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Ashdod residents under missile threat
Efrat Weiss
Published: 08.12.08, 08:24
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1. Please come to America. Israel won't protect it's Jews.
Daniel ,   Los Angeles, USA   (12.08.08)
America will...
2. When does the government give out white flags?
jason white ,   afula,israel   (12.08.08)
The palis should have been told that they will be getting bombarded long ago. Not the Israelis. We need to try everyone in the min of def and the I.D.F. for not defending us at any cost to the enemy. This is dereliction of duty and cowardice.
3. How to prepare for rocket attacks.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (12.08.08)
Did you ever hear anything so stupid in your life? Here we have the new defense doctrine of lunatics - learn to live with rockets falling on your head. Did it ever occur to these geniuses that maybe something should be done to STOP missile attacks. You know, something our army used to do once upon a time when we were still sane. This is like the police telling us that we should get used to crime (which is sadly almost the case anyway). This country is infected with a serious mental condition, a sort of paralysis.
4. Livni and Barak priorities
Joseph ,   Israel   (12.08.08)
So the IDF is incapable of defending the Jews of Kiryat Malachi and Ashdod because Labor and Kadima ethnically cleansed Gush Katif. First priority, kick the Jews out of a house they bought in Hebron.
5. Ashdod under missle threat
Millicent ,   Israel   (12.08.08)
A booklet is good to read in the bathroom, but do the people of Ashdod have access to bomb shelters/safe rooms, or are they also without adquate shelters like their brothers and sisters in Ashkelon and Sderot? Instead of allowing the daily rocketing of our citizens don't you think that we should return the quassams and grad rockets to the gazans as well? if we send the same types of missles to them the international community can't accuse Israel of using unjust force since we would simply be returning what they sent over in the first place! Any other country in the world would not allow their residents to be rocketed day in and day out without responding Israel must do the same. Do you honestly believe that if any EU nation was being rocketed by a neighbor they would do nothing? We all saw that the Georgians and Russians had a brief war over the same issues..Israel must fight back as well, or before long the Gazans or those in the West Bank will Target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem !
6. A time will come soon where they will get 'lucky'
(12.08.08)
What on earth is this stupid Israeli government doing? As if the residents of Ashdod don't already know about the danger of missiles and what little you can do spontaneously to protect yourself and family??!!! Seriously, what does it take? Is the government waiting for the Pals to get a decent strike so they can act 'disproportionately' ? Do Israelis actually have to die first before this government of wankers do something? What the hell is going on!?
7. #3 inevitable, preemption ineffective
observer   (12.08.08)
Twenty-plus kilometers is the maximum range of Hamas' rockets in the Strip (which can hit Sderot, Ashkelon, Netivot and Kiryat Gat); 40 kilometers is the range they will be able to reach in the coming months, if missile production is not halted (Ofakim, Kiryat Malachi, Ashdod, Be'er Sheva and Yavneh will be at risk of attack). does it take a Terry genius to halt rocket production?
8. Do Something Already Ehud!
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (12.08.08)
9. Ashdod under threat of rocket attacks
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (12.08.08)
Number one, I believe that if a rocket has your name on it, that no matter where you are, it will find you. So I don't run, hide or anything except look at TV or internet - like the barrage of rocket attack that Haifa took two years ago. Second, don't understand something and this question is for our government and for world opinion (UN ?). How is it that rocket attack against Israel is accepted, but if Israel were to attack Gaza by any means, it is an act of War ????
10. USA and Israel Needs to take action.
Roy Joesph ,   Australia   (12.08.08)
Time will say and it is moving at jet speed, jihadis are moving from Iran threat and now it is Pakistan, very sure if do not act it will third arab/muslim nation joining the race. I fail to understand why is Indians so quiet when they have all the hardcore info on pakistan. World will praise you later.
11. DERILICTION OF DUTY
DAVID ,   JUDEA   (12.08.08)
While the IDF is used as a police force to evict its own citizens and to destroy their properties, they sit on their butts at the hand of criminally insane politicians. Why not hand out these instructions to Tel Aviv already because they are next on the increased missile range. The state should really help the Gazans with shipments of more sophisticated weapons , so it can fulfill its defeatist looser suicidal mission of self destruction. In our long history we have lost so many of our own at the hands of corrupt , insane and treacherous leaders.
12. Sad truth
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (12.08.08)
The sad truth is that the ones responsible are still in power. Kadima and Labor, especially Olmert, Livni, Ramon and Peres, removed the Jewish villages in Gaza, giving the Arabs the territory and weapons to make these attacks. The IDF is helpless because any attack on Gaza will trigger a Hezbolla response. Hezbolla's power is thanks to Ehud Barak who destroyed the one force capable of defeating Hezbolla, the SLA.
13. leaflets in Ashdod
Jos van Klaveren ,   Hoofddorp, the Nethe   (12.08.08)
Would it not be much more relevant to reach out heavy blows to Gaza instead of leaflets to Ashdods residents?
14. Ashdod Rocket
Dr John ,   Rechovot Israel   (12.08.08)
We should learn from our peace-loving Arab neighbours!!. For every indiscriminatly aimed rocket fired at Israel, we should respond in kind! Tit for Tat. One for one. See how they like it!! The world reaction will of course say it's excessive use of force on Israel's part. But they hate us anyway , so what's new!
15. Is it time for destruction?
Karl ,   Gothenburg   (12.08.08)
Read Zephaniah 2:4-7
16. The Gaza disengagement failed
Leah ,   Israel   (12.08.08)
The only way to eliminate the threat is to wipe out Gaza by carpet bombing them. Wipe away all the terrorists there and remember we can not ever give away land to the enemy so that they will be able to fire rockets into our cities and towns.
17. What has the government of Israel become?
Michael ,   UK   (12.08.08)
An extention of the terrorist regime of Gaza. By not stopping the rocket attacks the Israeli government has become guilty by association
18. Is Bush and Rice responsible for the rockets
Petra ,   usa   (12.08.08)
that land in Israel? Are they demanding that Israel do nothing in response? Wow! does Israel need to lean house! Vote for victory, not defeat. Why not elect a 'settler'? Seems only they value Israel and the land G-d gave them. Your politicians are as bad as ours, Bush, Rice,Cheney. Time for a real change. Either defend what's yours or, lose it due to neglect.
19. to #17 who asked What has the government of Israel become?
chaim ,   brooklyn ny   (12.08.08)
it has become the government of the arab enemy citizens of israel,you have a choice either you overthrow and get rid of this criminaly insane traitorous pathetic regime,or start packing your bags and say goodbye to your beloved country that will be no more
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