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IDF Gets Green Light To Strike Hamas After Rocket Barrage
Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec 24, 2008 | Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon

Posted on 12/24/2008 6:41:01 PM PST by edpc

The IDF received the green light Wednesday for a series of operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, after more than 60 mortar shells and Katyusha and Kassam rockets pounded the Negev.

The barrage hit communities throughout the South, reaching as far north as Ashkelon and as far south as Kerem Shalom. At least two Grad-model Katyusha rockets were fired into Ashkelon on Wednesday, and a Kassam with extended range hit Netivot.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; islam; israel; jihad; wot
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To: guitarplayer1953

The Israelis seem to have been effeminized by their intellectual class. We can afford to cavort about in hemp sandals,granny glasses and unisex earrings, but the Jews are in the midst of, well, an unpleasant side of the world.


21 posted on 12/24/2008 7:53:57 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: TonyStark

They’d better do what they need to do before the Anointed One gets in office.


22 posted on 12/24/2008 7:55:28 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: samtheman
>" Can’t we just send Jimmy Carter into the Gaza Strip. And then lock the door shut behind him"

Just great. Peanut turns martyr by Israelicide. That gives Bomb0 the reason and excuse to squash Israel.

Remember Biden's werds???

23 posted on 12/24/2008 8:02:33 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (2nd assistant bookeeper)
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To: reefdiver
So they going to start shooting on Christmas ?

They are Jews shooting at Muslim slime. Gaza is well away from the "Christian Holy sites, such as manger square in Bethlehem. So why not? It's just another Thursday to them.

24 posted on 12/24/2008 8:03:02 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: reefdiver

The Hamas is Christian? LOL...

Good time to start killing Hamas...


25 posted on 12/24/2008 8:03:37 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: edpc

Nice Hanukka and Christmas present from the homicidal maniac follwers of a desert pedophile and his moon god.
Yet our State Department (thank you Condi) and the current inhabitant of the White House believe in recognizing the Palestinian state.

And the future occupant of the White House is no better and probably worse.


26 posted on 12/24/2008 8:03:49 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: edpc

We’ve seen this play before. As soon as the IDF starts to do something effective, the UN (on cue, led by France) will get involved and try to broker a cease fire. All the while, the MSM will play up Palestinan suffering (cue Green Helmet guy). The US will initially resist, but after a few days will join the choir. And, of course, the current Israeli leadership will do exactly what the US says. If recent history is any judge, nothing will be resolved.


27 posted on 12/24/2008 8:04:22 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Bastiat_Fan

I never like the thought of young kids in during Heavy OPs either being used as human shields or getting mangled from collateral damage with civilian casualties. The problem is that Hamas is like being out on the streets, you show weakness and restraint and they go for the throat. You go in heavy and they back down and take time to rearm and and train new dudes.

: (


28 posted on 12/24/2008 8:04:31 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: edpc

Here’s hoping they drive the muzzie slime into the Mediterranean Sea. But I’m not holding my breath, it will take 10,000 dead Israelis before they do what needs to be done, it will take a million dead Americans before we do the same.


29 posted on 12/24/2008 8:08:58 PM PST by hunter112 (We seem to be on an excrement river in a Native American watercraft without a propulsion device.)
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To: ari-freedom

What does “Nes Gadol Haya Po” mean?


30 posted on 12/24/2008 8:11:58 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: ashtanga

Then the intellectual class should be living by the wall and in the path of the missiles then maybe they would be forced to get some nads! Sandals granny glasses and earrings are you living in the 60’s?


31 posted on 12/24/2008 8:21:48 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: Bastiat_Fan

Its unfortunate that Israel did not get all the land that the Balford accord had alloted them. Its unfortunate that the surrounding ARABS did not welcome their brothers in to the land that was stolen from Israel to make Jordan and the other countries. So now they live in tents. What’s really going to be unfortunate is when God returns all of Israel to His chosen people.


32 posted on 12/24/2008 8:34:17 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: guitarplayer1953

Destroy the power station and cut all electric, water and food supplies to Gaza. Then give Hamas a choice; leave or die.


33 posted on 12/24/2008 8:40:59 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Would hate to see the sword of Gideon being drawn.


34 posted on 12/24/2008 8:49:48 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

It’s sad, but they ain’t all human shields, you don’t have to be that old to handle an AK, I know I could deal with one at the ripe old age of 8. We’ve just gone too far down this path for anyone to back out. Someone has to win and make life miserable for the other side before things get better.


35 posted on 12/24/2008 9:02:00 PM PST by Bastiat_Fan (Please don't call me a PaulTard... Surrender Monkey is so much more pleasing to the ears!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yeah, give people with absolutely nothing the threat of having absolutely nothing. That one will definitely work. And make recruiting suicide bombers even harder, of course.


36 posted on 12/24/2008 9:03:50 PM PST by Bastiat_Fan (Please don't call me a PaulTard... Surrender Monkey is so much more pleasing to the ears!)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

As an aside, those of us willing to die don’t make the news, it’s gonna be the dead kids that make the evening news. And where does that leave us, except with more Arabs hating Westerners?


37 posted on 12/24/2008 9:07:05 PM PST by Bastiat_Fan (Please don't call me a PaulTard... Surrender Monkey is so much more pleasing to the ears!)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Simple solution, but would take guts the Jews lack:

(1) Evict all Muslems from Jewish lands.
(2) Clear and maintain buffer lands.


38 posted on 12/24/2008 9:16:58 PM PST by OldArmy52 (Bush now a Socialist. Who'd a thunk?)
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To: edpc

Whenever a rocket lands in Israel the response should always be an immediate and devastating attack on the exact location from where they were launched, no matter where that location may be.


39 posted on 12/24/2008 10:55:22 PM PST by WackySam (Is the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on- or by imbeciles who really mean it?)
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To: Bastiat_Fan

Well, providing love and caring doesn’t seem to work. Nor does tolerance. Nor does acceptance.

There is only one thing to know. The people on the other side of the wall want you dead and will not stop until you are.

So you have a choice. Continue being bombarded and killed or destroy your enemy.


40 posted on 12/24/2008 11:03:16 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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