Israeli military officials confirmed today that the Netanyahu government has given them a green light to launch any attacks on the Gaza Strip necessary to stop rocket fire, “including ground operations” inside the constantly besieged strip.
Though Prime Minister Benjamin Netaynahu has ruled out cooperating with any ceasefire coming out of the stirp, Israeli military officials were saying on Sunday that they believed the latest round of escalation was over. Now it seems the biggest incursion into the strip since the December 2008 invasion is in the offing.
Military officials declined to predict when the attack would happen, but the Jerusalem Post claimed that Israel agreed on Tuesday to delay its invasion for 24 hours at the request of the Egyptian junta, which is hoping to broker another ceasefire.
Though Israeli invasions of the Gaza Strip are mostly a media event inside Israel, with politicians wrangling for air time, it could also be a hugely destabilizing event for Egypt, where the junta is already contending with unrest.
Pick on the nearest and weakest neighbor you can find and beat up on him- typical Israeli 'tough guy' bullying. This is nothing more than a 'price tag' reprisal for the pro-Palestine UNESCO vote a few days ago, and yet another example of Israeli disregard for the lives of non-Jews in the region.
Israel needs to be stopped- by diplomacy if possible, by force if necessary.
OH what a shock Israel is going to attack the unarmed people of Gaza. Israel has a very large military and they are pushing to have the USA attack IRAN. Please help our friend Israel and tell our congress to help in any way possible if Israel elected to attack Iran.
Israel has pleanty of military equipment so they are more than capable of attacking Iran. If they get stuck in a long drawn out war then we as friends should help with a situation that might kill or wound two or three hundred thousand IDF soldiers. We much help them if the attack. We in the United States have no reason to attack anyone in the middle east. We did not waste all our water reserve as Israel did so as to make it necessary to steal arab land with water.
Gaza has a huge water reserve. It was attacked in 1955 so it is not a question of the present people in office Gaza. It is all about the water.
Please support the effort to help Israel if then elected to attack Iran. The USA lost 34,000 crippled in Iraq which was a cake walk. The horror of attacking Iran is hard to imagine so we much help if Israel is stupid enough to get stuck in a long land war in middle east. Iran held Iraq back even with all the advanced military equipment Iraq.
If Israel actually does attack Iran, they are not going to want to have someone behind them hacking at their heels. I wonder if this attack in Gaza is aimed at removing the thorn of the Palestinians in preparation of the Iranian attack. If so, don't expect this to be anything like the previous "retaliations" the Israelis have done against Gaza – this will probably be more like a blitzkreig – raze the place down to the sand and leave nothing behind.
Israel has gone completely suicidal. I wonder how the Israeli citizens feel about their impending doom. You can't imagine that the IDF is going to be able to stop all in-coming rockets and artillery from the Iranians…with a population that small – and concentrated – there are going to be massive casualties.
Fools.
The Israeli citizens would be well advised to call for new elections, today – maybe they can end this idiocy before it gets completely out of hand… but probably not.
..as well as the more sophisticated missiles Iran has stockpiled in Lebanon that can now reach Tel Aviv ( so it had been reported recently).
we give a green light to attack gaza, oh! yes to stop rocket attacks thats it