4 Israeli Soldiers Hurt In Ground Attack On Gaza Rocket Site
Source: Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing targets to civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties and deployed ground troops inside Gaza for the first time early Sunday to raid a rocket launching site in the Palestinian territory. More than 156 Palestinians have been killed in five days of bombardment.
Four Israeli soldiers were hurt in clashes during the brief incursion to destroy a rocket launching site in northern Gaza, the military said. It said they have returned to Israeli territory.
It was the first time that Israeli ground troops are known to have entered Gaza in the current offensive. But the operation was carried out by special forces and did not appear to be the beginning of a broad ground offensive.
On Saturday, Israel announced it would hit northern Gaza “with great force” to prevent rocket attacks from there on Israel.
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jonjensen
(168 posts)When you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you! nietzsche. Netanayhu doesn't think about the future only himself and abbas is very weak. The future will sort itself out. Too bad too sad.
DLnyc
(2,479 posts)The news coverage seems to equate 100 Palestinian deaths to 1 Israeli injured. A sick and twisted calculus.
anti partisan
(429 posts)You're supposed to tell someone that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews and 1 clown. The other person is supposed to ask about the clown, in which case you're supposed to call them heartless Jew-haters cause they care more about the one clown than the 6 million. When in reality the reason they may ask about the clown is because they already have heard of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and so they are more interested in the part that they haven't heard about simply because it seems unusual, and out of the typical narrative.
That is exactly the deal with Palestinians, who our culture has accepted as being in the "likely to die" category, so even when they are reported on, we've already heard this story before, and there's the Islamophobic element to it as well - they are Muslims, certainly they deserve it! I do feel the deaths of innocent Israelis are indeed very tragic, but they should not be put on a higher pedestal than the hundreds of lives lost by completely innocent Palestinians.
This same effect even happened with US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. They die so often that we can't preoccupy ourselves with their plight, but when a US Ambassdor gets killed, the same people that think we should stay in Iraq for 100 years are screaming at the top of their lungs about Benghazi.
And the sick and twisted irony of it all is a lot of these people that put so extremely little disregard on human life in these tragic cases are often fighting most vigorously for what they call the "pro-life" cause.
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another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Or are we seeing what will one day be recognized as the beginning of the end of the modern State of Israel?
Netanyahu's government is telling the rest of the World (including the UNSC) to go screw itself, because Israel is above international law. That attitude is an insult to every person who cares about justice and the principle of human rights.
Just how long does Israel think she can continue to exist without international support and aid?
hack89
(39,171 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 13, 2014, 03:03 PM - Edit history (1)
Everytime the rockets start flying in Gaza the hyperbole also starts flying. When events in Syria and Iraq are literally reshaping the Middle East, the notion that this is somehow a watershed event is nonsense. Now the destruction of Iranian influence in the area would be a watershed event because it would severely undermine the power of both Hamas and Hezbollah. With any luck it will lead to their demise. Now that would be a positive game changer.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Enormous changes are currently happening all over the Middle East region. Are you really that confident change won't come to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories as well?
hack89
(39,171 posts)It is not hard to see it working out to Israel's advantage though.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)But at what a price!
Think of the fate which could befall so many ordinary Israelis if the balance of military might shifts (as it always does).
Much better would be that they come to their senses and start to act in ways to save what they can of their country's international good will. That precious commodity, along with hard, determined work, is what built modern Israel, not brutal, self-defeating military aggression.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Imagine Hamas and Hezbollah out of the picture and less radical Arab voices allowed to speak. Israel might actually have someone to discuss peace with.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)The Israeli government just can't demand surrender as a precondition.
hack89
(39,171 posts)The PA certainly.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)They didn't do so even after Hamas won fair, democratic elections to head the government of Gaza and the West Bank, in 2006. Israel's reaction to the Palestinian peoples' choice for a representative government was to lock up every Hamas member they could find, and install a more pliant and cooperative leader for the Palestinian Authority.
A different attitude might be required on Israel's part.
hack89
(39,171 posts)They have never retracted their claim that all of Israel = Palestine. And why are you glossing over their violent coup in 2007? Who actually represents the Palestinians? Hamas or the PA? If Hamas and the PA can't agree with each other then just who are the Israelies supposed to talk to?
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I haven't heard that the Israeli government has accepted.
hack89
(39,171 posts)That is merely tactical maneuvering to survive or gain strength. They have never committed to peaceful coexistence alongside a Jewish state. Never.
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