Israeli President vows response for Palestinian fire![]() October 24, 2012 - 16:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Israeli President Shimon Peres angrily denounced the barrage of Palestinian rockets fired at hos country on Wednesday, Oct 24, saying "there is no circumstance under which they will fire upon on us and we will sit on our hands." "I want to tell the residents of Gaza and their leaders, they have to decide what they want," Peres continued, according to The Jerusalem Post. "If they decide on war, what can we do? If they decide to build, there will not be war," he said. In an apparent reference to the emir of Qatar's Tuesday visit to Gaza, in which he announced $400 million for building projects, Peres said: "Nowhere else in the world would they gather money to build and instead of buying building materials, buy explosive materials." Partner news Only three senators on the committee - Republican Ron Paul and Democrats Tom Udall and Chris Murphy - opposed the bill. If true, the exclusion of Rafsanjani and Mashaie would leave the presidential race dominated by hardline conservatives. Amy Elliott, chief administrative officer of the Oklahoma medical examiner's office, said 51 were confirmed dead. An Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years. Partner news |