Subject: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:14 am
LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists
5 Palestinians reportedly killed in IDF strikes on Gaza; Rocket fire on Israel's south continues.
Palestinians inspect the remains of a car which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City July 8, 2014. / Photo by Reuters
By Haaretz
Published 14:59 08.07.14
Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Gaza militants early on Tuesday, dubbing the offensive "Operation Protective Edge." More than 50 targets were hit in the offensive.
Meanwhile, rocket fire on Israel's south continued. According to the IDF, eight projectiles were launched between 2 and 6 A.M.
Militants in Gaza fired more than 85 rockets toward Israel on Monday evening, with Hamas openly claiming responsibility for some of the launches for the first time since the current round of fighting began. The rockets hit several major cities in the south and, also for the first time in the current fighting, caused alarms to go off in central Israel and Jerusalem. The barrages lightly wounded two Israelis and caused property damage.
The Israel Defense Forces called up 1,500 infantry and Border Police reservists in preparation for further escalation, after the security cabinet decided on Monday afternoon to intensify attacks against Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip. A senior official said the ministers want to refrain from a large-scale military operation for now, but they instructed the army to prepare for significant expansion of its current operations.
Palestinian officials said Gaza was bracing for further Israeli attacks. They said Hamas had evacuated likely targets and its leaders had gone underground lest Israel attempt to assassinate them. Hamas also issued a statement on Monday night demanding that the Palestinian Authority take action against Israel, saying “national unity sometimes requires paying a price.”
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Latest updates:
3:10 P.M.: The cabinet discussed plans to call up 40,000 reservists as the situation in the south escalates. The forces will join the 1,500 reservists already called up.
2:45 P.M. Two rockets were fired toward Be'er Sheva. Iron Dome intercepted one, the other landed in an open area. Another rocket exploded in the Merhavim Regional Council. (Shirly Seidler, Gili Cohen)
2:22 P.M. Four Palestinians were killed in an IDF strike on a vehicle in the center of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians report, raising the death toll in the Strip since this morning to five. Their identity is still unclear, but Shin Bet said the airstrike was a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation, targeting Mohammed Shaaban, 24, a commander in the Hamas naval forces. (Jack Khoury, Gili Cohen)
1:50 P.M. Hamas militant killed in IAF strike in central Gaza Strip, Palestinians report. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the militant was Rashad Yassin, a member of the Izz a-Din al-Qassam, Hamas' military arm, who was in the Nuseirat refugee camp when he was hit. Emergency teams are looking for another casualty under the rubble. According to reports, 29 wounded were admitted in Gaza's hospitals in the last hours. (Haaretz) (Jacky Khoury)
1:18 P.M. In last hours IDF strikes 40 targets in Gaza Strip, including the home of Mohammed Abdel Rahman Guda, a Hamas commander.
Since the morning, Magen David Adom teams treated seven people lightly wounded by rocket fire at Ashdod. Of which, one was wounded by shrapnel, another was wounded when he fell en route to a bomb shelter, and the rest suffered from shock. Two were taken for additional treatment at Ashkelon and Rehovot hospitals. (Gili Cohen, Shirly Seidler)
12:56 P.M. Islamic Jihad's military arm states it has fired over 60 rockets toward Israel since the morning, and that it will continue to fire as long as "Israeli aggression" persists. (Jack Khoury)
12:40 P.M. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Israeli army to prepare for a possible ground offensive in the Gaza Strip in meeting in the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, a senior Israeli official said.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Chief of Staff Lieut. Gen. Benny Gantz and Shin Bet Chief Yoram Cohen attended the meeting, along with other defense officials.
"The prime minister's instruction by the end of the meeting was to prepare for a thorough, long, continuous and strong campaign in Gaza," the senior Israeli official said. "The prime minister instructed the army to be ready to go all in. A ground offensive is on the table."
During the meeting the defense minister and the chief of staff asked for additional reservists to be called up.
The senior Israeli official added that the purpose of the operation is to exact a heavy price from Hamas, in order to restore deterrence and calm in the south. "Our increased response will be well felt on the ground," he said.
Netanyahu intends to speak with foreign leaders throughout the day to rally their support of Israel's Gaza operation. The prime minister will stress that Israel had tried to bring about calm in Gaza but Hamas has escalated the situation and increased the rocket fire on Israel. (Barak Ravid)
12:24 P.M. President Elect Reuven Rivlin says in southern town of Sderot: "It's impossible that people are sitting in cafes and restaurants in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem, while in Sderot people are sitting in bomb shelters. We're at war with Hamas because they declared war on us. Hamas want to bring the state of Israel to an end, and make life in Israel impossible, and we have to handle that. We have to fight back to ensure the safety of Israeli citizens. It's not our right, but our duty." (Shirly Seidler)
12:16 P.M. Iron Dome intercepts two rockets above Sdot Negev. At the same time, Israel Railways stops train traffic between Ashkelon and Ashdod due to rockets. (Shirly Seidler)
12:10 P.M. IDF strikes in Gaza Strip. Palestinians report eight were wounded in Israeli strikes in the center and the north of the Gaza Strip in the last hour. Five suffered moderate wounds in an agricultural area in Beit Lehi in the north Strip. East from there, a man and a woman were moderately wounded, and a woman in her 50s was wounded in the Dir al-Balah area in the center of the Strip. (Gili Cohen, Jack Khoury)
11:53 A.M. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructs the military to "take off gloves" in fight against Hamas. "Hamas chose escalation and it will pay a heavy price for it," Netanyahu says. (Barak Ravid)
11:28 A.M. The IDF intends to call up several thousand more reservists, in addition to the 1,500 already called up, to replace infantry and tank battalions deployed in the West Bank. These battalions will be sent to South Command ahead of a possible ground offensive in Gaza.
However, the steps taken by the IDF since last night are still relatively restrained, and Israel is so far avoiding a full-scale aerial assault against Hamas.(Amos Harel)
11:13 A.M. Police arrests 63 persons on suspicion of involvement in disruptions of order in demonstrations in Jerusalem and in the Negev in last two days. (Shirly Seidler, Nir Hasson)
10:52 A.M. Iron Dome intercepts three rockets fired at Ashdod. Soreq Nuclear Research Center near Yavne halts activity due to rocket fire. (Gili Cohen, Shirly Seidler)
10:41 A.M. Rocket explodes near house in Hof Ashkelon in southern Israel; emergency team fights fire at scene. (Shirly Seidler)
10:08 A.M. IDF strikes targets in northern Gaza Strip. At the same time, rocket sirens were sounded in Ashdod, Yavneh, and in Be'er Tuvia. Later, Iron Dome intercepted two rockets above Ashkelon and Ashdod. (Gili Cohen)
10:00 A.M. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon is expected to declare a "special situation" in Israeli communities located 40 kilometers away from the Gaza Strip. A short time ago Ya'alon held a discussion on the issue with Home Front Commander Brig. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg and other high ranking officials in the defense establishment.
"We're heading toward a campaign against Hamas, which will not be over after a few days," Ya'alon said at the discussion, adding that Hamas intends to exact a price from the Israeli home front. "In the last hours we've attacked with force and hit dozens of Hamas assets, and the IDF is continued with the assault, in a way which will exact a very heavy price from Hamas. We'll not tolerate rocket fire at Israel." (Gili Cohen)
8:37 A.M. Palestinians report at least 17 wounded following the IDF airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight. Among the wounded are nine family members from Khan Yunis who suffered light to moderate wounds when their home was bombed, and two children, a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl, who were moderately wounded.
According to reports, Israel Navy Dabur class patrol boats also participated in the overnight bombings, and targeted an Izz a-Din al-Qassam base northwest of Khan Yunis. Targets in the Rafah area and in the central Strip were also attacked, and at least three youths were wounded in the central Strip, two of them moderately and one seriously. To the north of the Strip, hits were reported in open agricultural areas in Beit Hanoun and in sites northwest of Gaza City, including a Hamas base near Jabalya.
Hamas' military arm said the strikes on the homes of its top members have "crossed the red line," and that the group would attack targets at the heart of Israel. Hamas top official Musa Abu Marzouk says "attacks on civilian homes is a serious escalation," and adds that "the time when attacks on homes went without a response has passed." (Jack Khoury)
8:20 A.M. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit says the targets hit by the Israel Air Force strikes overnight include the homes of Iad Sakhik, a top Hamas operative who participated in rocket and mortar fire; Abdallah Hashash, a Hamas operative from Rafah involved in recent rocket fire; Samer Abu Daka, top Hamas member in Khan Yunis involved in terror activity; and Hassan Abdallah, top Hamas operative also involved in recent rocket fire. (Gili Cohen)
6:53 A.M. Rocket explodes in open area in Eshkol Regional Council (Shirli Seidler)
6:48 A.M. A military source said in a media briefing that Operation Protective Edge will be expanded in the coming days, and will include prepping up forces for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. According to him, "The operation will intensify with regards to the quality and quantity of targets the Israel Air Force is attacking in the Strip, after Hamas stepped it up yesterday. The IDF is continuing to draft forces for the Strip, and intends to draft more, even though the effort is currently concentrated on IAF strikes."
Regarding how long the operation is expected to last, the source said the army "is not committed to any end-date. This could take days and even longer. The IDF is acting in attempt to bring back the calm the south enjoyed before the operation, and there are many avenues for actions and targets, but that requires patience." (Shirly Seidler)
6:00 A.M. Israel's air force strikes 50 targets in Gaza as part of Operation Protective Edge. According to the military, more than eight rockets were fired toward Israel over the past four hours. (Gili Cohen)
4:15 A.M. A rocket fired from Gaza explodes near Kiryat Malachi. (Haaretz)
2:40 A.M. The IDF dubs the aerial offensive on Gaza "Operation Protective Edge." The airstrikes are targeting sites in the center of the Strip. (Haaretz)
1:24 A.M. The IAF strikes Gaza targets in retaliation for the rocket fire. (Gili Cohen)
12:32 A.M. Rocket alarm sounds in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. (Shirley Seidler)
[size=42]12:08 A.M.[/size] Due to the rocket fire from Gaza, Home Front Command instructs towns within 40 kilometers of the Gaza Strip to cancel school and summer camp activity. (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.603677
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Subject: FULL SCALE WAR IN ISRAEL AT ANY MINUTE :EYEWITNESS REPORT Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:56 am
FULL SCALE WAR IN ISRAEL AT ANY MINUTE :EYEWITNESS REPORT
HI Steve...I know this is anecdotal and not scientific, but I thought I would write anyway. My friend in Israel just called me to talk about how bad things are in Israel. Her brother lives in Askelon and his house was hit last night. They are not sleeping as they are in and out of the shelter throughout the night. Summer camps have been canceled as children cannot get out of a pool and into a shelter in 30 seconds. The government has asked people in the North to take people from the South into their homes.
My friend expects war to break out tonight or tomorrow. She said things are flaring up everywhere..Caesarea where she lives, Nazareth and other places.
Yesterday Arabs tried to kidnap a little boy in Caesarea, but a motorist came along and pulled the boy out of the car. My friend is roughly my age (60's) and lives in Caesarea not far from Net.'s house. I know as I have seen it. She said that is why they tried to do the kidnapping there. She said everything is very tense and no one knows what is going to happen next. Police are everywhere. The 6 who kidnapped the Palestinian teen were fanatics. My friend (not a believer) said she can't imagine the mother of the Frenkel boy talking to and consoling the parents of the Palestinian boy. Of course, as a Christian I can. It is a very bad situation and all the people both Palestinian and Jew need our prayers
In a joint operation of the IDF and Shin Bet in Kfar Jabalia, Hamas terrorist Muhammed Shaban was assassinated. The Palestinians report that at least four people were killed and several others were injured.
Jul 08, 2014, 03:44PM | Rachel Avraham
A few hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the security establishment to expand the operation against Hamas, the Israeli Air Force attacked terrorist targets in Gaza. In a joint IDF and Shin Bet attack upon a vehicle, a senior level Hamas terrorist was assassinated. According to the Palestinian media, at least four people were killed in the attack and several others were injured.
The killed terrorist was Muhammed Shaban, age 24, a senior level Hamas commander in Gaza. The other passengers in the vehicles identity is not yet clear. The attack was in response to the continued rocket fire on Southern Israeli communities.
Rocket fire today Photo Credit: Guy Gerstein
A few minutes after the assassination, a barrage of rockets were fired upon Be’ersheva. One rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome. Another rocket exploded in an open area. There were no reports of injuries.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:07 pm
Air raid sirens howling and iron dome is flyin'.
At $3 Million an arrow Raytheon's gotta be giddy.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:23 pm
" Earlier Tuesday, five Hamas “naval commandos” came ashore in Israel north of the Gaza border, where they were promptly eliminated in an IDF helicopter strike. The IDF spokesperson’s unit released dramatic footage of the strike. "
Never an advocate of violence, but the violent musloids are satan indwelt vermin. (and that beach was a target rich environment)
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Subject: ISRAEL PREPARES FOR GROUND INVASION!! Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:53 pm
ISRAEL PREPARES FOR GROUND INVASION!!
Published on Jul 8, 2014
THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF FULL SCALE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014...
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Subject: EVIDENCE APPEARS TO SHOW THAT ISIS HAS REACHED THE GAZA STRIP Wed Jul 09, 2014 7:08 am
EVIDENCE APPEARS TO SHOW THAT ISIS HAS REACHED THE GAZA STRIP
NTEB News Desk | July 8, 2014 |
HAS HAMAS LOST CONTROL OF GAZA?
Despite denials by Hamas, there is growing evidence that the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] — also known as “The Islamic State” — has begun operating in the Gaza Strip.
At the funeral of two Islamists killed by the Israel Defense Forces last week in Gaza, funeral-goers carried flags and banners of ISIS.
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Hamas seems to be losing control of the dozens of terror cells in the Gaza Strip.Hamas prevented local journalists from covering the ISIS rally in the Gaza Strip last month as part of its effort to deny the existence of ISIS in the Gaza Strip. But Hamas seems to be trying to cover the sun with one finger. The Gaza Strip is no longer only a threat to Israel, but also to Egypt. The only way to confront this threat is through security cooperation between Israel and Egypt.
Palestinian Authority [PA] and Israeli security sources are convinced that followers of ISIS in the Gaza Strip are responsible for some of the recent rocket attacks on Israel. Hamas, they say, seems to be losing control over the dozens of terror cells belonging to ISIS and other jihadi groups.
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Hamas is obviously nervous about the presence of ISIS terrorists in the Gaza Strip and sees them as a direct challenge to its rule. ISIS believes that Hamas is “too moderate” and is not doing enough to achieve the destruction of Israel.
Last month, Hamas sent its policemen and militias to disperse a rally organized by ISIS followers in the Gaza Strip to celebrate the recent “military victories” of the terrorist group in Iraq. Hamas prevented local journalists from covering the event as part of its attempt to deny the existence of ISIS in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=23281
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Subject: Hamas has several hundred Syrian-made M-302 rockets of type that reached Hadera Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:19 am
Hamas has several hundred Syrian-made M-302 rockets of type that reached Hadera
Syrian-made M-302 rockets
DEBKAfile Special Report Jul 9, 2014, 9:06 AM (IDT)
The long-range Hamas rockets that reached Hadera 110km north of Gaza Tuesday, July 8, have been identified as the Syrian-made M-302 Khaibar missiles which Hizballah launched against Haifa in the 2006 Lebanon War. It is based on Iranian technology, deriving from the Chinese WS-1. Hizballah engineers posted in the Gaza Strip helped Hamas improve the M-302 and extend its range and accuracy. But the M-302 still suffers from a lack of precision, which was demonstrated Tuesday night when it landed harmlessly in Hadera and also Jerusalem.
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Subject: Israel hits key Hamas targets in Gaza offensive early Wednesday Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:22 am
Israel hits key Hamas targets in Gaza offensive early Wednesday Jul 9th 2014 2:03AM
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli army on Wednesday intensified its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, striking Hamas sites and killing at least 14 people on the second day of a military operation it says is aimed at quelling rocket fire against Israel.
The offensive has set off the heaviest fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas since an eight-day battle in November 2012. Militants have unleashed rocket salvos deeper into Israeli territory than before, and Israel mobilized thousands of forces along the Gaza border for a possible ground invasion into the Palestinian territory.
Israel's defense minister warned the offensive would be long-term.
"The operation against Hamas will expand in the coming days, and the price the organization will pay will be very high," Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said.
Since the offensive began Tuesday, Israel has attacked more than 400 sites in Gaza, killing at least 41 people. The strikes came after militants fired more than 160 rockets at Israel, including one that reached the northern Israeli city of Hadera for the first time. The city is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Gaza.
The army said it attacked more than 160 sites in Gaza early Wednesday, including 118 concealed rockets launching sites, six Hamas compounds - including naval police and national security compounds - 10 militant command centers, weapons storage facilities and 10 tunnels used for militant activity and to ferry supplies in from Egypt. The border between Gaza and Egypt has effectively been closed for months.
Gaza health official Ashraf Al-Kedra said Wednesday's airstrikes killed one militant in south Gaza, an 80-year-old woman, the son, wife and neighbor of a Hamas militant, and three others whose affiliation was not immediately known.
Israel's army said it targeted a militant with the Islamic Jihad militant group who had launched rockets toward Israel. Separately, Islamic Jihad claimed that one of its militants was killed with his mother and four siblings, but Al-Kedra said they were all civilians.
Israel and Hamas are bitter enemies and have fought numerous times over the years. But until recently they had been observing a truce that ended the previous hostilities in 2012.
Tensions have been rising since the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank on June 12. Israel accused Hamas of being behind the abductions, although it provided no proof.
Israel then launched a crackdown on the group's members in the West Bank and arrested hundreds of people. Hamas, which controls Gaza, responded by stepping up rocket fire.
The situation deteriorated last week after the bodies of the three were found, followed a day later by the abduction of Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem - who was later found burned to death in what Palestinians believe was a revenge attack.
Six Jewish Israelis were arrested in the killing.
It was a sharp contrast to the large number that hit Israeli cities the night before, setting off air raid sirens in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other areas of the country.
In amateur video obtained by The Associated Press, guests at an outdoor wedding in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv, ran screaming for cover as a rocket was intercepted in the sky, blowing up. The bride and groom rushed down the aisle as a second rocket whizzed above.
By early Wednesday, air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Israel's south, and the army said two rockets were apparently intercepted above the central Israeli city by an anti-missile battery. In total, at least seven rockets were fired toward Israel on Wednesday, and the "Iron Dome" anti-missile system intercepted about half of them mid-air, the army said. There were no reported injuries.
Lerner, the army spokesman, told reporters that the military's aim was to take a "substantial toll" on Hamas and to deplete its rocket capabilities. He said the army would gradually ramp up its strikes on Gaza.
"The organization is going to pay for its aggression. It is literally holding us hostage with its rockets," Lerner said. "The country is not willing for this situation to continue."
About 2,000 people attended a funeral for eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, four adults and two children, who were killed Tuesday.
In the attack, an airstrike flattened the home of a Hamas militant in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Israel's military said it had called the home shortly before the airstrike to warn civilians to leave.
A security official said the army has been telephoning homes, or firing small projectiles dubbed "knock on the roof," to warn civilians to leave buildings before demolishing homes. The official said the army also warns militants about such attacks if civilians are with them.
Hamas is far weaker than the last round of fighting with Israel in 2012.
At the time, Egypt was governed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas' close ally.
Following its ouster in 2013, Egypt's new government became hostile to Hamas and closed a network of smuggling tunnels used by the group as an economic lifeline, and as a way to smuggle in rockets.
An Israeli government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing Israeli tactical strategy, said Israel could make more significant achievements against Hamas now than in previous rounds of fighting.
"Things are different now," the official said. "Their ability to rebuild their arsenal is far more limited."
Subject: 'Israel under renewed Hamas attack', says the BBC. More balance is needed Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:36 am
'Israel under renewed Hamas attack', says the BBC.
More balance is needed The macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life – this is the hierarchy of death at work
Israeli soldiers and tanks near the border with the Gaza Strip this week. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
"Israel under renewed Hamas attack": this was last night's BBC headlineon the escalating bloodshed in Gaza. It is as perverse as Mike Tyson punching a toddler, followed by a headline claiming that the child spat at him. As Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Tel Aviv-based Israeli human rights activist,tweeted: "We are targeted by mostly shitty rockets. Gazans are being shelled with heavy bombs. We have shelters, sirens, Iron Dome. They have 0."
There is no defence for Hamas firing rockets into civilian areas, and as sirens wail in Israel, the fear among ordinary Israelis should not be ignored or belittled. But the media coverage hardly reflects the reality: a military superpower armed with F-15 fighter jets, AH-64 Apache helicopters, Delilah missiles, IAI Heron-1 drones and Jericho II missiles (and nuclear bombs, for that matter), versus what David Cameron describes as a "prison camp" firing almost entirely ineffective missiles. Twenty-seven Palestinians are reported to have died in Gaza – and, mercifully, no Israelis have been killed by Hamas rockets – and yet the BBC opts for the Orwellian "Israel under renewed Hamas attack".
The macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life: here is the "hierarchy of death" at work. According to the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, 565 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces since January 2009, while 28 Israeli civilians and 10 Israeli security personnel have been killed. The asymmetry of this so-called conflict is reflected in the death toll, but it is not reflected in the coverage.
And so it goes for the events surrounding the abduction and vile murder of three Israeli teenagers. What was not widely reported by the western media was that – in the raids that followed their disappearance – six Palestinians, including a child, were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank. As Amnesty International put it, these were "blatant violations of international humanitarian and human rights law".
Perhaps our media will excuse themselves on the basis of motive: whoever killed the three teenagers intended to do so, while Israel only kills civilians unintentionally.
Read, then, the report of Human Rights Watch, not an organisation that can be accused of being a den of lefties. Israel's actions "amounted to collective punishment", it declared, because of "unlawful use of force, arbitrary arrests, and illegal home demolitions". Human Rights Watch investigated two deaths and found "there was no evidence that the victim or anyone in the line of fire posed an imminent threat to Israeli soldiers or others". On 17 June, 20-year-old Ahmed Samada was shot dead in Jalazon refugee camp, and yet Israel did not even claim to have come under fire; the same for 17-year-old Sakher Abu Aal-Hasan, shot dead on 21 June.
The BBC is a public broadcaster, duty-bound to provide balanced reports that accurately reflect the reality on the ground. It is failing to do so, and it is up to licence payers – to whom it is accountable – to demand that it does.
Published on Jul 9, 2014 Fear and dread has come to Israel as sirens are going off in Jerusalem late in the night http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com
also http://www.theguardian.com/commentisf...
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:38 am
Hamas Spokesman: 'All Israelis Have Now Become Legitimate Targets' Israel responds by telling military to "take off the gloves."
7.9.2014
"The occupation began this aggression and we have the right to defend ourselves." Those were the words of a member of Hamas' leadership this week in a series of statements from the group attempting to justify the sharp increase in hostilities. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) twitter feed posted the story from the Jerusalem Post early Wednesday morning.
Overnight, Hamas rockets struck the farthest into Israel they have ever reached. Multiple Hamas sources confirmed their intent to continue the onslaught (emphasis added):
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Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of perpetrating “massacres” against women and children in Khan Yunis. Referring to an Israel Air Force bombing of a house belonging to a Hamas operative, Abu Zuhri said: “The Khan Yunis massacre against women and children is an ugly war crime. All Israelis have now become legitimate targets."
Israel has promised to meet force with force, with rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the military to "take off the gloves,"
Edit to add: not an old article, happening concurrent with Hamas' rocket attacks this pencil neck is delivering this speech on behalf of sodomobama.
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Subject: Hamas Missiles Target Nuclear Facility As Likelihood Of Israel Invasion Of Gaza Increases Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:50 pm
Hamas Missiles Target Nuclear Facility As Likelihood Of Israel Invasion Of Gaza Increases
Hamas militants launched a salvo of missiles at Israel’s main nuclear facility Wednesday night, raising the likelihood of an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. Three rockets were aimed towards the southern Israeli town of Dimona and the nearby Negev nuclear reactor and research centre, where Israel’s atomic weapons program is thought to be based. Two
Read more at http://www.trunews.com/#hU25KohhQePPr5Do.99
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:09 pm
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Three rockets were aimed towards the southern Israeli town of Dimona and the nearby Negev nuclear reactor and research centre, where Israel’s atomic weapons program is thought to be based.
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Thought to be housed, that's a hoot.
The garbage, excuse for "media" here fails to cover the fact that barry's musloid brotherhood whatever czar is in Israel as I type telling the Israelis to turn the other cheek and that this is all their fault because they've oppressed the Pali's for decades. (Link above in older post) Well, likely not as I type because its the middle of the night there and he's likely somewhere in tel aviv catching an amateur colonoscopy because they're all queer as a 3 dollar bill. (Does this need editing, I didn't swear and hopefully didn't offend? Facts have now become pretty offensive, sadly.)
let 'em fly boys and if all else fails bring in the glassmakers. (Blame negev?, they'll see 4 stages of negev delivered with more precision than a musloid merchant dropping off a washer and dryer, keep the pallet Muhammad because 150 MM * recycles everything)
"It has been activated to intercept about 27 percent of the approximately 180 rockets fired between Monday night and midday Wednesday. Of the times when Iron Dome was activated, it successfully intercepted the rockets nearly 90 percent of the time, and there have been few rocket hits or serious injuries"
Nine nein nine nein.!!!!! 2+7, 1+8...9+0... they need prayer.
Don't shoot the messenger, this is about to get real.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:34 am
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Well, likely not as I type because its the middle of the night there and he's likely somewhere in tel aviv catching an amateur colonoscopy because they're all queer as a 3 dollar bill. (Does this need editing, I didn't swear and hopefully didn't offend?
I'm not in a mind to edit it. I think you summed it up pretty well. It did give me a rather unpleasant visual in my imagination though. Almost as bad as looking for a manly bulge under "M's" dress does. Can these jokers possibly be more freaky?
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:45 am
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quietobserver wrote:
Well, likely not as I type because its the middle of the night there and he's likely somewhere in tel aviv catching an amateur colonoscopy because they're all queer as a 3 dollar bill. (Does this need editing, I didn't swear and hopefully didn't offend?
I'm not in a mind to edit it. I think you summed it up pretty well. It did give me a rather unpleasant visual in my imagination though. Almost as bad as looking for a manly bulge under "M's" dress does. Can these jokers possibly be more freaky?
"I'd rather be the hammer than the anvil."
Erwin Rommel
(Doing my best to stay on topic)
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:01 am
Recorded a few moments ago live, 12 noon CDT, from a webcam in Gaza. Here is the link to the WebCam Over Looking Gaza.
http://www.ustream.tv/OccupiedAir
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Subject: Israel ramps up air assault on Gaza Strip Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:51 am
Israel ramps up air assault on Gaza Strip
on July 12, 2014 Posted In: Israel, Middle East, Wars And Rumors Of War
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel launched a major air assault on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing dozens of targets in what Israeli officials said was a bid to halt cross-border attacks from Palestinian militants, who fired more than 150 rockets toward Israeli cities and its coastal high-tech corridor.
In a sign that the cross-border conflict could widen, Israel said that it had called up 1,500 reservists and was mobilizing two infantry brigades, artillery, combat bulldozers and tanks along the Gaza border in preparation for a possible ground invasion. The Israeli Cabinet later approved the call-up of an additional 40,000 army reservists, according to the Defense Ministry.
The operation “won’t end in a day, and it won’t end in two days; it will take time,” Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Israel’s Cabinet minister for internal security, told Channel 2 TV.
Warning sirens Tuesday night sent Israelis scrambling for bomb shelters in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where a police spokesman said two rockets landed in the city’s outskirts. Other rockets struck as far north as Hadera, more than 70 miles north of Gaza, the farthest range yet for Gaza-based weapons.
Israel said that its missile interception systems blocked 29 of the rockets, including two over Tel Aviv, and that no injuries or major damage were reported.
The Israeli military said it carried out airstrikes against more than 150 sites in Gaza, killing five suspected members of Hamas, which controls Gaza. Ashraf al-Qidrah, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry, said early Wednesday that 24 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli attacks and 152 wounded.
Israel also hit 10 smuggling tunnels, 90 concealed rocket launchers and 18 weapon storage and manufacturing sites, the military said.
The Israeli operation against Hamas in Gaza is the third since 2008, and it came against the backdrop of weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions after the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the occupied West Bank, which Israel has blamed on Hamas, and the suspected revenge killing of an Arab youth in East Jerusalem.
Since the abduction of the three Israelis last month, mortar rounds and rocket shells have been fired at Israel almost daily from Gaza, including almost 100 on Monday, according to the Israeli military.
In Gaza, residents filled mosques for Ramadan prayers, and patriotic songs blared on car radios as Hamas and other militant groups spent the day and night lobbing short- and medium-range Qassam, Grad and Fajr-5 rockets at Israeli territory.
The Israeli military said that a small party of Gaza frogmen attempted a raid near the seaside Israeli army base in Zikim, just north of the Gaza border. Hamas took credit for the incursion and said its fighters used scuba gear to infiltrate Israel. Israeli soldiers who stopped them killed four Hamas militants, who arrived on the beach with grenades and automatic weapons, and one Israeli soldier was wounded in the fight, the Israeli military said.
Hours after Israel launched what it called “Operation Protective Edge,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the army to “take their gloves off” against Hamas and increase attacks on Gaza, according to an account by a senior Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Early Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli military said it killed Mohammed Shaaban, 24, whom Israeli officials described as an important Hamas operative in Gaza. In Gaza City, the car carrying Shaaban was struck by a missile while crossing a busy intersection near the main market, witnesses said.
Witnesses said three other passengers were riding in the car. They said the car exploded into flames after it was struck by at least two missiles.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:17 pm
I dunno, looks to be shaping up for a bad day for somebody.
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Subject: IDF Begins Dropping Leaflets Telling Gazans to Leave Their Homes Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:33 am
IDF Begins Dropping Leaflets Telling Gazans to Leave Their Homes on July 13, 2014 Posted In: Israel, Middle East
The move is a possible prelude to a major offensive. IAF jets, helicopters and artillery pounding Gaza. Ten reported killed
The IDF has begun dropping leaflets on certain parts of Gaza, telling residents to leave their homes, reported Channel 2 Saturday night. The move is being interpreted as a preparation for a possible ground offensive by the IDF.
Channel 2 also reported that the IDF is carrying out a combined large-scale operation by fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery in Gaza Saturday night.
The artillery was being fired at open spaces that could serve as launch sites for rockets.
Medical sources told AFP that ten people had been killed in the aerial attacks. The operation may have been timed to forestall the rocket salvo against Tel Aviv that Hamas launched at about 9:00 p.m., after announcing earlier in the evening that it would do so.
Experts including former Military Intelligence head Amos Yadlin said Saturday that a possible ground offensive should be aimed at achieving limited tactical goals, such as destruction of terror tunnels and hidden rockets.
According to Israeli media reports, there are attempts to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. One such attempt is being led by Qatar, which sponsors Hamas and also has trade relations with Israel.
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In New York, the U.N. Security Council unanimously called for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza, while Britain’s foreign minister said he would be discussing cease-fire efforts with his American, French and German counterparts on Sunday.
The 15-member Security Council issued a press statement calling for a de-escalation, restoration of calm and a resumption of Mideast peace talks.
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Subject: Middle East Update: Captain Dan Gordon Reporting from Israel! Posted by lamarzulli Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:29 pm
Middle East Update: Captain Dan Gordon Reporting from Israel!
Posted by lamarzulli on July 13, 2014
Shalom from Israel. This is the first in a series of of daily updates and reflections from one Israeli soldier during the latest rain of rockets designed to terrorize Israel and shake the faith of its supporters. It is carried out by a terrorist army; Hamas, just as ISIS is a terrorist army, just as Hezbolla is a terrorist army, so exactly is Hamas.
First there is a myth put forth in a good deal of the media that needs to be dispelled. That myth goes like this:
Hamas, the democratically elected rulers of Gaza, resisting Israeli occupation, are the victims of an Israeli onslaught, which is part of a cycle of violence, starting with the murder of three Jewish teens, the torture and revenge murder of a Palestinian teen, riots by Palestinians, brutally put down by the Israelis, as evidenced by the beating of a Palestinian/ American teen, which was then answered by relatively harmless rocket fire by Hamas ( as evidenced by the lack of even one Israeli civilian death, while Israel has unleashed it’s air force against the defenseless people of Gaza, killing some one hundred, of which forty may have been women and children in a completely disproportionate responses evidenced by the Palestinian loss of life and lack of even one Israeli fatality.
So let’s set the record straight.
1.There is no Israeli occupation of Gaza and hasn’t been for almost ten years. In 2005 Israel used it’s army to uproot 10,000 JEWS not Palestinians, from their homes, businesses, farms and synagogues, in which they had lived, worked and worshipped for almost forty years in order to quite literally give peace a chance. It was done in the hopes that if by giving land, we would get peace in Gaza, the same formula could be applied for an overall agreement with the Palestinians. Indeed Israel wanted Gaza to become the Singapore of the middle east, and left behind, completely in tact, agricultural enterprises which could have provided employment for thousands of Palestinians and millions of dollars in exports. Instead the Palestinians uprooted all that was left behind and turned it into rocket launching sites and began firing rockets at Israel, literally as we were leaving. That is neither opinion nor hyperbole. It is a fact.
2. While Hamas indeed won one election, that is not what gave them rule over Gaza. They staged as blood thirsty a coup as has ever been seen, not against Israel, but against their fellow Palestinians, lining people up against walls and machine gunning them, tying people up and blind folding them and pushing them off three story buildings to their deaths. Anyone who dared speak out against them had their knee caps shot off for starters. That’s not a claim. That’s a fact. The videos are still on the internet for anyone who has the stomach to see them.
3. The present hostilities are not part of a cycle of violence. They are a carefully planned and orchestrated Hamas offensive. Hamas wants and believes it needs this war and has done and continues to do, everything to bring it about and keep it going. Before the three teenaged Israeli boys were kidnapped and murdered, Hamas began firing rockets into Israel. Israel did not respond. It repeatedly said that calm would be answered with calm. When it did react it attacked EMPTY training camps, to show what it COULD do if calm were not restored. No lives were lost, because Israel did not want a war. That is not opinion. That is fact. When Israel didn’t respond to rocket fire, Hamas had one of it’s terrorist cells respond to the calls of it’s chairman to kidnap Israelis, and they did just that, and then murdered them in cold blood. And Israel STILL did not respond by attacking Gaza! Then a group of murderous Israeli thugs kidnapped and murdered a poor Palestinian teenager. But to give some sort of equivalence to the two acts is to say there is no difference between Charley Manson and Usama Bin Laden. Every society, unfortunately has heartless murderers. Israel is a democracy which apprehended the killers in a matter of days ( while it still hasn’t caught the terrorists who murdered the three Israeli boys). Hamas is a terrorist organization and army which dispatched the murderers and then celebrated their achievements. We will try and punish the murderers of the Palestinian teen to the fullest extent of the law. Unfortunately our Palestinian neighbors name streets and squares after those who have murdered our children and hand out candy to celebrate their murderous acts and train their own children to emulate them. That is the difference. That is not opinion. It is fact.
4. Israelis haven’t been killed not because Hamas’ rockets are harmless or because they haven’t been trying to kill Israelis. Israelis haven’t been killed because of first and foremost a Merciful G-d and also because of the Iron Dome anti missile system which has had over a 90% success rate and the most outstanding civil defense system in the world. That’s why Israelis haven’t been killed. But one certainly can’t claim that Hamas hasn’t been doing it’s utmost to change that.
5. Hamas wanted this war because they were being squeezed from two different directions. Once they took over Gaza in their murderous coup, they had a problem, They actually had to govern. They had to collect garbage and run an economy that could provide jobs for their people. Instead through incompetence and corruption they doomed their own people to poverty and misery. There is forty percent unemployment in Gaza. They can not even pay their own soldiers and for the first time there were signs that their own people might topple them because of their incompetence and corruption.
At the same time, new groups like ISIS and Al Qaida have begun operating in Gaza , for whom Hamas is too tame, and who threatened to topple them as well. So Hamas calculated that it was better for them to fight and even lose a limited war with Israel than be toppled from within. That way if the economy is bad, it’s the Israelis fault. Look how they bombed us! If you think we’re not radical enough , you’re wrong, look how many rockets we launched at them and look how far they reached.
We terrorized Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Who else could have done that but us?! So, for Hamas a losing war is a win as long as it keeps them in power. Now they are desperate for one tangible gain; one soldier they can hold hostage, one terrorist attack they can pull off, one rocket attack that kills scores so they can declare a divine victory, when in fact all they will have delivered to their own people is more misery, more poverty, more death and destruction.
As for Israel, we are in territory that has been familiar to us since the days of King David. We are in the valley of the shadow of death once more, and we fear no evil.
Dan Gordon
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Subject: ISRAEL IS MASSING at the GAZA BORDER. Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:12 pm
ISRAEL IS MASSING at the GAZA BORDER.
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PEACE BEFORE SUDDEN DESTRUCTION.
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Subject: Israel strikes dozens of targets in Gaza, downs drone over Ashdod Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:43 am
Israel strikes dozens of targets in Gaza, downs drone over Ashdod
After brief respite, rocket fire resumes; IDF shells Lebanon after third rocket attack from there; United Nations chief warns against Gaza ground offensive
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Subject: Mid East War Update with Dan Gordon! Posted by lamarzull Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:14 pm
Mid East War Update with Dan Gordon!
Posted by lamarzulli on July 14, 2014
If it Bleeds it Leads
by Dan Gordon IDF Captain reporting from Israel
Dan will be interviewed by Richard Shaw in the forthcoming Torah Code Special!
I’m a citizen soldier. That means I live most of my life out of uniform, towing nobody’s party line, following no one’s orders or even talking points, but my own. Eleven months out of the year I’m in jeans and t shirts or shorts and flip flops, the least military looking person on the face of the earth. I can get away with looking like a slob because I’m a writer. It’s not only NOT looked down upon in my profession, it’s almost expected.
I’ve worked in media for over forty years; everything from feature films to running news crews, some of them in the middle east.I remember one reporter for a major European network who was based in Jerusalem in the eighties. A nice man, in that he would always buy me drinks whenever we met, he was indeed a raging alcoholic, ostensibly covering the events in the West Bank. He used to hang out at a bar called Goliath’s , which advertised itself as being “ a stone’s throw” from the King David Hotel. He wore what was then the expected uniform of the hard bitten foreign correspondent; namely a well wrinkled safari jacket complete with sweat stains to make it look as if he was reporting live from some native uprising in theSahara.Next to Goliath’s was a building made of Jerusalem stone that was half in ruins. If you held him in a tight enough shot, it looked like he was standing next to a recently demolished Palestinian house. He would sit in Goliath’s bar and drink all day and send “ stringers” , free lancers , out to the West Bank to get footage of whatever that day’s riot was occurring during the lead up to the first Intifada. His stringers would come back and describe the footage they had taken of stone throwing on the Palestinian side and tear gas from the Israelis. Then he would get up from the bar, finish his martini, go outside and stand next to the ruined stone house. He would call for a tight shot of him in the Safari jacket and record his “ heads and tails” , the lead in and tag to the report he hoped would land him some network time on the nightly news.He would look suitably somber and end each report with his name( let’s say it was Sam Jones” )by saying, “ This is Sam Jones, reporting from somewhere in the Occupied West Bank”. Then he would take off the safari jacket, go back into the air conditioned bar, and order another martini.
i always got kind of a kick out of the old fraud, because though he was a drunken huckster of the first order, and a lazy one at that, A) he did pay for the drinks, and B) outside of lying about the fact that he wasn’t even there, he basically just covered the story. He even, occasionally provided context. I I miss him.
So the other day I’m watching a network correspondent, reporting from Gaza. He looks into the camera. His look is concerned, empathetic, suitably somber and even, saddened, in a kind off handed way. Not enough to be maudlin, mind you. That wouldn’t be cool and it wouldn’t play well to his audience who want to be , while, not entertained, necessarily, suitably moved to click their tongues, but not enough to be actually upset. The report needs to re enforce beliefs he feels they already hold, so they can feel…well righteous, not righteously indignant. That would be too upsetting. Just morally superior. That’s the effect that will guarantee his following. But there’s one other element he needs to make sure he hooks them and keeps them , so they don’t channel surf.
He needs blood.
There’s a saying in broadcasting, which is to say, show business, “If it bleeds, it leads.”
And nothing leads like the death of a child.
How could it?
Who could turn away from that?
Whether it’s a toddler left in his car seat to bake to death by a father having an internet affair, a starving third world infant, or, in this case, the truly tragic death of a Palestinian child killed in an Israeli air strike on the house of a known terrorist, if it bleeds, it leads.
He gets the saddened, somber look, his eyes looking straight into camera and speaks his truth, “ There’s no such thing as a surgical air strike.”
I’m a professional, and this guy’s good. Tis guy’s close to perfect. He goes on to talk about the fact that the Israelis attacked the house of “ an alleged terrorist”.
Well that’s only fair right? I mean the terrorist in question didn’t actually have a trial, he just murdered people and bragged about it and announced his intention to murder others. So it was an air strike on” an alleged terrorist” and yet who got killed,? This innocent child. This poor sweet little girl who couldn’t possibly have posed a threat to Israel or anyone else. And yet the Israeli air force, with all it’s might and I might add it’s American made planes( as if the US. is an accomplice to this clear act of infanticide), murdered her.
Then we cut to footage of the child’s funeral, her bereaved parents, her infuriated neighbors, family and friends; the tragedy of the latest senseless act in, at best, this cycle of violence, and at worst, this barbarous act act of a European colonial power against the brown skinned indigenous and rightful inhabitants of this portion of the world.
Permit me , if you will a few comments, and a bit of context which the reader may find of some interest.
First, no one needs to educate me, unfortunately, as to the tragedy of losing a child in a fiery death. My son was killed at the age of 22 and to this day I cannot talk about it. My heart goes out to this and every parent who must go through the absolute horror of burying their child. It is a pain that never leaves, a wounded, unhealable, a loss of a whole world. All the experiences that would have been, go into the grave with the child, joyous occasions never experienced, weddings never celebrated, grandchildren, unborn and in the grave before drawing a first breath. I don’t need to be trained in a somber look on that one.
But let me tell you what the Israel Defense forces have done in this war in order to do everything humanly possible to avoid loss of innocent life, to prevent the death of that poor child about whom the network correspondent was seemingly so concerned, and every other woman , child and non combatant in Gaza.
Before targeting any area we drop leaflets. The leaflets are in Arabic and they warn the citizens of a number of things. If they live near a Hamas smuggling or terror tunnel( one which has been dug in order to go under the Israeli border and carry out a terrorist attack against Israeli troops or civilians) they are warned to leave immediately, because that tunnel will be a target for an air strike. If they live with or next to a known Hamas operative, they are warned to leave immediately because the house of that operative will be a target of an Israeli air strike. If they live next to a missile launching site, or rocket storage facility ( which many do because Hamas hides it’s rockets and operatives amongst it’s civilian population, which is by the way, recognized as a war crime under international law) they are warned to leave immediately because that will be the target of an Israeli air strike.
Now there are any number of Western armies which have dropped similar leaflets in similar campaigns for years. But here is what, I believe, only the Israeli military does. We have an entire unit whose sole purpose is to call Gazans up on their cell phones ( yes we have their numbers) and warn them in arabic, to leave immediately because we are about to attack that particular house, tunnel, launching site or storage facility.
Let me say that again, WE CALL THEM UP AND WARN THEM TO LEAVE BEFORE THE OKAY IS GIVEN TO ATTACK!!!
Then, as if that is not enough, we have even dropped flares on the house about to be hit to show that the attack is imminent and its inhabitants still have a chance to leave.
And what does Hamas do?
Do they have a civil defense unit standing by ready to evacuate their people before an impending Israeli air strike?
No.They tell their people to stay in the house, to become a human shield to protect their so called fighter, who hides behind his own wife and children, or their weapons, for which they are prepared to sacrifice their own people, in order to have a few more rounds to fire off at Jewish civilians.
So what is the choice offered to Israel in this instance? A) do nothing and let them kill your civilians, or B) do everything you humanly, possibly can to prevent innocent loss of life, but at the end of the day, do that which any armed force has been formed to do; protect your civilians…not your troops mind you, because by and large Hamas doesn’t attack our troops, but your women, your children, your old and infirm.
A gentleman by the name of Abu Odeh, a Hamas spokesman, was once asked by a reporter what the difference between Hamas and Al Qaida was. Abu Odeh was indignant. How could the reporter possibly compare Hamas to Al Qaida?
“ Well”, said the reporter , in a moment of candor and not a little courage, “ You both target civilians, do you not?”
“ Absolutely not!” Abu Odeh declared with his own righteous indignation, “ We never target civilians! We only target Jews.”
Like the old drunk standing outside of Goliath’s bar in his Safari jacket, that was in the good old days. Today Hamas finds itself competing with Al Qaida , Islamic Jihad and ISIS for terrorist street cred.
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former British regular army officer and commander of Nato troops in Afghanistan, and not a Jew , last time I looked, has said that no army in the history of warfare has ever done as much as The Israel Defense Forces to avoid and prevent loss of innocent human life.
The numbers, by the way, bear him out. When the US bombed Bosnia and Kosovo, the loss of civilian life compared to the loss of combatant life was three to four to one. In the battle for Falujah the loss of civilian life compared to combatants was even higher.
According to the unverified Palestinian figures 172 Palestinians have been killed thus far of which 35 were children and 25 were women. That is a ratio of less than one to one. It’s still horrible, but not because Israel hasn’t done everything in its power to avoid civilian loss of life.
No Israelis have been killed thus far.
Not because Hamas hasn’t tried their best.You have to give them credit where credit is due. They have fired roughly 1000 rockets at Israel in this latest round of fighting, almost all of them fired exclusively at civilian targets. I’ve been under more than a dozen of them myself and can testify to three things;1) Israel’s iron dome anti missile system works. It has over a 90% success rate. But that still leaves a hundred rockets that got through , all of them aimed at our civilian population centers. 2) Israel has a civil defense system second to none, with shelters every fifty meters in the border towns which get the most rocket fire and a disciplined home front, which has not panicked and has followed civil defense measures which have saved countless lives.
What has Hamas done to save the lives of their own people? They have told them to ignore Israeli warnings to leave,and in some instances have ordered them to be human shields, have invested hundreds of millions in finding ways to kill our people and almost nothing to save their own.
And it’s not by chance. It is a cold, cynical calculation which allows them to commit acts of absolute terror, while claiming the mantle of victimhood.
No. There’s no such thing as a surgical air strike. But not for our lack of trying. To paraphrase Golda Meir, I believe peace will finally come when our adversaries want their own children to live, more than they want ours to die. Sadly, that day doesn’t seem to be coming any time soon…
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Subject: Israel accepts Egyptian mediation and ceasefire, demands removal of Hamas missile stocks from Gaza Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:02 pm
Israel accepts Egyptian mediation and ceasefire, demands removal of Hamas missile stocks from Gaza
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi tries his hand as peace broker
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report Jul 15, 2014, 12:25 AM (IDT)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has accepted the Egyptian president's proposal to mediate the halt of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, and a ceasefire going into effect Tuesday, July 15 at 9:00 a.m.,DEBKAfile reports. The Prime minister informed senior security cabinet ministers Monday nigh that he had reached this decision after talking to Washington and Cairo. He stressed that Egyptian and Israeli policies towards Hamas remained unchanged, including the blockade of the Gaza, and he would insist on all Hamas rocket stocks in Gaza being dismantled.
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Subject: Hamas vows that attacks will 'increase in ferocity and intensity' as they reject Egyptian-proposed ceasefire Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:13 am
Hamas vows that attacks will 'increase in ferocity and intensity' as they reject Egyptian-proposed ceasefire
Palestinian militant group spoke moments after Israel accepted offer
Armed wing said it was 'an initiative of kneeling and submission'
Plan had called for hostilities to end today, followed by negotiations
185 Palestinians have died in a week of conflict in the Gaza Strip
Israel's military said three rockets have been fired today from Gaza
By LEON WATSON PUBLISHED: 02:53 EST, 15 July 2014 | UPDATED: 05:25 EST, 15 July 2014
Rocket attacks on Israel continued today after Hamas rejected out-of-hand a ceasefire plan brokered by Egypt. The Israeli military said three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at empty lands near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. There were no casualties, military chiefs said.
It happened after the Palestinian militant group swiftly rejected a proposals for a truce agreed by Egypt and Israel and warned its attacks will 'increase in ferocity and intensity'.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior official with the Palestinian militant group, spoke moments after Israel accepted the offer. He said: 'This proposal is not acceptable.'
Palestinians hold national flags and pictures of children who were killed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip during a march against the war in the Gaza Strip on the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus in the West Bank
A Palestinian searches a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, added that it had not officially received the text of the agreement but said excerpts the group had seen showed it was 'an initiative of kneeling and submission'.
'Our battle with the enemy continues and will increase in ferocity and intensity,' it said.
The Egyptian plan had called for hostilities to end this morning, followed by negotiations on easing the border blockade of Gaza.
But the Israeli government warned today that Israel would strike Gaza even harder if Hamas does not accept the truce.
A spokesman said: 'If Hamas rejects the Egyptian proposal, if Hamas continues to shoot rockets at Israeli cities, we are prepared to continue our military operation and intensify it as needed to protect our people.
The territory has been under a blockade by Egypt and Israel since Hamas seized Gaza in 2007.
The Israeli Cabinet accepted the proposal for a ceasefire to end a week of conflict with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has killed 185 Palestinians and exposed millions of Israelis to Hamas rocket fire.
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Cabinet met this morning and accepted the proposal, which went into effect at 9am local time.
Former British Prime Minister and Middle East envoy Tony Blair, speaks during joint statements with Israel's President Shimon Peres at the President's residence in Jerusalem
Smoke billows from a building hit by an Israeli air strike in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip
Debris and remains of buildings and cars after what police said was an Israeli air strike that destroyed a nearby house in Gaza City
It called for a ceasefire to begin within 12 hours of 'unconditional acceptance' by the sides, followed by the opening of Gaza's border crossings and talks in Cairo within two days.
Egypt's state news agency said that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had met with Tony Blair, envoy for the so-called Quartet of United Nations, European Union, Russia and United States, in efforts to secure a truce.
An Israeli government official said Mr Blair had met with Mr Netanyahu on Friday. Today, he met with Israel's President Shimon Peres at the President's residence in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern parts of Gaza after Israel warned it was targeting the area.
The UN says so far 17,000 people have sought refuge in its facilities.
Israel launched the offensive last Tuesday, saying it was responding to weeks of rocket fire out of the Hamas-ruled territory.
The surge in hostilities over the past week was prompted by the murder last month of three Jewish seminary students in the occupied West Bank and the revenge killing on July 2 of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem.
A Palestinian looks at the damage to a house following an overnight Israeli missile strike in Gaza City
Palestinian children rest at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
A Palestinian man rests on school desks as families gather at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
Israel said on Monday three Jews in police custody had confessed to killing the Palestinian.
Hamas leaders have said a ceasefire must include an end to Israel's blockade of Gaza and a recommitment to a truce reached in an eight-day war there in 2012.
Hamas also wants Egypt to ease restrictions at its Rafah crossing with Gaza imposed after the military toppled Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last July.
A Palestinian family breaks its day-long fast at a UN school in Gaza City, after they fled from their home adjacent to the border with Israel
Refugees in Gaza City, after they fled from their home adjacent to the border with Israel following air strikes
Palestinian families shelter at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
TWO U.S. TV SHOWS FORCED TO RELOCATE BECAUSE OF CONFLICT Two American TV series filming in Israel have been temporarily derailed by the conflict. FX's Tyrant, set in a fictional Middle Eastern country but filmed in Tel Aviv, said it has had to fly its cast and crew to Istanbul on Monday morning. The show is filming the last two episodes of its first season, which began airing late last month. And the mini-series Dig, which filmed the first of six episodes in Jerusalem, is extending a planned break for two more weeks to wait out the conflict, but might relocate to the U.S. if needed. The series, starring Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche, is scheduled to premiere this fall. 'We're looking at all options, and hopefully everything will calm down and we can go back to what we planned,' says Gideon Raff, an Israeli producer who co-created both series. But the Egyptian proposal made no mention of Rafah or when restrictions might be eased.
It said only that 'crossings shall be opened and the movement of persons and goods through (them) shall be facilitated once the security situation becomes stable on the ground'.
Hamas has faced a cash crisis and Gaza's economic hardship has deepened as a result of Egypt's destruction of cross-border smuggling tunnels.
Cairo accuses Hamas of aiding anti-government Islamist militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, an allegation the Palestinian group denies.
Hamas has said it wants the release of hundreds of its activists arrested in the West Bank while Israel searched for the three missing teens.
The detainees include more than 50 Hamas men freed from Israeli jails in a 2011 prisoner exchange.
The proposed truce made no mention of the detainees in stipulating that 'other issues, including security issues, shall be discussed with the sides.'
Israel accepted an Egyptian-backed proposal for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas early Tuesday morning, agreeing to stop its raids on targets in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a halt in rocket fire from the coastal enclave.
However, the proposal was quickly rejected by Hamas as “not acceptable.”
Neo-Nazis, Islamists declare ‘You Jews are beasts’ during protest of Israeli operation
German police allowed an anti-Israel protester to climb inside a police car and shout slogans including “child murderer Israel” and “Allahu akbar!” — Arabic for “God is Great!” — through a police megaphone, a spokeswoman for Frankfurt’s police said Sunday.
Yesterday in the comment section of this Blog, another blogger came in and attempted to set me straight in regard to Israel. My reply was a list of ten prophecies which are centered solely on the nation of Israeli. I will post them here:
1. Israel has been gathered back into her ancient homeland. Prophecy fulfilled. 2. The Later rain falls. More prophecy fulfilled. 3. Hebrew is spoken. Need I say more. 4. The land is covered with fruit and trees after it was denuded. Yet another Prophecy. 5. The third temple will be rebuilt. Future. 6. Father God is not finished with Israel – they will look on Him whom they have pierced. Future. 7. The prophecies of Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38 & 39 revolve around Israel. Future. 8. Jesus comes back to Jerusalem not to New York City. Future. 9. The entire world will hate the Jews… It’s starting to happen. 10. Jerusalem will become a stumbling block. Happening as we speak.
So, I’m not making this up. These prophecies are in our Bibles and those who fail to see them and understand that they revolve around the nation of Israel, do so at their own risk of not understanding the scriptures. L.A.
Some would argue that the people in Israel now are not the real Jews, to which I reply, you’re right, we’ll have to move these people out of the land and go find the real Jews. They must be hiding somewhere! When viewed in this light this argument, which is used over and over again, falls of its own weight. It’s absurd!
Bob Ulrich, Gary Stearman and I were discussing what is happening in Israel over dinner last night and one of the points made by Bob was this, just the fact that the hatred toward Israel is at a boiling point should be an indicator that there is a supernatural component to this!
He’s right! Look at the article above, The Neo Nazi’s and the Islamists want the destruction of Israel. Their hatred of Israel just doesn’t make any sense, until we factor in the Fallen Cherub who hates Israel and the Jewish people. Why? Because the Messiah came from the Jews, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah!
The Fallen One was defeated at the cross and it was check mate. However, just like prophecy tells us, his time is at hand and he wants to drag as many people down with him into the Lake of Fire. He has a special hatred for those people who brought about the Messiah, the Jewish people.
In closing todays post: HAMAS has passed on the peace treaty. They don’t want peace, they want the destruction of Israel, so their actions speak louder than words and all the spin by our liberal media won’t change this. As Dan Gordon told us, these are the thugs—HAMAS— who threw people off of three-story buildings in Gaza so they could elect their candidate.
In the End prophecy will come to pass: What was foretold will unfold.
You know what?
It’s unfolding now for those who have eyes to see!
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Subject: UPDATE! News From the Front with Dan Gordon Posted by lamarzulli Wed Jul 16, 2014 7:28 am
UPDATE! News From the Front with Dan Gordon
Posted by lamarzulli on July 16, 2014
I’m driving to Sderot, the border town that for years has gotten the brunt of the rockets Hamas aims at Israel, and in particular at the kindergartens in Sderot. They like to shoot their rockets off exactly at the hour that parents drop their kids off at school, because that creates the most terror in Jewish parents. And that’s the point after all. It’s not military vs military. Hamas is a terrorist army. And how do you plant terror in the heart of a Jewish parent? Go after their children. And still these people stand fast and raise their kids as” normally ” as possible. So I’m driving to Sderot to look at a playground filled with gaily painted bomb shelters so the kids will think they’re playhouses. They’re supposed to have a lot shelters like that in that playground, so wherever the kids are, when the rockets start falling they’ll be safe.that‘s how we live, spitting terror in it’s eye as best we can .
> But today I’m running on fumes. Got only three hours sleep last night and right now I’m more in danger of nodding off at the wheel then getting hit by a Hamas rocket. Besides there’s supposed to be a cease fire. Israel’s already accepted it.
Hamas hasn’t given their answer . Actually that’s not true. They’ve been firing rockets at us for the last two hours. Maybe that’s their answer . Any way Hamas is not my concern right now. Coffee is. I’m dying for one of those little Demi glasses of real Turkish coffee, the kind with three teaspoons of sugar and grounds turned to mud at the bottom of the glass, like my friend Itzik makes.I pull into a gas station, because you used to be able to get great Turkish coffee in any self respecting gas station . Not any more. Today it’s all espresso, cappuccino. Pishkeh! But any port in a storm, so I pull into a crowded gas station with a little coffee bar, order my double
> Pishkeh espresso and look for a place to sit down. There are a lot of army guys, reservists and regular army and truck drivers. No place to sit. There’s an old guy in his mid eighties by the looks of him sitting alone at a table.
> “any one sitting here” I ask. > ” looks like you are “he says dryly. > I love this kind old guy so I sit down. He looks me over, notices my grey hair and says ” They mobilized YOU?” > ” Shows you how desperate we are” I say. > ” Bah! how old are you? ” he asks > ” 67″ I say > ” tsutsik! ” it’s a great word. It means ” baby!” > I like this guy even more. He asks where I am in the army. I tell him I’m driving to Sderot to see the playground. I might want to write about it. > ” I know that play ground” he says. ” My grandson lives in Sderot, my great grandson plays there. I take him there . Little cutie. Nice play ground. Very sweet.
You have grandchildren ?” he asks and noisily sips his coffee and that’s when I see the faded blue numbers on the inside of his forearm, and in spite of myself I get the feeling I always get in the presence of a holocaust survivor; complex feeling, pity, somehow shame, somehow pride, humility , there but for the grace of god go I . I have a friend who is Israel’s greatest writer , Amos Oz. I’m not worthy to bring him a glass of water. He said once, scratch any Israeli, I don’t care what age he is, how tough he looks, and you’ll see the numbers just under the surface of his skin. That’s the feeling.
> I tell him I have a grandson , three years old . I show him a picture on my iPhone that my son just sent” my grandson found a caterpillar ” I say as if such a thing has never happened before. The kid’s a genius!
> ” ah ” he says and smiles, but there’s not a lot of mirth in that smile” my great grandson found a caterpillar too. He plays inside it.. In that playground you’re going to”
> ” what do you mean he plays inside a caterpillar?”
> ” it’s a sewer pipe” he says, ” they painted it to look like a caterpillar. So he plays in it and if a rocket falls… So, he’s safe… In the sewer pipe.”
> And I suddenly feel sick to my stomach because I know this guy spent some time in a sewer pipe himself, hiding from other Jew haters looking to kill a Jewish child.
> There’s a lot of talk on tv about the Palestinians who have been killed in Israeli air strikes, compared with the fact that no Jews have been killed thus far.
> But that’s forgetting the three Jewish boys who were forced to kneel by Hamas terrorists and shot in the back of their heads just as neat and clean as any Nazi ever did the same when this old guy was hiding in a sewer pipe somewhere .
> My heart goes out to the Palestinian parents whose innocent children were killed despite the super human efforts of the Israeli army to prevent those deaths. As a bereaved parent I know their pain and my heart aches for them in an all too familiar pain.
> But don’t bring that bill to my people. Don’t even think about it.
> You take that bill and deliver it straight to the leaders of Hamas who started this war despite Israeli pleas that” calm will be answered with calm”
> You take that bill to the leaders of Hamas who hid behind their wives and children and built their headquarters under their hospital and turned their own women and kids into human shields, not for jihad, not to resist an occupation of Gaza that hasn’t existed for almost ten years, but to save their sorry asses and their own greed for political power, bought and paid for with the blood of both our peoples. > And just for the record, I thank God every day of my life for the army of Israel which wants neither empire, nor Caliphate, but just to protect our people; our women and children and our elderly , some of whom wear numbers on their arms and memories too horrible to contemplate, while Hamas happily pledges to finish the work Hitler began.
> So don’t you dare present that bill to us. And with all due respect, we make no apologies for defending our nation in a war we never began, from an enemy which has so far answered our agreement for a ceasefire with dozens of rockets fired in the last two hours alone .
> I’m a movie guy. I appreciate great writing and I remember a scene in the movie Exodus, written by the great Dalton Trumbo, based on the book by Leon Uris. I don’t remember the exact dialogue but I think I’m pretty darn close.
> An American woman is trying to persuade an Israeli haganah fighter played by Paul Newman, to allow her to adopt , take to America and thereby ” save” a Jewish holocaust survivor child . Newman is giving her a hard time and she says ” how can you be so cynical ? I’m trying to save a human life.. A Jewish life! “
> ” Don’t get hysterical ” he tells her, ” and don’t expect me to get hysterical either. You’re too late , lady! They butchered Jewish children and nobody cared! And don’t tell me about Jewish life, because nothing is cheaper in this world than Jewish life ! Not beef, not herring, not even chopped liver” > Well, no more, Pal > No more. > Not as long as the IDF has anything to say about it. > And on the day that the Palestinian people demand of their leaders that they place a higher value on THEIR lives… On that day we won’t just have a cease fire. We’ll have peace. > And not a day before. > Dan Gordon > Capt. IDF ( Res)
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:04 am
This is a long thread so it may already be mentioned, but the 6 month 'negotiation' with Iran regarding its nuclear ambitions expires on 7/20/2014. The Israelis aren't going to dilly dally forever on the Iran issue and they've been provided good reason to mobilize under the guise of ISIS and HAMAS.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:31 pm
Hamas flying an Iranian-made Armed Drone over Gaza
Subject: Israel, agrees to UN request for five-hour cease-fire in Gaza Wed Jul 16, 2014 8:04 pm
Israel, agrees to UN request for five-hour cease-fire in Gaza
By JPOST.COM STAFF LAST UPDATED: 07/17/2014 00:58
Pause in IDF campaign to begin at 10:00 a.m. local time to allow relief aid into Gaza; Hamas also agrees to pause in fighting; Abbas holds talks in Cairo to try to resuscitate cease-fire plan.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, June 24, 2014. Photo: IDF SPOKESMAN'S OFFICE
Israel on Wednesday accepted a UN proposal for a five-hour unilateral humanitarian pause in the fighting to allow for relief aid into Gaza, less than two days after it accepted a more comprehensive cease-fire proposal that was answered by continuous rocket attacks from Gaza.
Hamas followed suit and also agreed to the humanitarian pause in the fighting around midnight on Wednesday.
Related:
Ya'alon: Israel prepared for Gaza campaign which will not end within days
IAF destroys homes of all Hamas commanders, kills senior members
UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry turned to Maj.-Gen. Yoav “Poly” Mordechai – Israel’s coordinator of government activities in the territories – with the request. A UN spokesman said if Israel agreed, Serry would call on “groups in Gaza to respect the pause.”
IDF sources said the lull in the fighting would go into effect on Thursday at 10 a.m.
The development came as Israel continued to delay a much discussed ground incursion into the Gaza Strip so it could gauge the direction intensive efforts in Cairo and elsewhere were taking to resuscitate the cease-fire plan Hamas rejected on Tuesday.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Cairo on Wednesday, as did Quartet envoy Tony Blair, in an effort to come up with a package that would be acceptable to both sides.
Abbas met with Hamas official Musa Abu Marzouk, and Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and even Tunisia and France were reportedly involved in efforts to quell the violence.
Even as these efforts were under way, Israel sent a message that a ground operation was very much on the table, approving the mobilization of another 8,000 reservists to join the 48,000 who have already been called up since the start of Operation Protective Edge.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – in conversations on Tuesday with the mayors of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Rishon Lezion – said Israel would “use as much force as necessary to restore the quiet.”
In addition, during a public statement before a meeting with visiting Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, Netanyahu said that at this point Hamas had closed the door on diplomacy, and Israel was intent on returning fire with more intensive fire.
“We’ve been trying to find a solution to this problem,” he said, stressing that Israel accepted on Tuesday the Egyptian-brokered plan that was endorsed by UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon and the Arab League.
“Israel accepted the cease-fire, Hamas rejected it,” the prime minister said. “We held our fire for six hours, and during that time Hamas continued to barrage our cities with rockets. Hamas thus shut the door to a diplomatic solution and it therefore bears the sole responsibility for the continuation of the violence. It’s responsible for the civilian deaths, the innocent deaths of Palestinians that it uses as human shields, and it’s responsible for the deaths of Israeli civilians and the terror rocketing of Israeli civilians.”
As Hamas was reportedly setting its conditions for a cease-fire – the release of the Hamas terrorists freed in the Gilad Schalit deal and rearrested last month, as well as the opening of Gaza’s border crossings – Netanyahu made clear what he expected.
“I think that the most important thing vis-à-vis Gaza is to ensure that Gaza is demilitarized from rockets and from the attack tunnels that Hamas is building into Israel,” he said. “This is an important part of the long-term solution, but in the immediate moment, Israel has to take the actions to defend its citizens as any normal country would against terrorists who are committing double war crimes of targeting civilians and hiding behind civilians.”
Netanyahu also raised the demilitarization of Gaza during a meeting with visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende. “The international community needs to support the demilitarizing of Gaza from its rockets and tunnels,” the prime minister said.
Diplomatic officials, meanwhile, dismissed reports that Hamas rejected the Egyptian cease-fire because it was kept out of the loop by the Egyptians and presented with a fait accompli.
The official said that there were various theories as to why Hamas rejected the offer, including that it is a “fanatical organization” that simply wants to continue the conflict; that it cannot end the violence without first inflicting a heavy blow on Israel; or that it reflects a dysfunctionality inside the organization.
Haaretz reported that Netanyahu spoke with Egyptian President Fatah al-Sisi on Saturday, before Tuesday’s aborted ceasefire.
This would be the second conversation the two men had since Netanyahu called the Egyptian leader last month to congratulate him on his election victory.
Yaakov Lappin and Yasser Okbi contributed to this report.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:27 am
20 missiles found in UN-run school in Gaza
UNRWA apologizes to Israel, condemns a ‘flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises’ and promises investigation; Israel calls on UN to ‘act strongly’
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:05 pm
And the band played on. The world and the obviously anti-Semitic UN actually don't give a plug nickel. This is endemic to the UN. Who remembers the 2008 war with Lebanon? All those rockets fired from within civilian areas? All those condemnations and boo-hoo's of the world over the poor civilians harmed when Israel was forced to fire back in defense? The UNRWA promise to stop further weapons transfers cross border from Syria to Hezbollah? Hows that working out?
When the UN was queried on why the weapons were still reaching across the border to Hezbollah in even greater numbers than before the answer (paraphrased) was . . .
"WE ONLY MONITOR AND PATROL DURING THE DAYTIME! WE SHUT DOWN AT NIGHT!", or something to that effect.
Yeah, the comments section was pretty interesting reading, quietobserver.
Operation Protective Edge IDF starts Gaza ground invasion Since the end of the humanitarian truce at 3 p.m. 100 projectiles fired into Israel; IDF drops leaflets over Gaza warning people to vacate their villages.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:28 pm
FYI if anyone's interested, but that Iron Dome unit is numbered 'three-seven-zero', aka Malaysian Airways.
sneaky bunch they are..
Strange coincidence, 7 days later...
Anyway, 18,000 more:
11:54 P.M. Israeli army to request cabinet to green light the recruitment of 18,000 more reserves in case the ground operation in Gaza is expanded. Chief of Staff Lieut. Gen. Benny Gantz says that "we'll launch a joint ground-aerial assault, using full force. We'll continue to expand the fire all over the Gaza Strip." (Gili Cohen)
Subject: IDF ground forces attack Gaza amid air, sea and artillery pounding. Half a million Gazans told to leave. Israelis around Gaza sent to shelters Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:21 pm
IDF ground forces attack Gaza amid air, sea and artillery pounding. Half a million Gazans told to leave. Israelis around Gaza sent to shelters
Israeli air strike over the Gaza Strip
DEBKAfile Special Report Jul 17, 2014, 10:44 PM (IDT)
Israel air, sea and artillery pounded the Gaza Strip Thursday night, July 17, as IDF ground forces embarked on a ground attack, just announced by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. DEBKAfilereports a softening-up operation to prepare for the entry of armored and infantry units. The IDF calls on the half million Gazans of southern towns of Khan Younes and Rafah to leave their homes for their own safety. Israelis living close to the Gaza border were advised to stay in bomb shelters.
Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:56 am
Israel launched its Gaza ground operation cautiously in the South. Hamas runs to shelter in crowded towns
IDF troops enter the Gaza Strip DEBKAfile Special Report Jul 18, 2014, 3:07 PM (IDT)
After artillery and air strikes softened up the terrain, Israel launched the ground phase of Operation Defensive Edge against Hamas Thursday night, July 17 in the north and the south. Their first action targeted the southern towns of Khan Younes and Rafah. IDF Chief, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz confirmed to the cabinet Friday that the IDF is focusing on southern Gaza at this stage, with the potential for expanding into further areas. DEBKAfile: The troops have not yet reached Gaza City, although destroying Hamas’ bunker infrastructure there is key to the operation’s success.
The IDF Golani Brigades lost 13 soldiers early Sunday, July 20, in the Gaza Strip district of Shejayia, it was announced. Their commander, Col. Rosan Aliyan, was seriously injured. The urban stage of the IDF’s Operation Defensive Edge has taken Israel into one of its most perilous wars, launched as Hamas’ rocket barrage against the Israeli population continued without pause. When the troops are done cleansing Shejaia, they must grapple with tough challenges in three more Hamas Gaza City strongholds: Shaati, Al Bureij and Nuseirat, before its terrorist infrastructure is dismantled.
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Subject: [color=#ff3333]Israel is Losing the Media War…. Goebbels Would be Proud. Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:00 am
Israel is Losing the Media War…. Goebbels Would be Proud.
Posted by lamarzulli on July 21, 2014
Israeli ProtestsCommentary & Analysis
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L. A. Marzulli
NOTE: Sometimes I go with an article or a post without vetting it the way I should. This is what happened on last Thursday’s Acceleration Radio, when I read a speech that I thought was actually given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I was misled as it was a speech by Allen West posting what Bibi should say! I’m sorry for the confusion and will be more careful in the future. However, West nailed it and like him I wish Netanyahu had given it!
This video I posted below happened in the USA. WARNING: VERY Bad Language. However, the reason I’m posting this is so we can hear the voice of hate for ourselves and not the filtered, sanitized version that the 6 o’clock news runs with. We’ve all heard these words before but the hatred and implied violence behind it jolted me and I think it will jolt you too.
HAMAS is winning the PR war and that is actually what it wants. It fires rockets into Israel and then when Israel reacts, HAMAS cries genocide. I received a piece of antisemitic hate mail yesterday in which the writer told me about the Jews who control hollywood and our media. It’s always the Jews. They are the world scapegoats. I didn’t bother writing the guy back as people like him are the reason Hitler was able to conduct a Holocaust in the first place.
Over the weekend there were demonstrations in Paris and London. HAMAS knows how to stir its international sympathizers and create the press it seeks. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.606036
HAMAS is a terrorist organization, but they know how to play the media game. The demonstrations in Paris and France are the tip of the iceberg. According to the article more Jews have left France than any other time since 1948.
In the first three months of 2014 more Jews left France for Israel than at any other time since the Jewish state was created in 1948, with many citing rising anti-Semitism as a factor.
Now, in Iraq, Christians are fleeing for their lives. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/19/Christian-Holocaust-Underway-in-Iraq-as-USA-and-World-Looks-On
In a region where Christians predate Muslims by centuries, over one million Christians have been killed or have had to flee because of jihadi persecution, while America is basically standing by and watching. This is the sad news that Breitbart’s National Security Editor and one of the world’s leading experts on asymmetric warfare, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, brought to Breitbart News Saturday, hosted by Editor in Chief Alex Marlow on Sirius XM Patriot Radio.
The troubling part for me is the guy in the video below. He is acting like he owns the place, like what he says is law. He is beyond arrogant, and in my opinion is little more than a thug. It’s not coming here folks, it’s already here and the question is this, how long before we see the intolerance that is shown in Iraq towards Christians here? Are you aware of the honor killings in this country that are al ready taking place? Here’s a link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/12/05/america-s-honor-killing-epidemic.html
In closing todays post. What we are seeing is the rise of antisemitism that is beginning to look more and more like Hitlers Germany of 1938. A case can be made that the hatred of the Jews migrated to the Middle East at the war’s end, with followers of Nazi idealism, like the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who in my opinion, is the after of modern-day terrorism. The people who march and yell do so because they have been taught from a very early age that the Jews are the descendants of pigs and apes. They have been taught to hate. This hatred is now become a pandemic and as I have stated in the past, there is a supernatural component to it. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Israeli Update
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Dan Gordon PatrolThe international red cross asked for a cease fire so the dead and wounded could be tended to, bodies removed, injured taken to hospital. Israel said yes to the cease fire, and Hamas immediately violated it.
Israel had hit the Saja’iyah neighborhood of Gaza and and hit it hard. Scores dead. Women and children amongst them. Survivors, justifiably crying out, “ What did we do to deserve this?!” And the horrible answer is , “ Nothing. You did nothing to deserve it. Hamas used you as human shields. It fired a hundred and sixty rockets from your neighborhood at Israel’s heartland. It riddled your neighborhood with tunnels, some of them, by all reports, terrorist tunnels, leading under Israel’s border , built to murder and kidnap Israeli civilians; people just like you who only want to live in peace. You did nothing to deserve this. You’ve been betrayed and used by your own leaders in the most cynical way imaginable. And you didn’t even ask for these leaders. They seized power in a bloody coup by lining up your fellow Palestinians against walls and machine gunning them to death, by blindfolding and binding and pushing them off three story buildings.. If you dare to dissent they begin the interrogation by shooting your knee caps off. You didn’t deserve this. And neither did we.
This is a war. It is not a war of Israel’s choosing. In the days leading up to the aerial campaign which Israel initiated in response to constant and escalating rocket attacks from Gaza on it’s civilian centers of population,Israel has said repeatedly that it did not want an escalation let alone a war and that “ calm would be answered with calm”. In other words, “ don’t shoot at us and we won’t shoot at you”. That seems like a pretty straight forward enough request, and an easy one to implement if one’s interest is in saving lives instead of taking them.
Hamas’s answer was more rockets.
And still Israel’s answer was “ calm will be met with calm”.
But there wasn’t any calm. Instead there were more rockets, and more rockets still.
And so Israel answered with aerial attacks….ON DESERTED TRAINING CAMPS!!!
Let me say that one again. The government of Israel responded to Hamas rocket attacks that had millions of Israelis racing for bomb shelters, with aerial strikes on empty tents!
That was not because of faulty intelligence or near sighted pilots. It was to demonstrate to Hamas what Israel COULD do unless Hamas ceased it’s rocket attacks.
Hamas’s response? More rocket attacks, in greater numbers and over wider areas until it was no longer just the Southern border towns under attack but Israel’s equivalent of New York City and L.A. rolled into one. The rockets began falling in the greater Tel Aviv area.
Unlike past campaigns, in the face of similar provocations in 2009 and 2012, Israel did not immediately respond with a massive aerial attack on Gaza. There was no shock and awe. Instead there was a very, very slowly ratcheted up, less than proportional, response, in the hopes that by offering Hamas a way out of the escalating situation, it would take it.
It didn’t.
Israel responded now with aerial strikes that were far less than all out war.
Egypt proposed a cease fire.
The Arab League endorsed it.
Israel accepted it
Hamas gave their answer in the form of a new massive rocket assault and by sending in thirteen terrorists via an underground tunnel that went beneath the border with Israel and came up within a few hundred meters of an Israeli civilian farming community.
This was to be their shock and awe; to kill, maim and kidnap dozens of Israeli civilians.
Finally with no other recourse Israel launched a ground campaign.
Now we are at war.
And Hamas, like the boy who murders his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he is an orphan, is crying fowl.
Hamas had long since turned the Saja’iyah neighborhood into a fortified center of terrorist attacks, armament workshops and now we know, terrorist tunnels.
Prior to its attack, for days running, and referenced fully in earlier articles I have written, the IDF warned the residents of this neighborhood of its intent to attack and urged them, for the safety of themselves and their families, to evacuate. It dropped leaflets to that effect. It followed up the leaflets with SMS and text messages, by actually calling the residents’ cell phones and through Arabic media, up until the very last moment urging people to flee for their lives
And Hamas’s response to those warnings? In the street and from the mosques, through every means of mass communication at their disposal, they told their people not to evacuate, to stay put.
Hamas’ has committed one of the vilest of all war crimes against it’s own people. It has used them as unwilling human shields.
So here was Israel’s choice. Attack a neighborhood used for attacking it’s own civilians, or permit it’s own civilians to be attacked.
An army, any army’s first responsibility is to protect it’s own people. Israel has fulfilled, albeit reluctantly, that first commandment.
Hamas has done the opposite. They have sacrificed their own people on the alter of their own greed for political power.
An Egyptian newspaper today, not an Israeli one, accused Hamas leaders of being liars, who live pampered lives, staying in five star hotels and driving expensive luxury cars while they sacrifice their own peoples’ lives
And what did the Hamas spokesman say today? “ We will fight to the last drop of the blood of Gaza.”
Of course he meant to say “ To the last drop of the blood of others.”
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:20 pm
Subject: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists 
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Palestinians inspect the remains of a car which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City July 8, 2014. / Photo by Reuters
