The harsh battle for Shejaiya was still unresolved Tuesday, July 22. Hamas is not giving up. The gap between the “official version” of the fighting on the battlefield and the real state of affairs is growing. The statistics released by the IDF spokesman provide little information on Israel’s military movements in the various sectors, or how many Hamas tunnels remain to be destroyed. While the IDF has the military edge over Hamas, the battle still needs to be won. Hamas is confident enough to fight on for better truce terms. Israel faces a ticking clock.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Tue Jul 22, 2014 2:20 pm
Public opinion would go pro-Israel if hamas were to strike an American aircraft. Can't have that happen in a musloid white house.
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Subject: Leading Their People to Death! Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:46 pm
Please forgive the many typos and misspellings in thus article . Just as I was beginning to proof read the location where I am right now came under rocket attack. I always send a safety copy to myself which I had done in this instance . But where I am right now one has less than 15 seconds to take shelter or face death or mutilation. Yesterday a teenager not more than a hundred meters away from me ( shrapnel can travel 1000 meters) was seriously wounded by shrapnel from a mortar round that landed somewhere between where he and I were standing . Mortars unlike rockets give no warning.
Any way in rushing to take cover rather like the IRS I accidentally deleted my working copy and was left only with the safety copy I’d emailed myself and I an too technologically challenged to know how to edit it. So apologies but you’ll get the gist
Dan Gordon Capt. IDF ( Res)Sent from my iPhone
Leading Their People to Death!
by Dan Gordon Capt. IDF (Res)
Ernest Hemingway had great advice for writers. “ Write one true declarative sentence” he said, “ Then Write another.
By that standard Papa Hemingway would be proud , indeed, of Sami Abu Zuhri’s literary prowess.
Sami Abu Zuhri is a Hamas spokesman. He summed up the current situation in Gaza perfectly. And he did it in two true declarative sentences.
“ We ( Hamas) aren’t leading our people to destruction. We are leading them to death”.
That wasn’t wasn’t Israel’s Prime Minister who said that. That was an official Hamas spokesman, and he said it without apologies. Two true sentences. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed.
Each and every one of those deaths, since Hamas rejected the Egyptian cease-fire proposal, which the Arab league endorsed was completely predictable, tragic beyond word, and absolutely, one hundred percent preventable..
Because Israel accepted that same cease-fire proposal, immediately and unconditionally.
All the killing could and would have been stopped immediately, right then and there. But as Sami said, that’s not where Hamas is leading the Gazan , Palestinian people. And that sentences by the way is neither “ Posturing , spin, amelioration and explanation”.
I use that last phrase because a reader of my last posted article, “ To The Last Drop of Others’ Blood” wrote in response, “ The truth is hame, horror, death. The rest is posturing, spin, amelioration and explanation”
As a writer by trade, I can, to a degree, appreciate the rhythm of that sentence. As they used to say on the American bandstand programs of my misspent youth, “ It has a good beat and you can dance to it.”. But with the greatest respect , it is not “ the truth” of this conflict.
An event occurred yesterday, which may, in the parlance of our time, provide a teachable moment. Israeli forces, operating in Gaza, yesterday were approached by what they suspected was a female suicide bomber. They ordered her to stop. She did not and they, in retrospect, chose the correct course of action. They shot her.
And she exploded. Or rather the suicide bomber vest that would have killed them all exploded.
This was not the first suicide bomber Israeli forces encountered since entering Gaza.
The first one was a donkey.
It appeared loaded down with an unusual load on it’s back and was beaten by it’s “ handler” in order to urge it forward, toward the Israeli troops . The “ Handler” was .a Hamas operative, who, having dispatched the donkey, promptly disappeared, quite literally, according to what I heard, down a rat hole.
In retrospect, those Israeli troops also chose the correct course of action. They shot the donkey.
It too exploded , or rather the donkey sized suicide vest with enough explosives to murder dozens of people it exploded.
I bring these two incidents up because, while I have no first hand knowledge of Hamas’s evolving policy of using beasts of burden as unwilling suicide bombers, I have , at least second-hand knowledge, of Hamas’s past and evolving policy regarding using women as female suicide bombers. I know the world’s leading expert on female suicide bombers.
Dr. Anat Berko has a PHD in criminology and advanced degrees in psychology. She speaks fluent Arabic and her parents were Jewish refugees from Iraq, where they had lived for several thousand years and from which they were expelled in the wake of the Israel / Arab conflict which made some 800,000 other Middle Eastern Jews, refugees as well. ( Ironically that is almost the exact number of Palestinians who became refugees in 1948 as a result of the same conflict.).
Dr Berko carried out the most comprehensive study of female suicide bombers and their handlers ever undertaken. She interviewed almost every female suicide bomber in Israeli custody. These were women whose suicide belts failed to detonate or who were caught before they could carry out their attacks. Her two books, “ The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and their Dispatchers” and “ The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers” have become classics on the subject.
What Dr. Berko found was that the majority of female suicide bombers were motivated by other than ideological or religious reasons. Nor were most of them motivated by the desire for revenge or even hatred of Israel.
The majority of female suicide bombers were unwitting, unwilling, or chose the path of so-called “ Martyrdom” as the lesser of two evils with which they were presented. There is a saying on the Palestinian street in regard to female suicide bombers. I hope I would not be accused of spin, posturing or amelioration, by saying that this particular expression betrays a somewhat sexist attitude amongst those who use it. With regard to female suicide bombers the Palestinian street saying is, “ Shahida o Sharmuta?” Freely translated it means “ ( was she) a martyr or a whore?”
The reason Palestinians might say that about one who had ostensibly committed the highly praised ( when it comes to men) act of “ Martyrdom” is because they know that in many of not the majority of instances, the female suicide bomber was approached by operatives of one terrorist organization or another and told that she had been seen with men other than male relatives and had thus “ dishonored” her family. In such an instance she would either be the victim of an “ honor killing” to be carried out by her, father , brother or another male relative, or she could choose to become a suicide bomber, strap on an explosive vest, blow herself up with as many Jews as possible, and thus die not a whore, but a martyr who would be admitted to Paradise where she would sit at the right hand of the prophet, and where, by the way, she could choose her own husband, as opposed to being forced into a heavenly marriage with someone not of her choosing.
Another category which provided fertile ground for female suicide bombers were victims of rape and incest from within their own families.. One girl was raped repeatedly by her cousins, another by her brother. Both saw the “ suicide” part of suicide bomber, as preferable to the liberal hell on earth which they were living.
To be sure there were women so enchanted with the religious notion of Paradise and it’s advantages over earthly life ( such as not having to take care of children, never having a period and marrying the mate of one’s own choice) that they became suicide bombers from religious reasons. Others had seen relatives killed by Israeli soldiers and wanted revenge and others, while not religious were motivated by nationalistic reasons. But as noted these were far less in numb than the women who were unwilling martyrs or those choosing martyrdom instead of honor killing or as a means of escaping an intolerable life.
But what I remembered was that Hamas, had, at least at one time, a firm policy AGAINST using female suicide bombers. Indeed Dr Berko had once interviewed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, one of the founders of, and the spiritual leader of, Hamas until his death in 2004, at the hands of the IDF..
Dr. Berko interviewed the Spiritual Leader in 1996. “ at that time” Dr. Berko told me this morning, “ Yassin said ‘ I’m against sending women ( as suicide bombers) because they have a special role. It is to give birth to children. There is not equality in Islam. Suicide bombing, that’s not a job for women. And then, too we have enough men to be suicide bombers. So we are against it. We don’t use them.”
“ What happened to make Hamas change it’s mind ?” I asked.
“ In 2002, there was the first female suicide bomber. “ Dr . Berko told me. “ She was not from Hamas. But it got a lot of good publicity for the organization that sent her. It got good media attention, and Hamas felt they had to compete with the other terrorist organizations who were getting all the attention because of the female suicide bombers. So Hamas didn’t want to be left behind.”
“ And that’s why Hamas changed it’s mind. Because it was effective media?!”
“ Yes” she said, “ Hamas had to compete with the other terrorist organizations.”
We will probably never know what motivated the female suicide bomber who exploded prematurely thanks to an Israeli marksman. But we absolutely know the motivation of the terrorist army of Hamas and it’s political wing as well, which dispatched her and the donkey and which has turned their own people into human shields, and which celebrate their deaths because of the great media attention it brings them.
That is the truth, the shame , the horror. It is not my, or Israel’s or anyone else’s posturing,or , Heaven forbid, amelioration.
We know it because Sami Abu Zuhri, the Hamas official spokesman told us so, in two declative, Hemingwayesque sentences.
“ We are not leading our people to destruction. We are leading them to death.”
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Subject: ISIL – Operating In Gaza + Live from the War – with Dan Gordon – Update Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:29 am
ISIL – Operating In Gaza + Live from the War – with Dan Gordon – Update
Posted by lamarzulli on July 23, 2014
Commentary & Analysis by L. A. Marzulli
“Patience, Jews, our appointment is at Jerusalem tomorrow,” and “Jews, we have broken the border.”
ISIL—The Islamic Strate of Iraq and the Levant—seems to have joined the fray in GAZA. We can glean from the quote above that the goal of ISIL—not ISIS—is the control of Jerusalem.
This is why the main stream media changed the anagram from ISIL to ISIS. What’s in a name? Everything, and this quote should be a wake up call to the guys in the press room who think Israel is overreacting to the rocket fire from HAMAS.
The goal of HAMAS, Hezbollah, ISIL and Iran is to wipe Israel off the map. How many times does our press and the press in other countries, have to hear this before they grasp the simple fact that this is the end game?
There is simply no room for the Jew in the Middle East and according to ISIL, the Christian has to go too. Look at the picture above. This is the face of radical Islam, hooded thugs armed to the teeth. Think about what happened in Ben Ghazi where our ambassador was tortured with a cattle prod and raped, before he died seven hours after he was captured. What was our response? Blame the attack on a movie, which inflamed moslems, which then led to the attack on our embassy, which has since been proven to be totally false.
Recently, HAMAS fired from a hospital at IDF troops. See how they play? I would love it if some of these pundits on the talk shows would trade places with the IDF soldiers who are being fired from the window of a hospital. I wonder what they would do? What is the IDF supposed to do? This is how HAMAS plays and no matter how many times Israel proves this is the case, the world at large still holds the IDF responsible for so-called collateral damage.
As I stated yesterday, HAMAS is winning the PR war. There are demonstrations in Paris and London celebrating HAMAS and condemning Israel.
It is clear that this war is not going to go away in a few days. It may go on for weeks at the rate it is going. Israel has no choice but to wipe out HAMAS’ infrastructure and reclaim the GAZA strip for itself. It has become clear that the Oslo accords and so-called land for peace is a total farce. With that in mind it’s time for the US, to start sending somebody who actually understands what is going on rather than John Kerry and those who call for a two state solution.
The only thing HAMAS understands is force. Those who fight for HAMAS are prepared to die and in fact want to be martyrs. This ideology is completely foreign to most Americans and Israeli’s, as we cherish life, we celebrate life, HAMAS celebrates death.
In closing todays post. The goal of HAMAS, ISIL, Hezbollah and Iran is Jerusalem.
They want to set up a caliphate with the capital in Jerusalem. Before former Egyptian president Morsi, was elected, the Imam, Highazi, stated the Jerusalem would be the capital of the newly created United Arab States. It is becoming very clear that the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, is being threatened and will continue to be threatened, until those who seek to destroy her are soundly defeated.
News from the Front! by Dan Gordon Captain IDF (RES) Why We Fight….
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Years ago in my misspent youth, as a film student at UCLA ,I saw a World War II documentary called “ Why We Fight’” So this is my go at it. But I’m not a good enough writer to do this one the way it ought to be done.I apologize for that up front. You won’t be able to feel what I felt yesterday in the the warm embrace of a an amazing family who live in one of the small agricultural communities on the border they share the Hamas’s Terrorist enclave in Gaza, and who have been under almost constant fire for thirteen years. I won’t be able to convey the emotion, the frustration, the courage, the grace, the anger at a world that refuses to see what’s right in front of them, the love, even for their so called enemies, their unbelievable determination not to give in to the terror their terrorist enemies try day and night to instill in them, their determination to live their lives in peace in their own country, a right every American, Canadian, Frenchman Brit, you name it, takes for granted. And why not? Even if those countries go to war, no one is sworn to kill every last one of them. No one denies them their right simply to breathe. Besides, America’s and Nato’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in Bosnia and Kosovo are a world away.
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This family’s war is literally a few hundred meters away. Read that one again.
I didn’t say it was a few hundred miles away. Like ,say you lived in LA ,and the war was in Las Vegas.
I didn’t say it was a few hundred kilometers away. Like, say you lived in New York, and it was at the other end of New Jersey.
I didn’t even say it was a mile away.
The war they face and have faced almost constantly for thirteen years is about two thousand meters, as the rocket flies, from their front door. At least that’s the distance away from their front door that it was up until a few days ago when the first thirteen terrorists popped up like zombies from graves opening up on their FRONT LAWN! Except these weren’t Zombies on a cable TV series. There’s no way to switch channels on this one. These were terrorists, armed to the teeth with anti tank missiles, machine guns , grenades, handcuffs, tranquilizers, all bent on murdering, maiming,kidnapping and taking hostage as many of them and their children as possible.
Imagine if Afghanistan wasn’t in Afghanistan. Imagine if it was on your front porch.
That’s their reality.
That’s where the war is.
Quite literally in their front yard.
You have gophers who come up out of holes and eat your petunias, let’s say? They have Hamas terrorists who come up out of sophisticated tunes, some of them built, by the way with YOUR TAX DOLLARS!
A dear friend of mine, Vicki, is married to my high school classmate who has been one of my best friends since I was a kid in Israel fifty years ago. She knows I’m “ down South” in the war zone. So is her son Benji who serves as a medic in the Homefront command. She said, ” lLsten, if you want a shower or a chance to rest or a hot meal or even someone to wash your uniform,I have a dear friend in one of the border communities. She and her family have opened up their home to any soldiers in the area. And check with Benji and give him a ride down there too if he wants a break. So I check with Benji, but he’s not getting any breaks today, not with the amount of rockets Hamas is launching against our civilians. He’s on constant alert. But I’m not that important. If I want a break I can take it. I’d kill to stretch out on a mattress right now and take a nap. I smell a bit ripe because one tends to sweat a tad in a flack jacket. I’d love a shower and a change of uniform. So absolutely, I’m headed down to see her friend. Let’s call her Rachel.
Not her real name because she asked me not to use it. So I plug the name of the community into the GPS and I’m off .
And the closer I get the louder the sounds of war and the more I have to pull off to the side of the road and take cover from the rocket attacks.The rockets don’t bother me as much as the mortars because there’s no warning with a mortar round. No siren, no Code Red alert on the radio , no phone app that says watch out you might just get killed if you don’t take cover in the next fifteen seconds.
Besides the closer I get the less time there is to take cover. Fifteen seconds is going to seem like a life time in a few more kilometers.
Now understand, I’m a former kibbutznik. I know what a little agricultural village looks like. But reality begins to change the closer I get.
The MPs have closed the road leading to this little community and the dozens of others down here. Only residents and military personal can get through. But I’m in Uniform and flak jacket and show my officer’s I.D. and they wave me through, assuming obviously, I must be a fighter, a warrior on his way to take up his position on the front. In reality I’m a lazy so and so who wants a shower, a free meal and a cot..
But when I get to this little community the thing that assaults your senses first are the sounds of battle. Its deafening and constant. Because this is where the war is. It’s not in Afghanistan or Bosnia or anywhere else far away. It’s not even like the wars of my youth in Sinai or the Golan Heights.
It’s right here! It’s in their front yard. I don’t mean their metaphorical front years.
I mean the front yard they water. Soldiers, and not any soldiers, not sad sack, rear echelon guys someone gave a weapon to, and said go stand guard at that latrine, type soldiers. I mean elite combat soldiers in full battle gear. I mean as good as it gets soldiers, weapons at the ready, helmets, flack jackets, locked and loaded soldiers. Except this isn’t an army base or some battlefield “somewhere” else, anywhere else but here, in these peoples’ front yard.
I ask directions to Rachel’s house and get there and it’s locked. She’s not there. I go next door. Maybe I have the wrong house. This looks like the right one because someone has set up cots on the front porch. They’ve even put a tv outside . I’m already eyeing the cot I mean to sleep on. I knock on the door and a big hearted woman with a smile that could light up the world comes to the door. “ I’m making the pizzas “ she says, “ But they’re not ready yet.”
“ I’m Vicki’s friend” I say. “ She said if I was in the area..”
“ What Vicki?” she says.
OK I must have the wrong house . “ I’m looking for Rachel” I say “ I’m Rachel “ she says.
“ But you don’t know Vicki?”
“ You must want the other Rachel.She lives next door.”
“ Oh “ I say, “ She’s not home”
“ Okay, “ She says, “ So come on in. Sit down , rest. The pizzas will be ready soon. You want something to eat?”
This woman doesn’t know me from Adam, but I’m a soldier, so now I’m quite simply family, even though I have the wrong house, I have the right one. The house smells of all good things . Onions and mushrooms being sautéed for the pizza, the aroma of coffee, dough beginning to bake like fresh bread in the oven.
It smells like home.
But it sounds like war.
Artillery , tank fire, small arms fire, rockets and mortars . ‘How can it sound like war?” I think,” She’s making pizza. She has kids and two dogs, and vegemite, if somebody ever wanted anything like that. But it’s a home, a normal home. Except there’s a war going on not miles away but a few thousand yards away..”
She introduces me to her daughter and son, two of four or five kids she has. The daughter is 30 and a beauty, in that feisty, friendly, farm girl way. The son is a teenager, tall, handsome kid, very much being the man of the house while the father is away. In addition to the pizza and the onions and mushrooms being sautéed, I smell something else. I smell a story. I explain who I am, what I’m doing, and ask if I can interview her and her son and daughter about what it’s like to live literally in a war zone, under constant fire and threat of being killed. “ I don’t want to be interviewed” she says.
The daughter says, “ Come on Imma ( Mom), it’s a chance to unload, to say what’s in your heart”
“ I’m not unloading anything. I’m making pizza”
Just then on the t.v. there is a some kind of an app. It shows that rockets have just hit a few miles down the road.
“ Imma, “ the son says, again, being the man looking after his mother and older sister, “ They’re coming our way.”
The mother glances at the t.v.. Then she looks at her stove as if to see if there’s anything that needs attending to before the rockets begin to fall. I turn to the daughter. “ What’s it like living like this?”
And the flood gates open up. I’m just someone to talk to right now. Someone whom she can tell what it’s like. The words come out staccato , pouring out of her, as if she can’t speak quickly enough to keep up with the emotion driving each word.” What’s it like? It’s constant.”
“ We haven’t slept in two weeks” the mother says, and I know i won’t have to ask another question of anyone. All I’ll have to do is listen, “ I don’t know how we function . I don’t know what day it is. “
“ It hurts your ears.” The daughter says, “ when we’re in the reinforced room and the rocket hits, it changes the pressure or something, the shock waves, it hurts your ear drums.”
“ I’ve already lost some of my hearing “ The mother says, “ In this ear. I can’t hear well any more.”
Just then the code red alert sounds. We don’t have fifteen seconds here. We have five seconds. That’s it. There isn’t a bomb shelter outside because you’d never get to it in time. There’s a reinforced concrete room with an iron door.
The mother moves quickly to the front door and shouts to the soldiers who are outside like a mother hen “ Boys! “ She shouts, “ Get in the shelter. Now!”
Nobody messes with Mama Rachel and no one has to be asked twice. This isn’t like it is even ten kilometers away where people walk a little slower. Here it’s five seconds. Suddenly the tiny reinforced room is packed with soldiers, each with his weapon, combat slung across his shoulder. People are laughing that it interrupted a good joke someone was telling. It’s the bravado of the bomb shelter and then the building shakes and the sound is deafening and the shock wave or change in air pressure or whatever it is whacks your ear drums. One rocket, two and then another one, all of them close. Then there’s the all clear.
“ The pizzas will be ready in a few minutes “ Mama Rachel says, patting some of her olive drab, machine gun wearing baby chicks as they go back to their posts.. “ That’s what it’s like . “ says the daughter “ and it never ends.
The son, a teenager, says, “ It’s all I’ve known my whole life. Rockets falling. Mortars.”
“ Thirteen years! “ says the daughter, “ What country in the world would put up with that? Thirteen years of rocket attacks? Would the Americans let that happen to I don’t know, San Diego, New York?…Texas? For thirteen years? Would France put up with that? Would England? What do you think Putin would do? And we’re supposed to “ show restraint” Show restraint?! How much more restrained can we be?! For thirteen years we’ve been under attack ! Even after the last two operations in 2009 and 20012, when there was supposedly a ceasefire.”
“What ceasefire?! “ the mother says,”Every month Hamas would fire a rocket here, a rocket there, ten rockets , twenty in a month….”
“ And Israel said, well it’s only a few rockets a week, so we can’t react to that!”says the son.’
“ A few rockets a week?! Is the whole world insane?!” The daughter says, not to me, not to anyone. To God maybe.” Are they all crazy?! Listen to that, only a few rockets a week and for them that’s normal! That’s how we’re supposed to live! Only a few rockets a week! Only what they call a drizzle of rockets! And we were restrained. We didn’t do anything because after all it’s only a few rockets! And I don’t even care about the rockets! But the tunnels , now! The terrorist tunnels. Right out there!”
She points to her front door, “ Right out there!
“ You know what happened here today?” the son says.
“ They tried to attack again. The terrorists .” The daughter says,” They came up out of a tunnel that just opened up in the ground. The army got some of them but then said that two were still on the loose so they tell you to go into the fortified room and lock the door.”
“ Do you have any weapons in the house?” I ask “ “ What weapon?! “ she says, “ They have anti tank missiles with them! Anti tank missiles that can rip a tank apart and kill everyone inside, except this isn’t a tank. It’s my home!”
“So why do you stay here?” I ask.
“ It’s our home! “ the son says.
“ I work in the dairy” the daughter says, “ Someone has to take care of the cows. Someone has to milk them , feed them. What did the cows do to anyone? We’re farmers. We have to take care of the farm”
The Mother says, “ I work in the day care center. There are still children here. I can’t abandon them. Someone has to take care of them . They’re children. So when the army said the terrorists were out there… I don’t mean a thousand meters away, they were somewhere within a few hundred meters from here. How fast can you run two hundred meters? That’s how fast they could get to us.”
“ You know they want to murder us.” says the daughter , as if revealing a truly dirty secret,” You know we’re the targets, don’t you? Not the army. They want us. We’re the Divine Victory they could have. To murder us, to take us hostage and drag us back through the tunnels into Gaza. We’re the targets.”
“ So, “ says the mother” I’m in the day care center. I take the children into the fortified room and lock the door and say this is just an exercise. It’s just pretending. So we know what to do . Like a fire drill. I do puzzles with them, and color and promise them ice cream and all the while I know there are terrorists out there and the only thing between them and those little children ,are our soldiers, the ones you saw on the porch, the ones you see patrolling our village, and the ones who are in Gaza fighting. What do you think they’re fighting for? “ You think this is politics” the daughter asks, “ We’re what they’re fighting for! This is our home. This is their home! Hamas wants to kill us. And they say they want to kill us! They go on television and say we want to kill the Jews! They don’t lie about it. They announce it to the whole world and, what? They don’t see ? They don’t hear”
This beautiful girl suddenly grabs both sides of her head as if her head is about to explode with the insanity of the life she lives, “ You know the story about the Palestinian boy who got the transplant here? There was a boy..from Gaza and he needed an organ transplant and the mother brings him over here to Israel so we can save her little boy’s life. And that’s fine. I say it’s fine if we can help them, if we can save a life, a child’s life? Yes of course! Bring him. So whose organ gets transplanted? There is a Jewish boy, an Israeli boy who is killed in a terrorist attack and his father gives the ok to transplant his dead son, his murdered son’s kidney or whatever they transplanted, into the Palestinian boy from Gaza, to save his life. And they say you know who will get your boy’s kidney ? It will be a boy from Gaza, from the place that dispatched the terrorist that killed your son.
And he says, yes I know and I want to do it. I want to do it, so they’ll see who we are and we’ll have peace. We’ll start with this boy and his mother. That’s how we’ll build the peace. So they do the transplant and the boy lives.And you know what the woman says? She says it on television so the whole world can see it and hear it. She’s not ashamed. She says, you saved my son’s life and you Jews have a right to be angry about what I’m going to say. That’s your right and I don’t care. Because now that you’ve saved him, when my son grows up, I want him to become a “ Martyr “ and kill Jews, as many as he can! That’s who we’re dealing with and the whole world hears her and says well you know, you’re stronger than they are so , you know that’s okay that’s the only way they can fight you. But we don’t want to fight them. We want them to live in peace and let us live in peace! And they shout it from the roof tops that they want to kill us and when one of them blows himself up, whether he kills Jews or not, their parents hand out candy and celebrate. If they kill a few Jews, they hand out more candy. But as long as he tried to kill Jews that’s the main thing. Then you can hand out the candy. Then they’re happy. So when I see a woman on the television and she’s crying because her child has been killed in this war, I’m a woman, my heart aches for any child who is killed, it’s awful but I think to myself, if this is the woman who wants her child to grow up so he can blow himself up while killing Jews, while trying to kill me or my mother or my brother or my neighbor, what’s the tragedy? Is it that the child didn’t live long enough to kill me? Is that the tragedy for her?! Or is it that she’s afraid that if she doesn’t raise him to kill Jews the Hamas will kill her, or kill him. It’s insane!! Do you hear that? It’s insane” Again she holds the sides of her head as if her skull is about to explode; as if it can’t possibly contain the insanity of it all.
“ And we don’t hate them! “ She says, “ Do you understand? We don’t hate them. We had good friends in Gaza. We know there are good people there and what kind of chance does a child have there to grow up NOT to want to kill me?
That’s all he’s raised with, rocket and guns and hand grenades. They dress their toddlers up in suicide vests and take pictures of them. That’s like their Purim costume , their halloween. Isn’t that cute? Isn’t that sweet ? He’s a little suicide bomber. Here we’ll take his picture and send it to grandma so she’ll be proud. We know they have a gun to their heads. But what should we do when they come to kill us? When they pop up out of the ground on our front lawn and want to kill us?
What should we do? And the world blames us because not enough of us are dead? That’s the crime? We built too many shelters for our people while instead of building shelters for their people they build terrorist tunnels to come and kill us? That’s our crime? That we spent money we don’t have , that we should have spent on education, to build the iron dome which saves us from their rocket attacks?! And still we warn them first . We drop leaflets and send text messages and call them on the phone and say listen, we’re very sorry but we have to bomb you in a few hours so in order that you shouldn’t be hurt could you please leave? That’s what we do. And Hamas puts a gun to their head and says no, go up on your roofs and they celebrate their murders and they lie!! My God how they lie!
Here did you see this picture?”
She opens the internet and shows me a picture of a Palestinian family; father mother and child, all killed by an Israeli bomb strike. Except she shows me that this is really a picture of a SYRIAN family killed by Assad’s forces, in their civil war. “ That’s really bad luck, huh? “ she says, “ To be killed twice? Once in Syria and again in Gaza!? And the world sees it and they don’t care. They open up their wallets and say here we have to give them money so they can rebuild. Like they did after 2009. You Jews destroyed their homes. They need concrete and steel to rebuild. They’re not going to make bombs out of concrete and steel. So the world pays for it and we let it in and no, they didn’t build bombs out of it.
They built the tunnels that they dug to come and murder me and my family and my neighbors and their families. That’s what it went for! Did they build shelters for their children? Did they build schools for them? They hid their rockets in The UN schools! The UN just said it. That’s who we’re dealing with! And they fire them from mosques and crowded neighborhoods and WE’RE the aggressors? We’re the evil ones and they’re the poor victims?! Egypt offered a cease fire and we said YES. What’s that expression? Learn to take yes for an answer? We said yes!
But they didn’t have enough dead babies yet. Not enough dead Palestinian babies , not enough dead Jewish babies. And the world looks and it doesn’t see. That’s what makes me ill. Not the rockets. Not even the tunnels and the terrorists. The world looks and it doesn’t see or it doesn’t care.And we tell them and it doesn’t matter.It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a tea spoon. It’s insane.”
After a few moments she calms down.” I’m glad you’re here, “ she says, “ I just had to get that all out. Just had to say it to somebody. Somebody who would listen. With all the Tsuris( troubles) , you know what? We’re not going anywhere.
This is our home. Not just our country. Our home. And everyone in it is our family. I go to bed at night and I can’t sleep because I hear the gunfire and I think of those boys out there and I now they’re fighting for me! And here I am in a nice bed. Thanks to them.”
“ The Pizzas are ready” Mama Rachel says and gives me a slice and then calls to the “boys”.
“ Boys” she says, “ Here , eat while it’s still hot”.
I was with a Golani officer. Some of “ The boys” had come out for a few hours rest. How were they doing?
“ We’re strong. The guys are excellent. We’re going to complete the mission. We’re going to destroy the tunnels, and we’re going to put a serious dent in Hamas’s day ( loose translation) and we’ll be victorious. Because we know what we’re fighting for. We’re not Nato.We’re fighting for our homes.”
Golanchick is an endearing term for a member of the Golani Brigade. “ Golanchick, “ I say, “ If you want to get a shower and some rest and maybe some pizza, I have some dear friends. The woman’s name is Rachel.”
Dan Gordon Capt. IDF (Res)
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Subject: A “humanitarian” ceasefire would give Hamas time to find answers for Israeli Chariot-4’s Windbreaker armor Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:52 am
A “humanitarian” ceasefire would give Hamas time to find answers for Israeli Chariot-4’s Windbreaker armor
The Armored Shield Protection-Active Trophy aka Windbreaker
While talking tough, Hamas is keen on a “humanitarian” ceasefire – not out of sudden concern for Gaza’s civilians but in desperation for an answer to the Chariot-4 tank’s Armored Shield Protection-Active Trophy missile defense system, the Windbreaker. The Russian Kornet-E and the Concord guided missiles which Hamas has fired against them don’t leave a scratch. Hamas fears that the IDF’s 401st armored brigade’s tanks, the only ones fitted with this armor, will spearhead Israel’s decisive assault on its underground high command, and has asked Tehran to find a counter-measure.
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Subject: Leading Rabbi: This War is God's War, and Israel Will Win Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:41 am
Leading Rabbi: This War is God's War, and Israel Will Win Chairman of Bnei Akiva and religious-Zionist leader Rabbi Haim Druckman gives special blessing to IDF, predicts victory through unity.
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Chairman of the Bnei Akiva Yeshivas and head of Yeshivat Or Etzion, Rabbi Haim Druckman, gave a special blessing to troops serving in Operation Protective Edge in an interview with Arutz Sheva on Friday.
Rabbi Druckman referred to the concept of milchemet mitzvah, whereby certain wars are Torah-mandated for men to serve - such as to defend the Jewish people from attack.
"Our soldiers are fighting God's War," he said. "This war determines out very existence in this country."
"This war is for real peace, as told about in Isaiah: 'And your peers shall have swords ... and no nation shall lift up a sword against your nation, which is not knowing another war.'," he added.
''Israel does not strive for another war, for deaths; each Iron Dome cost a fortune - who needs it?" he continued. "But there is evil in the world and we must fight that evil."
Rabbi Druckman had no doubt who will win this war, as Operation Protective Edge enters its eighteenth day.
"Our ancestors fought, Abraham fought, Moses fought," he reassured. "Our aspirations are indeed that 'the wolf will live with the lamb' [citing the verse in Isaiah about the Messianic era - ed.] but if the sheep does not deal with the wolf, nothing will be left of the sheep."
"This is a holy war by all accounts, a war of salvation and for the existence of Israel in its homeland," he said.
Rabbi Druckman believes that the tremendous show of unity among the people of Israel in recent times is the proof of the greatness of Israel.
"You see, at funerals of individual soldiers, tens of thousands of people - where else is there such a world?" he reflected. "Individuals who are not close relatives and friends arrive."
"These enemies of Israel - with God's help we will overcome them, as we have overcome [our enemies in] all of Israel's wars," he concluded.
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Subject: Re: LIVE UPDATES: Israel plans to call up 40,000 IDF reservists Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:07 am
Let's pray this does in fact de-escalate. The thought hit me yesterday that a very large contingent of their reservists are in the US and other places abroad. If the closet musloid sodomobama shutters all western airline flights into TLV via the FAA it'll be a logistical nightmare for everyone to get back. I'm sure they'd work around it, but it will cost time and manpower and both would be short under hostilities.
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Subject: The Infrastructure of HAMAS + Will Hezbollah Join the Fray? + ISIL! Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:55 am
The Infrastructure of HAMAS + Will Hezbollah Join the Fray? + ISIL!
Posted by lamarzulli on July 25, 2014
Commentary & Analysis by L. A. Marzulli
Gaza’s underground: A vast tunnel network that empowers Hamas
One tunnel discovered by Israel last year was 66 feet deep and 1.5 miles long. The project is estimated to have cost $10 million and used 800 tons of concrete. The dangerous digging was apparently done with mechanical pedal-powered devices, rather than with noisy electrical equipment.
Fears grow other groups may join Hamas fight vs. Israel after Kerry peace effort fails
“True, we are fighting in Syria, but our heart yearns to arrive and fight the sons and brothers of the apes and pigs [the Jews],”
HAMAS has created a very sophisticated network of tunnels. This is the focus of the terrorists group, creating tunnels that go into Israel. These tunnels cost millions of dollars. The money could be spent on schools, roads or creating a better infrastructure for the people of Gaza. Instead tunnels are built and there’s only one reason for it and that is the destruction of the Jews and Israel.
Gaza was given over to the so-called Palestinian people in what was supposed to be a land for peace deal with Israel. Instead, the Palestinian got the land but the Israeli’s got no peace, as the mortar and rocket fire began as the last Israeli’s were leaving their homes and farms in Gaza. (We covered this in Watchers 4)
HAMAS will never, ever rest until they have destroyed Israel. This is why the Israeli’s must cut the head off the snake. They must demolish HAMAS. If they stop short of this, rocket barrages, kidnappings and terrorist cells will continue to attack the country . The twin brother of HAMAS, Hezbollah longs to: arrive and fight the sons and brothers of the apes and pigs [the Jews],”
There’s the quote in their own words. How do you sit down with people and discuss anything at all, when they regard you as sons of apes and pigs. This is taught to muslims children in the Madrassas, all over the Middle East.
I talked with Bill Salus last night and both us believe that we may be looking at the PSALM 83 war forming right before our eyes!
In the meantime in Iraq, ISISL—Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—is threatening the death of any Christian who will not convert to Islam. They have also killed thousands of people in the most barbaric and brutal ways. The double standard of the United nations focuses on Israel’s so-called “war-crimes” but we dot hear from the UN about the Christians killed, in Iraq, Somalia or Indonesia. Not a peep.
In closing this short post: The Middle East is more tenuous than ever. Iran’s Khameni has called for the destruction of the Zionist regime, but not the destruction of the Jewish people. However, in my opinion, this is nothing more than double speak, as if asked, Khameni will state that the Jews do not have a right to their ancestral land, so there goes the only democratic country in the region, Israel, if Iran has her way. The goal of Iran is to annihilate the “regime” and with that, get rid of the pesky Jews living in the Levant.
I’m at the Prophecy in the News Conference in Colorado Springs and will be posting as time permits. L.A.
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Subject: IDF set for electronic and signals control of Hamas, Islamic Jihad command centers, after rocket fire Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:51 pm
IDF set for electronic and signals control of Hamas, Islamic Jihad command centers, after rocket fire
Before it ended with Hamas rocket fire Saturday night, July 26, the 12-hour Israel-Hamas ceasefire offered Israeli intelligence a rare opportunity for collecting enemy data. In the heat of battle, the IDF and its clandestine arms were unable to gain electronic and SIGINT access to the underground Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control centers, which appear to be well equipped with complex tactical and encrypted communications systems. Now they must go for Hamas’ sophisticated intelligence production processing system, elements of which may have broken surface during the ceasefire.
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Subject: PSALM 83 WATCH – Fatah Declares War on Israel Sun Jul 27, 2014 6:17 am
PSALM 83 WATCH – Fatah Declares War on Israel
on July 27, 2014 Posted In: Israel, Middle East, Wars And Rumors Of War
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade of Judea and Samaria, the military wing of Fatah (PLO), headed by Mahmoud Abbas, who also serves as the “President of Palestine” and head of the PLO, has declared “open war” against the “Zionist enemy.. In a ecorded message from July 23, three armed terrorists from the al-Aqsa brigade announced that they would not sit idly by during the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip, and that they intend to bring the struggle deep into Israeli territory. “The language of blood is the only way to answer Zionist aggression”, they said, stating that international law permits them to conduct an armed struggle throughout all “Palestinian territories”. “It is open Intifada,” stated a spokesman for al-Aqsa Brigade leadership. Orders were given to all units operating within Judea and Samaria to act against the “Zionist enemy”, with all options on the table.
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Subject: High IDF death toll in Hamas upsurge of violence on “ceasefire” day. Israel expands Gaza counter-offensive Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:17 pm
High IDF death toll in Hamas upsurge of violence on “ceasefire” day. Israel expands Gaza counter-offensive
Netanyahu, Ya'alon and Gantz in the IDF war room
DEBKAfile Special Report Jul 28, 2014, 11:55 PM (IDT)
Hamas used the first day of the Eid el-Fitr festival, July 28, that was set aside for a humanitarian ceasefire, to surprise Israel with its next offensive, a coordinated rocket, mortar and tunnel terror assault, which inflicted ten deaths and many injured. Israel turned away from consideration of international demands for a ceasefire as its military death toll rose to 53 in one day. The Netanyahu government has not spelled out its response, but the IDF appears to be expanding its counter-terror operation west, toward Hamas command centers.
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Subject: HEAVY BOMBING TONIGHT IN GAZA/LIVE Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:30 am
HEAVY BOMBING TONIGHT IN GAZA/LIVE
Published on Jul 28, 2014
REPORTS OF ATTACKS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE SYRIAN BORDER.
http://www.bpearthwatch.com/
ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Rad...
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Subject: Israeli Air Force takes out 40 mosques-cum-rocket stores, brings new drone into Gaza operation Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:22 am
Israeli Air Force takes out 40 mosques-cum-rocket stores, brings new drone into Gaza operation
The Israeli Air Force destroyed 40 mosques converted into rocket and arms stores inside Gaza Tuesday night, July 20. Ending the rocket threat is deemed as important as the destruction of terror tunnels. Both projects continue apace as the IDF prepares for an order to terminate the ground stage of the Gaza operation. The air force brought forward the battlefield debut of the new Hermes 900 UAV, known as “Star,” to take advantage of its exceptional ability to perform surveillance and communication work at high altitudes while carrying a heavy weapons load.
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Subject: Update and Musings Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:21 am
Update and Musings…
Posted by lamarzulli on August 1, 2014
Commentary & Analysis by L. A. Marzulli
#TerrorTunnels: Hamas Detonates Suicide Bomb, Kidnaps IDF Soldier Just 90 Mins Into Ceasefire
Rouhani: ‘This Festering Zionist Tumor Has Opened Once Again’ “Today, this festering Zionist tumor has opened once again and has turned the land of olives into destruction and blood and littered the land with the body parts of Palestinian children,”
LIVE UPDATES: IDF soldier feared taken captive in Gaza; cease-fire deal collapses
Indications suggest an Israeli soldier has been taken captive by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesman said Friday at noon, hours after a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire agreed upon by Israel and Hamas collapsed after holding for less than two hours.
The Headline above speaks volumes, as this is the way the game is played, at least by HAMAS. As it states, just 90 minutes into the ceasefire HAMAS detonates a suicide bomb and kidnapped an IDF soldier. HAMAS is, in short, a truce breaker.
They can not ever be trusted. They have only one goal and it is the destruction of every Israeli…. period. The homicide bomber blew himself up in the name of Allah….crazy.
Added to this is the vitriolic statements by Iran’s president Rouhani, who is showing his true colors by calling Israel a festering tumor. Israeli president Bejamin Netanyahu has poignantly stated: Israel lives in a rough neighborhood. He knows what Israel is dealing with. Rouhani has only one goal and in keeping with his quote above, the tumor must be removed!
I landed in Los Angeles yesterday, from flying standby and changing planes in St. Paul, and then again in Salt Lake City, before arriving in LA. It was an exhausting trip and added to it was word that my cousin had passed away only a few hours earlier… tragic.
As I made my way toward baggage claim I was separated from the TSA check-point by a wall of glass. This is now common in most airports. I looked at the people lined up with their shoes off, waiting to be screened and as I did so my eyes rested on a Rabbi. He was on the other side of the screening and had just placed his large hat on his head. Our eyes met and I gave him a thumbs up. He looked at me inquisitively and I reinforced my gesture. Then he got it and his face broke out in a warm grin. I got chills…. My thumbs up was a way of showing him my support of Israel and the Jewish people.
When waiting for a plane in St. Paul, there was a young muslim couple. The wife was dressed in a full Burqa, with only her eyes showing. I’ve known what a Burqa looks like but I’ve never actually seen one worn by a woman before. She looked like a phantom, with only her dark eyes peering out from behind her black veil, which hid her face. She walked behind her husband as they boarded the plane. It was a very foreign site to me and I was unsettled by it. France has outlawed the Burqa and now I know why.
Then in Salt Lake there were two other Muslim women wearing veils. In all fairness the Amish have a peculiar way of dressing too, as the women wear long dresses or skirts and usually have their hair in a netted bun on top of their heads. Orthodox Jewish women, dress very modestly, but the women in the Burqa disturbed me. 20 years ago a sight like the one I was seeing would have been a rarity, now it seems to be common place. None of the other passengers waiting to board the plane seemed to notice the woman or were concerned by her.
So the question I have is this. We know radical Islam wants the destruction of the state of Israel and refers to Jews as pigs and apes. We also know that the hatred between Sunni moslem and Shia muslim is ongoing. This year during the feast of Ramadan 2,429 people were killed by Moslems who killed each other.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
We also have radicalized Islamists in our country like Major Hassan, the Fort Hood Shooter, who shouted Allah Akbar—God is great—as he gunned down innocent people in cold-blooded Jihad.
This is what is at the heart of todays blog. The spectra of radical Islam working it’s way into the USA and in my mind the Burqa clad women represented what is in reality a clash of civilizations.
I’ve been told their are moderate Moslems who decry this violence, but they seem strangely silent, perhaps because they know if they speak out they too will be killed?
Yet there is hope. When Messiah returns every eye will see Him and Moslems all over the world will see Him too. This is the game changer and the hope I have.
When Muslims have an encounter with Yashua, their lives are transformed. I know because I’ve seen this for myself. Here’s a link to the Revival happening in Iran!
These people need Messiah desperately but in the meantime the violence continues. The stats don’t lie…. Think about it.
It is extremely troublesome to me to see this kind of violence, as I posted a few days ago and again today. Below is a list of Terror attacks. I think the information speaks for itself and needs no commentary from me. Pray.
Ramadan Bombathon 2014 Scorecard Because, if you think all religions are the same, then you haven’t been paying attention.
2014
In the name of The Religion of Peace
In the name of ANY Other Religion
By Way of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
Terror Attacks
272
0
2*
Suicide Bombings
37
0
0
Dead Bodies
2429
0
2*
Wounded
2028
0
0
(Not all attacks are immediately posted on TROP)
* 2014.07.03 – A Myanmar Muslim was killed by Buddhists on rumor of a rape. (A Buddhist was also killed by Muslims during the same riot).*2014.07.02 – An Arab teen was murdered by Israeli Jews following the kidnap and murder of three Jewish teens.
2014.07.30 (Sadr City, Iraq) – Sunnis detonate a car bomb amid restaurants and shops populated by Shia, laying out at least sixteen.
2014.07.30 (Quetta, Pakistan) – Two Hazara Shias are gunned down in a targeted sectarian attack.
2014.07.30 (Kashgar, China) – A pro-government imam is stabbed to death outside his mosque by religious radicals.
2014.07.30 (Kano, Nigeria) – A female suicide bomber detonates at a university, killing student volunteers.
2014.07.29 (Dogo Tebo, Nigeria) – A suicide bomber sends eleven worshippers at a rival mosque straight to Allah.
2014.07.28 (Katarko, Nigeria) – Pro-Sharia militants throw explosives into homes and shoot those trying to flee.
It is extremely troublesome to me to see this kind of violence. Below is a list of Terror attacks. I think the information speaks for itself and needs no commentary from me.
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Subject: DAY OF RAGE,72 HOUR CEASE FIRE LAST 2 HOURS. Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:23 am
DAY OF RAGE,72 HOUR CEASE FIRE LAST 2 HOURS.
Published on Aug 1, 2014
MID EAST UPDATE. HAMAS KIDNAPS ISRAELI OFFICER.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,73... GAZA WEB CAMS,
http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com
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Subject: MAJOR UPDATE/ISIS MOVES INTO LEBANON Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:34 pm
MAJOR UPDATE/ISIS MOVES INTO LEBANON
Published on Aug 2, 2014
ISRAEL'S NORTHERN GATE, "AND THE TOP OF CARMEL WITHERS"
Subject: IMPORTANT UPDATE. ISRAEL MOVES TROOPS. Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:55 am
IMPORTANT UPDATE. ISRAEL MOVES TROOPS.
Published on Aug 2, 2014
TROUBLE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL IN TAMRA, ISIS MOVING.
http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L...
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Subject: IDF quietly carves out 1-3km security strip while pulling troops out of Gaza. A humanitarian truce declared Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:52 am
IDF quietly carves out 1-3km security strip while pulling troops out of Gaza. A humanitarian truce declared
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis Aug 4, 2014, 7:10 AM (IDT)
While withdrawing the bulk of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip, the IDF has been quietly carving out an off-limits cordon sanitaire just inside the Gaza border. It is designed to be controlled from the outside by special forces and armored units on round-the-clock alert to bar hostile infiltrations and equipped with a battery of firing posts, sensors and drones. The strip runs 65km from Beit Hanoun in the north to Khan Younis in the south (see map). Israel has turned to acting unilaterally in respect of its own security needs rarther Hamas' price for a truce.
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Subject: Israel-Hamas talks to open in Cairo after 72-hour ceasefire. Netanyahu faces credibility gap at home Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:17 am
Israel-Hamas talks to open in Cairo after 72-hour ceasefire. Netanyahu faces credibility gap at home
Where does the Gaza operation go now?
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis Aug 5, 2014, 8:33 AM (IDT)
Israel and Hamas were due to open talks under Egyptian aegis for a long-term ceasefire after the start of a 72-hour Gaza truce Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 8 a.m. DEBKAfile: Israel’s consent to this arrangement flies in the face of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s solemn pledge 48 hours earlier to continue Operation Defensive Edge for as long as necessary and have no truck with Hamas. “No accommodation, only deterrence” was the motto of Aug. 2. This credibility gap generates Israel’s first major internal refugee problem as ghost communities form along the Gaza border.
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Subject: Israeli forces are fighting hard to win their first battle against Hamas, a savage and tenacious enemy 
Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:48 am
