this american, born to an israeli father and italian(catholic) mother wants to express his heartfelt condolences to his family and thank pascal avrahami for his corageous and selfless duty to the people of israel and jews around the world!

but your blood will be avenged

May his family be comforted from Heaven

Weak leadership is responsible for this loss. I don't have any doubt that if the Egyptian Army were involved that it will be covered up by the Netanyahu Government. They are more interested in illusions than reality. The attack was Hamas's way of thanking Israel for the recent goodwill gestures to their terrorist enclave. Was it a harsh response or powerfull as the P.M. said ? No,almost no one believes their lies anymore. It's interesting how they knew where the terrorist were hiding but only struck after the attack. That's a bad sign which reveals the inordinate restraint Israel has allowed to limit it to a lose lose scenario. The Hamas leadership did go into hiding immediately after Barak's forewarning but they should know by now that Washington's two favorite poodles are on a tight leash. Barak's idea of harsh is sending more undeserved aid to Hamastan,Gaza. When he goes after Jewish settlers,they don't get any prior warnings. The problem is not Egypt,Hamas,Fatah or Hezbollah but the present crop of quisling,appeasement and surrender driven leaders whose weak response today only aids and encourages Egypt and the enemy.They can smell fear coming from the poodles and their 'harsh' bark did not impress them. This will encourage more deadly attacks. Hamas could have been taken care of long ago but the concept of defeating ones enemies has been lost to the shackled and restrained poodles in Jerusalem by their crafty,phony ally's false peace scheme.

representing the jewish nation, it is not good enough to knock out a few hamas operatives regardless of titles when the attack was so significant. The message has got to be heard loud and clear; if you kill or harm israelis, your suffering will be unbelievable. Goldstone's proportionality doesn;t work when 6 million jews are up against 300 million arabs and iranians.Asymmetric retaliation is necessary. So barak's result is a non starter, yet he is still minister of defence. Israel should retake philadelphi and knock out every gas station and fuel depot in southern half of gaza. Do it and stop pissing around.

I salute this gibor Israel. I wish to extend my sincere condolences to his family, his wife and children. May hashem protect all of our soldiers.

for our land. Nothing will stop us.

This is an act of war! Israel should retaliate by taking out 2 to 3 levels up and 2 to 3 levels down of the leadership. If this does not work in Israel should escalate. It should announce that it is committed to a “proportionate” response and is adjusting the appropriate proportion to assure that such an attack will never again take place in the future. Unfortunately, some Israeli writers and organizations have given the rejectionist leadership the picture that Israel is uncertain and divided. This leads directly to Israeli deaths. I have been critical of Livini since remarks and actions both in Israel and abroad have given the message that the current government can and will be undercut.

This is an act of war! Israel should retaliate by taking out 2 to 3 levels up and 2 to 3 levels down of the leadership. If this does not work in Israel should escalate. It should announce that it is committed to a “proportionate” response and is adjusting the appropriate proportion to assure that such an attack will never again take place in the future. Unfortunately, some Israeli writers and organizations have given the rejectionist leadership the picture that Israel is uncertain and divided. This leads directly to Israeli deaths. I have been critical of Livini since remarks and actions both in Israel and abroad have given the message that the current government can and will be undercut.

Better to die by the sword in an honorable way defending ones country than to die like a whimpering coward, begging the enemy not to kill you like some peace at any cost advocates would do. My condolences to all the families affected by this terrorist and cowardly act carried out by those who seem to be the spawn of the devil himself.

Im guessing your style is to turn tail while your kids are hunted down.

it is a mystery how rotten swine whose energies are devoted only to destruction are allowed to deprive the Jewish people and their supporters of such a wonderful man z"l.

sometimes, it's fight or be killed. when Israel's neighbours have given Israel the option of peace, there has been peace. these animals don't want peace. the choice, then, is fight or be killed. "Alex" advocates surrender and subjugation. pathetic, self-righteous fool.

What's Israel going to do about it? Nothing! I wouldn't blame Israelis if the entire population moved elsewhere and turned it all over to the arabs! Who in their right mind would live in a country that won't protect its citizens nor when an act of war is committed, strike back to destroy the enemy.

entire immediate family. This is the absolute best deterant against future attacks.

You say the present gov't. is weak and timid in their response to the attack. How do they differ from the previous gov 't. leaders or the ones before? What we need is another Ben Gurion or Golda Meyer. IS THERE ANOTHER BEN GURION OUT THERE?OR ANOTHER MEYER? WE NEED YOU!

Bless his sweet soul. May his memory be for a blessing. His name tells a world about him.I pray that his sacrifice,and all those who shed blood for our nations survival, will not be in vain,

and all the other grieving families today.

Our nation mourns the terrible losses. This attack however reveals the high level of training these terrorists had to execute this operation. It is not easy to hit a YAMAM officer. Baruch dayan emet.

The answer to your question... the same ones who tried to survive the prejudice that followed us through time and countries accross the globe. The same ones who said never again.

beleive me I also have thoughts as you in a rash moment, but we cannot sink to their level, we must keep our humanity as much as is possible, when fighting back. Prayers and condolences to Pascals family, they have lost a true defender of our state.

retaliate, usually within hours as you can tell by the fact that the planners of yesterday's attack are now with their 72 virgins. The police in the YAMAM unit are Israel's best police counter-terror unit and the best in the world. They were specifically created to fight terror in hostage situations after a bus attack in the 70s. The loss of anyone from this unit is heartbreaking, both for his family and for the state. If you want to be an armchair quarterback do it for your own military and police departments which could better use our techniques.

August 19th Thoughts of Yesterday by David Sherefkin on Friday, August 19, 2011 at 1:12pm And these are the people we are supposed to make Peace with ? Are you joking ? Firing anti-tank missiles into civilian cars , laying road side bombs and firing at public transportation buses in an attempt to kill every one , this must be a "Peaceful" negotiating tactic I presume .... There is no doubt this was a planned and coordinated attack , maliciously executed , with an invasion force of two dozen ruthless killers bent on murderous mayhem illegally crossing internationally recognized borders between Israel & Egypt (Two sovereign countries with Peaceful and Economic relations) , and committed premeditated mass murder of civilians. No country could ever afford to dismiss events such as theses as : "The Birth Pangs of a Palestinian democracy" !

Words fail me...why does Israel sit on her hands whilst our enemies waltz into Israel??

blood should indeed be avenged,but is barak the one to lead,? he is not the barak of his youth ,he is indolent.