Just one day after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, wounding a woman a sparking a series of major news stories across the Israeli press, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aaronovitch was on state-run TV demanding “broad military action” and a full invasion.
Aaronovitch, a member of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, termed the single rocket strike a “steady shower of missiles” and insisted that the government could no longer allow tolerate a Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Israel’s military has launched a number of air strikes against Gaza already since the rocket fire.
Israel last invaded the Gaza Strip in late 2008, a multi-week operation that killed 1,417 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians. The overwhelming popularity of the conflict within Israel swept Yisrael Beiteinu, once a tiny party, into a major coalition partner role, claiming the Foreign Ministry position.
The talk of a new invasion comes as Israeli officials are talking about renewing peace talks with the West Bank’s Fatah faction, though they are conditioning such talks on a pledge from Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas not to seek statehood through the United Nations.
Israeli officials usually engage in such misdirection whenever Israel is planning some kind of attack.
For example, on December 26, 2008, after months of a full, airtight siege, the Israeli government allowed international humanitarian organizations access to Gaza.
Then on the 27th, Israeli planes started bombing the Strip to smithereens for three long weeks.
So, all of a sudden, Netanyahu wants to talk peace with the Palestinians. Right. And I can see China from my living room.
What needs to be remember is no matter what the truth in Gaza happens to be the simple fact is Gaza is the creation of bad Israeli policies. Ben Gurion invaded Gaza in 1955 only to have ike tell him to get out. Israel attacked an took all the land near gaza in the 1967 war which had been planned in Israeli as early as 1952. When an Israel speaks one should put on a kevlar vest with special back panels because stabbing in the back is the normal for the chosen. What this incident probably means is the guy wants another $205,000,000 rocket intercept system. A system so expensive the Israel refused to fund with their money but were willing to accept the gift from congress if the work was done in israel. Gaza is and never has been a problem for Israel. israel is and always has been a problem for Gaza and the entire middle east.
And no doubt there will be a massive invasion again and some point. These psychopaths in the zionist government are restless unless innocent Palestinian blood is flowing.
Israeli politicians polls ratings falling?An election coming up? Answer – invade somewhere
what a bunch of goofs
Yontan get's it right. The current government is facing internal political turmoil. No better way to deflect the people's attention then to start another war. Let us all hope they don't attack Iran, at least another massacre in Gaza will not drag the US into their war.