Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is said to be backing down from his support for an autumn attack on Iran, but is he just going to substitute Gaza? It’s an open question today after Barak openly discussed the idea of attacking.
“If the cabinet deems it needed, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) can conquer and rule Gaza,” Barak insisted, praising the military for the 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza though saying he believes the war could have ended 10 days earlier.
Barak, who also claimed it was important to not go to war “unless we have to,” raised the possibility of deciding to reoccupy portions of the tiny, densely populated strip in the future. Israel has already made a significant perimeter of the strip a “no-go” area for Gaza civilians, rendering a large amount of farmland unusable.
The last Gaza invasion was done in the final days of the Bush Administration, as the lame duck president cheered the war internationally and incoming president Obama remained entirely silent on the matter. 1,417 Gazans, the vast majority of them civilians, were killed in the war.
Conquer and rule Gaza? Barak is out of his freaking mind. What the hell would there be to "conquer" in Gaza? Defenseless, battered, brutalized, and so it goes.
Ehud Barak is a freaking war criminal as heinous as ANY that came from Nazi Germany. You know, back in the WW2 days.
Israel makes Germany look friendly in comparison.
prove it
you try and prove it too. i dare you.
This is the nature of the Zionist occupiers in Washington, London, Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Paris – until those occupations end, fascist Israel will continue to lie, kill and steal.- with absolute impunity.
The War on Terror starts at home…
Israel: Hey, Iran is a little too big to push around, and they might shoot back. No fun there. Let's go and shoot some Palestinian kids holding stones and abuse some women at our checkpoints. That's much more fun!
You put your finger on it, Rich. And the men in the Black Hats love to watch the IDF carrying out genocidal activities on the Palestinians. Makes them feel closer to their God!
Israelis are anachronisms. We need a time machine to send them back to where they came from!
To conquer and rule Gaza is like the Hitler army conquering and ruling one of their concentration camps. How completely sick and cowardly it was to even make such a statement.
yeah just like the Nazis.
why don't you prove that Israel behaves worse in war than its enemies. I dare you
I love that comment..
Gaza is Israel's punch bag. Anything happens that Israel doesn't like and there is a 'price tag' attack against Gaza.
Once a bully always a bully
Simply planing another MASSACRE!!!!
peter czech
It is as if the Iran/hezbullah/and te defenders of Gaza would standby and let it happen again,and all this is america`s doing where war criminals abound since 1776 and 1949 respectively.
Khomeni supporter
There has to be a lot of decent Israelis – how they manage to live in such a s—ty country; a fascist country dedicated to racism, land-theft and genocide, without losing their minds?
Then it should be easy for you to show that Israel behaves worse than its enemies. Why don't you show it? By the way how many arab jews are left in arab lands?
How do Israel's enemies treat their minority goups?
787878 – I get it ! You are a broken record. You are probably too young to understand, but way back when music came on vinyl records and 78 RPM was a standard speed, it was easy to actually "scratch" a record with the needle causing the needle to keep jumping back to the same track over and over – repeating the same few notes over and over – it drove everyone nuts. See the similiarity.
Yes, Iran has the third largest population of Jews.
Gaza's always easier and makes a nice 'outing' for the IDF.
Besides, there's all that seacoast to be developed if the inhabitants can be persuaded to 'abandon' it..
To say nothing of natual gas deposits off shore.
Based on the anti-Obama Jewish community in the US, Barak and Bibi should follow up with a final solution to the illegal immigrant Palestinian criminal squatters in Greater Israel. They are using the US as an example of the shining city on the hill so maybe they will start by giving the Arabs gifts of small pox infected blankets and work their way up to mass murder. The IDF has Custer as an ideal. Attack a defenseless sleep village full of children, women, and old men, and slaughter whoever moves. Can't take time identify non-combatants in the middle of an attack. Promotions and glory all around to the victors.
Largest open air prison in the world. Shooting ducks in a barrel.
Barak is a Hitler wannabe…Israel has yet to see its limitations, but the rest of the world already knows them. Zionism is terrorism, and just as Nazism was terrorism. Period
What about Bathism , Khomenism and Al Qaidaism. How do they treat their minority groups and how do they behave in war?
Who do these groups illegally occupy? Which of them claim to support democracy? Furthermore do these groups manipulate, and thieve three billion dollars a year of American tax payer monies for Illegal settlements on stolen land? No…you sir are a tool..period.
Have any of them received nearly 1 trillion dollars in aid from the US taxpayer? For that reason alone, Israel must be held to a higher standard. If you want to be in the same camp as the Baathists, Khomeni supporters and Al Quaida, then you shouldn't complain when 307 million American Gentiles decide it's time to cut off all funds. We've received zero reward for our investment while the risk to our national security has increased exponentially for
those Americans who share the belief that every American's one and only loyalty should be to the United States of America.
Evangelicals comprise only 10 percent of the US Christian population and the rest of the Gentile population has reached our maximum tolerance level towards their fraudulent Old Testament and hallucinatory Revelations rationales for treason. The most accurate definition of an Evangelical is a Jew with a cross on the roof of his synagogue.
If there is a God, He would never "choose" any one people for any reason. That's not a religion. It's sociopathy. Especially in light of the fact that billions of human beings adhere to non-Abrahamic religions – far older than Judaism – in which our Prophets mention nothing about the Jews, the Hebrews or Israel.
Israel does not want to occupy Gaza and Gen. Dyan was critizied for taking it. Israeli PM Sharon found a way to get out of Gaza and be paid for it by the US, and then us Gaza withdrawal as a sign of Israel's willingness to uproot its citizen for peace. Gen. Dyan's mistake in taking that small land mass with millions of people is used in every war college in the world as what not to do. Now the Siani Penisula, Israel really covets that area, few people, large land mass, sea coast and minerals.
Look at them Mr. Baird! They just had to put attack on Iran on back burner and immediately found another place to attack. This time there is even bonus in no thread of massive retaliation of attacked. Israel is constatly attacking or threatening to attack peace in Middle East and world peace as well. Canada should severe all diplomatic ties with Israel as you just did it with Iran.
Ok who behaves worse in war Israel or its enemies?
Who is worse to their minority groups Israel or its enemies?
Who has it worse Arabs in Israel or arab jews in arab lands?
How dare the belligerent,cruel, cossetted Israelis pretend the daily abuses, destruction, humiliation of Gazans are somehow normal and that further destruction of a population not allowed self defence can be called a "war". How can the "international community" put up with this flagrant disregard for any human rights except those of Israeli "settlers"?
LOL! Even the ever compliant UN just issued a report a couple of weeks stating that Gaza will be uninhabitable by 2020 due to Isreal's policies of terrorism and war crimes. WTF are they ever going to conquer…death and destruction by their own hands?
Once again our wonderful news media will pretend that it is Israel that is being attacked and no matter what happens "Israel has the right to defend itself'" will be proclaimed far and wide with great devotion and even sincerity. Anyone who dares to question will be an 'anti-Semite'.
Israel will suffer the same fate that the Palestinian's suffered during the bombing by Israel.The area is small and over populated. It was like shooting ( fish in a barrel ). Iranian missiles will have the same effect! They will destroy Israel. It would be poetic justice. I read some where that Iran has developed a very high explosive that could take out 10 sq. city blocks,so who needs nuclear weapons? If a 1/2 doz. get thru no more Tel Aviv. If Israel uses nuclear weapons,and they will, you know …NEVER AGAIN… and their SAMPSON OPTION.There will be no more Israel, thanks to Russia China and Pakastan