Netanyahu Raises Prospect of Ground Invasion of Gaza -- News from Antiwar.com
Jason Ditz, March 12, 2012
Violence continued in the Gaza Strip today, with the fourth day of Israeli attacks against the tiny enclave killing at least seven people, including three civilians, bringing the overall toll of the recent bombing campaign to 25 killed.
Egypt’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority downplayed the continued violence, saying that he believed that a ceasefire would be finalized within the next 48 hours. Israeli officials, however, seem to be disputing that.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is openly talking of expanding operations into a full scale ground invasion, and the Israeli military says it is “ready” to launch such an operation, the first of its kind since early 2009.
Meanwhile Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that rockets fired in retaliation to Israel’s attacks meant the Palestinians no longer would be allowed to have a territorially contiguous state, saying that the Palestinians “have condemned themselves to a separation that looks like it will continue for generations.”
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