Israel hits Hamas buildings, shoots down Tel Aviv-bound rocket

Yahoo!news ^ | 11-17-12 | Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller

[444Flyer]

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft bombed Hamas government buildings in Gaza, and the "Iron Dome" defense system shot down a Tel Aviv-bound rocket on Saturday as Israel geared up for a possible ground invasion.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, said Israeli missiles wrecked the office building of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh - where he had met on Friday with the Egyptian prime minister - and struck a police headquarters.

Along the Tel Aviv beachfront, volleyball games came to an abrupt halt and people crouched as sirens sounded. Two interceptor rockets streaked into the sky. A flash and an explosion followed as Iron Dome, deployed only hours earlier near the city, destroyed the incoming projectile in mid-air.

[mvpel]

Sorry, I don’t know much about either of them.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In Moab on a mountain once,
I took my stave in hand,
And gazed out wistfully upon
The hoped-for promised land.
Then bade me Death my eyes to close,
And drew me far away,
Behind a rampant stallion,
In heaven's formless dray.
When here I stopped, in bonds of flesh,
I bound myself to earth,
Again (who have with Pharaoh walked)
To know the dread of birth.
And have I come thus, far in time,
My bootless rod in hand,
To sigh upon a mountain-top,
For you, my Promised Land?

[HiTech RedNeck]

??? a reincarnation theory ???

[HiTech RedNeck]

yeah, the idea is clear, no unnecessary collateral damage.

we could even figuratively say, why punish the earth for the jerks that are walking on it?

[soycd]

Live audio of Naval arty here...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud

Comments following the arty here...

https://twitter.com/theIMEU/watching-gaza

[Dartman]

“All the Palestinians had to do was enjoy life and not be A-holes. They just couldn’t do it.”

Exactly. What a very simple and understandable way to put it.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

??? a reincarnation theory ???

Only in allegorical terms. The narrator, of course, is Moses, who is wondering whether he's come all the way from that mountain in Moab to the twentieth century, only to be denied once more entrance into the Promised Land. Fanciful stuff, but when the muse calls one has to respond.

[svcw]

And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them: Deuteronomy 1: 34

Israel has a right to defend herself, whatever that may entail.

[mvpel]

That verse pertains only to Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon. It's not carte blanche.

[svcw]

I stand by my statement Israel has a right to defend herself no matter what that entails.

[444Flyer]

Thank you.

[soycd]

You’re welcome. They may be “enemy” sites and the propaganda heavy but the sounds are real.

The ustream feed has had some issues lately...maybe too much rdx or hmx in the wires feeding them or the smoke leaked out.

[444Flyer]

"Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle"

~Psalm 144:1

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, this is your pome. Not bad, really, in a literary sense.

[mvpel]

I stand by my statement Israel has a right to defend herself no matter what that entails.

I absolutely agree with you in that respect.