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Truth
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Posted: January 03 2009 at 12:29pm |
Last updated: 6:26 am January 1, 2009 Posted: 3:28 am January 1, 2009 AS WORLD leaders and international organizations rush to rescue Hamas, Israel faces complex battlefield challenges - while fearing a stab in the back from the incoming Obama administration. Israel's leaders are asking themselves two questions: Is the cost of sending sufficient ground forces into Gaza just too high? And, upon his inauguration on Jan. 20, will President Obama undercut Israel's counterterror offensive before its goals have been reached? Israel can deal with self-aggrandizing busybodies, such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose irresponsible attempts to force a cease-fire upon Israel benefit only Hamas. (Carla, can't you give that guy something to do?) But Israel would be hard pressed to fight on without American support. As government leaders and generals in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv weigh the question of whether or not to send tanks into Gaza's streets, they hear the clock ticking. A major ground incursion would take time. Would Israel Defense Forces soldiers find themselves fighting on political quicksand? Despite the frankly anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish reporting of this conflict in the global media, Israel's military performance not only has been technically superb, but has been as humane as possible under such difficult circumstances. From earlier briefings in Israel, I know the IDF takes an almost absurd degree of care in its targeting. The questioning doesn't stop with "Is that the right building?" it then asks, "What should be our angle of attack to ensure any rubble falls into the street, not atop the primary school next door?" (Hamas consistently embeds terror facilities among innocent civilians.) Hitting a terrorist hideout in an apartment building, for example, an F-16 would be armed with the smallest warhead that could do the job. If the terrorists are tucked into rooms on the fourth floor, targeting officers evaluate which window the guided missile should go through to kill the terrorists, while minimizing harm to civilians living below. Any military veteran can tell that the Israelis are taking enormous care to spare civilians. Given the number of airstrikes thus far and the hundreds of tons of bombs dropped, it remains remarkable that so few innocents have been injured in such a dense urban environment. |
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homescoolmama
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Please don't call it a genocide - it is not. Some 400 plus dead, in 8 days, had they wished to the Israeli's COULD have wiped out all of Gaza. The term genocide does not apply here. The only aid gettinginto Gaza is from the Israeli's no Arab states have dropped any aid in...
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DANNYKELLEY
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Genocide?????where is the TRUTH in this!!!! |
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Truth
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I was being sarcastic . . .read the article. It's called Irony!
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sorry!!
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homescoolmama
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I did read it, still a misleading title when you read just the titles on the first page of aft
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It's supposed to be misleading. Actually it's just supposed to be funny in a sarcastic way because its misleading. Sorry if you didnt think its funny.
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I have Goggled the word Genocide, and this is what Genocide Is http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html Recent to Past Occurrences |
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Oh no .my thread got wiped... I guess I'll have to reword the title
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Concerns of civilian deaths rise in Sri Lanka
The rebels are fighting to create an independent homeland for minority Tamils, who have suffered decades of marginalization by governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. Some analysts say this is the military's best chance ever of defeating the rebels and ending the 25-year-old civil war, which has killed more than 70,000 people
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Someone wiped my thread. I guess they didn't like the G word. I have restarted the thread. I put like 20 hours into my research on the history of the conflict, the years of waiting and it is gone... I think. I am too sick to repost all of it. But I can still bring the news from inside of Gaza- beyond the border which are blocked and beyond the reporters which have been banned. Medclinician |
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