IDF: Boom! Boom! Out Go The Lights
Israel's IDF targeted and took out top Hamas commander Ahmed Jabri today, and the IDF is taking great pleasure in displaying the above photo and captions on their Twitter feed. The IDF has also kindly suggested no other Hamas operatives show their ugly mugs out of doors as they prepare for a possible ground battle. Hamas is getting all poetic and saying Israel "has opened the gates of Hell" ... or something.
Oh, by the way, there has been a bit of a tussle going on between Israel and Gaza the last couple days, in case the MSM forgot to tell you at 4 a.m. between infomercials. As rockets fall in Israel on the Egyptian border, Egypt is itching to get in this fight with their new Islamic president at the helm.
Today, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood – a party formerly headed by current President Mohammed Morsi – announced that Egypt would get involved if Israel continued to kill terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Such Israeli action, said the party, would prompt “swift Arab and international action to stop the massacres.” The party also warned that Israel “must take into account the changes in the Arab region and especially Egypt … [Egypt] will not allow the Palestinians to be subjected to Israeli aggression, as in the past.”
The question now is whether the Obama administration will be able to prevent Egypt from attempting overt or covert intervention on behalf of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. If the United States leads from behind – or worse, if they show daylight with Israel – Israel’s security will be in grave danger.
Added bonus:
I realize there was a lot of avenues to cover post-election last week, and this interesting little Obama victory video may have been overlooked (Warning ... *yawn* Obama-base language involved)...
Yes, America, these people voted for what you now have to deal with for at least the next four years.
Word to the unshaven dolt near the end: Iran has no desire to sit down and talk to Obama or anyone else about peace with Israel, you idiot. The hunger for war, holocaust, and the world's destruction. Iran is chomping at the bit to get in there right now...
In 2008, 78% of Jewish Americans voted for Obama and in 2012, 70% of Jewish Americans voted for Obama. I have never seen any criticism of this nor does the media point it out like they do with the Hispanic vote.
MY revenge is watching these people deal with the tyranny of having to live with their decisions.
The article doesn't mention that the "Pinpoint Strike" also killed a baby and a seven-year-old girl. These atrocities on both sides have been going on now for more than 65 years.
Hi Antonio, actually there are a fair number of articles out there that discuss the Jewish vote. Perhaps the media does not criticize it, but the media certainly has pointed it out. Just a few examples:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/327947/poll-shift-floridas-jewish-vote-nathaniel-botwinick
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/jewish-vote-ohio-florida_n_2077494.html
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-10-16/news/fl-jewish-voters-florida-20121015_1_south-florida-jewish-voters-obama-or-romney-obama-romney-contest
http://www.jewishjournal.com/raphael_sonenshein/article/does_the_jewish_vote_still_matter
Here is more retaliation violence from the "Eye for an Eye" peoples in the Middle East: "Gaza militants kill 3 Israelis with rocket fire"
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/15/3098253/rocket-attack-from-gaza-strip.html#storylink=cpy
My concern is that the U.S. does not get dragged into this perpetual slug fest.
Deganmiles: The issue is not reporting, the issue in criticizing Jewish American support for Obama, which is nonexistent. While conservatives like Hannity, O'Reiley, this blog and others, are extremely critical of Obama supporters, like the "Added bonus" post here, I do not see similar ridicule or denunciation of the Jewish Americans who voted for and support Obama.
Liberal pro-Obama Jews are liberals first, just like people who would vote for somebody like the utterly contemptible Elizabeth Warren. Their politics is their religion, and "true believers" are akin to suicide bombers. Reason and logic are beside the point, and so are other things we consider important or even vital.
Tony, we criticize them all the time, including by our Jewish writer Ziva and Jewish frequent commenter Honey. They are in the belly of the beast, so to speak, because they have to deal with them on a daily basis.
Not to worry. Obama already stealthly took up a side when helping put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt.
Oh, my heavens. What a disgusting video. Even if those morons were to suffer under the results of what they are applauding, they would never blame it on Obama.
As for fewer civilians in Israel getting killed than Gazans, would it give you more pleasure if more Israeli civilians were killed? Why bring that up unless you have no sense of who is right and who is the aggressor?
Here's why there are fewer civilian deaths in Israel. Israel happily has some technology which prevents all those bombs from getting to do their worst.
Here's why there are more civilian deaths in Gaza: one they don't have this technology - yet, and two they put their bomb making factories in the middle of densely populated civilian areas and are themselves thus responsible for the large numbers of civilian casualties.
Further Israel bombs the bomb makers and tries to make the bombs hit precision targets. Gazans sends their bombs into civilian areas where there are no military targets.
Is this really irrelevant to you Israel bashers? If it is, then you are amoral and have no stand to write your crap here.
This current 'exchange' between the IDF and Gaza rats has shown the Western media using faked videos/photos of 'dead' civilians.
Also, to understand the mentality and convictions between the two here is testimony at the U.N. a few years ago:
http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.5537773/k.73CE/Dramatic_UN_Testimony.htm
I am the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan. I served with NATO and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and worked on international terrorism for the UK Government’s Joint Intelligence Committee.
Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.
Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.
Hamas, like Hizballah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents.
The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights.
The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls. Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties. During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. To deliver aid virtually into your enemy's hands is, to the military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks.
Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. War is chaos and full of mistakes. There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes are not war crimes. [...]