[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is an Excerpt see the source Website for more....

Related thread:

Israel kills 205 in air assault on Gaza Strip

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[screaminsunshine]

Predictably C. Rice will fly over there with money and a cease fire order. What a joke the never ending peace process is.

[exist]

Well they got a couple weeks of it anyway. This will be followed by condemnations, human rights blah blah blah— Israel will at first show steely resolve— before eventually accepting a fake ceasefire.

3 weeks, tops.

[keving]

Just a flesh wound, come on and fight!

[Dallas59]

Monthly Distribution of Rocket Hits



Monthly Distribution of Mortar Shell Hits



Monthly Distribution of Attacks



Israelis killed and injured

[arthurus]

"More than 200 dead..." So? without all of the Hamas "activists" dead and the Moslems pushed out of Gaza into Egypt permanently, nothing has been accomplished more than, at best, a temporary diminution of rocket attacks accompanied by a ratcheting up of the venom poured out against Israel by the "civilized" world.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Access to target photos via this thread:

IDF Releases Photos of Hamas Targets, Terror Training Facilities(Before Operations)

[Cindy]

Thank you Ernest.
I’ll link to your thread.

Ongoing updates here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2154771/posts

[Straight Vermonter]

Keep up the heat Israel.

[SunkenCiv]

A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two [Arab?] schoolgirls... Israel decided enough was enough and sent warplanes in to demolish every known Hamas compound, killing hundreds... Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory... Most of those killed were security men...

...what, Hamas has Pinkerton? Does lead with "Israel warplanes killed x number of civilians, but it's still ridiculous writing in the article. Thanks Ernest!

[oldbrowser]

Both sides said they were ready to stage wider assaults, threatening to plunge the region into a crisis that could leave stalled talks over Palestinian statehood in tatters.

What a nightmare for the Israelis, locked in a never ending battle with an insane enemy.

[TomGuy]

Condi isn’t going to like this.

She has probably already sent messages of condemnation to Israel.

[It will be interesting to see how the new SoS handles these kinds of conflicts. She will get both the Israeli-Palestinian and India-Pak situations to deal with early in the term of her new position.]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Death count is climbing...Yahoo:

At least 225 dead as Israel hammers Hamas-run Gaza

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Perhaps it is time to drive the Philistines out of Gaza permanently.

[mkjessup]

Just a little touch up:

[bray]

Looks like Israel knows they’re on their own.

Pray for W, Israel and Our Freedom Fighters

[tiki]

I don’t want to seem heartless but until Israel goes in and carpet bombs EVERYTIME they send in a rocket, this will just keep going on and on. I believe that fewer people would be killed in the long run if they fought a real war and really kicked some arse.

[zeugma]

I recommend widespread use of napalm.

[PhilDragoo]

One rocket is an act of war; three thousand rockets without response?

And Bush wants to give these terrorists a state?

Give them the state of war speech and an ultimatum.

Intifada?

An act whose meaning is literally, "Drive me far from you at the tip of exploding ordnance."

News flash: When they stop teaching their children to kill Jews? Never.

Twelfth Imam's overtures to Khamenei are rebuffed!

What will he do. What. Will. He. Do.

Better question: How soon will Israel Do What Needs To Be Done.