Hamas is planning a massive breach of the border which will be followed by an invasion of Israel by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians all clamouring to "return home". Women and children and perhaps old people will surge across the border first to stop the IDF from firing at the invaders. What strategy does the government have for dealing with this?

How much friggin BS do you have to engage in? General call up...Sinai/Gaza 56 67...2008. Its war stop the BS and excuse making. Tell Bush to stay home and pretend and lets get on with it. We are bleeding to death here.

No wonder good gal Barbara Streisand and Celine Dion refused to come ! :)

Israel needs to defend itself. It cannot always be on the defensive. Its time the IDF goes with force into Gaza. The blockade of Gaza is useless. The responding to each attack with an air strike or sending troops in is useless. This has to be a major operation and break the back of Hamas. http://www.shimshon9.com

Israel, look in the mirror: 60 years of occupation and oppression, isn't that enough? How can we accept you in our land? We said yes for fair peace deal on 22% of historical Palestine and yet you don't accept that! What do you expect us to do? To throw flowers and love on your soldiers and settlers? Your independence day is our NAKBH (DISASTER) we will never ever forget, never forgive.

this criminally insane traitorous gangster, ehud olmert' has just removed some roadblocks in jenin and nablus,and has spread out the red carpet for those murderous terorrist swines to come and blow up some more jewish men women and children, citizens of israel get rid of this traitorous swine,or you will find yourselves without a country

WAS THERE ANY HOLIDAYS THESE EXTERMIST KURAFAT ISLAMIC TERRORIST HAMAS DIDNOT PLOT A TERROR ACT OVER ISRAEL AND ISRAELI INTEREST IN THE DIASPORA ? COME ON IT IS WAR THAT IS GOING ON ! everyday !!!

OY AM YISRAEL AM YIRAEL AM YISRAEL HAI. END.

Answer to # 1 question is P. M. Olmert has no idea what to do, he's in a fog. In the world if sombody invades your country, you have the right to use any type of force to stop them. If all the 500,000 Arabs living in france took up arms against the French people and goverment do you think they would stand by and do nothing? Hell no! The french army would be brought in and do what had to be done to take there country back. England and Germany would do the same thing, So why should Israel stand by and allow Syrian and Iran sponsord Terriost Action which would be and ivasion of another country (Israel) to go through without stopping it. Yes incident people will be killed by there own choice not the choice of the Israel Goverment. No matter what Israel does to protect there country and people the world will say Israel was worng. So who cares what the world saids. Did the world scream bloody murder When the Arabs in France two years ago started to riot. Of course not. It was to the beifit of country like England, Germany Holland, To let the french do what ever had to be done to stop the riotiting so the arab population would understand that side of the world meant bussiness. So i say to the world as you would do anything to protect your country Israel must do to protect it self. Hope fully all the alerts are for not and there will be peace, but if not then let the world no and be put on notices that if you invade Israel you will pay a high price. Its time the arabs realise that you are getting to the point of no return. Remember the Latanie operation. It can happen again.

I think you your analysis is completely incorrect. First off all The West bank and Gaza are known internationally as the 'occupied territories'. Why? Because they are occupied by Israel. The Palestinian militants who are armed with AK47s and home made fireworks are in absolutely no position to invade any one. Even if they wanted to. They are resisting occupation. Now let's look at the death statistics. So far this year alone nearly 400 Palestinian have been killed by Israeli missiles, air assaults, tank shells and the like. By contrast, the Palestinians - who do not have access to any such defence weaponary - are responsible for the death of about 5 Israelis. This immediately suggests that the aggressor is israel. The statistics only back up that point. Your analogy between the Palestians and the riots in France also bear no comparison. The riotors in France were French citizens - entitled to free movement, free speech and basic human rights. The Palestiniasn are occupied and live under an occupying army and all that implies. (see Israeli and US human rights groups for more detailed information) And, of course, when the French citizens rioted what the French army did NOT do was fire missiles from planes and Apaches into built up areas and indiscriminately kill children, women and people not involved in the rioting. Inlike Israel routinely does.

when did you say yes to 22% of historical Palestine (that is after Jordan was cut off by the British and presented on a silver platter to the Hashemite family) ? I must have been asleep, cause I missed it.

Respectfully, when is having 5 armies attack at the outset of independence a way of saying "yes"? Remember, this was Turkish land prior to the being under British mandate, prior to being apportioned between two peoples. Long, long ago it was Jewish land with a political leadership, but you can look all through history prior to 1964, and never see any political leadership or people known as Palestine. (If so, Egypt and Jordan would not have "occupied" Gaza and the West Bank). Your "disaster" is that when the Jews said "yes" in 1948, the Arabs invaded. Blame your Arab "brothers." But still, my friend, please, there is still time to fix this. Flowers or not. If you have children, you will understand.

Abass promised me he will change the Palastinian Charter once we give him Tel Aviv and Haifa and a few billion dollars.

I can see where you are coming from, I quess we will have to learn to agree to disagree. If the Palestinian would stop shooting all those rockets into the Negav and prove to Israel that they really want peace maybe then we would get some where. There are so many different groups that nobdy controls them. So when i hear of a mass invasion into the teritorys by Hammus ( Terriost ) Israel must do what ever she can to protect her people. ( 2 ) Wait a min. get your facts correct alot of the Arab rioters were workers and children from those workers of other countries. If The people wanted to they could have stopped the riot in no more then Two days, but it was to there benifit to keep it going. Most of the Arab population in france are hard working and god fearing people. Its was the terriost who wanted to keep this going. Anyway God be with you no matter if we agree or diagree.

WELL WE KNOW NOW WHAT DAY THEY WONT ATTACK ON , NOW WE HAVE TO FIND OUT IF THEY WILL ATTACK AFTER INDEPENDANCE DAY OR BEFORE INDEPENDANCE DAY MORE B.S.

Invicta, the point is not that the Palestinians are alledgedly weaker on a tactical level (owning only bad quality weapons): For luck they are weaker because they have bad intentions. While the Palestinians are not able to invade, they nevertheless started a war of attrition against Israel with their constant rocket barrage against Southern Israel. And, Invicta, Gaza is NOT occupied, to make this clear. Nobody there is fighting "against occupation". It's a lie. Obviously you may think the Israelis are the ones always to be blamed – no matter what they do: But Israel did RETREAT completely from the Strip and you deny that. The Palestinians in fact NEVER FOUGHT just for having their own state. So don't tell me the "Palestinians are the poor victims"-story! Hamas is an ultra-extremist religious right-wing group with an INTENSE antisemitism and terror against women, homosexuals, liberals and seculars in their own society – that wants to conquer entire Israel... – nice guys you're defending! The Palestinians shall get additional land ONLY (!!!) – if they become a mature society which is not a threat to its neighbors. Currently that's not the case. And finally, be aware that Israel is by far the most humane and most advanced society in the Middle East when it comes to social, technological and scientific standards – though they have their own crazy religious minds as well... So Israel shall fight when good long-term effects are to be expected...

if u start talking - give more details so people will not go there. to say there are threats is easy - be concrete. is it here , a plane, abroad........ egypt is an old story.

The work of the two witnesses, as it is found to occur in the book of revelation (christian bible). Some of that work, is now occurring - See the book: THE GOD OF TRUTH (at: I-Proclaim) isbn # 978-1-60585-521-9. Some of their work, is found, now and forever, as written by roger wallace. That book is seen, at the Greek Orthodox church Jerusalem, now and forever-- AMEN

they may have feet and fists, but we have tanks and guns. the response will be severe without mercy and with no apology.

GIVE FACTS. words are worthless to the average public.