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Over 70 terrorists dead since onset of Summer Rain
Jerusalem Post ^ | July 8, 2006 | JPOST.COM STAFF

Posted on 07/08/2006 12:13:16 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

More than 70 terrorists have been killed since the onset of Operation Summer Rain last week in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said Saturday night.

Some 40 armed Palestinians were killed in IDF operations in north Gaza, said the army.

One IDF soldier, Yehuda Basel, was killed by friendly fire.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; gwot; hamas; idf; israel; summerrain

1 posted on 07/08/2006 12:13:19 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

70:1 kill ratio, can't get much better than that. Keep it up, IDF. You're doing the right thing, as usual.


2 posted on 07/08/2006 12:14:42 PM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: john drake

The Arabs all want to die for Allah.


3 posted on 07/08/2006 12:16:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: john drake

do you include friendly fire kills in that?


4 posted on 07/08/2006 12:17:33 PM PDT by jamesm113
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To: West Coast Conservative

Multiply 70 by 1000 and the IDF will be getting somewhere.


5 posted on 07/08/2006 12:25:02 PM PDT by zarf (Italian Kid: My father can beat up your father! Jewish Kid: Big deal, so can my mother!)
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To: jamesm113; john drake
do you include friendly fire kills in that?

If the death is the result of a military operation, yes.

6 posted on 07/08/2006 12:25:22 PM PDT by calex59 (The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
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To: jamesm113

I obviously would prefer not to in this case, but friendly fire deaths are always a tragedy. Given they happen in every war, the West has gotten better in getting the numbers to decrease, and continue advances in medicine to care for wounded, regardless of cause.


7 posted on 07/08/2006 12:27:34 PM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: West Coast Conservative

Makes me want to break out singing "We're dancing in the rain, we're dancing in the rain, what a beautiful morning...."


8 posted on 07/08/2006 12:32:14 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: zarf

Agreed. But the muslims will not fight a conventional war; they haven't the equipment, the brains nor the tactical training to do so (they haven't had it since the Turks)and realize they'd reach your 1000:1 kill ratio if they tried, hence the cowardly guerilla tactics. I would think our military has been consulting with the Israelis all along as to how to deal with these types as we face this crap in Iraq/Afghanistan, and although information isn't released as to how many insurgents and their supporters are being killed, I suspect the ratio to the U.S. forces is quite handsome.


9 posted on 07/08/2006 12:33:07 PM PDT by john drake
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To: West Coast Conservative

"When the rain comes, they run and hide their heads, they might as well be dead ..."

10 posted on 07/08/2006 12:37:45 PM PDT by PackerBronco
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To: West Coast Conservative

Good riddance to bad rubbish!


11 posted on 07/08/2006 1:06:02 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: MinorityRepublican
i>The Arabs all want to die for Allah.

And by God we should help them any way we can to achive that goal! Them virgins aint getting any younger!


12 posted on 07/08/2006 1:15:54 PM PDT by Bommer
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To: West Coast Conservative

War with hamass is inevitable. The Israelis have a perfect pretext with the abduction of the Israeli soldier and killing of two others on Israeli soil, by hamass operatives.

What would Sharon do? He wouldn't temporize or worry about what eurabia thinks of the ongoing operations in hamistan. I think he would use this opportunity to strangle this little ugly baby in its cradle.

Israel, now is the time to settle at least some of the family business. Hamass delanda est!


13 posted on 07/08/2006 1:20:15 PM PDT by AdvisorB (For a terrorist bodycount in hamistan, let the smoke clear then count the ears and divide by 2.)
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14 posted on 07/08/2006 2:15:00 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: AmericaUnited

I'm passin' out candy...


15 posted on 07/08/2006 5:09:29 PM PDT by Iscool (President Bush loves AMNESTY...But he hates the DICTIONARY...)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Over 70 terrorists dead since onset of Summer Rain

A good start, but most likely a very small down payment on the final bill.

16 posted on 07/08/2006 5:54:07 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Mr.Smorch
The Israelis have a perfect pretext with the abduction of the Israeli soldier and killing of two others on Israeli soil,

I would not call that a pretext.

pretext A noun
1 guise, pretense, pretence, pretext an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

2 pretext, stalking-horse something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

I'd call it a casus belli

Casus belli is a modern Latin-based expression meaning "occasion of war", used officially to refer to the grievances section of a formal Declaration of war. With this usage, and due to its common mispelling and pronunciation as "causus belli," — ie. resembling the English "cause" and the original Latin "causa" ("cause") — the term has the popular connotation of "cause for war".

17 posted on 07/08/2006 6:03:41 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: PackerBronco

"...and the jukebox kept on playin' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'..."


18 posted on 07/08/2006 6:08:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: El Gato

"I'd call it a casus belli"

I'd say you are right on target.


19 posted on 07/08/2006 6:41:16 PM PDT by AdvisorB (For a terrorist bodycount in hamistan, let the smoke clear then count the ears and divide by 2.)
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