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Israel to extend Gaza operation despite int'l pressure
Roni Sofer
Published: 11.01.09, 01:28
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1. You have 19,700 HAMAS to kill, stop with nice,nice to HAMAS,
GET REAL ,   USA   (01.11.09)
supporters who the world calls civilians!
2. FARCE WAR! ONLY IN NORTH GAZA & NO GAZA CITY & WAITING FOR
GET REAL ,   USA   (01.11.09)
POLITICAL PERMISSION TO FIGHT MORE HAMAS! This is a bigger failure then the Israel lost second Lebanon war!
3. To see real pictures from Israel
shai   (01.11.09)
I invite you to click here and see real pictures from Israel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDP4ADLERpM
4. unconditional surrender
Jimbo ,   Hartford CT USA   (01.11.09)
Memo to the EU, Arab capitals and other interested parties. Just as the bombing of imperial Japan was ended only with the acceptance of unconditional surrender, so too will this operation end with the Hamas leaders coming out of their bunker with a white flag.
5. Muslims will support Palestinians with weapons,money and moraly,whatever you say
Hassan ,   Kazan, Russia   (01.11.09)
6. pushing forward
g.man ,   u.k.   (01.11.09)
If you are kind to the cruel,you will end up being cruel to the kind.FINISH THE JOB.
7. KOL HAKAVOD, B'SHAA TOVA
sandi ,   chicago   (01.11.09)
ALL the best to the IDF, the real heros. They don't hold hands with thenemy, they get the job done.
8. Keep going IDF! Erase Hamas off the Map!
Zer ,   Chicago   (01.11.09)
9. NoInternational Pressure At Start Of Yom Kippur War
Seth ,   Washington, DC   (01.11.09)
...but there was international pressure when Sharon's tanks crossed the Suez. International pressure is a sure sign that Israel is winning.
10. Thank you #3 for utube video that everyone should watch!
GET REAL ,   USA   (01.11.09)
11. #3, and similar others.
Dave ,   TX   (01.11.09)
You guys ran out of pictures ha? Just post some of the 60 years old ones or borrow some from Gaza. The world does not see your point any more, you occupy territories and expect full submission? You all reject terrorism and the bla bla bla, and yet believe that killing >500 innocents is unavoidable, including 300+ children. Dear Humans, the world is viewing your acts of hypocrisy, and history is indeed recording. It is OK for now, worst things happened through the years, the holocaust, for instance. But eventually, truth will prevail. Can any reasonable reader explain to me, what does Israel want? A reasonable reader and not someone with a tribe mentality, who wants the whole middle east because his grandfathers walked with the dinosaurs in the region, sometime ago .
12. #5
Ahmed ,   Palo Alto California   (01.11.09)
Much to my shame, not a single Muslim country has come forward to help our brethren in Gaza. Fatah from the West Bank is celebrating every Hamas death, since they recall how Hamas killed them and blew up a wedding ceremony in Gaza during their purge. Egypt is trying to force Hamas to lay down arms. Syria is silent. Hizbullah makes big noise, but nothing else. Iran rallied 8000 suicide bombers, but where are they going.
13. #5 - Be proud of effective Muslim aid is to Hamas
ahmed ,   Palo Alto California   (01.11.09)
Some Muslim countries have called for days of rage. Let the streets rise up and show their hatred of the Yehudi. Very effective. Burn flags. Boast about rivers of Zionist blood. Scream. Cry. Powerful big big Islamic brotherhood in Egypt. Qatar. Saudi Arabia.
14. Kadima has had troops standing still for 5 days
Seth ,   tel aviv israel   (01.11.09)
Part 2 of the operation was over 5 days ago and the troops have been static since. Jpost has a story about this. Kadima hasn't allowed the IDF to go into gaza city where they are firing the rockets. Kadima won't allow IDF troops into urban areas or refugee camps where rockets are being fired. That is why so many rockets keep being fired every day. Being static has cost IDF lives. Hamas has shot rockets at idf troops static in houses and ambushed them with suicide bombers. Kadima did this same thing in lebanon with leaving troops in houses for days on end. Olmert, Livni, and Barak are jokes. Kadima and Labor are also against IDF troops going into rafah and destroying the 600 tunnels. Kadima is holding out hope that egypt will destroy the tunnels and using idf operation to pressure egypt. Only kadima and labor would do this.
15. hamas tentacles are all over the world
rachel ,   usa   (01.11.09)
trying to pressure Israel ....
16. We (Israelis) have to be light to the world
Jonathan   (01.11.09)
I am very proud of being Israeli. I am very proud of being son of Avraham, Itzjak and Ya'akob, but this war is just making us to fall in the land of devil, we have to be light to the world. , and no darkness. We need to return to the Torah, we need to be sons of Avraham, we are not acting like children of Avraham. Please, remember Israel: "You are indeed the salt of the earth; but if the salt should lose its savor, with what could it be salted? It would not be worth anything, but to be thrown outside and to be trodden down by men." - Words of Yeshua HaMashiach. Shema Israel: "You are indeed the light of the world; a city that is built upon a mountain cannot be hidden." - Words of Yeshua HaMashiach. Shalom Aleichem,
17. #2: do you know something i don't?
david ,   new york   (01.11.09)
#2 says he knows where the israeli army is in gaza, but i have seen no information from them indicated where they were other than in the vaguest terms. the fact is: none of us talkbackers know where they are
18. IDF Gaza OP's
Niko ,   Germany   (01.11.09)
Missile attacks or Iron Edge? Bring it to an end as soon as possible>God bless IDF in all actions!!! but save friendly Palestinians! Hamas Terrorist Party is not only dangerous for Israel........!!!!!!
19. Cleared from Qassams.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (01.11.09)
Hamas should be beaten to the ground and, as the PLO was evacuated from Beirouth after the 1st Lebanon war, Hamas should be evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Iran, Sudan or Tunisia. That is the only chance, to be cleared from the Qassams. Consult : http://xrl.us/bebh94
20. cease fire
attal ,   paris   (01.11.09)
Israel PM does not undestand global situation of israel :to delay case fire will ban Israel and jews worlwide without giving peace on southern cities
21. #12 and #13
(01.11.09)
if you care so very much for your brothers, why don't you put on that filthy smelly black and green mask with three holes for both eyes and mouth, leave free and wonderful america which you "hate so much", and go join your brothers in gaza big shot! all i see you doing is also screaming and shouting from an arm chair general position while your brothers in gaza are being sacrificed by hamas on the altar of revenge and hate of israel. coward!
22. I always critisized Olmert, But now I got to Salute him.
Asher ,   NY,USA   (01.11.09)
There were times I felt so sad and disappointed with Israel's leadership but it's time to recognise thier leadership and making up for so many years of their misjudgments. Sitting quite for so many years and let Hamas does what they did specially to Israelis in Sderot and south and killing as many by suicidebomesr and so on was a big mistake imposed by our friends and allies, But thanks G-od it's time to show the Cowards of Hamas and the World, Enough is Enough. It's Time to pay for your crimes and understand the power of the Nation of Israel. Now you will be sorry for all you had and will wish you wouldn't have done it and never will. Till then that's will be the way you face the days of your lives. All Israel is asking for is to STOP TERROR.
23. To Those Who Criticize Israel...
MARK P ,   PA, United States   (01.11.09)
...for defending itself. View this video: http://fun.mivzakon.co.il/flash/video/2664/2664.html
24. War In Gaza
david friedman ,   Ashkelon Israel   (01.11.09)
#11 you asked what does Israel want: for Hamas to stop firing rockets at Israel. For Hamas to stop smuggling weapons into Gaza fro m Egypt.For Hamas to openly declare that it accepts the state of Israel.For HAMAS TO PERSUE A PEACEFULL PROCESS TO OBTAIN FULL STATEHOOD AFTER ISRAEL PEACEFULLY LEFT GAZA 3 YEARS AGO.Do you want some more............. Oh and by the way Hamas revel in the sympathy they are getting from the world,it might even have been their goal of firing all these rockets at ISRAEL ,IE to get Israel to retaliate and to put their cause once again in the world front stage.
25. #20 please answer me something (read below)
Don Saliman ,   Nahal Oz, Israel   (01.11.09)
What should Israel do,if not to protect herself? If you answer me by talking to Hammas,then before you say that please see #23 and what his aswer was. The site that #23 has shown and thank you Mark http://fun.mivzakon.co.il/flash/video/2664/2664.html
26. ahmed from paulo alto #12,13
(01.11.09)
your hate for the yehudi is just the reason why there should be israel, a country for the jewish people, a place where they are masters to their fate as a nation. as for the arabs living in palestine, to your knowledge, palestine is the east and the west banks of the jordan river, some 80% of palestine is jordan in the east bank. the arabs wanted more land, more then 99.5% of the middle east was not enough for the arabs, so they got some of the west bank too. but it's not enough for them, why should it be, if they got part of the west bank, they think they should get it all. their hopes are being met with hamas and their bretheren in other countries such as yourself, and they try with every possible mean to get the jews out from israel, starting with deliberate poverty to get their people desperate enough to become suicide bombers. israelis have built their infrastructure in gaza, provided them with electricity and water for dacades, because israelis thought they should use their resources to build and create, rather then to destroy. most of the financial aid provided to gazans goes to buing arms, hatered propaganda for children too, and to their leaders , who now hide, instead of coming forward to fight this war they called upon in the first place. another thing you don't realize is that the west bank was sparsely populated with arabs and jews, it was mostly arid desert, the arabs were mostly nomads in the west bank throughout their history , also on the eve of the jewish return to their homeland israel. israel on the west bank is where the jews were a state and a nation a few times in the history of mankind. there is more then ten times the population in the west bank now, then was in 1948, not only because jews have returned to their homeland, but because arab population had thrived in the west bank and trippled it's population since 1948. all israelis know that the arabs living in our midst are potentially dangerous to us, there were many incidents of assaults on israelis on nationalistic ground, by their fellow israelis who are muslim. but israelis somehow tolerate it, they don't sanction the muslims , though they punish the offenders for breaking the law, which is far too lenient to deter them, unlike the law in muslim countries . even though israeli arabs enjoy a relative prosperity in israel, they have more rights then in any muslim country, many if not all wish israelis would get out of the west bank. even arab students in israeli universities, who have only rights but no obligations such as to join the israeli army, ralli and shout about redeeming palestine with their blood and spirit. whereas the arabs of the west bank who are not residents of israel are interested in getting israel out of the west bank with arms, they don't only voice their hopes about destroying israel, but they also fire at us. they understand force, and brutality, unfortunately for them, as yehudim shall no longer sit in silence and take their plans for jihad as a given/ just think abut it, if the people of gaza have been living in israel, with their tradition & culture respected, they would thrive here, and israel still would be an area less then 99.5% of the arab world, but relatively peaceful. indipendent gazans shall never stop hoping to get the rest of the west bank independent of the jews, because they depend on israel as a state in many ways when they don't preoccupy themselves with shooting at us. rina
27. I said it before, Gabi Ashkenazi is very proficient.
Ypip ,   Canada   (01.11.09)
28. #20
alan ,   texas   (01.11.09)
arabs have been wrong for 1400 years that's why your culture is on the bottom of the dung heap. Just because you wish for a result does not make it come true. Hate, murder and destruction is how you nurture your children. There's no future for you.
29. I support you
Leonard ,   LA usa   (01.12.09)
I support you before and still do. Don't be afraid, G-d is with you. Don't worry what these jokers say just do what has to be done, be of good courage be not afaid......
30. #11 Dave
Marty ,   USA   (01.13.09)
Sorry, Dave. To understand the explanation requires two things you don't have: 1) a brain and 2) an IQ higher than a single digit. Speaking of tribe mentality, Dave, how is the Imperial Wizard these days?
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