[PubliusMM]

Can’t wait for the IDF response...

[from occupied ga]

Ashkelon

Isn't that in Ohio?

[Ancesthntr]

The city's 100,000-plus rocket-besieged residents were told just last night (Wednesday) by Defense Minister Ehud Barak that there was no need to change the city's deployment plans.

I think he said something about "...if Ashkelon is bombed, you can call me Meyer." No, wait, that was Berlin and Hermann Goering. Minor error - sorry.

He ought to resign, followed a few seconds later by the dissolution of the government by Foolmert. Of course, that statement is predicated on either of them having any integrity, so it won't happen. Neither will much except bombing a few empty buildings.

[FReepaholic]

Does the IDF not have counter-battery radar?

[Flintlock]

As an old artilleryman—where is the counterbattery fire against this rocketry?
Never mind iffen you don’t HIT too many of the guilty. If the Denizens knew that every rocket would get a “battery six” response (6 per gun from a battery of six guns), they they might respond with “not in my back yard” to the Muzzies.

[onedoug]

Now, Israel?

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[NormsRevenge]

Looks like the stage is set..

Hizbullah is armed and ready, the Gazoids are stepping it up..

Time for Olmert to cut bait or fish..

[Left2Right]

Israel needs to declare open war with gaza and raze it to the ground. There are no innocents there.

Gaza Delenda Est.

[justiceseeker93]

Fortunately, no Israeli civilians were killed nor seriously wounded ... yet ... in this incident. But the fact that the Gazans have increased the range of their rockets marks a definite escalation in the situation.

Israel had better undo the disastrous "disengagement" and retake Gaza ASAP.

[rbosque]

I wonder if the left will cry like they do when we use our military.
Those Palestinians could have certainly used the money to “buy food and medicine instead of rockets”. (If I may use the left’s mantra.)

[justiceseeker93]

Ping!

[sheik yerbouty]

Push the palesite infestation into the sea..

[Zionist Conspirator]

My, but sending in the IDF to forcibly evict Jews from Gaza so it could be turned over to the PLO sure was a smart thing to do, wasn't it??? [/sarcasm]

I suppose the current Israeli government will respond by giving them even more territory from which to attack them!

How does Olmert survive over there???

[ridesthemiles]

I vote for turning Gaza into glass.....

[justiceseeker93]

I don’t quite understand what the mayor of Ashkelon means when he says “we’re willing to pay the price.” Does he think that if the IDF does nothing in Gaza, the rocket fire on his city will stop? The word “price” implies that Israeli action in Gaza will cause an escalation in the rocket fire. In fact, only by retaking control of Gaza can Israeli citizens be confident that the rocket fire from there will cease.