cars as locals scrambled to save the lives of the shoppers caught up in the carnage. The first to be carried in was a boy, his face masked in blood from a head wound, as medics hurried him into the overcrowded emergency rooms. The next car delivered a girl, perhaps 12 or 13 years old, her entrails blown out through a hole in her back by shrapnel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5445498.ece

Video of the carnage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMH21Y3vBk

Israel Rains Fire on Palestinians With Phosphorous Shells

Charles Heyman, a military expert and former major in the British Army, said: “If white phosphorus was deliberately fired at a crowd of people someone would end up in The Hague. White phosphorus is also a terror weapon. The descending blobs of phosphorus will burn when in contact with skin.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece

Chaos in Gaza After Israeli Blast Hits Vegetable Market

Nobody knows what kind of shell it was that hit Gaza City’s main vegetable market yesterday morning: the explosives were falling so thick and fast that it could have come from an Israeli naval vessel, an F16 fighter-bomber, an Apache helicopter gunship, an unmanned drone, an artillery cannon or a tank.

The results, however, were unmistakable. With Gaza’s ambulance service stretched far beyond its normal capacity, the first mangled bodies arrived in private cars as locals scrambled to save the lives of the shoppers caught up in the carnage. The first to be carried in was a boy, his face masked in blood from a head wound, as medics hurried him into the overcrowded emergency rooms. The next car delivered a girl, perhaps 12 or 13 years old, her entrails blown out through a hole in her back by shrapnel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5445498.ece

Israel Rains Fire on Palestinians With Phosphorous Shells

Charles Heyman, a military expert and former major in the British Army, said: “If white phosphorus was deliberately fired at a crowd of people someone would end up in The Hague. White phosphorus is also a terror weapon. The descending blobs of phosphorus will burn when in contact with skin.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece

Try again, again.

It’s okay to move your lips, if that helps.

Wow! So you two are claiming the election was STOLEN!

How did they do it? Who did it?

Please provide ALL of the details ASAP!

Not just a simple majority of the details, but ALL of them.

there were 1.3 Mil registered voters…

That isn’t a fucking majority of even the registered voters, its almost 1/3.

And there were 2.5 Mil who didn’t vote.

If you are going to load up some bullshit to say…those are “toddlers”…then you are just batshit crazy.

Get your head about you. Get out of your biases and in the real world for a minute…or is that too much to ask?

There are always two sides in a conflict and escalating doesn’t usually bring peace. I believe truthtelling mentioned winning the hearts and minds as a possible solution. That’s something our own government doesn’t seem to understand either.

Try again.

Comment by LandOLincoln | 2009-01-04 18:02:55

OIAF, you come across as a blusterer and a coward, like so many of your far right wingnut ilk. What are you doing here, anyway? Wouldn’t you be happier at, say, Free Republic? Redstate?

Or you could put your own fat a** where your mouth is and join the IDF–or at least one of the U.S. services. I think the 101st Fighting Keyboardists could spare you.

For that I got called a troll, and stupid, and functionally illiterate, so–forgetting that a majority of No Quarter’s commenters these days are somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, I attempted to establish my Democratic –and literary–bona fides. Boy, was THAT naive.

(For the record, Ferd, I’ve made my living at various times as a music industry publicist, an ad copywriter, and–most recently–writing/editing grant proposals for one of the medical departments of a large university. I’m now retired and working, albeit intermittently, on a novel set in 1870s New Mexico.)

As for your website, OIAF, I don’t click on wingnut websites, whether Right or Left (although as far as I’m concerned there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between ‘em. A wingnut is a wingnut is a wingnut…)

And IMO you’re still a blowhard and a chickenshit who sees terrorists behind every tree. Remember your Shakespeare, genius?

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.