yeah boss....we needs a no fly zone so we can shoot our rockets into Israel!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Arab League to appeal for Gaza "no-fly zone"

Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa announced Sunday his intention to appeal to the UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Gaza, where repeated Israeli air strikes have left at least 18 people dead since Thursday.

By William EDWARDS
 
AFP - Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Sunday the organisation will ask the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza, which Israel has pounded with air strikes in response to rocket fire.

Mussa told an emergency meeting of Arab League ambassadors that "the Arab bloc in the United Nations has been directed to ask for the convention of the Security Council to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza and impose a no-fly zone."

Israeli and Palestinian officials were on Sunday floating a ceasefire to end fighting in the coastal strip where Israeli air strikes have killed at least 18 people since Thursday.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of an even stronger response if more rockets are fired from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.

The flare-up came after an anti-tank missile fired from Gaza hit an Israeli school bus on Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critically.

Even if Arab representatives at the United Nations succeed in convening a Security Council meeting, the United States, a close ally of Israel, is likely to veto it.

The Arab League request for a no-fly zone over Gaza may have been inspired by a UN-sanctioned
aerial blockade for Libya to halt forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi harming civilians.

Arab League backing for that no-fly zone was seen as crucially important by the United States
when it pressed for a UN resolution that authorised it and other countries to keep Libyan planes
grounded.
 
http://www.france24.com/en/20110410-arab-league-amr-mussa-appeal-no-fly-zone-gaza-israel-air-strikes-libya-un-palestine
 

[Xavier_Onassis]

If the no fly part referred to both planes and rockets, it would be ideal.

Hamas' rockets are not very useful at furthering the cause of Hamas. They should give it up.

[Christians4LessGvt]

If the no fly part referred to both planes and rockets, it would be ideal.

XO.....this is getting scary.....I agree with you again!

[Xavier_Onassis]

The rockets serve only to give the people of Gaza the impression that there is a war and their guys are winning a skirmish or two. But the rockets cannot weaken the Israeli Army, they only occasionally harm anyone, and it is rarely even anyone who is armed.

The Palestinians cannot win an armed struggle. They need to read Gandhi, Thoreau and King and the works that inspired the Serbians and Tunisians. World public opinion is the only thing that will force a schmuck like Netanyahu to get serious about negotiations.