Israeli fighter planes and helicopter gunships have begun pounding Hamas’ “terrorist infrastructure” in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. So far, Israeli air strikes destroyed more than 30 security compounds, including two locations where Hamas graduation ceremonies for new recruits were underway. This latest anti terrorism campaign is a response to the dozens of rocket attacks Gaza based militants have launched against Israel since a truce expired just over a week ago.
In statements to the press, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said “There is a time for calm and a time for fighting, and now the time has come to fight,â€?. According to Barak, the military campaign would take time and would be expanded “as necessary.”
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a leading candidate to become Israel’s next prime minister, called for international support against “an extremist Islamist organization … that is being supported by Iran,â€? and, “Only last week Israel was attacked from the Gaza Strip and in a day about 80 missiles and mortars were fired against Israeli civilians,” she said. “Enough is enough.”
December 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I really don’t know what you do when you’re surrounded by hostile camps that rocket and terrorize you forever because they want the land and nothing else will satisfy them. Either they have to remove the pali camps surrounding them(or entice them to just leave) or endure more of the same forever. The only other option is if a pali government evolved organically that really believed in law and order and policed itself from terrorists using it as a launching pad. The terrorists are both organically grown and foreign born imports. Then you have state actors like iran and syria sending them funds and weopons in the middle of the night. So you go in and try and sweep out the most eggregious and generate these horrible headlines they will then use against you to recruit and poke their finger in your eye.
December 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Indeed…enough is enough. They need to get this over with while they still have a chance.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I’ve been watching the Jews be attacked by these invented people for 40 years now.
They need to be split up and assimilated to all the varying regions that once were home to them.
Palestine used to be a very large area that reached out as far as Syria
The reason being Palestine can refer to an area that includes Israel parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. “Palestine� has a very narrow meaning because the original geographics are spread all over the map.
They cant just pick and choose as it seems really convenient that they want the same spot given to the Jews, no matter where that may be. And as it seems and as history dictates it doesn’t really matter where the Jews moved to ( if they did move ) these A holes would still come after them.
Considering they do have roots dictating their heritage but choose not to adhere to it and find a place to call home I would have no problem calling them an invented people.
They will continue to hound Israel no matter what. This will go on forever unless people start realizing that the whole intent, the whole purpose behind the creation of the Palestinian movement dictates nothing other than to eliminate Zionism.
Its my belief that Israel will wait until things in Iraq settle down a little more so that we able to render aid to Israel in case they decide to beat Palestinians into submission or go after Iran.
Then again,you have to take into account that Obama is not on record as being Israels greatest ally.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Nuke ‘em! That’s what I say! Drop the big one, and then Israel will be done with them and not have to worry about them anymore, forever.
What’s needed is for someone to come along who can inspire everyone on all sides with a spirit of peace and love. A great person. A tremendous presonality. But that will be the Anitchrist, no?!
Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are those who TRY to be peacemakers.
The thing that strikes me the most about it is this: Israel says that what they are doing is justified because of missle launches against them from Gaza, and that these missile launches have been going on since 12/18. OK. But, why have they waited? I mean, if Mexico launched even one missile against us (not that that would ever happen), we’d be all over them, no? If someone starts firing missiles into your country, you don’t wait until they fire ten more, or twenty more, or a hundred more, before you do something. So there is something fishy here, something that does not seem just right to me. Either Israel has a hell of a lot of restraint, or there is more to the story than simply, they fired missiles against us, so now we gotta retaliate.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Edward – Israel does exercise a lot of restraint. They are surrounded by hostile islamic countries that hate them, and that is the only reason this Palastinian issue has not been resolved.
The Jews usually wait until they have been pushed around for a while so that when they do strike back the Arab countries around them don’t have any legitimate excuses to attack them without being seen as the aggressors. Yes, public opinion matters to most Arab and islamic governments and politicians.
With the changes happening within the Israeli government now, I suspect that there are big changes coming in the way that Isreal will deal with security issues in the near future.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Iran is actually the head of this whole snake.
But should we cripple Iran militarily or through sanctions we have to worry about the innocent Iranians that are really not all that fond of their leadership.
Taking out Iran would dry up funding to Hamas and Hezbolla consequently making the Palestinians a whole lot easier to deal with.
I dont know, maybe we should slap the crap out of Iran and create a resolution after that saying they have to take in the Palestinians ?
After all, there are Palestinians that want no part of their anti zionist movement just like theres a large majority of Iranians that want no part of it either.
I dont know, for what its worth that was just a thought.
In the back of my mind from watching this crap go on for most of my 51 years I cant help but think that this will never end until something awfully drastic takes place and wont stop at Israel or with the Palestinians.
The scenario of a middle east in nuclear conflict is pretty damn frightening since any reasonbly well informed person knows that we as Israels aly will more than likely be involced.
And if you look at the prophecy and take that into consideration it gets very frightening.