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‘Now that bodies found, world won’t abide large military campaign’
The Times of Israel ^ | Tuesday, July 1, 2014 | Raphael Ahren

Posted on 07/01/2014 6:27:56 AM PDT by Star Traveler

Despite the countless messages of condolence issued by leaders across the Western world, the international community would show little understanding if Israel were to launch a wide-scale military operation against Palestinian targets or expand settlements in response to the killing of the three Israeli teenagers, a senior diplomatic official warned Tuesday.

“We had some legitimacy to carry out Operation Brothers Keeper, including massive arrests of Hamas members,” the official told The Times of Israel, referring to the IDF’s efforts to locate Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel, who were snatched from a hitchhiking post south of Jerusalem and killed on June 12. The international community frowned upon the 18-day search for the three, which included the arrests of hundreds of Hamas members, “but not too much,” the official said, adding that Israel was only condemned when noncombatants were harmed.

“Now the whole thing is over and we will not have legitimacy for any military operation,” the official, who insisted on anonymity, said. “While we were looking for the kidnapped teenagers there was legitimacy for the operation, though not for the casualties. There were condemnations, but it was understood that we had to find the teens. Now, however, this justification does not exist anymore. Now any forceful IDF operation will not be understood.”

Israel is expected to crack down on terrorist organizations in the coming days, but world leaders expect Jerusalem not “to provoke too much violence on the ground,” the diplomatic official said. “That’s not going to look justifiable.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hamas; israel; starisrael; stih
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

That’s the exact propaganda used by the enemy and Israel denies it vociferously - and yet you’re going to give this kind of ammunition to the Terrorists, so they can say, “There you go! What did we tell you ... and here you see Supporters of Israel ‘backing’ exactly what we told you Israel was doing!”

Get IN LINE WITH ISRAEL if you intend to help Israel and give the SAME NARRATIVE as Israel is giving to the world — and don’t be giving the narrative from the TERRORISTS!

Israel has absolutely NO INTENTION of doing this, and yet you want to “back the terrorists narrative” on what “they” say Israel wants to do.

ISRAEL could really do WITHOUT a lot of the misguided “friends” she supposedly has!


101 posted on 07/01/2014 2:53:42 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

Israel has been invaded four times, and each time Israel tries to return pretty much to the status quo. It refuses to kick out disloyal people who want to destroy their country. This is called a “static defense”.

And as Napoleon Bonaparte observed, a static defense is slow suicide.

The real, true reason that much of the rest of the world is pissed off at Israel actually isn’t antisemitism. It is because Israel refuses to deal with its problems once and for all. One way or another, the world wants this to end.

Were Israel to exterminate every Arab on its soil, the world would be in an uproar for a few years. And then it would stop, and Israel would be just another country. It would be over. And the world could finally ignore Israel, and not get pestered over and over again, without end, about Israel’s problems.

If Israel booted every Gazan into Egypt, and paid every man, woman and child six years of Egyptian wages, so for example, a family of six would have 36 years of money all at once, propelling it into the upper middle class in Egypt, it would only cost Israel about $6 billion. A fraction of its GDP.

And the problem would be over. One way or another the problem must end. Either with Israel’s destruction, or their finally deciding to stop being wishy-washy. Either way, the world will be happy, because the continual nuisance will be at an end.

Sorry, the status quo is unacceptable. What the Paleos think doesn’t matter.


102 posted on 07/01/2014 6:13:17 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Star Traveler

Pity. They’ve so lost their way since they defeated the Amalekites.


103 posted on 07/01/2014 7:58:30 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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