Posted on 12/27/2008 1:19:02 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And here we were all told the election of the one was going to spread good will and peace throughout the globe. Doesn’t seem to be working. I mean Hamas wanted a war when they ended the truce with Isreal last week and sent in almost 200 rockets.
They wanted this, now they got it.
After sending wave after wave of rocket attacks into Israel (3,000 rockets since the beginning of the year), including this one:
A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls.
Israel decided enough was enough and sent warplanes in to demolish every known Hamas compound, killing hundreds:
Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing nearly 200 people and wounding 270 others in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years.
Most of those killed were security men, but civilians were also among the dead. Hamas said all of its security installations were hit and responded with several medium-range Grad rockets at Israel, reaching deeper than in the past. One Israeli was killed and at least four people were wounded in the rocket attacks. With so many wounded, the Palestinian death toll was likely to rise.
The air offensive followed weeks of intense Palestinian rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel, and Israeli leaders had issued increasingly tough warnings in recent days that they would not tolerate continued attacks.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would expand the operation if necessary. “There is a time for calm and there is a time for fighting, and now is the time for fighting,” he told a news conference. He would not comment when asked if a ground offensive was planned.
But asked earlier if Hamas political leaders might be targeted next, military spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich said, “Any Hamas target is a target.”
The strikes caused widespread panic and confusion in Gaza, as black clouds of smoke rose above the territory, ruled by Hamas for the past 18 months. Some of the Israeli missiles struck in densely populated areas as children were leaving school, and women rushed into the streets frantically looking for their children. Most of those killed were security men, but civilians were among the dead.
Right on!
Here is Nidra Poller on Atlas Shrugs giving more details:
Related thread:
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Predictably C. Rice will fly over there with money and a cease fire order. What a joke the never ending peace process is.
This is not war, what Israel did today it needs to do again and again for several years. Israelis need to carry out a long and bloody campaign against Gaza to forever ensure not a single rock flies from there to Israel.
Well they got a couple weeks of it anyway. This will be followed by condemnations, human rights blah blah blah— Israel will at first show steely resolve— before eventually accepting a fake ceasefire.
3 weeks, tops.
Just a flesh wound, come on and fight!
And israel has an election coming in a few months...so Olmert had to do something....
A “long and bloody campaign” will only get American support terminated and resupply cut off. It needs to ba a real solution. The squatters/Palies need to be pushed out of Gaza altogether and permanently handed off to Egypt. And the equivalent action needs to be taken in Judea and Samaria.It needs to be and can be done quickly.
Good graphic showing why Israel needed to hit them really HARD!
Periodically, Hamas shells the Israili refinary that supplies all of Gaza’s fuel.
Then complains that the dirty jews cut off the fuel.
I got those off a forum someplace.....Now I can’t find it :-(
Perhaps the best scene ever.
Good job.
IDF Releases Photos of Hamas Targets, Terror Training Facilities(Before Operations)
Thank you Ernest.
I’ll link to your thread.
Ongoing updates here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2154771/posts
Well thanks for posting them...
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