Pearl Harbour Jericho 2006 - re-run of Sharon's Al Aqsa mosque provocation

Israel is now gripped by the forthcoming elections. TV screens reapeatedly show the youthful Sharon sitting at the feet of founder David Ben - Gurion. Likud are laying into Olmerts as a friend of Hamas.

The result is that Likud / Kadema want an external threat to justify the apartheid wall, the Gaza killings and the clampdown on West Bank movement.Save Israel ... vote for the palach's return ... a new Pearl Harbour threatens our state.!!!!

Predictably now the IDF have stormed a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho, killing a Palestinian police officer and wounding another man, according to police reports... all on the pretext of arresting alleged assassins. (EDITOR This sounds like a re-run of the Sharon storming of the Al Aqsa mosque)

Dozens of Israeli troops, flanked by jeeps, tanks and a bulldozer, entered the Palestinian Authority controlled town this morning, calling for the surrender of six prisoners held in the jail, who Israel believes were involved in the assassination of Israeli tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi, in 2001.Meanwhile the US and UK monitors melted away because they felt they were "under threat".

A gunfight broke out when the prisoners refused to give themselves up, with Palestinian security forces reporting that a police officer was killed in the crossfire.

Five of the prisoners eventually agreed to give themselves up, but the most prominent of the six suspects sought by the Israelis, Ahmed Saadat, head of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine group, has refused to do so.

At 1.pm GMT BBC is reporting tank fire at the prison, and heavy gunfire within the prison.

To add the international aspect the UK (along with the US having removed UN monitors) have thrown fuel on the fire and have immediately issued an alert advising Britons about travel to Jericho and the West Bank.Britons have been advised not to travel to Jericho because of threats of violence and kidnap.

Palestinian militants have warned US and British citizens to leave Palestinian territories or face kidnap in response to an Israeli raid on a West Bank prison.

Palestinians have set fire to a British Council cultural centre in Gaza and there aappears to be trouble at their offices in Ramallah.

The new advice UK Foreign Office advice states: "We advise against all travel to Jericho. The potential for Palestinian internal violence elsewhere also remains high following the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council that took place from 22-25 January 2006, the potential for Palestinian internal violence remains high.

(The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has confirmed that it had ordered UK monitors out of the jail as it no longer believed that the Palestinian authorities could guarantee their safety.)


"We advise against all but essential travel to West Bank apart from Bethlehem. You should be very careful about, and confident of your personal security arrangements, particularly in major towns and cities."

The Foreign Office also advises against all travel to the Gaza strip because of the security situation and continuing threats of kidnap of foreign nationals.

It also advises against all but essential travel along Israel's border with Lebanon and close to the Israeli side of the Israel/Gaza strip border.