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Israel Moves Closer to Gaza Invasion
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 25, 2008 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/25/2008 3:36:07 PM PST by KingofZion

Edited on 12/25/2008 3:38:36 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Israel moved closer to invading Gaza, saying Thursday it had wrapped up preparations for a broad offensive after Palestinian militants fired about 100 rockets and mortar shells across the border in two days.

Israel's foreign minister brushed off a call for restraint from Egypt's president, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a direct appeal to Gaza's people to pressure their leaders to stop the barrages. But the attacks showed no signs of ending. By nightfall, three rockets and 15 mortar shells had exploded in Israel.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; idf; israel; retribution; rockets; terrorists
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To hell with surgical strikes, tactical nuke would do the job nicely except for the fallout.
1 posted on 12/25/2008 3:36:08 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

It is good timing, too, US will be reluctant to intervene during the transition.


2 posted on 12/25/2008 3:37:22 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

Watch how Israel will be labeled the aggressor in all this.


3 posted on 12/25/2008 3:40:40 PM PST by zarodinu
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To: KingofZion

Israel forcefully kicked it’s own people out of the Gaza...and for what? Now Hamas has missiles launched from Gaza into southern Israel. Blows out that silly moniker of trading ‘land for peace’.


4 posted on 12/25/2008 3:44:23 PM PST by tflabo
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To: KingofZion

They have been promisiing to do this for ever. Go ahead and just DO IT!


5 posted on 12/25/2008 3:46:14 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Israel moved closer to invading Gaza,...

Make it part of Israel and kill all who appose the move already and be done with it finally for crying out loud.

6 posted on 12/25/2008 3:46:15 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: KingofZion

I hope Israel really does it this time, and kicks ass and re-occupies Gaza and gives the Palis an ultimatum: Either be a peaceful neighbor or a dead one.


7 posted on 12/25/2008 3:47:34 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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“Watch how Israel will be labeled the aggressor in all this.”

Israel is ALWAYS labeled the aggressor. It’s time Israel stopped worrying about how others thought of her and took care of business the way it needs to. The same goes for the U.S.


8 posted on 12/25/2008 3:49:05 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: KingofZion
To hell with surgical strikes, tactical nuke would do the job nicely except for the fallout

No nukes needed. Dresden comes to mind though.

Dresden, Germany: The raids saw 1,300 heavy bombers drop over 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices in four raids, destroying 13 square miles (34 km2) of the city, the baroque capital of the German state of Saxony, and causing a firestorm that consumed the city. Estimates of civilian casualties vary greatly, but recent publications place the figure between 24,000 and 40,000

9 posted on 12/25/2008 3:49:24 PM PST by MrPiper
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That’s “oppose”.......


10 posted on 12/25/2008 3:50:05 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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Not necessary, a creeping barrage of 155mm high explosive shells (10,000 or so) across the launch area (2 miles by 2 miles) would end all Gaza attacks.
11 posted on 12/25/2008 4:20:57 PM PST by 2001convSVT ("People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence")
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To: KingofZion

Do you think this will kick off before Jan 22?


12 posted on 12/25/2008 4:28:14 PM PST by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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"Israel left Gaza in 2005 after a 38-year occupation, but still controls its border crossings, blockaded for months in an effort to pressure militants to halt their fire."

That worked really well.

13 posted on 12/25/2008 4:44:56 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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You just don’t get stupider than a Palestinian. I don’t care who you are or what you’ve done... no matter how stupid you think you are, there’s no way you’re as stupid as a Palestinian.


14 posted on 12/25/2008 5:03:34 PM PST by samtheman
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To: KingofZion

it will be a waste of their time

but whatever


15 posted on 12/25/2008 5:27:14 PM PST by Flavius
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Don’t clean house and leave. Repossess land. A little at first, a little more next time. It’s the only thing they care about. And cut the damn utilities!


16 posted on 12/25/2008 6:21:35 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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“don’t get stupider than a Palestinian”

Maybe we could get Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to help both sides sit down and talk through their differences.


17 posted on 12/25/2008 7:02:52 PM PST by garjog
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To: KingofZion

“Invasion”??
Just daisy cut the entire place.


18 posted on 12/25/2008 7:09:27 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: garjog

19 posted on 12/25/2008 7:10:27 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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“Just daisy cut the entire place.”

Way to go, now some lunk head will come in here and post to “MOAB the place”.

20 posted on 12/25/2008 7:40:47 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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