Posted on 03/18/2010 11:46:22 PM PDT by Cindy
"Air Force strikes in Gaza"
SNIPPET: "IDF retaliates for deadly Qassam attack: Air Force hits several Gaza targets, including metal foundry, smuggling tunnel; Vice PM Shalom says Israel to offer strong response to rocket attack that killed Thai worker Thursday"
SNIPPET: "IDF aircraft struck at least four targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said."
SNIPPET: "Israel also sent a letter of complaint to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to visit Israel at the weekend, and to the UN Security Council.
A previously unknown group, Ansar al-Sunna, believed to share the hardline ideology of al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire at Israel, as well as the al-Aqsa Martrys Brigades, a wing of the Fatah movement.
Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that Israel holds Hamas accountable for attacks originating in the Gaza Strip regardless of the group that commits them."
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Previously...
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Report: Israeli air force attacks Gaza City
YNET NEWS.com ^ | 12/27/08, 11:46/Israel News | Hanan Greenberg and Reuters)
Posted on December 27, 2008 2:01:50 AM PST by Cindy
Israel’s air force fired around 20 missiles at targets in Gaza City on Saturday, causing heavy damage, a Reuters witness said. The IDF has confirmed the report. (Hanan Greenberg and Reuters)
Unknown what’s correct here, but fyi:
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_israel0217_03_18.asp
Thursday, March 18, 2010
“Obama blocks delivery of bunker-busters to Israel”
WASHINGTON —
SNIPPET: “”This was a political decision,” an official said.”
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3863920,00.html
“Report: US shipping arms ahead of strike on Iran”
SNIPPET: “Scottish newspaper says US transferred ammunition containers with ‘bunker-buster’ bombs to Diego Garcia in Indian Ocean.”
Ynet
Published: 03.17.10, 08:50 / Israel News
Note to those interested in Israel-related material; this is the new thread.
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ADDING to post no. 1:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171319
“IAF strikes in Gaza after Kassam attack”
By YAAKOV LAPPIN AND YAAKOV KATZ
19/03/2010 05:24
“Six targets hit, two reported wounded; Security sources say Hamas not behind attack.”
SNIPPET: “IAF aircraft struck six targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Thursday, in response to a Kassam attack that killed a foreign worker in Netiv Ha’asara earlier in the day.
The army said it struck three smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian border, a weapons production facility and two tunnels intended for infiltration into Israel to carry out attacks.”
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Thank you for the bump Lancey Howard.
Background history for post no 1 and post no. 5:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136599
Published: 03/18/10, 9:44 PM / Last Update: 03/18/10, 9:46 PM
“Again: Gaza Rocket Slams into Israel”
by Gil Ronen
SNIPPET: “(IsraelNN.com) A short range rocket slammed into southern Israel Thursday evening, within the territory of the Eshkol Local Authority. No one was hurt. Earlier in the day, a Thai worker was killed by a similar rocket.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon held a press conference Thursday at Netiv Ha’asara, near the spot where the foreign worker was killed.
“This is one rocket out of 12,000 that the citizens of Israel have endured in recent years,” the Deputy Foreign Minister said.”The responsibility for this attack rests with Hamas.””
Lord, protect and save Israel.
Archived posts on the old thread (see post no. 2) near the end of the thread:
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http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001706.html
March 16, 2010
“CALL IT THE OBAMA INTIFADA”
1,083 posted on March 16, 2010 4:48:46 PM PDT by Cindy
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Hamas ‘day of rage’ leads to violent incidents across Israel
Ha’aretz ^ | Last update - 23:36 16/03/2010 | Liel Kyzer, Jack Khoury, Fadi Eyadat and News Agencies
Posted on March 16, 2010 2:54:37 PM PDT by sofaman
IDF official: Neither Israel nor PA wants more conflict; police chief: This will not lead to third intifada.
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After Hamas declared an official “day of rage” leading to clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces across Jerusalem on Tuesday, the violence seemed also to spread to other parts of the country.
Assailants in the central Israeli city of Jaffa hurled rocks at two public buses, cracking the back window of one of them. Rocks were also thrown at a truck near Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev in the south and at two vehicles in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dor. There were no casualties in any of the incidents.
A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said that despite the outbreak of violence, neither the Palestinian Authority nor Israel was interested in seeing a renewal of conflict. “Everyone understands that we can’t let this region fall into unbridled violence,” he said.
Dozens of Palestinians fought with Israeli police earlier Tuesday in Jerusalem in response to Hamas’ call to protest Israel’s consecration of an ancient synagogue in the city the day before.
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Hat Tip:
http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001706.html
March 16, 2010
“CALL IT THE OBAMA INTIFADA”
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3863432,00.html
“Day of rage’: Hamas calls for terrorist attacks inside Israel”
Ali Waked
Latest Update: 03.16.10, 13:32 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “While hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated and threw stones at security forces in a number of places in east Jerusalem to mark a “Day of rage”, the Palestinian Authority announced a general alert.
Hamas’ acting parliamentary speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar called on the Palestinian organizations to strike Israel with terrorist attacks in its central region...”
13 posted on March 16, 2010 11:49:33 PM PDT by Cindy
1,084 posted on March 16, 2010 11:52:38 PM PDT by Cindy
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3864615,00.html
1 seriously wounded after Qassam hits Ashkelon Coast Council
Published: 03.18.10, 11:51 / Israel News
A Qassam rocket fired from the northern Gaza Strip landed near hothouses in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council. A foreign worker was seriously wounded as a result, and emergency medical teams are trying to resuscitate him. (Shmulik Hadad)
1,085 posted on March 18, 2010 3:09:48 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/182805
Victim of Kassam Attack Dies
Reported: 12:05 PM - Mar/18/10
(IsraelNN.com)
A man who was seriously injured by a Kassam rocket Thursday morning has died from his wounds. The attack took place in the hothouses of a moshav in the Ashkelon area. Magen David Adom workers rushed to the scene after the attack but were unable to save the man. The victim was a foreign worker. The rocket was the third one fired by Gaza terrorists since Wednesday night.
1,086 posted on March 18, 2010 3:12:10 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e077.htm
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
“News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(March 10-16, 2010)”
Posted March 16, 2010
1,087 posted on March 18, 2010 3:14:52 AM PDT by Cindy
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In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray in agreement.
Amen.
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Published March 2010
Vol. 9, No. 21 8 March 2010
“Facing Iran: Lessons Learned Since Iraq’s 1991 Missile Attack on Israel”
Moshe Arens
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865063,00.html
“Police to deploy in force around Jerusalem”
Published: 03.19.10, 08:54 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Some 2,500 police and Border Guard officers on Friday will deploy around Jerusalem and the Temple Mount vicinity, to prevent possible rioting and disorders.”
ADDING to post no. 1:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171317
“’Kassam rockets – Goldstone’s fault’”
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND BENJAMIN SPIER
18/03/2010 22:47
SNIPPET: “Ayalon tells ‘Post’; Iron Dome deployment to go forward as soon as possible.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hezbollah/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hIzballah/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizbullah/index
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http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-47049920100319?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
“Israel attack on Iran could ignite MidEast - Hezbollah”
SNIPPET: “Hezbollah, a Shi’ite Lebanese group, was set up with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards to fight Israeli forces that invaded Lebanon in 1982 and still enjoys strong support from Tehran as well as Syria.
The group fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006 that cost 1,200 lives in Lebanon and 159 in Israel. Despite U.N. resolutions and a U.N. peacekeeping force, Hezbollah has since rearmed.”
Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:31pm IST
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http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin#!/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856
Needed: A Reset with Israel
Tue at 11:01am
The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba. Letters are written to Iran’s mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets of Tehran. Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons. The Burmese military junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation’s capital. The President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime “gold stars,” while the President shakes hands with Venezuela’s tyrannical leader. In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.
Last October, Secretary of State Clinton recognized Israel’s desire for peace in the Middle East and praised Israel’s “unprecedented” concessions for agreeing to halt settlement construction in the West Bank, a concession that did NOT include halting construction of apartments for Jews in Jerusalem. Even last week after planned construction was announced, Vice President Biden still expressed “appreciation” for the “significant” steps taken by the Israeli government to address this minor issue. Now, however, we see the Obama Administration has decided to escalate, make unilateral demands of Israel, and threaten the very foundation of the US-Israel relationship. This is quickly leading to the worst crisis in US-Israel relations in decades, and yet this did not have to happen. More importantly, it needs to stop before it spirals out of control. Vice President Biden should rein in the overheated Obama Administration rhetoric and chill the political spin masters’ fire as they visit the Sunday media shows to criticize Israel.
Once again, the Obama Administration is missing the boat on a very, very important issue. They need to go back to the basics and acknowledge Palestinian leaders have not progressed any peace process since President Obama was elected. As Israel makes concessions (and is still criticized by the Obama Administration), Arab leaders are just sitting back waiting for the White House to further pressure Israel. The Obama Administration needs to open its eyes and recognize that it is only Iran and her terrorist allies that benefit from this manufactured Israeli controversy. Vice President Biden was actually right when he said last week, before the construction announcement, that “one necessary precondition for progress is that the rest of the world knows...there is absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to security.” Right now, thanks to the Obama Administration, there is a chasm. It’s time for President Obama to push the reset button on our relations with our ally Israel.
- Sarah Palin
OPINION:
I think they are out of the loop.
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This information is current as of today, Fri Mar 19 2010 00:39:26 GMT-0700 (PDT).
ISRAEL, THE WEST BANK AND GAZA
August 14, 2009
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