Posted on 08/22/2014 9:35:59 AM PDT by Dave346
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Friday that "Hamas will pay a heavy price" for the death of a four-year-old boy who suffered fatal wounds from a barrage of mortars that struck a kibbutz not far from the border with the Gaza Strip.
The premier spoke with the head of the Sha'ar Hanegev regional council, Alon Shuster, by telephone shortly after news broke of the boy's death.
Netanyahu told Shuster that the Israeli military will intensify its actions against Hamas in the Gaza Strip "until the goals of Operation Protective Edge are achieved."
Earlier Friday, US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro released a statement condemning the mortar fire which killed the four-year-old boy.
"I've just heard the terrible news that a 4-year-old child was killed by a mortar strike in the south," Shapiro wrote on his Facebook page. "I condemn in the strongest terms this outrageous terrorist attack and offer condolences to the boy's family. Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself, which the United States supports."
Mortar fire isn’t incidental. You pretty much have to be targeting that area. Hamas’ supporters will willfully pretend as if it’s accidental.
it’s high time to force hamass into permanent RETIREMENT
For some reason I believe Bibi when he says something. How refreshing.
It really is time to stop fiddle f*cking around.
There is no point in negotiating with Nazis, Bibi, and there is no point in listening to America, we are stupid and Evil.
I tell that to my Israeli friends often.
Isn’t it refreshing to hear a countries leader say something and really mean it?
Isn’t it refreshing to hear a countries leader say something and really mean it?
(Note to the UN and the New York Times) :
Israel will never occupy Gaza unless it is FORCED to do so.
It would never have taken Jerusalem and the West Bank until it was FORCED to do so.
Israel expanded beyond the 1967 borders because it was FORCED to do so; and cannot return to them because it CANNOT safely do so.
If Gaza ends up entirely Israeli, it will be because Israel was FORCED to make it so—not because of any aggression or expansionism nor religious zealotry.
“I condemn in the strongest terms this outrageous terrorist attack and offer condolences to the boy’s family. Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself, which the United States supports.”
Shapiro’s statement really surprised me.
It all reminds me too much of Vietnam with bombing attacks against the enemy followed by bombing pauses, cease fire talks followed by cease fires, incursions into Laos and Cambodia, followed by withdraws back into South Vietnam etc. etc.
Bibi Netanyahu is channeling Johnson-Nixon tactics in Vietnam and those tactics are not a pathway to victory, they are a pathway to defeat.
the most direct route is a straight line.....
I’d suggest Nuking the KABA at MECCA....but that often irritates the sensitive
Bibi Netanyahu needs to wipe out Hamas and conquer Gaza, anything other than that only sets the stage for future mortar attacks that kill children.
Pretty safe to assume Hamas won’t have to wait until Bibi finishes a round of golf to find out what the response is going to be.
Based on previous actions during the Hamas rocket barrages, the response will be another half fast campaign of bombings and incursions to destroy tunnels, missiles and terrorist leaders when total war is needed to deal with Hamas ala George S. Patton.....
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What they were aiming for.
Looking forward to hearing now how world condemnation will pour down on Hamas over this and demands that they take more care not to target innocents.
Mortar fire isn’t incidental. You pretty much have to be targeting that area. Hamas’ supporters will willfully pretend as if it’s accidental.
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They don’t need to pretend. The western media will bury the story.
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