Posted on 10/07/2023 12:50:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JERUSALEM/GAZA/SDEROT Oct 7 (Reuters) - Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns on Saturday killing and capturing scores of civilians and soldiers in a surprise assault, met by Israel with massive retaliatory air strikes that killed scores in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the assault that had begun in Gaza would spread to the West Bank and Jerusalem.
“This was the morning of defeat and humiliation upon our enemy, its soldiers and its settlers," he said in a speech. "What happened reveals the greatness of our preparation. What happened today reveals the weakness of the enemy."
In Sderot, in southern Israel near Gaza, bodies of Israeli civilians lay strewn across a highway, surrounded by broken glass. A woman and a man were sprawled out dead across the front seats of a car. A military vehicle drove past the bodies of another woman and a man in a pool of blood behind another car.
"I went out, I saw loads of bodies of terrorists, civilians, cars shot up. A sea of bodies, inside Sderot along the road, other places, loads of bodies," said Shlomi from Sderot.
Terrified Israelis, barricaded into safe rooms, recounted their plight by phone on live TV.
"They just came in again, please send help," a woman identified as Dorin told Israel's N12 News from Nir Oz, a kibbutz near Gaza. "My husband is holding the door closed ... They are firing rounds of bullets."
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Interesting.
“they have engineered a new war-front where both parties will eagerly redirect unlimited cash and weapons.”
So Hamas’s assault on Israel is the product of US bureaucrats?
You’re nuts!
Get out of your mother’s house.
Obtain a passport.
Travel the world.
Learn things.
Meet new people.
So you won’t sound like a myopic, Demoralized Blame-America-Always idiot.
Lots of people being labeled “NeverTrumpers” here are far to the right on Trump on many issues, such as his homosexual/transgender support. The reason we find his support of such things so reprehensible is because we are strong followers of the Bible, which condemns such behaviors as abominable in the Old Testament, which most Christians and Jews are believers of. Therefore, we would clearly support Israel, not Hamas.
Level Gaza!
Crush it, pulverize it all to rubble and bulldoze the whole stinking lot of it into the sea.
Its time.
And now you complain, hey, he had a good relationship with Russia, too.
Fine, Maybe you're right. And you know what the result was? Four years of peace.
Go play with Victoria Nuland, and start another war to kill a few hundred thousand more people. This neocon nonsense is insanity.
And using them as human shields. Same tactics as 20+ years ago
Perhaps the other Arab nations seeming to 'warm up' to Israel and normalize relations was a bridge-too-far for the puppet masters in Iran.
By instigating the attack to force a response from Israel, the optics would likely put the other Arab nations in a position where they would have to condemn Israel, putting everything back to square one in terms of Arab/Israel relations.
Israel should use missiles to take out any Hamas houses of government and residences of officials. Then isolate and eliminate the recent intruders. The jihadis will have trouble making decisions at that point.
Can ISRAEL and AMERICA survive?
Don’t about AMERICA, but I read the end of the BOOK and ISRAEL wins.
“You don’t have to be a “NeverTrumper” to question Trump’s relationship with Putin.”
Actually, you do have to be a NeverTrumper, as it was PROVEN, after 2 YEARS of investigation that Trump had no ‘relationship’ with Putin.
At this point, linking Trump and Putin CLEARLY makes one a NeverTrumper, regardless of any claims to the contrary.
“Why can’t Turkey or Iran take them?”
Because NOBODY in their right mind wants anything to do with those nut cases.
You don't have to be a neocon to find 5,000 Russian tanks rolling across the border of another country an issue.
Nor do you have to be a neocon to find 5,000 missiles launched into the Israel a major issue, either.
I don't know what the exact proper response should be, but I won't be blaming the victim as so many Putinista's here are so eager to do.
“Arabs…they are either at your feet or at your throat”
Winston Churchill supposedly said that of Germany. It’s a great quip that works on a lot of targets.
What you say makes a lot of sense. Sometimes short-term brutality is preferable to long-term acquiescence and suffering.
It was only proven that they didn't conspire in the 2016 election. Nothing else. And Trump's admiration of Putin is quite evident. It's the exact reason so many here now support Putin so much.
Wow!
Bullshit !
Sure they are.
The Palestinian problem has lingered far too long. I think this is an opportunity for Israel to make that problem go away permanently. And quite seriously — if anyone “has a problem with that” I think Israel should offer to nuke Mecca. Oh? You don’t want that? OK, then allow us to make the Palestinian problem go away. No one likes the Palestinians. No one.
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