Israeli Air Strike in Gaza City Kills the Military Leader of Hamas

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Palestine's Islamist group Hamas took a serious blow to its leadership today after a series of Israeli military air strikes killed Ahmed al-Jabari, the commander of Hamas' military wing. The military operation in Gaza was largely launched in response to the recent wave of rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled region that targeted Israeli territories and as a result, "a significant number of long-range rocket sites" have been destroyed, according to the Israel Defense Force officials. In reacting to the news, Hamas released a statement denouncing the air strikes as the basis for its "declaration of war" against Israel and further warned that "the Israeli occupation will regret and pay a high price."
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http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=291779

The IAF struck and killed Hamas armed wing Izzadin Kassam Brigades commander Ahmed Jabari in central Gaza on Wednesday. The strike marked the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense to target Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations in Gaza, IDF spokesman Yoav Mordechai announced.

Following the assassination, the IAF struck over 20 underground rocket launchers belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The airstrikes targeted long-range rockets in the possession of terror organizations, such as the Fajr-5 and other rockets that are capable of striking Tel Aviv from Gaza. Palestinian sources said that six Gazans were killed in the IDF strikes.
 
The Israelis have moved their ground troops South and have called up all Reservists. A new war could be beginning.

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"The occupation has opened the gates of hell on itself," Hamas' armed wing said following the targeted killing of its commander.

Top Hamas terrorist Ismail al-Ashkar said, "The resistance's options are now open and they include suicide attacks and quality attacks in Israel cities."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4305343,00.html
 
If only the Palestinians spent their time and money building infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and other peaceable things instead of making war... It's hard to make the case that the guys launching missiles into the neighboring country and declaring war on Israel are unarmed and not belligerent.
 
The end of the world might still come next month... who has nukes in that area again?
 
Hamas had ramped up their rocket attacks in the weeks leading up to this. LINK
 
Denny Crane said:
If only the Palestinians spent their time and money building infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and other peaceable things instead of making war... It's hard to make the case that the guys launching missiles into the neighboring country and declaring war on Israel are unarmed and not belligerent.
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You say this with any understanding of Israel's crimes against humanity? Israel, the powerful nation-state, rather than the relatively impoverished political organization, Hamas, you expect to retaliate, but not the latter in their repression?
 
Israeli Iron Dome system taking out rockets launched at Beersheba. Video at 11.

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(Co-developed by a large aerospace corporation with heavy NW ties)
 
Denny Crane said:
If only the Palestinians spent their time and money building infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and other peaceable things instead of making war... It's hard to make the case that the guys launching missiles into the neighboring country and declaring war on Israel are unarmed and not belligerent.
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And again...

"Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers....Gaza's subjection began long before Israel's recent war against it[December 2008]. The Israeli occupation - now largely forgotten or denied by the international community - has devastated Gaza's economy and people, especially since 2006....After Israel's December[2008] assault, Gaza's already compromised conditions have become virtually unlivable. Livelihoods, homes, and public infrastructure have been damaged or destroyed on a scale that even the Israel Defense Forces admitted was indefensible. In Gaza today, there is no private sector to speak of and no industry. 80 percent of Gaza's agricultural crops were destroyed and Israel continues to snipe at farmers attempting to plant and tend fields near the well-fenced and patrolled border. Most productive activity has been extinguished....Today, 96 percent of Gaza's population of 1.4 million is dependent on humanitarian aid for basic needs. According to the World Food Programme, The Gaza Strip requires a minimum of 400 trucks of food every day just to meet basic nutritional needs of the population. Yet, despite a 22 March[2009] decision by the Israeli cabinet to lift all restrictions on foodstuffs entering Gaza, only 653 food trucks of food and other supplies were allowed entry during the week of May 10, at best meeting 23 percent of the required need. Israel now allows only 30 to 40 commercial items to enter Gaza as compared to 4,000 approved products prior to June 2006."

Sara Roy, Harvard Crimson, June 2, 2009
 
^^^ what % of the population is dependent on aid to get their hands on rockets?
 
Now, now, gentle posters, Israel can and has never done anything wrong. I mean who do the Palestinians think they are, living for thousands of years on a piece of landed promised to the Jews by God?
 
Israel wants the entire Holy Land and Gaza’s gas

Throughout the latest crisis western leaders, news readers, chat-show hosts and assorted pundits have focused on the "thousands" of rockets fired by Hamas.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is reported as saying: “There is no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organizations are employing against the people of Israel. We call on those responsible to stop these cowardly acts immediately in order to allow the situation to deescalate.”

Cowardly acts? Who is the coward? Israel, which uses sophisticated state-of-the-art weaponry (courtesy of the US taxpayer) to relentlessly attack an unarmed, half-starved and densely packed population who have nowhere to run because their borders have been sealed 24/7 for 6 years, or the Gaza's guerrillas who fight back with anything that comes to hand including garden-shed rockets?

What if Hamas dumped all their rockets in the sea tomorrow? Would the illegal blockade be lifted? Would Gazans enjoy the same freedoms as other nations? Would their democratically elected government be allowed to get on and govern? Would they be able to open their sea port to foreign ships and rebuild and operate their airport? Would they be able to import and export and carry on trade and develop their economy and prosper like other countries?

Would they be allowed to develop and benefit from their offshore gas field? Would their fishermen be allowed to fish in unpolluted waters? Would their young people be able to come and go and take up places at foreign universities?

Would Israel clear out of Gaza’s airspace permanently? Would the Israeli navy cease its piracy and stay out of Palestinian territorial waters? Would you and I be able to visit Gaza direct?

Fat chance. None of this would suit Israel. So Palestinians would be no better off.

Remember, there are no rockets coming out of the West Bank. Yet the illegal Israeli occupation there continues and so does the ethnic cleansing, the land theft, the illegal settlements, the colonization, the demolition of Palestinian homes, the throttling of the economy, the abduction and 'administrative detention' of civilians and the massive interference with freedom of movement. Nothing has changed for West Bank Palestinians who DO NOT FIRE ROCKETS. And there is no sign of an end to their torment.

The bloody assault on Gaza therefore has much more to do with Israel's ambition to expand racial dominance in the Holy Land, make their occupation permanent and seize Gaza’s offshore gas field than the paltry damage from crude and erratic rocket-fire. The Palestinians holed up in Gaza are simply in the way of the Grand Plan and have to be removed or totally subdued. This was the case 4 years ago when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead after staging the same sort of provocation as they did last week.

Israel's deputy prime minister Eli Yishai let the cat out of the bag when he said of the latest military operation:

"The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years."

He is also reported as saying: “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages destroying all infrastructure including roads & water.”

If he carries it out he’ll have written his arrest warrant for mega war crimes. Obama, Cameron and Hague actually pledge support for this maniac and his loathsome pals Netanyahu and Barak, implicating us in their foul crimes. I'd like to subject Obama, Cameron and Hague – and their families, for bombing engulfs women and children also -- to just one night of the London blitz and see how they like it. London at least had defences, functioning emergency services and an extensive subway network. Gazans don't. And Gazans have had to put up with raids night after night for years on end.

Actually I’d like to include the entire United Nations Security Council in that experience, also its useless worm of a secretary-general.
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“They stole my land,
burnt my olive trees,
destroyed my house,
took my water,
bombed my country,
imprisoned my father,
killed my mother,
took my job,
starved us all,
humiliated us all,
But I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.
So they stole more of my land,
burnt my olive trees,
destroyed my house,
took my water,
bombed my country…”
 
Yassir Arafat was an egyptian. There is no such thing as a Palestinian.

You'd think there is enough land between Asia and Africa for a tiny nation the size of rhode island to exist.

The land Israel is on was bought and paid for. It was owned by arabs who sold the land. There are plenty of arabs who live in Israel as citizens and there are arabs who are members of the government.

Gaza has a border with Egypt. Unless Egypt is not letting goods through, there is no embargo on the people there.

If the arabs wanted peace and a nation of their own, it would be welcomed by the world and made to happen with all due haste. It's absolutely clear they don't want it.
 
let them nuke it out, we have enough problems of our own
 
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Paine Tablet said:
And again...

"Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers....Gaza's subjection began long before Israel's recent war against it[December 2008]. The Israeli occupation - now largely forgotten or denied by the international community - has devastated Gaza's economy and people, especially since 2006....After Israel's December[2008] assault, Gaza's already compromised conditions have become virtually unlivable. Livelihoods, homes, and public infrastructure have been damaged or destroyed on a scale that even the Israel Defense Forces admitted was indefensible. In Gaza today, there is no private sector to speak of and no industry. 80 percent of Gaza's agricultural crops were destroyed and Israel continues to snipe at farmers attempting to plant and tend fields near the well-fenced and patrolled border. Most productive activity has been extinguished....Today, 96 percent of Gaza's population of 1.4 million is dependent on humanitarian aid for basic needs. According to the World Food Programme, The Gaza Strip requires a minimum of 400 trucks of food every day just to meet basic nutritional needs of the population. Yet, despite a 22 March[2009] decision by the Israeli cabinet to lift all restrictions on foodstuffs entering Gaza, only 653 food trucks of food and other supplies were allowed entry during the week of May 10, at best meeting 23 percent of the required need. Israel now allows only 30 to 40 commercial items to enter Gaza as compared to 4,000 approved products prior to June 2006."

Sara Roy, Harvard Crimson, June 2, 2009
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...Western leaders and media scoundrels support Tel Aviv’s worst crimes. They’re always in lockstep with Israeli crimes of war and against humanity. Lost civilian lives, widespread destruction, and human suffering don’t matter.
 
HAAK72 said:
...Western leaders and media scoundrels support Tel Aviv’s worst crimes. They’re always in lockstep with Israeli crimes of war and against humanity. Lost civilian lives, widespread destruction, and human suffering don’t matter.
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you must be trolling..

To blame the Jews like that, it is sad to think someone would actually believe that
 
why do conservatives love israel?

never could figure that out
 
3RA1N1AC said:
why do conservatives love israel?

never could figure that out
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It's partially because we've read the end of the book....and know who wins. :)
 
no, just that fiscally, it makes sense to not spend so much money there

what is the hook for yall?
 
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