Posted on 06/27/2008 11:37:38 AM PDT by Coffee200am
(IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni declared Thursday that Israel should respond with military force every time terrorists attack Israel with rockets and mortar shells. She told visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, "It doesn't interest me who fired it, we need to respond militarily and immediately to every infraction."
Islamic Jihad terrorist leaders have accused Israel of violating the temporary Gaza ceasefire 15 times since it went into effect eight days ago. The alleged violations include IDF surveillance drones over Gaza skies and the shooting of Arab fishermen and farmers by soldiers.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has limited his response to verbal statements that Israel considers the attacks truce violations. In addition, Israel has closed crossings into Gaza that had been opened under the agreement, and they remain shut on Friday, except for the Nahal Oz fuel depot. Terrorist leaders have warned that the closures will be considered as violations of the ceasefire.
The Islamic Jihad organization previously has taken responsibility for breaking the truce and attacking Israel with Kassam rockets and a mortar shell on Tuesday. It explained the bombardment was in retaliation for Israel's killing two terrorists in Shechem, part of Judea and Samaria where Islamic Jihad unilaterally extended the truce.
The Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot reported that United Nations sources claimed Israel has violated the agreement seven times and that Arabs violated it only once. Arab terrorists have fired at least seven rockets on three separate days this week.
Most of the alleged Israeli violations involved IDF soldiers shooting at Arabs who approach the separation barrier, where they often plant bombs to explode when IDF vehicles pass. Hamas has maintained that the Arabs were farmers trying to work their land.
IDF spokesmen said they knew of only one incident when soldiers fired warning shots in the air without injuring anyone. Islamic Jihad claimed that the IDF shot and seriously wounded two farmers, ages 67 and 80.
Nice! My best friend is dating an Israeli chick who served in the Army. She looks a lot like the girl in the top picture, but with curly hair. Girl’s freaking crazy, but in a good way. Check your freepmail in two minutes.
Where has the State Department, the US media and the UN been?
At least she is saying something!
That's much more than the vast majority of our leaders. Including the Bush Administration.
Or if it's why Muslim men treat all women like they do.
All those hot women constantly rejecting them, instead going for the smarter, better smelling Christian men.(only partly joking)
Only mine actually makes sense.
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Has to pretend to defend Israel until she gets elected.
Actually, that's one of the few Israeli assets that spread goodwill among the rest of the Middle East. Most men calm down for a bit when seeing a beautiful Israeli girl.
Actually, I disagree. The best response is not waiting for the IDF to respond. The best, the fastest response is a *local* response.
For example, look at the city of Sderot, a frequent target of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. Instead of them waiting for the IDF to show up, what if they instead bought themselves a 105mm Howitzer, and plenty ammo, and gave a tit-for-tat response for every rocket fired at them?
Importantly, this wouldn’t be called “counter battery fire”, even though that is what it was. Instead, they could play the cynical game the international community plays and say that they are just “trying to shoot down the incoming rockets”.
I know that this is both cynical and sarcastic, but it has a good reason. International law permits self defense, and generally holds blameless those “defending” themselves against enemy weapons. This avoids the hand wringing that they are targeting civilians from where the rockets are launched.
It turns any Palestinians hit by the counter battery fire from “victims” to “unfortunate accidents”, for which the citizens of Sderot and Israel is blameless.
And since the international community itself is utterly cynical and hypocritical, this turns their forked tongues back on themselves.
Plus, if the citizens of Sderot erect a 100 or so foot tall observation tower, they can respond so quickly with a 105mm howitzer as to make the rocketeers teeth rattle at best.
So why wait? Act now. Don’t wait for the IDF to do so.
Last time they tried shooting their own rocket into Gaza, the Israeli police rushed to the scene to stop them. Nice priorities Jews have.
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