Thirteen Israeli air strikes hit Gaza Strip

BBC ^ | Apr 2, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

Israeli warplanes have carried out at least 13 air strikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources have told the BBC.

Four of the strikes took place near the town of Khan Younis, where two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Palestinian fighters last week.

The Israeli strikes are the most serious for more than a year, says the BBC's Jon Donnison from Jerusalem.

Three children were reported slightly injured by flying debris.

The director of ambulance and emergency in the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Dr Muawiya Hassanein, said an infant was among the injured.

Witnesses and Hamas officials said the Israeli raids targeted metal workshops , farms, a milk factory and small sites belonging to the military wing of Hamas.

'Retaliation'

Palestinian news agencies reported that Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over parts of Gaza on Thursday warning residents of retaliation for last Friday's killings of the soldiers in Khan Younis.

[1010RD]

Have you ever met an honest Jew? The BBC wouldn’t quote one unless it was as a witness to an Israeli atrocity.

This is such MSM garbage I cannot believe it.

They get fooled every time or do they? Is this just a part of their agenda?

[MestaMachine]

Green helmet guy was Imad Mugniyah hiding in plain sight. He is d.e.d. ded!

Imad Mugniyah likely behind the capture of Israeli soldiers
This is what started the last Israel/Lebanon War.

Mugniyah in his youth

Imad Mugniyah

Green Helmet guy, Qana, 1996.

Green Helmet Guy, Qana, July 6, 2006

At the end of the war, no one could understand why Israel repeatedly kept bombing in the north of Lebanon near the Syrian border. Mugniyah was why. They did not manage to kill him then, but they did NOT lose track of him this time.
Imad Mughniyah was killed on February 12, 2008 by a car bomb, planted inside the driver's headrest of his vehicle, around 11:00 pm local time in the Kfar Suseh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.

[MinuteGal]

Three children, one infant, one milk factory and a partridge in a pear tree.

It seems to me I've heard this song before, tra la la.

Leni

[cookcounty]

“Hello, Barack?”

“Bibi, .....so what’s your answer?”

“Put your ear real close to the phone......”

[cookcounty]

" if you have never been there, you must know that that Palestinians produce NOTHING! If you go into the arab markets, you will see only Israeli products and antiquities (stolen no doubt.)

Actually, the West Bankers were economically making huge gains in the 1980's. When huge amounts of aid money started flowing into the country, many of the (increasingly successful) business entrepreneurs switched focus from creating goods and services to finding a way to get pay-offs from the newly-empowered political class, who controlled the "distribution" of the aid billions. That was the REAL Naqba ("catastrophe) for the Palesinian Arabs.

And there is a lesson for our own country and economy: When business people find themselves fixated on "what will government do?" the economy will go straight to the crapper, along with a lot of other important things.

[cookcounty]

Near the bottom of the story, rocket launches against Israel are reported as preceding the IAF air strikes. Even the JPost has caught the New Orc Crimes disease, dumping the key "triggering event" to the very bottom of the story.

[cookcounty]

"Does the BBC have any Israeli sources?"

Yes, but they're Jews, and therefore their testimony can't be trusted.

"BBC" = "Bigots' Broadcasting Conspiracy"

[cookcounty]

"Officials said U.S. security coordinator Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton has drafted a plan that would construct PA security facilities over the next year. They said the project would begin under the $161 million allocation requested by the administration of President Barack Obama.

Obama builds torture facilities. Incredible.

[Candor7]

Here is another:

US General Builds A Palestinian Army posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 05/10/2009 @ 9:41pm

Thursday, in what was billed as his very first on-the-record address, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, spoke to the 2009 Soref Symposium organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. WINEP, of course, is the chief thinktank for the Washington-based Israel lobby.

And in his talk, Gen. Dayton delivered an important warning.

First, the background. For the past three and a half years, Dayton has lived and worked in Jerusalem and across the West Bank, overseeing the creation of three Palestinian battalions of troops, hand-picked in the West Bank, trained at an academy in Jordan, and then deployed in the occupied territory.

The three 500-man battalions are intended to grow, to as many as ten battalions. Their mission, he said, is to “create a Palestinian state.” Recognizing that many in the WINEP audience were not exactly enamored with the idea of an independent Palestine, Dayton told his audience: “If you don’t like the idea of a Palestinian state, you won’t like the rest of this talk.”

From the detailed description provided by Dayton, it’s clear that the Palestinian forces he’s enabling could certainly be accused of carrying out the self-policing of the West Bank for the Israelis. Because the West Bank is, after all, occupied by Israel and riddled with illegal settlements besides — plus beset by a surrounding wall, 600-plus intrusive checkpoints, and a network of Jews-only highways — the Palestinian troops are utterly at the mercy of the Israelis. Each recruit is vetted by US security forces (i.e, the CIA), then vetted by Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence arm of Israel, and then by Jordan’s super-efficient intelligence service, before they begin their training in Jordan. Dayton made it quite clear that the Palestinian units thus trained are primarily deployed against two targets in the West Bank: against criminal gangs, and against Hamas.

So far, they’ve received $161 million is US funding.

Dayton described how, during the Israeli assault on Gaza last December and January, the West Bank remained quiet — even though some analysts were predicting an upsurge of sympathy for Hamas, which controls Gaza, along with violence, even a third intifada. “None of these predictions came true,” said the general, who added that the Palestinian battalions allowed peaceful demonstrations of solidarity with Hamas, but kept the lid on violent actions. Israel, he said, “kept a low profile,” and not a single Palestinian was killed in the West Bank during the three-week carnage in Gaza.

Most of the work he’s done, Dayton said, occurred in the West Bank after the June, 2007, Hamas takeover in Gaza. “What we have created are ‘new men,’” he added.

Now for the warning. Recognizing that by organizing and training thousands of Palestinian troops, professionally led, he is creating in effect a nationalist army, Dayton warned the 500 or so WINEP listeners that the troops can only be strung along for just so long. “With big expectations, come big risks,” said Dayton. “There is perhaps a two-year shelf life on being told that you’re creating a state, when you’re not.” To my ears, at least, his subtle warning is that if concrete progress isn’t made toward a Palestinian state, the very troops Dayton is assembling could rebel.

Dayton was responding to a question from Paul Wolfowitz, the neoconservative former deputy secretary of defense, who now hangs his hat at the neocon-dominated American Enterprise Institute. “How many Palestinians see your people as collaborators?” Wolfowitz asked. In answering Wolfowitz, the general acknowledged that Hamas and its sympathizers accuse the Palestinian battalions of being “enforces of the Israeli occuption.” But he stressed that each one of them believes that he is fighting for an independent Palestine. The unstated message: the United States and Israel had better deliver. Thus the two year warning. Which, to me, sounds spot on with the Obama administration’s timetable.

One more thing: General Dayton signed up for another stint in the West Bank. And how long did he agree to serve? Yes—two years.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/434494/us_general_builds_a_palestinian_army

[AliVeritas]

Snip:

Witnesses and Hamas officials said the Israeli raids targeted metal workshops , farms, a milk factory and small sites belonging to the military wing of Hamas.

‘Retaliation’

Palestinian news agencies reported that Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over parts of Gaza on Thursday warning residents of retaliation for last Friday’s killings of the soldiers in Khan Younis.

[Steelers6]

April Fools HAMAS

[Candor7]

See 76, Obama has a Palistine Army built, on the West bank, ready to attack Israel fom the West. Of course Hizbollah is in the north, with Syria,, And Gaza on the East. In the South is Egypt, which is about to be taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.

This is not a good situation for Israel, which has put up with this liberal Obama foolishness quite long enough.

[pillut48]

Green helmet guy making an appearance soon??

WTG, Israel! God be with you all and keep you safe. Praying for the peace of Jerusalem!

[pillut48]

LOLOL! I had a mouthful of cereal when I saw this and almost splattered my monitor. I was wondering if this lady was going to show up along with green helmet guy too! :-)

[AliVeritas]

Cue green helmet guy, burka betty, burnt korans and the stuffed animals:

http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/

The director and morgue official...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfFWr8hxh3I

Slightly graphic

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

Part 1.
See left sidebar here for other parts:

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/part-1-introduction.html

Wow, I can imagine what the kids shows will say next week there.

[Psalm_2]

“Near the bottom of the story” is a reversal of journalism’s common descending order of factual importance in answer to the questions of who what when where why how. aka the inverted pyramid. thus this story used bad form for ideological reasons.

the story might have started:

on [day/date] the IDF made an air strike against the hamas controlled gaza strip. this was in response to an unsuccessful rocket attack on Israel on [day/date].

[AliVeritas]

http://www.jpost.com/

[penelopesire]

How convenient for Obama. He can blow up a peace plan without any finger prints(except for thinkers like you that connect the dots). Like they say..all good war plans never survive first contact with the enemy. In this case...our question is now who is the enemy. It sounds like Obama has gone off the reservation and onto his ideologic endevours. He has basically set up an ‘Obamaintifada’ to the benefit of Hamas. So not only are our American assets at risk in the region..so are any pali’s that ever worked with us during the Bush Administration.

[AliVeritas]

?

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=273273

[Candor7]

You got it all right! LOL.

I thnk that Bibi is just about had enough.

He is going to hand Obama his own ass.