Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel’s bombardment of Gaza on Wednesday mark only the beginning of military operations, just hours after Israeli President Shimon Peres called President Obama to update him on the airstrikes.
Israel killed the military commander of Hamas in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israeli troops have massed on the Gaza border, poised for invasion.
This latest surge of violence between Israel and Gaza militants occurred after Israel shot and killed at least two Gazans and intruded into Gaza with tanks and bulldozers. In response, Gaza militants fired a missile at an Israeli army jeep, wounding four soldiers – to which Israel responded with an extended bombardment of airstrikes.
But the Israeli leadership continue to try and claim Hamas initiated the flare up in violence, issuing the same statements of war rhetoric as always.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that no country in the world would accept a situation in which rockets are fired at its citizens and that Israel can’t accept it either.
In the same vein, Netanyahu did not explain why Hamas should accept a situation in which airstrikes, targeted killings, and total economic warfare are unleashed on Palestinians for years on end.
Israel’s Meretz Party leader Zahava Galon said the program of airstrikes and assassinations in Gaza will not be productive.
“The only way to bring peace and quiet in the long-term to the innocent residents of Sderot and communities in Gaza is through the ceasefire agreement and not high profile assassinations,” Gal-on said.
Nitzan Horowitz, another Meretz member, posted on his Facebook: “Stop the escalation in Gaza. It is a petty bloody circle. War will not solve anything.”
This is Israel they either at war with themselves or wanting to start a war or killing people for their religion or their ultimate belief Zionism. The irony is, that USA and EU calling themselves democracy and civilized system wanting to implement their democracy everywhere, but they just stand by letting this rogue regime do whatever it wants, in the other hand the very same democracy and civilization plans, orchestrat wars and other forme of atrocity toward Arab nations but those whom are the puppet of the west, created by the west and supported by the west as they do support Israel and its inhuman actions toward Palestinians.
The newly re-elected President Obama [ winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ] will stop this won't he? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
"This latest surge of violence between Israel and Gaza militants occurred after Israel shot and killed at least two Gazans and intruded into Gaza with tanks and bulldozers. In response, Gaza militants fired a missile at an Israeli army jeep, wounding four soldiers – to which Israel responded with an extended bombardment of airstrikes."
Reuters, AP, Yahoo News and nearly every MSM news-source I've seen left out the part about the IDF killing two Gazans and moving in with tanks and bulldozers, and instead started the story with the retaliatory rocket strikes by Hamas.
Why am I not surprised? I would like to chalk this up to an editorial oversight, but I really believe they intentionally with-held the vital part of the story.
It seems the MSM is incapable of telling the truth about what's going on in that region.
The last thing the Archons want is for the American people to be informed. If the MSM started putting the atrocities the Israelis perpetrate (and the American government's approval) in front of the American faces every night, every day, I believe the American people would loudly disapprove. And that would definitely skew the plan of genocide the Israelis are pursuing.
I gave up listening to the corporate media ages ago. Sadly, I feel the BBC is going the same way when reporting on the Middle East. With the current scandals engulfing the BBC over child abuse allegations, the right wing corporate media (i.e. Rupert Murdoch and his pro-zionist hacks) are probably rubbing their hands with glee and circling like vultures.
The backlash of an invasion may in fact be recognition by the UN that Palestine may gain formal observer status.
Whatever. Hamas are nothing but terrorists. If they had the Gaza Strip's best interest in mind they would not be constantly attacking and performing terrorist acts. What do they think to accomplish? They consistently poke Israel with a stick, and do not expect to get swiped at on occasion? I think Israel SHOULD defend itself, and when its all said and done, if they where smart, they would just finish it right here and now.
"if they where smart, they would just finish it right here and now."
explain what "it" is that should be finished,please.
if you wish to call for mass murder at least say it plainly
I'll explain: to go in and finish off Hamas. All of them. And by finishing off I mean killing the way Americans killed Bin Laden.
Cheers
You may claim to be "notaterrorist" but how about a terrorist sympathizer? The Israelis have been waging a terrorist campaign against the Palestinians for years…decades. Restricting the diet of the Palestinians by blockading the importation of food is a terrorist act. Destroying the homes and businesses so the Israelis can claim the land for themselves and then build settlements on land that was designated Palestinian in 1947 is a terrorist act. Just because the American media fails to portray it as such – and not report the full details of the back-and-forth doesn't mean it isn't happening. The American association with Israel has besmirched the American brand…such as it is. But, that's just this old Curmudgeon's opinion…
"…and when its all said and done, if they where smart, they would just finish it right here and now."
Sickening, Nazi-like eliminiationist rhetoric.
That's exactly what the Nazis called the people who "fought back" in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. History resembles itself again.
Notaterrorist,
Are you suggesting some sort of "Final Solution"?
Finishing the job simply means exterminating 1.7 million people or forcing them to flee into Egypt. This IS A REPLAY of 1948 accept it will be done on a larger scale.This will show if Obama has the balls to stop it. This time the MSM will have a hard time hiding the atrocities as they did back in 1948.REMEMBER THE USS LIBERTY.
"Notaterrorist" – You really give Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the Fox-con twats a run for their money when it comes to comparing degrees of mental /intellectual deficiencies and stupidity. How can anyone sit back and let their land be continuously stolen, bombed and livelihoods destroyed? In this case, it was Israel who initiated hostilities when they attacked civillians (including children playing soccer). Hamas responded by attacking an ARMY jeep, and when this did not fit the Zionist narrative that Hamas only attack civilians, they escalated the situation. It is the occupiers who are the main obstacle to peace, and you…….oh, you know what? I'm wasting my time trying to educate a moron like you. I might as well talk to my cat, she has a better comprehension than you of what is really going on. Keep watching your intellectually challenged buddies on Fox and hopefully you in-breds will finally die out through lack of genetic variation. Right, now I need to get stoned to help me forget about what can only be described as a tea party loon.
Oh dear, we have a Fox viewer in our midst. Now going by the name alone, he/she may indeed not be a terrorist, but judging from his/her views, not exactly a good example for intelligence either. My cat has a better grasp of Middle Eastern politics than this reprobate.
I refuse to believe that the world body just sit on their hands and allow this carnage to continue time after time upon the hapless Palestinians.
But, facts are facts…the American monolith (and $$$) has stifled dissent from the world community…and I don't see it changing anytime soon…unfortunately.
Well now. I thought the IDF was all ready to invade Iran? I guess it is easier to beat up on the Gazans!
When Arabs will stop killing Arabs and wake up to reality then they will join the civilized world.
Islam and their zombie-like views have no chance to enter the modern civilization.
Quiet stupid. You're embarrassing yorself in front of everyone again with your intolerance and ignorance.
More people, more AMERICANS are converting to Islam like never before.
What the world needs is many, many more dead warmongering Israelis. Sick terrorist bastard descendants of the Nazis. A vile, life-ending plague on all of her apologists and supporters.
Gazans onerocket grad cost 200 dollars anti missles israel rockets cost 50 000 dollars >> if we calculate the cost of recent war against gaza at least wil 10 billions >> who will pay this americans ??? do americans need to pay 10 billion dollars just to be Netahyahu re elected
This has always been Israel's m.o. when faced with unpleasant political realities. Shed blood of innocents to the apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and visions of a Greater Israel can continue unabated. The Israelis are hopeful this latest incursion of escalating violence will stymie the Palestinians bid for semi-recognition as a State.
Then we wonder why the people of the Middle East don't like us.
By Israel killed "terrorists". Caution! Disturbing photographs!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3…
That's nothing. What about the Israelis in Tel Aviv? They are under bombardment fearing for their lives. Just look at these live images showing the full extent of the real trauma they are enduring.
http://qz.com/28195/this-is-what-tel-aviv-looks-l…
America to Israel: DROP DEAD
And those whom are fighting the Syrian government need to look closly at their enemy, Syrian government and Bashir Al Assad is not your enemy nor he is the Arab national enemy, perhaps that is why the enemy of the stat of Syria unable to see who is who and who their enemies are, by fighting for something that they are not supported for, you just fighting for your enemy, even if is not known yet you helping the enemy to becom stronger and superior.
I suppose Israel will again test "new urban combat weapon system" on hunkering civilians?
Expect "never before seen" injuries that are impossible to treat.
The standard argument in Washington is that Israel has the right to defend itself. Sounds reasonable. Question is: when Israel steals Palestinian real estate day-after-day, year-after-year in Jerusalem and on the West Bank, in spite of U.N. Resolution 242, do the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves? The world, once again, stands by and fails to act. That is scandalous.
Why do we have double standards for atomic arms development? Israel has several hundred atomic bombs and the world looks the other way. Iran is suspected (but not proven) of a possible uranium refinement program, and the world is imposing drastic and cripling sanctions.
This double standard is an indictment of the United Nations and our ability to act as an "honest broker" in the sordid mess in the Middle East.
It's time to let Israel know there is a line in the sand. They better not cross it.
Good point. The standard argument in Washington about Israel's right to defend itself is, of course, total hypocrisy. If it were under attack by some powerful adversary, this would be a different situation; but, you're right; Israel is the aggressor, targeting innocent civilians in Gaza, a tiny strip of land where 1.7 million people live in horrendous conditions,
US politicians are cowards and hypocrites, not to say, traitors. Why traitors? They put this nation at high risk by putting Israel's interests over those of the American people – a people sick and tired of war. Give aid and comfort to such a parasite as Israel, while millions of our own citizens are losing their homes and going hungry on a daily basis? This is an atrocity in itself. Shame on them. They must go back to their caves and allow fresh air back into DC.
Zionists have broken the UGLY meter.