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*p. 2: Terrorists in Gaza launching rockets. *
• 8,165 rockets: Biocom, Jan. 15, 2009 at http://www.bicom.org.uk/news/operation-cast-lead/facts-and-figures/bicom-statistics--total-number-of-identified-rocket-and-mortar-shell-hits-since-2001--daily-tally-for-2008-and-2009
• Hamas embeds armaments in civilian structures: Steve Erlanger, “A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery,” New York Times, Jan. 11, 2009 at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/11hamas.html?_r=1&hp
*p. 3: 2000-2005: Israel Tries to Promote Peace*
• 2000: Israel’s offer at Camp David: Interview with Dennis Ross on Fox News Sunday, April 21, 2002. Transcript online at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50830,00.html
• Palestinians did not use Israel’s withdrawal to foster calm. Terrorist attacks from Gaza increased over 500% within months. Dore Gold, “Israel’s War to Halt Palestinian Rocket Attacks,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 3, 2008 at
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=283&PID=0&IID=2049
• Palestinians destroyed greenhouses. Dennis Ross, Michael Herzog, David Makovsky, “On the Verge of Disengagement,” Washington Institute Policy Watch, Aug. 12, 2005 at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2356 ;
Caption: Hamas claims victory for disengagement. Graham Usher, “The New Hamas: Between Resistance and Participation,” MERIP, Aug. 25, 2005 at http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VBOL-6JTD77?OpenDocument
*p. 4: 2005-2007: Terrorism from Gaza Escalates*
• Escalation in rocket attacks: 2005: 1255; 2006: 1771; 2007: 2774 from http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/75FC2B98-A581-4C89-88AC-7C3C1D1BC097/0/Terrorism2007report.pdf
• Hamas declared a terrorist organization or banned.
Canada: “Public Safety Canada” http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/ns/le/cle-en.asp
Council of the European Union at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:340:0064:0066:EN:PDF
Australia: “List of Terrorist Organizations” at http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/www/nationalsecurity.nsf/AllDocs/95FB057CA3DECF30CA256FAB001F7FBD?OpenDocument
Japan: http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/2005/ch3-a.pdf
US State Department: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65462.pdf
UK “Proscribed Terrorist Groups” at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/terrorism-and-the-law/terrorism-act/proscribed-groups
Jordan: Daily Star, Feb. 18, 2006 at http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=22307#
• Iran sponsors Hamas, supplying training for terrorists and over $250 million a year. Matthew Levitt, “The Real Connection between Iran and Hamas,” NPR, Jan. 12, 2009, Transcript at
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/01/the_real_connection_between_ir.php and Sarah El Deeb, “Haniyeh: Iran Pledges $250 M in Aid,” Iran in Focus, Dec. 11, 2006 at
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9475
• Hamas smuggled over 130 tons of explosives in the two years after Israel’s disengagement. http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/75FC2B98-A581-4C89-88AC-7C3C1D1BC097/0/Terrorism2007report.pdf p. 10
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