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IDF launches Gaza operation 'against Hamas' following massive rocket barrage on south
Ynet reporters
Published: 08.07.14, 02:39
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1. I never knew Bibi studied under Ghandi.
Ben ,   USA   (07.07.14)
2. Israel must not listen to the Obama regime
CJK   (07.08.14)
never has an american president been so hostile to Israel.
3. us knows nothing is immoral incompetent. restraint is wrong
ralph   (07.08.14)
4. Blame Obama
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (07.08.14)
I would just blame Obama.
5. 30 Rockets in 30 Minutes
TC   (07.07.14)
And Netanyahu still hesitate?
6. Paper dome
Cuauhtemoc ,   Oaxaca - maxico   (07.08.14)
What ever happened to the multi-billion dollar paper dome system?
7. blackout
real vision ,   usa   (07.08.14)
time for a blackout in gaza...one by one hamas home destroyed
8. Iron dome= waste of good money
Shlomo ,   USA   (07.08.14)
Build hundreds of thousands of rockets similar to those used by Hamas and send 1000 of them for each rocket launched at Israel. Hamas will get the message and it will be way less expensive than Iron Dome, which is still a great technological achievement. When the people of Gaza start screaming in fear from Israel's low tech rockets they will turn on Hamas because it is their only choice if they want to survive.
9. gaza
dan frank ,   montreal canada   (07.08.14)
solution had to come from within Gaza . as most people there want normal lives Israel can help them achieve by a choke hold , no power , no water , nothing , turn the terrorists in and you can live in peace with a new government you people in Gaza choose who will seek turning Gaza into a normal country .after a week or 10 days they will turn them in droves. the world will scream restraint as after all it is still OK in 2014 to spill Jewish blood .
10. #5 he did not hesitate
(07.08.14)
Netanyahu personally called the father of Al Khader to apologize, he ordered the Shabak to do everything to implicate the six Jews, and has ordered the police to stop Jewish graffiti artists at any cost.
11. Can anyone name one country in the
Barney ,   USA   (07.08.14)
World that would allow rockets to be fired on their territory much less civilian targets without a significant response? Would Russia accept it? Would the uk let rockets fall on London? Would Iran or Saudi Arabia allow it? The us taking rockets from Canada or Mexico? None would. Why should Israel? Because they are Jews? Because their blood is cheap? Because they are expected to accept persecution and attempts at annihilation? Israel has two problems. Too concerned about world opinion and generally truly concerned about civilian casualties . There comes a time when protecting your own people and population exceeds those concerns. Gaza should receive a hit that makes them think about firing rockets but even more importantly removes the capability of doing so. Hopefully that would work and total destruction would not be necessary. But gazans don't shoot rockets at civilians and then cry to the world when there is nothing left but smoking embers.
12. Three things to think about...
Mark ,   USA   (07.08.14)
1. Continued rocket fire just improves our technology in missile defensive, i.e. Star Wars. THANK YOU HAMAS. 2. Missile defense, i.e. computer systems, are already good enough to determine, whether to launch or not based on trajectory impact location analysis. Again, thank you Hamas for realistic proving ground. 3. And, once again Thank you Hamas for being blind to fact missile defense, is a first tier defensive option, the second tier option involves GPS targeting, which currently is being politically restrained and DOES NOT NEED FURTHER TESTING.
13. Again nothing will be done.
Tomi Weiss ,   Serbia/Israel   (07.08.14)
Everyone knows that the ONLY way to stop the rockets is by invading Gaza. So this is just another deception, or taking pressures time while prolonging the suffering of millions of residence of south and central Israel residence. However, soon or later it will become obvious that nothing will be obtained from air, as in the case of Lebanon. To be honest I believe that this is even now obvious to our leaders.
14. Operation protective edge
Rabbi Yakov Lazaros ,   USA   (07.08.14)
This is all baloney. If you want the truth go to an Arab website. I just went on Al-Jazeera. They said Israel did indeed bomb the Gaza strip mainly focusing on EMPTY training camps. Why is Netanyahu so afraid? I have no answer.
15. Never been so hostile?
ivan bergman ,   san jose, usa   (07.08.14)
Let me tell you of a president named Nixon...
16. @ 2
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (07.08.14)
You don'tr get it. Israel is a strong country with weak leaders. You can' blame Obama, you can blame Putin, you can blame the Ayatollahs all you want, but the bottom line is a hostile terrorist organization is launching missiles at your cities and your leaders allow it to happen. Is Bibi that weak where he allows a foreign leader to dictate to him how to protect his people? Keep believing that all you want, but the bottom line it is strategic and economics.
17. Hope these rockets land in Tel Aviv.
(07.08.14)
Perhaps then the Left will wake up. As long as Israel has the stupid policy of destroying evil buildings instead of the ones firing rockets, there will be no stop to these rockets. Hope they land in Arab areas and they'll get their "reward" for it.
18. Another wussy-pussy little fake op no doubt
Jhan   (07.08.14)
They'll be careful not to hurt any actual humans, the ones who are causing the terrorism...
19. politicians
Michael Fox ,   Kapaa, Hi US   (07.08.14)
Netanyahu is inept. Where is Golda Mier when you need her?
20. Time is now
Billy ,   USA   (07.08.14)
No one can do anything about it now. Attack. Attack. Attack. End this for once and forever. Who can stop you that already isn't busy fighting elsewhere? Or are already lame politically? This may be Israel's last chance. Take it!!
21. It is very unfortunate that the rocket hit the main power
meir elazar   (07.08.14)
feed to Gaza which in turn took out the water pumps and gas supply to Gaza. Also please bomb funeral processions of dead Hamas. You can assume that they are also commarades in Hamas as well.
22. Let's do it right this time
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (07.08.14)
NO leafleting. NO loud-hailer announcements. NO mobile phone alerts. Bomb them, kill them, MAKE THEM BLEED. And then, make them bleed some more. They are wanton murderers of Jews. Jewish blood is not cheap. And if Arab civilians in Gaza have to pay the price, I will not lose ANY sleep. Kill them all; they are not worth the air they breathe.
23. RIGHT # 1 Netanyahu so on are half Ghandi half Sadat RIGHT
M.S. ,   mpls america   (07.08.14)
RIGHT you are # 1 you got good eye sight all ALL all key important pivotaly powerful Jewish Israeli leaders are all half Ghandi half Sadat poor us Jews Israelis alas we struggle against Two 2 forms of Arabs while the Arabs only have to deal with One 1 form of Jews Israelis RIGHT and so thus we all suffer twice as much from W W II from daily adverse world politicial opinion and so the world wide economic blockcade against most of us Jews Israelis except for the lucky Jews Israelis like Bennett Rivlin Netanyahu Livni so on and so who get all the MONEY LUXURYS of a Ghandi and so Sadat so on RIGHT ??? and so alas we have no British colonial system Egyptian army to protect us from them RIGHT ??? and so any way and so another offensive against Gaza well I doubt it and so Netanyahu probably really means another offensive against us poor Jews Israelis RIGHT ??? and so any way and so I just hope a miracle saves me at 70 before time old age so on and so get the better of me... and so... there fore and so... before it is too late... RIGHT ??? Thank You... M.S.
24. natanyahu became a politician.....
les ,   canada   (07.08.14)
and as such, he does like all the other political animals. looking after his own interest, and trying to please all the enemies of israel. GET RID OF HIM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
25. Bobo Netanyahu Has To Step Down
Brett ,   Florida   (07.08.14)
Or taken down. His actions on this are mind numbing. Time to clean house with a new government. Vote Bobo's a$$ out.
26. Neutron bomb the place
steve from raleigh   (07.08.14)
Nuke Gaza.
27. BB Obama
James ,   USA   (07.08.14)
BB claims Hamas was not quoted in the correct context. He believes they are testing new fishing methods off the coast and the iron fish catching tubes flew over Israel accidentally. Obama says please don't hurt anyone while returning to the peaceful gazans these scientifically advanced tubes. OK, Lieberman is out, now Bennet needs to resign and the two can form a new collation. BB will face trial for failure to honor his commitment to defend the country and Livini will go on trial for just being stupid. Please do not think I am trying to hurt your feelings, you are entitled to your own opinion, no matter how much I disagree with your action and results.
28. not even one of our precious sons into Gaza
CH.S ,   BROOKLYN NY   (07.08.14)
if this traitorous cowardly leftist criminal gangster government sends even one of our precious sons or daughters into this vipers nest and hell hole called Gaza, then they are nothing but bloody murderous swines, who are ready to sacrifice more jewish blood of our precious children on the altar of politically correct leftism, This traitorous criminal gangster government could stop the rockets in 12 hours, by doing what any other normal government would have done a long time ago, by throwing down leaflets and warning the residents to abandon their houses, and start carpet bombing street by street neighborhood by neighborhood until the rockets stopped and turning parts of Gaza into a parking lot, and on top of that shut down the electric grid and water supply, but of course these traitorous leftist swines will not do it because they are slaves to their masters, the jew hating and America and Israel hating Hussein Obama, and the evil jew hating nazi swines of the EU and they must lick their nazi boots, and therefore they would rather send in our precious young children to be slaughtered on the altar of political correctness, to these leftist monsters the lives of the jew hating murderous snakes in Gaza is more precious than the lives of your own children.It seems the over 1500 jews who where butchered since the criminal leftist so called Oslo peace process that is not enough of a sacrifice, the lefist altar needs to spill some more jewish blood. People of Israel have you gone mad? why do you tolerate this?, in any other normal country a traitorous bloody government like this would have been hanging from the gallows a long time ago. CH.S
29. They have been told, time and again: continue to fire ...
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (07.08.14)
... rockets at the Jewish population centers in Israel and you will be burnt by this fire. And, time and again the thugs of Hamas have chosen to ignore the threat and instead intensify their fire, both in terms of quantity and quality. Now comes the day of judgement: He who plays with fire is bound to be burnt by it!!
30. Hamas says responsible, so deduct all costs from PA tax cash
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (07.08.14)
All direct and indirect costs of the Gaza rocket attacks should be deducted from the tax transfers to the Abbas-Hamas unity government, as the 1st step in holding this "unity" government responsible for Hamas acts. This should include all costs associated with Iron Dome launches, including IDF deployment and costs, all damage caused and compensation paid to residents in the vicinity of the rocket hits for emotional distress, etc. Reparations should also take the form of land confiscation in both the WB and Gaza if Abbas-Hamas fails to completely pay their debts. Time to cut off all power, electricity and water supply if they don't paytheir back bills, plus a hefty "war tax" on future supply. If Obama doesn't like it, let him fork over the billions of dollars involved, instead of bankrolling jihadis in Iraq and Syria and illegal alien border crashers here in the US. It is time to demand that Congress cut off all PA funding in accordance with US law - since they are attacking Israel, refusing to negotiate peace and rejecting a Jewish State "Obama's 2 states for 2 peoples" - all of which violate the terms of Congressional aid supply. PLO offices and UN liason also must be closed in accordance with these laws, which Obama is flagrantly violating. If Obama wants Israeli 'restraint" - tell this buffoon that these actions will be the price, or Gaza burns to the ground to stop rocket fire - Israel's right under UN Article 51..
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