The fourth day of Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip continued, killing at least seven people, including three civilians. The toll of the recent bombing campaign so far is 25 killed.
Egypt’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority downplayed the continued violence, saying he believed that a ceasefire would be finalized within the next 48 hours. Israeli officials, however, seem to dispute that.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is openly talking of a full-scale ground invasion, and the Israeli military says it is “ready” to launch such an operation, the first of its kind since 2009’s Cast Lead, which killed about 1,400 people.
Meanwhile Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that rockets fired in retaliation to Israel’s attacks meant the Palestinians no longer would be allowed to have a territorially contiguous state. The Palestinians “have condemned themselves to a separation that looks like it will continue for generations,” he said.
If you can't attack who you want to, attack who you can.
Israeli bloodlust is insatiable. Bibi couldn't gin up the 'war on Iran' so, he beats dog meat out of Gaza. Shouldn't this Israeli warmongering lunatic be sent to the ICC for a war crimes tribunal?
Israel has attacked and started more wars than all Middle East countries combined since 1947. Israel was established through acts of terrorism committed against the Palestinians.
…"…the Palestinians “have condemned themselves to a separation that looks like it will continue for generations.”…
As if this wasn't the plan from the beginning? Try this: Israel bombs Gaza for no logically apparent reason and the Palestinians react by bombing Israelis. Israelis then point to the Palestinians and say:
"See? They're not serious about peace. They are only serious about killing Israelis – because we are Israelis, the Chosen Ones….Oy yeah – don't forget about the holocaust…they hate us because we survived that, too."
Israel should unleash fuel-air bombs and bulldoze Gaza completely into the ground. Leave nothing but flat and level sand. I can't think of a better way to give the middle finger to all the Palestinian lovers in the EU, UN, and White House.
You should walk down the middle of Gaza wrapped in Israel's "swastika". The worlds middle finger is already in your eye!
Would it be a practise run for the 'real' action; fuel-air bombing Tehran, Andrewp? Do you hate Iranians too?
They are always giving the middle finger to the opposition to Israeli war criminals. 'They' being Wall Street, the banks and 99% of the bought-and-payed-for Senate, plus AIPAC. In England we have Conservative Friends of Israel, Liberal Friends of Israel, Labour Friends of Israel, the Jewish business sector, banks etc etc, all lobbying away at our easily corruptible politicians. So much for the democratic process.
History will ask why it took so long to rid the world of the practice of APARTHEID.
It's obvious you have never seen the face of war and occupation and your opinion is based on pure ignorance…
WOW It has been a long time since I read a post like this. It does paint an image of the chosen that many have. I guess you are too young to understand that Gaza was taken twice by the thugs of the iDF. Look at how much your religion complains about how the romans treated your relatives and maybe you might get a feeling how the Palestinians feel for recent events over those that happened 10,000 generations back. If you feel so strong on the matter you should go to the closes Israel embassy and enlist. Israel will need a lot of men if they get into a long land war with Iran. You could have your name on a big monumbert like the ones for the civil war in the United States. Go for it son.
This guy could have been an SS-thug or concentration camp guard during WW2, gassing and killing Jewish people in Auchwitz…….Shame there are still such 'people' around in this world.
Too bad that Pals do not have access Bibi's car, or home…
Syria is plan A and Gaza is plan B and Hezbollah?
Then comes the big one, Iran.
"the Palestinians no longer would be allowed to have a territorially contiguous state"
What is meant by "no longer"? Since when were the Palestinians ever "allowed to have a territorially contiguous state"?
The Israelis are such liars that they themselves don't know if they're lying or telling the truth. That's when you hear sloppy statements like this one, trying (but failing) to make it look as if it's Palestinian behaviour, not Israeli policy, that is responsible for their increasing oppression.
If the Israelis hadn't lied so long about their dealings with the Palestinians and would stop stealing their land, people might begin to trust them. As things now stand, most people know to mistrust everything coming from the Israeli leadership without independent verification first.
Jason,
I'm sure most people reading your article will already know, however I think it should be clearly underlined that the deaths are all on one side.
These racist supremacists must be removed from power and the
entire constitution of the Zionist state must be changed to allow
representation for all its inhabitants because if these things do not
happen and "Israel" continues on its current path, she will not survive
"for generations".
That I am sure will happen. The two states solution is no longer an option. Israel will in time become a One Nation state, where Palestinians will be second class citizens with no rights. But that will only be temporary, the struggle will go on, and the same as in apartheid Sth Africa the Palestinians will eventially gain their rights and inevitably the demographic the upper hand. Also sometime in the not too distant future the US will come to its senses for a variety of reasons and Zionism is lost without American support. Zionism is doomed it will never be able to survive because it is created and build on faulty foundations.; on quick sand. History does not know a status quo; the world is not static. Such is the inexorable course of history.
Down with Zionism; Long live Palestine !!
Bibi's the real terrorist.
Before anywhere else in the ME, we need regime change in Tel Aviv.
Is Israel going to mobilize under the pretext of a Gaza incursion, and then invade someplace else?
bibi reminds me of a kid in school, always mouthing off but could do nothing to those he hated so he would smash the little brother. bibi deserves the fate that asshole got — a savage beating, f__ing coward.
I guess Israel figures its time to cull the Gaza herd again.
And he will surely want them to dig their own graves – just like a two-bit mafia thug.
The cowards of the IOF don’t have the gal to fight against a real army so they attack the defenseless people of gaza for sport. To the ignorant poster Andjew111 or whatever his name, The Palestinian people have been showing you the FINGER since 60 years only you haven’t noticed it in your arrogance.
The end game is in sight: Israel will move now to completely reduce what is left of Palestine into Israel. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=235365017…
Lieberman, living in an illegal settlement and hailing from Eastern Europe, is so special and chosen that he can decide Palestinians' fate for ever. What an ally for the democratic USA.