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Iron Dome shoots down 5 Gaza rockets
Yoav Zitun
Published: 23.06.12, 22:01
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1. To get fresh rockets through the Egyptian tunnels?
mara ,   Vienna   (06.23.12)
Flood them tonight, your booty will be huge!
2. Instructions To Make It Safe
Brett ,   Florida   (06.23.12)
Blow up some more empty buildings, and please DO NOT forget to make that phone call warning the enemy leaders. Also, wait for a child or two to be murdered by a rocket before firing at a motorcycle. If the Israel government isn't planning and have already planned a major operation in gaza, then I am ashamed of even thinking about it anymore. Taking 150 missles and doing nothing about it is disgusting. Not one single country in the world would be so lame. But hey, there is always still time for some more meetings. And, don't worry Israel at large, the PM says southern Israel is safe.
3. Try something new:
mara ,   Vienna   (06.23.12)
Next time they try throw a bomb every half an hour, even without aim, just on empty fields. Besides having some hits you would make them feel not to be secure anywhere anytime at all any more!
4. Send 5 rockets in return...
Beary White ,   Norway   (06.23.12)
..onto the homes/apartments of hamassss. This will give them some rework to do and some thinking to start...why!!
5. Brett # 2
ben zeev ,   be olam   (06.23.12)
You are absolutely right and I second you for that. This is Israel transformed into a victim by pussy leaders from Oslo Accords to do nothing ,not to upset the western public opinion and accept this arab aggression as normalcy. This gov.behavior is beyond contempt.
6. French COS in 1940,General Gamelin had tertiary syphilis,whi
ab   (06.23.12)
ch explains the total paralysis of his leadership of the French Army then. It was at least 4 years before penicillin was becoming available. Today ,almost 60 years after universal availabilty of this drug,what's Barak's excuse ?
7. Benny Feeble Gantz
Marcel ,   Florida   (06.23.12)
IDF Chief of Geldings Benny Feeble Gantz called for an urgent meeting to ascertain why the Jewish people had reverted back to the feeble ghetto mentality after becoming a nation and having such a strong military at one time. We must dump our wimpy and cowardly leaders who have not allowed us to permanently defeat Hamas, WHAT HAPPENED TO US, he said ?
8. 150 missiles ...
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.23.12)
.... and we give them a respite in order to restock and re-arm? How about we just pound Gaza with 150 missiles of our own? Explain to those idiots that this is just a tiny, tiny taste of what Israel can bring to bear. Pound them with another 150 missiles to bring home the point. Then, give them their "cease-fire."
9. "We are ready to crush the enemy..."
Sabientje ,   Florida - USA   (06.23.12)
A group of coackroaches making threats! When are this pariah called Hamas will ever learn their lesson? Can they not be thankful that Israel has not CRUSH THEM like roaches that they are? It goes beyond my understanding why Israel tolerates these terrorists strikes without using full force and oblitarate them. Would the US allow his neigboring country to fire a barrage of rockets into its territory and still act with measured restraint? C'mon...Please Israel...stand up and put an end to this terrorists so called Hamas. As a U.S. I give my full support to Israel all the way to the end. Long live Israel!
10. 10 out of 150 missiles intercepted.
Nora Tel Aviv   (06.23.12)
WOW. Now we can sleep in peace. This Iron Dome intervention is really the statistical answer. 10 shot down and the remaining 140....BOOOOOM.
11. To Sarah/Marcel: Israel Has Jerichos
Noah Lev ,   LosangelesUSA   (06.23.12)
To Sarah, Marcel and others: this is all about politics and NOT Israel's ability to wipe out the entire Strip within minutes..if it half tried. Israel can place a satellite into orbit, yet finds it difficult to take out Hamas structures, tunnels, etc. Launchers are very mibile and rockets about 100.00 each. Iron Dome very permanent and expensive @ 60,000 crack (pd for by US and Israel) as good will gestures (see Obama's reach to we Jews). What would the US do under stimilar situation? Israel loses 1 its like 50 of USA. Fogel deaths like 50 USA families wiped out. What if Al Qaeda fired from Canada/Mexico into San Diego or Portland? Obama says he is aiding Israel significantly...money, weapons, support but also has tied their hands. Look back 20 years..compare Israel's position then and now. Who is "winning" as C. Cheen says. My bet, Hamas, Hez/Islamic Jihad, DFLP and PFLP. and its spreading abroad..like to NYC Jewish neighborhoods, not to exclude the boycotts. To Israel: hit them hard, harder and harder still, Use your Jerichos and Popeys..a few cobalt.Lithium would help too.
12. ": Shortly after Hamas announces Gaza truce, " 5 missiles !!
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (06.24.12)
What else needs be said about the value of "a truce" with genocidal Islamofascists ? 150 missiles at Israelis without a sound from Goldstone or Carter UNHRC HRW etc etc Now if Israel fired 150 missiles BACK amongst Gaza civillians they would suddenly become outraged
13. General B.Gantz You and E.Barak
(06.24.12)
NEED TO SEND A MESSAGE? How To Do That? BOMB hamas BACK TO THE STONE AGE! Start Relentless Constant Sorte's and FRY EVERY KNOW TERRORIST Structure!
14. Chelm
ex-Chelmer   (06.24.12)
Politically correct are thinking, and what happens if Turkey steps in, or Iran, or Egypt etc.? What happens if we really hit the enemy and not empty fields?
15. Give me a break!!!
Jake Stone ,   USA   (06.24.12)
Iron Dome is worthless!!!
16. Cut off head of the snake Hamas
Steven ,   nj   (06.24.12)
Hamas is control. Start killing their leadership and the violence will stop!!
17. 150 Hamas' Rockets Fired at Israel!
Moshe of Rockville ,   Rockville,MD USA   (06.24.12)
I have the solution: As a demonstration of Israeli resolve to protect its nation,I would suggest that in return for the 150 rockets fired at the Jewish State the IAF lay waste the command and control center, training camps and bases of Hamas.Further rocketing would be met by an IDF invasion.
18. idf command meeting with barak
milson   (06.24.12)
I have a suggestion in light of the continued fire from gaza. It is the usual recommendations from barak- Hit a few empty buildings, would 2 arabs, kill 3 and then offer a pullout from the west bank. This is olmert talking . Replace him with yaalon right away cause barak is out of his element. he makes the idf a laughing stock.
19.  Total Relaxation in Jerusalem Circles !
AlbertoGA ,   St.George, USA   (06.24.12)
Hi Guys, Haverim ... Please explain to me what in the world is this crap? Are we that obssesed to reelect dear old OBAMA, that the security of Isreal is no more a concern of Jerusalem Elite ?
20. Iron Dome was not deployed
Stephen in New York   (06.24.12)
for several days. Don't ask why.
21. insane...
michel ,   Ashkelon   (06.24.12)
are those islamists and also the non gouvernement that each day reduces more and more the deterrence and credibility
22. gaza is unimportant
tom ,   toronto, canada   (06.24.12)
strategically, hamas is irrelevant. the real issue is an islamofascist regime trying to acquire nuclear weapons, namely iran. by comparison, qassams are unimportant.
23. #10 #15
Stu   (06.24.12)
Iron dome works you dumb arses, its not perfect but it works. If you bothered to check before opening your mouth you might have found out that it has a very accurate tracking system and will only take out missiles that are a real threat. Why waist ammo on a missile that will land in a field when the next one may be heading for a town ? Th fact that 10 need to be shot down is the real worry though because now they are getting more accurate.
24. #22 wrong
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (06.24.12)
You are so wrong. Each interception costs about $100000. Think about what can be done with this money if there weren't any Grads. Throughout these attacks, the whole Jewish population of the South is cowering in shelters. More than half the population of Sderot suffers from PTSD. No matter how you spin it, the Zionists were right: the idea to import the terrorist Arafat to Israel, and then to ethnically cleanse Gush Katif of Jews was really really stupid. To think that Ehud Barak who supported both moves is still in power makes you worry.
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