Though the Hamas government in Gaza has announced a ceasefire the tit-for-tat strikes continue, and a number of top Israeli officials are still speculating about the possibility of a full scale ground invasion.
Speaking on a tour of southern Israel, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom insisted that Israel is “not ruling out the possibility of a ground operation,” while other officials on the tour railed against Hamas and demanded massive moves against them.
At the same time other Israeli officials, including top Defense Ministry figure Amos Gilad, insisted that the attacks would remain minimal, and that Israel is “not interested” in another large-scale operation like the invasion in late 2008 and early 2009.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak however, insisted Israel would “continue to operate as needed” against the Gaza Strip, vowing that “those who operate against us will be decapitated.” Since those responsible for the Eilat attacks last week are, according to officials, already dead, it remains unclear exactly who Israel figures to be targeting in its continued air strikes.
There must be at least one hospital or refugee camp they haven't strafed yet. They are only concerned with terrorizing those who cannot defend themselves. There is no such thing as "collateral damage." Everyone and everything is a target.
Those who perpetrate this are less than pond scum.
If you want to attack and kill but you are killing civilians already.
Israeklis have been mad like america and war and war and nothing else.
Israeli leaders are in the decapitation business, both figuratively and literately. Speaking of barbarity, it's quite ironic that Herzl thought the colonial Zionist project would be a defender of Western civilization against the hordes of savages to the east.
Ariel Sharon was known as The Butcher. It seems Ehud Barak is competing for that title. If it's any consolation, there is always Ehud the Impaler. No wait, that nickname has already been used by one Vlad something. Well, there is always The Maimer. Even Mafia bosses get nicer nicknames and enjoy a better reputation.
Why us the term decapitation. The correct term is murder. I love Harry Trumans statement on the israel people….Jesus Christ could not please them what do you expect me to do?
The last sentences illustrates that the Israeli strikes are not in aid of pursuing justice; they are nothing more than state-sponsored 'price tag' reprisals of the sort that settlers (read: squatters) perpetrate against Palestinians every other day for offenses real or imagined.
I figured there might be some event, actual or manufactured, that would occur prior to the Palestinian presentation to the UN next month. Never let it be said that the Israelis ever let an opportunity to kill Palestinians go to waste.
Nice Ehud, real nice. Israel, the pride of the West, the only democracy on the planet, god's land. Chosen people indeed…
Seeing as you're both an anti-Semite and an Islamophobe, you might want to curtail your presence here and stick to something that agrees with your xenophobic palate.
Right…because being critical equals hate. Nothing but absolute, unconditional love and self-sacrifice will do. And the entire planet is supposed to treat you that way, why exactly?
barak being an educated, cultured, sophisticated maniac will de capitate those he dislikes
Another invasion of Gaza/ I lost count but I think this will be invasion number 7 by the peaceful Israel military. Lebanon is next with 5 invasion with Egypt with three no including the planned on to steal the natural gas of the area. For a nation which cries victim they sure attack a lot of neighbors.