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Israeli official: We struck in Sudan
Elior Levy
Published: 06.04.11, 23:01
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1. File a complaint with the U.N.?
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.06.11)
Best possible Israeli response: file a complaint with the United Nations concerning the genocide in Dharfur. Over one million innocent civilians slaughtered, with the death toll climbing daily.
2. and what was this palestinian and iranian doing?
david ,   new york   (04.06.11)
surely they were driving around the country-side taking in the fresh air and the scenery!
4. Israel and Sudan
(04.06.11)
While Israel has previously conducted air raids against Sudan, Sudan does have the right to issue this complaint, and the UN reserves the right to condemn Israel for their actions. Israel regardless of killing two supposed arms dealers, did in fact break International laws by attacking a sovereign nation. Funny how Israel is considered a democracy. In demorcacies guilty parties are tried, but in Israel they are killed first.
5. This strike is particularly impressive
Stephen in New York   (04.06.11)
This strike is particularly impressive because the timing of its execution plus the distance indicates superb intelligence and true operational competence. Also audacity, better known as chutzpah.
6. you believe Al-Jazeera & Al-Arabiya?
observer ,   Egypt   (04.06.11)
Sudanese are Arab nationals.
7. Proof
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (04.06.11)
There is as much proof as the Police Chief of Dubai that we have done anything whatsoever. How is it that neither Egypt or Saudi Arabia managed to detect anything, even though they are equipment with advanced American radars and the IAF would have been traveling hundreds of kilometers along their borders?
8. how many of those Darfurians Israel planning to take out?
observer ,   Egypt   (04.06.11)
9. Sudan, perpetrator of terror and genocide
Howie ,   Montreal, Canada   (04.06.11)
Why would anyone take Sudan seriously? Why did Sudan get on the US' list of of terror-sponsoring nations in the first place? They must have done something to deserve that honor. Isn't Sudan the nation whose Arabic Muslim government committed genocide in Darfur against its Black Muslim population? Who cares what Sudan says?
10. Sudan president Al Bashir has an international arrest warent
Mike ,   Oxford UK   (04.06.11)
against him for crimes against humanity!
11. i love when terrorists crylike big babies
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (04.06.11)
someone call them a waaahmbulance.
12. to # 4 AGREE, BUT
Ricardo Macher ,   Karnei Shomron IL   (04.06.11)
Number 4, I tend to agree with you. Indeed, New Zealand wouldn´t do that, neither Costa Rica.... but... considering terrorists tatics like, a country offering territory to attack another country.. what are the options? If you respect the Sudanese territory, the weapons would eventualy kill hundreds of citizens. If you don´t respect, you violate the law, but hundreds were saved. What decicion a serious Stateman would take? Break the law or allow its citizens to be killed?
13. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.06.11)
That is up to the Sudan. If the Sudan wishes to declare war on Israel, or engages in armed aggression against Israel, so be it. I'll tell you this much, though .... it would be the fastest war in history. Shorter than Israel's defeat of four Arab nations in 1967, that's for sure. And a lot more punishing, too.
14. To: No. 8
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.06.11)
At the rate the fundamentalist Islamic Sudanese regime is massacring Christians and Animists in Dharfur, there aren't very many left.
15. To: Stephen at No. 5
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.06.11)
Agreed. To know the precise flight and to pinpoint the exact car -- nothing short of amazing!
16. To: No. 6
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.06.11)
Wrong. Most Arabic-speaking Sudanese are ethnic Nubians; a fair number are Bejas. There's been a considerable amount of intermarriage down through the centuries with ethnic Arabs, but over 90% of Arabic-speaking Sudanese are racially black. Your average Persian Gulf Arab would hurl a shoe at you if you were to suggest that the Arabic-speaking Sudanese are ethnic Arabs. In quite a few parts of the Arab world, blacks are enslaved. (Please note that you meant to say "ethnic Arabs," not "Arab nationals." There is no country called "Arab." You're completely wrong in any event, but I thought I would point out the difference. It's actually a major one.)
17. Sudan in a state of war with Israel, has no case.
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (04.06.11)
A state of war exists with Israel, but that's Sudan's doing, not Israel's. So even assuming that Israel was responsible, Sudan has no case to complain. As long as Sudan is involved in allowing its territory to be used to smuggle armaments for use against Israel, it is a target under the international laws of war. But this summer, mostly non-Muslim southern Sudan should be independent, and I'm sure Israel will be ready to help build and develop their country. And Israel will be better able to watch all that goes on in the north.
18. UN
john   (04.06.11)
Sudan will file a complaint against an airstrike that killed two arms dealers....what about the complaints regarding 250,000 dead in Darfur?
19. Israel + Palestinians
Seb ,   Israel   (04.06.11)
So you have two more dead individuals - arms dealers as claimed by an IDF officer? The war will never end without a negotiated settlement, but nobody really cares do they? And so the killing goes on and on and the graveyards fill up.
20. Salma @ 3, what would be Sudan's chances?
leo ,   usa   (04.06.11)
21. so...
Y.G. ,   Israel   (04.06.11)
Am Israel 'hai!
22. #3
Dana Rothschild ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.06.11)
I already asked you Salma, to stop writing the name of my country Israel in quotation mark.... This time I sent complaint to the Ynet staff.... you are crossing the line time and again.... enough!
23. Israel and South Sudan
Ari Ben Canaan   (04.06.11)
I can't wait for the new South Sudan to establish military and economic ties with Israel once it is independent.
24. #8 NON-OBSERVER
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.06.11)
"Take out" is like taking someone to dinner In this case they're being eliminated by a method that's much faster than the gas they were intending to use First we'll find out how many were involved in obtaining the gas, then they they'll be sent off to the Happy Hunting Grounds
25. #17 Raymond - Precisely! Sudan is a victim of its own policy
Scott ,   USA   (04.06.11)
26. @Salma - Is there a War?
P   (04.07.11)
You ask if there will be a war between Sudan and Israel. You need a history lesson. In 1967, Sudan declared war on Israel. This declaration has never been rescinded.
27. #4, No Breach of International Law
RickD ,   USA   (04.07.11)
If this attack was perpetrated by Israel then it isn't a breach of intl law. It is an act of war. Sudan has the right to retaliate. While I can't say that countries shouldn't go to war over a single attack that kills two criminals it wouldn't seem to be in Sudan's interest to go to war over something like that.
28. To: No. 4
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.07.11)
How about what NATO is doing in Afghanistan, where they are supposedly chasing down Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but the lions share of deaths are of innocent Afghani civilians. Is that not a violation of Afghani sovereignty? What does it matter where terrorists die, as long as that is the end result. At least Israel's strike had surgical precision -- the same cannot be said for the massive carpet bombings NATO is conducting in Afghanistan.
29. To: No. 19
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.07.11)
Don't be obtuse. Arms dealers are a scourge on this planet. Or are you despairing that Israel acted to rid the world of two obscenities and in so doing, prevented arms from reaching Hamas and/or Hezbollah, and thus saved Jewish lives. Or aren't Jewish lives important to you?
30. To: Dana at No. 22
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.07.11)
Oh, just ignore it. She can put quotes around the word Israel all the live-long day -- it does not change the fact that the State of Israel is real and thriving, whereas her ersatz "Palestine" is not. Facts on the ground!
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