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Tensions rise as Gaza militants fire more than 50 mortars, rockets into Israel
Washington Post ^

Posted on 05/29/2018 8:31:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin

One of the mortars in the first round of fire early Tuesday struck the yard of a kindergarten, drawing angry responses from Israeli leaders, although no children were in the preschool at the time.

Within hours, Israel’s military responded with airstrikes on sites across Gaza. It said the targets were military training bases belonging to both Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group that Israel said was responsible for Tuesday’s salvo.

The sound of sirens and reports of Iron Dome taking down mortars from the skies over southern Israel continued throughout the day.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; israel; mortar; mortars; ockets; rocket
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1 posted on 05/29/2018 8:31:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 05/29/2018 8:32:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The purple-lipped goon.


3 posted on 05/29/2018 8:33:37 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BenLurkin

Women and children can fire rocket launchers?


4 posted on 05/29/2018 8:35:51 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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Maybe not, but the round that landed in the kindergarten was likely to have been fired from one.


5 posted on 05/29/2018 8:38:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Mess with the bull, you are going to get the horn.


6 posted on 05/29/2018 8:40:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yasir Arafat, pederast and thief. Funny how you never hear of his widow living in luxury in Europe, anymore. Living in luxury on the billions he stole.


7 posted on 05/29/2018 8:42:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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8 posted on 05/29/2018 8:44:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

“One of the mortars in the first round of fire early Tuesday struck the yard of a kindergarten”

I’m surprised the Compost actually mentioned that.


9 posted on 05/29/2018 8:44:45 AM PDT by McGruff (MAGA)
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They’re too busy hiding that fact that Muslim terrorists are doing this...by calling them “militants”


10 posted on 05/29/2018 8:46:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Some translations from left speak:

“militants” = terrorists.
“tensions rise” = Jews are starting to react to terrorist attacks.
“violent protests” = attempts to cross a border to conduct murder and mayhem. An invasion.
“coastal enclave” = not a enclave at all. We just want to make them seem isolated.


11 posted on 05/29/2018 8:50:28 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: McGruff

Vast array of area fighting throughout the middle east currently. International leaders all on same page (Via Tumps work).....gloves off/ knock out terrorists from Hamas to Isis, Taliban etc. Russia, China, US Brits and Asian countries all on board. Have taken off the gloves all around.


12 posted on 05/29/2018 8:51:16 AM PDT by caww
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To: BenLurkin

The blood-lusting pali terrorist murderers attack Israel once again. So far, the paiis are very lucky the Israelis haven’t killed every last one of them.


13 posted on 05/29/2018 8:52:15 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BenLurkin

The very day that Israel left the Gaza Strip, the ‘peace loving’ Palestinians began launching rockets into Israel. The Iron Dome that Israel developed is the grandchild of Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The Creepozoid Liberals laughed, but it works.


14 posted on 05/29/2018 8:59:08 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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I wish Israel had not been so restrained, and had reduced the Gaza Strip to a smoldering pile of ash. There will be no pleasing the subhuman savages raised on a straight diet of hate. Might as well save a great deal of money, trouble, and potential Israeli casualties and just take them out.


15 posted on 05/29/2018 9:21:47 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: BenLurkin
They’re too busy hiding that fact that Muslim terrorists are doing this...by calling them “militants”

Since we're talking about the Washington Post, I'm surprised that the headline wasn't written as:

"Tensions rise as peaceful Gaza protesters fire more than 50 mortars, rockets into Israel"

16 posted on 05/29/2018 9:24:02 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: BenLurkin

Israel violates the human rights of Gazians by returning fire..


17 posted on 05/29/2018 9:26:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Israel has had to spend a disproportionate amount on Defense since the modern states inception.
At one point Defense was more than half the budget. It is still the highest outlay in the Israeli budget, scheduled for63 billion Shekels in 2019.

“The state budget in 2019 will amount to 397.3 billion shekels
the education budget will be 60 billion shekels
health budget will be 38 billion shekels
the welfare and Holocaust survivors budget will amount to 13 billion shekels
allowances for disabled persons will amount to approximately 2 billion shekels
Ministry of Defense budget will amount to about 63 billion shekels.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx


18 posted on 05/29/2018 9:51:53 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Come And Take It!.....The Rats of Tobruk to Erwin Rommel, 1941)
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To: BenLurkin

Celebs are calling for a boycott of Israel.
Amazing disconnect.


19 posted on 05/29/2018 11:13:53 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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I’m trying to find reports of all the protests across Europe and America against the Gaza scum firing a mortar into an Israeli Kindergarten yard, but not having success. There were thousands of protests, weren’t there? Or just silence as usual when Jews are victims of bloodthirsty savage Arab animals.


20 posted on 05/29/2018 2:50:54 PM PDT by roadcat
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