Choosing Suicide Over Peace
For ten months, the Israelis have been under rocket attacks from Gaza. The "cease-fire" that existed never really existed, even despite their pullout. Now, there are repercussions for this, and the other transgressions by Hamas and the Palestinians.
The witnesses said the vehicles moved into an unpopulated area of northern Gaza, the day after forces rolled into southern Gaza in an operation aimed at forcing militants to release a soldier captured Sunday.
Troops were set from Wednesday evening to pour into the northern Gaza Strip in an operation intended to place pressure on the Palestinian population.
Just before tanks rolled in early Thursday, Palestinian witnesses said an Israel Air Force plane fired a missile at the Islamic University in Gaza City. No one was hurt, but university officials decided to evacuate all 60 guards from the complex after the attack. The IDF said the missile hit an open field next to the university.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Wednesday evening authorized the IDF to begin operations in northern Gaza.
The IDF distributed flyers warning residents of the northern Gaza village of Beit Hanun, from where Qassam rocket crews have been shooting at Sderot, to leave their homes as the army will begin targeting populated areas in response to the Qassam fire.
Flyers were also distributed to residents of the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City. The IDF said the shelling would not be conducted by artillery units but will rather be precision fire from land and air.
Senior military sources said they expect thousands of Beit Hanun residents to begin leaving their homes en masse Thursday morning.Dozens of Palestinian militants - armed with grenades and automatic weapons - took up positions near sandpiles and barricades in anticipation of an IDF ground operation.Palestinians fired four Qassam rockets at Israel on Wednesday morning and two more later in the day. There were no casualties.
Meanwhile, IDF tanks and troops before dawn Wednesday, encountering little resistance from Palestinians, in a bid to pressure Palestinian militants into releasing an IDF soldier seized Sunday in an attack on a military position near the Gaza border.
Thomas and I are on record--right HERE--that the Israelis would have to go back into Gaza before a year was up. That time, it seems, has come. The Israelis have as much a right to defend themselves as we do. I suggest the Western nations of the world allow them to do so, and be done with this menace as soon as is absolutely possible. Holding them back only perpetuates the problem. Their problem is with Hamas, and the militants that are firing rockets and kidnapping Israeli citizens.
If a war is what the Palestinians wanted, then I believe death has just been delivered to their doorstep.
Marcie
For ten months, the Israelis have been under rocket attacks from Gaza. The "cease-fire" that existed never really existed, even despite their pullout. Now, there are repercussions for this, and the other transgressions by Hamas and the Palestinians.
The witnesses said the vehicles moved into an unpopulated area of northern Gaza, the day after forces rolled into southern Gaza in an operation aimed at forcing militants to release a soldier captured Sunday.
Troops were set from Wednesday evening to pour into the northern Gaza Strip in an operation intended to place pressure on the Palestinian population.
Just before tanks rolled in early Thursday, Palestinian witnesses said an Israel Air Force plane fired a missile at the Islamic University in Gaza City. No one was hurt, but university officials decided to evacuate all 60 guards from the complex after the attack. The IDF said the missile hit an open field next to the university.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Wednesday evening authorized the IDF to begin operations in northern Gaza.
The IDF distributed flyers warning residents of the northern Gaza village of Beit Hanun, from where Qassam rocket crews have been shooting at Sderot, to leave their homes as the army will begin targeting populated areas in response to the Qassam fire.
Flyers were also distributed to residents of the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City. The IDF said the shelling would not be conducted by artillery units but will rather be precision fire from land and air.
Senior military sources said they expect thousands of Beit Hanun residents to begin leaving their homes en masse Thursday morning.Dozens of Palestinian militants - armed with grenades and automatic weapons - took up positions near sandpiles and barricades in anticipation of an IDF ground operation.Palestinians fired four Qassam rockets at Israel on Wednesday morning and two more later in the day. There were no casualties.
Meanwhile, IDF tanks and troops before dawn Wednesday, encountering little resistance from Palestinians, in a bid to pressure Palestinian militants into releasing an IDF soldier seized Sunday in an attack on a military position near the Gaza border.
Thomas and I are on record--right HERE--that the Israelis would have to go back into Gaza before a year was up. That time, it seems, has come. The Israelis have as much a right to defend themselves as we do. I suggest the Western nations of the world allow them to do so, and be done with this menace as soon as is absolutely possible. Holding them back only perpetuates the problem. Their problem is with Hamas, and the militants that are firing rockets and kidnapping Israeli citizens.
If a war is what the Palestinians wanted, then I believe death has just been delivered to their doorstep.
Marcie
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 7:41 PM
1 Comments:
I opined that Israel should never have pulled out of Gaza. Israel did not ask permission of us, the UN or anyone to attack the terrorist Hamas and the others. GO ISRAEL GO! I like the fly over the Syrian President's residence. They could just as well have flattened it but the message was given. I don't see any Arab country going to help Hamas. Rawriter
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