Posted on 12/28/2008 8:16:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
TEL AVIV | The threat of an Israeli invasion of the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip loomed Sunday, with the call up of 6,500 reservists during the second day of an air offensive that sparked global protests and the deepest penetration yet by Palestinian rockets into southern Israel.
Israeli bombers targeted 40 smuggling tunnels linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, while Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Egyptian border police in an attempt to flee the bombing.
The death toll approached 300 and demonstrations erupted throughout the Muslim world.
The Syrian government broke off indirect peace talks started earlier this year with Israel. A rocket fired from Gaza hit near the port city of Ashdod 18 miles from the border, the deepest penetration yet by Palestinian missiles.
The severity of the attack, the worst in decades, threatened to saddle the incoming Obama administration with its first foreign-policy crisis.
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Warning to Iran: YOU ARE NEXT.
In wish I could go sign up with the IDF
Demonstrations erupted here in Toronto as well.
The terrorist supporters were in a frenzy on one side of the street and the supporters of Israel were on the other side. When they start facing each other in the streets, so highly emotionally charged, it could get really ugly.
Canada has come out in support of Israel (though not in the strong terms America has) and the terrorist supporters say they won’t stop demonstrating until Canada changes her position and supports the Palestinians. I pray Prime Minister Harper will stand strong for Israel.
Bombs away. Israel, stay strong.
Add my prayers to yours!
Is this one of Barry’s first tests that Biden talked about?
Joe Biden: Please pick up the courtesy phone.
This may be cover for something much larger, say in Iran?
Who says you can't?
You’d lose your U.S. citizenship, IIRC.
Lindh doesn’t seem to have lost his for fighting with the taliban.
The timing of these raids was Israel’s choice. They did it now before Obama has the power. They know that Obama’s first reaction to things is lberal stupid. Given time, his aides talk some common sense into him. By tthe time he gets in offfice he will have selecteed some of the better choices. Not the best choices but at least not the worse choices as would have been his first reaction.
Israel is doing the heavy lifting for all of us. Where can I donate?
Go Israel !
“I wish I could go sign up with the IDF”
YOU CAN....
The IDF sponsors what’s called the “SAR-EL Program” where Non-Israeli volunteers can help the defense forces. They provide housing and military meals, and usually give you a weekend in Tel Aviv at the end of your stint.
From WIKI-
Sar-El is a volunteer program of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Every year about 5,000 volunteers from overseas serve for two or three weeks with the IDF.
Their job is neither paid nor armed and is mainly in the logistical, maintaining, catering, supply and medical services. Having volunteers do these jobs saves the army money and spares reserve soldiers from being called up. Volunteers must be at least 17 years old (if accompanied by parents: 14 years) and healthy. Sar-El is subordinate to the Logistics Corps.
The program was raised in the summer of 1982 by Brigadier (ret.) Dr. Aharon Davidi (former commander of the IDF Paratrooper and Infantry Corps), when due to the general mobilization during the 1982 Lebanon War in some kibbutzim at the Golan the harvest with crops already ripened was in danger, because all able-bodied farmers were on reserve duty in the IDF.
Within a few weeks Davidi recruited some 650 volunteers to lend their support for Israel through volunteer labor on IDF bases, so the kibbuzniks could be sent to their fields. These first volunteers expressed their wish that this volunteer project should be perpetuated, and in the spring of 1983, “Sar-El - The National Project for Volunteers for Israel” was founded as a non-profit, non-political organization. Volunteers from all over the world came to participate in the project, and today, Sar-El is represented in some 30 countries.
The majority of Sar-El’s volunteers come from “Volunteers for Israel” in the U.S.A., Sar-El Canada (Canadian Volunteers for Israel), and “Volontariat Civil” (UPI) in France.
http://www.sar-el.org/
http://www.vfi-usa.org/
“You’d lose your U.S. citizenship, IIRC.”
ONLY if you volunteer for comabt duty.
Ever heard of “Volunteers for Israel” and the Sar-El?
http://www.vfi-usa.org/
We don’t enforce all the laws on the books about illegal immigration, either, but they’re still there.
Gaza need to be punished. Islamic people only respect force. Trying to be fair was seen as weakness. Gaza needs to be invaded and broken—like Nazi Germany was broken.
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