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  • Israeli military divided over Gaza war probes

    01/05/2015 10:30:03 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 3 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Jan 6, 2014 1:06 AM EST | Tia Goldenberg
    A fierce debate is raging within Israel’s military over the extent to which soldiers should be held legally accountable for their actions during last year’s Gaza war, with commanders increasingly at odds with military lawyers. The dispute has set off a firestorm in Israel, where many say the legal threat would shackle soldiers in any future battle, lower their morale and shatter a sacred trust on which Israel’s compulsory military service relies.But with the Palestinians announcing their application last week to the International Criminal Court, the decision to investigate becomes all the more pressing: A robust Israeli inquiry into its...
  • For God Goes with You to War

    09/05/2011 7:18:41 PM PDT · by Ari Bussel · 2 replies
    For God Goes with You to War By Ari Bussel “When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and you see a horse and a chariot, a people much more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord, your God, is with you, He who brought you from the Land of Egypt. “And as you get near to the war, the priest will approach and talk to the people. And he shall say to them: Hear O, Israel, you are getting near today to war upon your enemies. Your heart should not soften. Do not...
  • Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes (Goldstone Admits Report a Crock)

    04/02/2011 4:31:43 PM PDT · by mojito · 12 replies
    WaPo ^ | 4/2/2011 | Richard Goldstone
    We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document. The final report by the U.N. committee of independent experts — chaired by former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis — that followed up on the recommendations of the Goldstone Report has found that “Israel has dedicated significant resources...
  • Gaza - The Goldstone Aftermath

    07/28/2010 11:57:13 AM PDT · by Ari Bussel · 1 replies
    Gaza – Goldstone Aftermath by Ari Bussel Recently, Israel seems to be engaging in negative sum games: A “humanitarian” flotilla (the Turkish Terrorist Flotilla of Lies) is arranged to end the blockade and siege on Gaza put in place four years ago. Lo and behold, there is now a free flow of goods into Gaza. The mission was accomplished with flying colors. Bonuses must be awarded to those who brought about the desired end! Israel’s ruling elite claims it intended to ease the restrictions all along. Apparently the catalyst worked, but why was it necessary to pay such a dear...
  • Loss of Human Life (Israel's New Frontier)

    06/06/2010 10:34:40 PM PDT · by Ari Bussel · 2 replies · 21+ views
    Loss of Human Life (The New Frontier) by Ari Bussel “It's a very upsetting situation, but I do wish other actions had been possible, not resulting in loss of life. Israel is very vulnerable and it's frightening.” A reader’s comment to our Postcards “Israel seeks to justify response to flotilla - Regret for deaths missing” The Epoch Times In 2006, Israel’s enemies have shown to Israel and to the world that the country that once defeated the Arab armies in the Six Days War in 1967 has lost its edge. As a result, Israel’s deterrence suffered greatly, while she rushed...
  • Israeli officers get 'slap on wrist' for white phosphorus use in Gaza

    02/01/2010 7:17:56 PM PST · by myknowledge · 20 replies · 586+ views
    Times Online ^ | February 2, 2010 | Sheera Frenkel
    Israel has reprimanded two senior army officers who were responsible for firing white phosphorus artillery shells at a UN compound during last year’s offensive in Gaza. In the first admission of any wrongdoing the Israeli military found that Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg and Colonel Ilan Malka were guilty “of exceeding their authority in a manner that jeopardised the lives of others”. The Israeli report was in response to a damning UN investigation into the Gaza war, which concluded that both Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian group, had committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity and which called on both sides...
  • A real miracle or the doing of extraordinary people?

    12/13/2009 11:25:06 PM PST · by ventanax5 · 3 replies · 455+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Daniel Gordis
    t's been almost a year since St.-Sgt. Dvir Emanuelof became the first casualty of Operation Cast Lead, losing his life to Hamas mortar fire just as he entered Gaza early in the offensive. But sitting with his mother, Dalia, in her living room last week, I was struck not by loss, but by life. And not by grief, but by fervent belief. And by a more recent story about Dvir that simply needs to be told, especially now at Hanukka, our season of miracles. This past summer, Dalia and some friends planned to go to Hutzot Hayotzer, the artists' colony...
  • Repentance

    10/04/2009 10:34:20 AM PDT · by Ari Bussel · 2 replies · 479+ views
    Repentance by Ari Bussel The year is 5770, 2009 in the general count. The day is the tenth of the Month of Tishrei, the Jewish Day of Atonement. It is a day of reflection, a day in which broken promises, wrong deeds and language spoken in haste are being erased, forgiven, forgotten, and a new year begins. But can we forget? The world stood by uninterested when, for eight years, residents of a small city near the Gaza border could not rest. During the day, their children playing outside or at school were unprotected from a constant rockets bombardment. During...
  • Israel's Gaza Vindication

    09/22/2009 6:15:55 PM PDT · by dervish · 7 replies · 899+ views
    World Jewish Daily/WaPo ^ | 9/21/09 | Jackson Diehl
    When it was launched last December, Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip looked to most people in Washington to be risky, counterproductive and doomed to futility. 'snip' But today, Operation Cast Lead, as the three-week operation is known in Israel, is generally regarded by the country's military and political elite as a success. The reasons for that are worth examining now that a new and even more hawkish Israeli government is weighing whether to flout Washington's prevailing opposition to a military attack on Iran. Israel's satisfaction starts with a simple set of facts. Between April 2001 and the end of...
  • IDF notes 'more motivation to join combat units'

    07/30/2009 12:12:02 PM PDT · by dervish · 6 replies · 613+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 7/29/09 | Yaakov Katz
    IDF notes 'more motivation to join combat units' Jul. 29, 2009 Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST Amid growing efforts to curb the rising numbers of draft dodgers, the IDF on Wednesday noted a slight increase in motivation among youth to serve in combat units. The IDF started the August draft on Sunday. It will continue throughout next week, sending new recruits to almost all IDF field units. The draft-dodging numbers remained the same, with close to 25 percent of youth born in 1990 not enlisting - some dodging the draft, and others not serving due to religious and medical...
  • IDF is in the air.

    02/01/2009 2:08:56 PM PST · by clyde_m · 3 replies · 432+ views
    Patriot Room ^ | February 1, 2009 | Clyde Middleton
    Israel Air Force aircraft late Sunday bombed a Hamas security building in the central Gaza Strip and two other targets in the southern coastal territory, Palestinian witnesses said. Witnesses in the central Gaza village of Mughraqa said a missile struck after dark in a cluster of caravans that served as a Hamas security headquarters.
  • Palestinians start to criticise Hamas

    01/16/2009 6:46:14 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies · 560+ views
    RAMALLAH: After nearly two weeks of showing a united front in the face of Israel’s war in Gaza, some Palestinians are starting to slam Hamas for dragging its feet on a truce as the death toll mounts. With Hamas maintaining a tight grip on the Gaza Strip, most of the critical voices are coming from the rival Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, whose forces the Islamists routed from the coastal enclave in June 2007. Those close to the Fatah party of moderate president Mahmoud Abbas accuse Hamas of trying to extract political gains from the Gaza offensive all the...
  • Israel kills senior Hamas leader as strikes set Gaza ablaze (Interior Minister Said Siam)

    01/15/2009 4:50:54 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 19 replies · 893+ views
    GAZA CITY – Israel killed a top Hamas leader on Thursday as tanks pressed into the heart of Gaza City setting landmark buildings ablaze, including a hospital filled with refugees that was engulfed in a ball of flames. Said Siam , interior minister in Gaza's Hamas government, was slain along with his brother and son in an air strike on the brother's house north of Gaza City, Hamas said, as its armed wing vowed to avenge his death. His sister-in-law, bodyguard, and four neighbors also died in the strike, according to Gaza medics, who said more than 40 Palestinians were...
  • Patriots Accosted By Pro-Hamas Thugs In DC (Thanks Pamela Geller For The Free Republic Mention!)

    01/13/2009 12:57:25 PM PST · by goldstategop · 12 replies · 2,183+ views
    Atlas Shrugs ^ | 1/13/2009 | Pamela Geller
    Go here: Freepers Stand Their Ground, Charged By Hamas Radicals, Wash. D.C. Jan. 10,2009 --- PIC HEAVY There are lots of additional pictures in the links of the main story.
  • Israelis United On War As Censure Rises Abroad (New York Times DUH Alert)

    01/13/2009 9:10:53 AM PST · by goldstategop · 11 replies · 836+ views
    New York Times ^ | 1/12/2009 | Ethan Bronner
    To Israel’s critics abroad, the picture could not be clearer: Israel’s war in Gaza is a wildly disproportionate response to the rockets of Hamas, causing untold human suffering and bombing an already isolated and impoverished population into the Stone Age, and it must be stopped. Yet here in Israel very few, at least among the Jewish population, see it that way. Since Israeli warplanes opened the assault on Gaza 17 days ago, about 900 Palestinians have been reported killed, many of them civilians. Red Cross workers were denied access to scores of dead and wounded Gazans, and a civilian crowd...
  • Guess Who Cares About Dead Palestinians? Jews! (Israel's War In Gaza Is A Moral War Alert)

    01/12/2009 9:23:56 PM PST · by goldstategop · 15 replies · 996+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | 1/13/2009 | Dennis Prager
    For those individuals -- such as nearly all members of the world news media -- who, in light of Israel's invasion of Gaza -- see moral equivalence between Israel and the Palestinians, here are some clarifying thoughts. First, it would be difficult nearly to the point of impossibility, to find Israeli or other Jews who celebrate the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Jews both within and outside of Israel cringe when they see pictures of dead Palestinian men, women, and children in Gaza. For thousands of years at their Passover seders, Jews have removed wine from their cups to ceremonially weep...
  • Egypt rethinks Philadelphi Corridor moat (US, German advisors assisting them)

    01/11/2009 5:06:31 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies · 904+ views
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | January 12, 2009 | Yaakov Katz
    Egypt is considering a range of proposals on how to stop weapons smuggling through tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor into Gaza, including the construction of a moat along the border that separates the Sinai desert from the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Israel has destroyed close to 150 tunnels since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead but estimates that there are at least another 150 tunnels along the 14-kilometer corridor. On Sunday, the Air Force bombed close to 30 tunnels that it said were used by Hamas to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip. Amos Gilad, the head...
  • IDF: Hamas fighters beginning to desert; army steps up Gaza offensive

    01/10/2009 7:46:36 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 35 replies · 1,748+ views
    haaretz.com ^ | January 10, 2009 | Amos Harel
    A senior Israeli military commander involved in Operation Cast Lead said on Saturday that Hamas militants are suffering from exhaustion and are deserting battle. The commander told reporters that Amir Mansi, the commander of Hamas's rocket-launching program in the Gaza City area who was killed by the IDF on Saturday, fired mortars himself after junior Hamas operatives refused to go outside, fearing an Israeli strike. The IDF official estimated that more than 300 Hamas operatives have been killed since Israel launched its ground offensive in Gaza one week ago.
  • In the face of this madness, some facts (Must Read on Gaza)

    01/10/2009 5:58:09 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 15 replies · 1,297+ views
    The London Spectator ^ | January 10, 2009 | Melanie Phillips
    Here are some facts that the western media might just possibly by some strange and uncharacteristic oversight fail to report. The Israel Defence Force blog shows what it says is a captured Hamas map showing how Hamas are using the inhabitants of an entire neighbourhood as human shields by lacing it with a web of explosive devices. The Israel Foreign ministry says: The map shows that snipers are positioned at the entrance of the A-Tawil mosque and in the mosques next to it and describes the directions the snipers are aiming. It indicates that explosives are planted in the entrances...
  • Hamas claims it attacked Israeli air base, U.N. calls for probe into possible Israeli war crimes

    01/10/2009 3:18:09 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies · 842+ views
    The Hindu ^ | January 11, 2009 | Atul Aneja
    DUBAI: The Palestinian group Hamas has claimed that its rockets have attacked an Israeli air base located 27 km from Tel Aviv as the conflict in Gaza entered its third week on Saturday. The Izzeddine Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said on its website that its rockets had landed at the Tel Nof air base where Israeli fighter jets and helicopters are stationed. This is the longest distance that Hamas rockets fired from Gaza into Israel have covered so far. The Qassam Brigades also said its fighters had killed 12 Israeli Special Forces soldiers on Friday during an...