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Former IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. (res.) Dan Halutz, thinks Israel should mount a crushing offensive against Gaza. He called for a "mortal blow" to be dealt to Hamas's civilian and "military" leadership.
In an interview with IDF Radio, Halutz said, "We must bring back our deterrence vis-à-vis Gaza. It has not existed for even one moment since Operation Cast Lead and to this day."
Halutz said that in the end, Israel will have to conduct an extensive operation of this kind, and there is no reason to wait. "A rocket struck an empty school on the Sabbath," he said. "Why wait until a rocket strikes a full school in the middle of the day?"
"This must be dealt with through a strong blow, beyond the expectations of the other side," he explained. "The other side creates equations based on its own preferences and we have to create different equations based on what is good for us."
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Originally posted by randomname
how convenient. the school was empty. it seems all these rockets hits an empty this or an abandoned that.
some idiot blows his propane tank having a bbq and they'll blame a home made rocket.
why doesn't this imbecile idf chief talk the same sh-t about smashing iran. maybe it has to do with the fact that they aren't defenseless oppressed people trying to liberate themselves from poverty, hunger and isolation israel put them in.
On 14 May 1948, the day the Mandate officially ended and the day before the bulk of the remaining British troops departed, Israel declared its independence and sovereignty, though without specifying borders. The next day, the Arab League reiterated officially their opposition to the "two-state solution" in a letter to the UN.[26] That day, the armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq invaded the territory partitioned for the Arab state, marking the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The nascent Israeli Defense Force repulsed the Arab League nations from part of the occupied territories, thus extending its borders beyond the original UNSCOP partition.[27] By December 1948, Israel controlled most of the portion of Mandate Palestine west of the Jordan River. The remainder of the Mandate consisted of Jordan, the area that came to be called the West Bank (controlled by Jordan), and the Gaza Strip (controlled by Egypt). Prior to and during this conflict, 713,000[28] Palestinian Arabs fled their original lands to become Palestinian refugees, in part, due to an alleged promise from Arab leaders that they would be able to return when the war had been won. Many Palestinians fled from the areas that are now present-day Israel as a response to alleged massacres of Arab towns by militant Jewish organizations like the Irgun and the Stern Gang (See Deir Yassin massacre). The War came to an end with the signing of the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and each of its Arab neighbours.
you're clearly choosing sides while i personally being a student of history find it hard to choose a side in this conflict. I say let them kill each other.
Your own Quran makes reference to the Jews and their holy land, Israel.
The only place where Jews were accepted:to Israel
Those 713,000 Palestinians should have been exchanged for the 800,000 Sephardic Jews evicted without compensation from Arab lands
They would have inheritted 55 billion worth of assets.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by hmdphantom
Those 713,000 Palestinians should have been exchanged for the 800,000 Sephardic Jews evicted without compensation from Arab lands. They would have inheritted 55 billion worth of assets.
What about this?? Deny ignorance?? Most people here are completely ignorant of this fact.
Where did these Jews go? The only place where Jews were accepted:to Israel. But apparently Arab governments didnt feel they were required to absorb the 700,000 from Palestine. Why??? Because they wanted to hold them prisoner in refugee camps so they could blame it on Israel and use it, as they have since '48, as political leverage.
After the exile of the Judeans, Palestine fell into obscurity until the return of the exiles under Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE. For the more than a thousand years that followed, the area was administered by imperial powers: the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Egyptian and Seleucid Syrian dynasts of Macedonia who succeeded Alexander of Macedon, the Roman Empire from Pompey (63 BCE) and the Sasanian Persian Empire until the Islamic conquests of the seventh century CE.
Until recently, archaeological knowledge of the Persian and Hellenistic periods was veiled in darkness, but exciting discoveries of papyri, coins, seals, and a few inscriptions have begun to provide new insights into the period, which is still basically known best from literary and documentary sources. The century of Jewish independence under the Hasmonean monarchs (167-63 BCE) has also yielded little information from archaeological exploration. In contrast, the archaeological sources for the Roman era are quite substantial and more than amply add to the extensive written sources for the period.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by buster2010
HUH? Are you serious?
Heres how the events unfolded. The Arabs ATTACKED the nascent Jewish state in 1948. THEY were the ones who began the war. When they lost the war, Israel won the Negev, while Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and Jordan occupied the west bank. Who made these people refugees? EGYPT AND JORDAN.Did Egypt or Jordan establish a state for the nationless palestinians? NO.
I cannot believe the depths you Israel haters will descend to. This is history. Please learn it.
Originally posted by dontreally
Former IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. (res.) Dan Halutz, thinks Israel should mount a crushing offensive against Gaza. He called for a "mortal blow" to be dealt to Hamas's civilian and "military" leadership.
In an interview with IDF Radio, Halutz said, "We must bring back our deterrence vis-à-vis Gaza. It has not existed for even one moment since Operation Cast Lead and to this day."
Halutz said that in the end, Israel will have to conduct an extensive operation of this kind, and there is no reason to wait. "A rocket struck an empty school on the Sabbath," he said. "Why wait until a rocket strikes a full school in the middle of the day?"
"This must be dealt with through a strong blow, beyond the expectations of the other side," he explained. "The other side creates equations based on its own preferences and we have to create different equations based on what is good for us."
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Makes a whole lot of sense... Why delay the inevitable?? Why wait for a tragedy to strike before you do what inevitably needs to be done?
Israel needs to enter Gaza with more then just commandos, but with Tanks and tens of thousands of soldiers. Occupy the Gaza strip until Hamas is destroyed. Destroy not just Hamas, but their media networks. THAT is the only way to end the diabolical Jew hatred they teach their citizens. It wont end anyother way.
This is harsh, but its true.edit on 30-10-2011 by dontreally because: (no reason given)