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Operation Cast Lead Continues
Patriot Room ^
| January 2, 2009
| Clyde Middleton
Posted on 01/02/2009 8:10:08 AM PST by clyde_m
191 updates and counting. Friday's events so far (1800 hours local time as this is written): Hamas continues to lob rockets and missiles; Israel targeting Hamas leadership homes; lots of op-eds supporting Israel; PA's Abbas trashing Hamas; and West Bank getting cranky but under control.
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: gaza; gazastrip; hamas; hamascharter; islam; israel; jihad; operationcastlead
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posted on
01/02/2009 8:10:09 AM PST
by
clyde_m
To: clyde_m
"Operation Cast Lead"
Does any know Hebrew well enough to say if "cast lead" refers to the theater or ammunition?
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posted on
01/02/2009 8:29:48 AM PST
by
AZLiberty
(I hope Obama changes.)
To: AZLiberty
Got this from Wikipedia (yeah, sorry) - but I have seen it in a few other places, too: Launched during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the operation was named after a line in the children's Hanukkah song "In Honor of Hanukkah" (Hebrew: לכבוד החנוכה) by Hayyim Nahman Bialik in which a dreidel made of "cast lead" is mentioned.
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posted on
01/02/2009 8:47:19 AM PST
by
clyde_m
To: clyde_m
Thanks. I looked on Wikipedia, but didn't see it.
This is one place where "It's for the children" really applies.
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:42:12 AM PST
by
AZLiberty
(I hope Obama changes.)
To: AZLiberty
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:07:35 PM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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