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Israel Considers Wider Military Operation in Gaza as Violence Enters Third Day

Nov. 12, 2012 6:41am Sharona Schwartz

Building in Netivot, Israel damaged by rocket (Photo credit: IDF Spokesman)

A short overnight lull in violence was shattered Monday morning when a Grad rocket launched from Gaza and landed in the yard of a store in Netivot in southern Israel. The building was damaged, and some two dozen people were treated for shock, but there were no physical injuries reported, according to the Times of Israel.

Since Saturday night, according to the IDF (Israeli Defense Force), more than 100 rockets have been fired at southern Israeli communities by the various terrorist networks in Gaza.

In response to Sunday’s attacks, the IDF says its forces struck three Gaza targets overnight between Sunday and Monday including a terrorist smuggling tunnel, a weapons factory and a rocket launching site.

Despite earlier reports of an Egyptian-moderated truce, the continued shooting serves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a dilemma just two months before he faces elections: should he launch a broad military operation to eliminate – or at least reduce – the terrorist threat in Gaza? It’s not only Hamas that poses the security challenge for Israel, it’s also Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Resistance Committees and Salafi terrorists who appear to be gunning for a military confrontation.

Netanyahu plans to meet Monday with foreign ambassadors serving in Israel in an effort to prepare international public opinion for the possibility Israel will launch a wide-ranging operation on Gaza.

Likud Member of Knesset Ophir Akunis tells Israel Radio he estimates a wide Israeli military operation to reduce the terrorist threat in Gaza is just a matter of time.

Labor Party Member of Knesset Binyamin Ben Eliezer tells Israel Radio that Israel must earn back its deterrent capability by carrying out a harsh response that will make clear to Hamas once and for all that Israel sees the Islamist group as the party responsible for reigning in the rocket fire. “Enough of the hudnas [in Arabic: temporary truces],” Ben Eliezer said.

Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday:

…the IDF is operating, and will operate, aggressively against the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, which are taking heavy blows from the IDF. The world needs to understand that Israel will not sit idly by in the face of attempts to attack us. We are prepared to intensify the response. At the same time we are closely monitoring what is happening on our border with Syria and there we are also ready for any development.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak also said Israel wouldn’t hesitate to reenter Gaza: “If we are forced to go back into Gaza in order to deal Hamas a [serious] blow and restore security for all of Israel’s citizens, then we will not hesitate to do so.”

Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Israel’s Army Radio he supports a resumption of targeted killing operations of terrorist leaders.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz also believes assassinations of terrorist leaders will resume. In an analysis piece, its reporters Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff suggest that Egypt under Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Morsi and the reelection of Barack Obama as U.S. president limit Netanyahu’s options [Emphasis added]:

Gaza, however, remains the main problem for Netanyahu. The more intensely the southern residents protest what they see as the government’s abandonment of their security, the more seriously he will have to consider taking tougher measures, with a resumption of targeted killings the most likely possibility.

Netanyahu, who is preparing for January’s election, is already being attacked in the political arena for not responding more forcefully. But he knows that his range of options against Hamas is limited. Israel is at this stage trying to avoid a ground operation a la Cast Lead. One reason is that the diplomatic reality now is far different than it was when that offensive was launched in 2008: Israel fears a direct confrontation with the new regime in Egypt and it knows that neither the United States nor Europe will be as tolerant of a large-scale military operation this time around.

Internal Defense Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich told Army Radio whatever steps the IDF takes should be “painful,” but that he does not think Israel should re-occupy Gaza, from which it withdrew in 2005.

As for Israel’s northern border, Israeli security sources tell Israel Radio they believe stray Syrian ordnance will continue to fall south of the border in the Golan Heights and that Israel will continue to respond on a case-by-case basis. For the first time since Syria has been engaged in civil strife, Israel responded on Sunday to shells that landed in Israel by firing warning shots over the border toward a Syrian post. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Sunday urged restraint on both sides.

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judyaz
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 11:36pm
I remember the day that Israel turned Gaza over to the Palestinian Authority in 2005. I really did not know much about the Middle East, mostly what spiritual messengers of God have shown, from their point of view. To some it may not seem “politically correct.” I only listen, and may one day understand. Israel certainly wasn’t on my mind that day. I was standing up on a bench looking over my back fence into a drainage way, thinking what a beautiful day it was, when out of the blue spirit sent from God redirected my attention. I was to go into the house and turn the TV on. When I saw the news, it felt like not only I was watching a profound, historic event, but the Lord, God, the Messiah, and all of the angels in heaven, as well as countless others on Earth were watching this news of Israel – everywhere. I’d never felt anything like this. All of heaven and all rulers of Earth – countless billions – were watching as Israel turned Gaza over. I did not know why it was so important to see. But our Father, God, knows.

Wikipedia history: Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War in 1967. Pursuant to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993, the Palestinian Authority became the administrative body that governed Palestinian population centres. Israel maintained control of the airspace, territorial waters and border crossings apart from the land border with Egypt. Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005.
[Let's not divide Jerusalem.]

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universalphilos
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 2:18am
A question was asked August 5, 1977: ““Yes, Aka. What is the significance at this time of the date, ‘the 6th of September — Black September,’ as you spoke of earlier? What will occur, and what should we do in preparation?”
A prophetic answer came: “We should say unto you, there are those who call themselves Palestenes, Palestines. They should seek a country of their own. This is not all they seek, for within them and among them they harbor the Anti-Christ. Should the Eagle [U.S.A.] not spread its wings and protect Israel, woe be your land, for his reign shall be four and one-half years.
We have told you that both the Anti-Christ and the Christ, the true Christ, is upon your land.
Upon that date you shall feel the tremors of his first works….
Your country, the Eagle, should coveth Israel — not in such a manner that would harm her, but that would giver her strength. For remember, in their greatest time of need, they shall kneel before the Messiah.”
What happened that date? In September 1977, US President Jimmy Carter began encouraging Israel to give away land won in the 1967 war to Egypt in exchange for peace. It resulting in the Camp David Accords, then the Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty. This led to the assassination of Anwar Sadat by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who thought he has a traitor to the “Palestinian cause.” After a 30-year exile, the Brotherhood now leads Egypt.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzyT3fgGxb4-Mnp5THVvU0tNMFU
Pray the USA pro

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Mr. H.
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:49pm
If the residents of Gaza don’t do something to stop the Radical Islamist attack on Israel, then look for Israel to bulldoze the whole place into the Mediterranean Sea. When nobody lives there Gaza will cease to be a problem. Most of them are peaceable go along to get along people. But it is close to the end of that way of life now.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:28pm
Let me see, this can’t be that hard.

1. Hamas has declared war on Israel with the intent to exterminate all Jews.
2. Israel should declare war on Hamas and Gaza and demand a peace treaty and recognition of it’s right to exist.
3. When this is not forth coming, the elimination of all human life in the gaza strip should proceed.
4. This is legal according to the Geneva convention and will solve this problem.

If Israel is not willing to do this, then I, for one am tired of talking about it.

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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:16pm
  I don’t have an inherent affection for Jews, but i do have an intense hatred of all the jerkwads that keep bullying Israel. Nuke the Muslims and get it done with.
  
  Maybe it would help wake up America to defeat it’s own internal enemies.
  
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jessieH
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:19pm
It’s only a truce when both sides comply. And, since Israel has no choice, Waste the mofos!

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- howard
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:46pm
  you are right it is time to do something
  
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:40am
Please Watch our Own Backyard. No person can be to distracted right now by anything. Only Our Country. I am With Israel in my Heart and Prayers. But my presents is HERE. Where a Break Out is Inevitable. Never let your off spring leave your mind. Your life is worth giving them a chance of surviving what is COMING. I hate saying terrible things. But the Truth is what it is, and must be told. I have always been able to get these feelings when something bad things are coming. My word that not once in my life have these feeling I receive been WRONG. Not Once. Never. Talk to your children. I have been.

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Blitz
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:25am
No matter what Bibi/Israel does at the end of the day msm will paint them as the aggressors. The anti Israel policy, prob unwritten, that the press has is right out of hells kitchen and the ones in the media wo love lies over truth will have payday someday.

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DarkestbeforeDawn
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:37am
Turn your back on Israel and you turn your back on God.

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rdietz7
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:01am
The blaze should be discussing New Jersey and Staten Island. What about Camp Freedom? These other stories are diversions.

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GuruMeditation
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:05am
Pounce hard Israel!

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scrapadapolis
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:54am
Who will stand with Bibbi?Our muslim puppet head wont.Why doesn’t isreal just say enough and send a low yield nuke.

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ares338
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:46am
Wider military operation = bomb the heII out of them..LOL

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SamIamTwo
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:28am
What sickens me is somehow the msms will portray this as aggression on the defenseless Muslims. Better get hammering on the msms before they begin to lie again. We have work to do.

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pepsicolakid
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:28am
MOMRULES you are exactly right. There is absolutely nothing Israel could do to appease these people. You cant reason with a savage. The only thing these people understand is strength. I STAND WITH ISRAEL.

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Painter Guy
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:02am
Pray for Israel

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- palerider54
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:15am
  YES, but also be willing and ready to FIGHT for Israel.
  
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paulusmaximus
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:01am
Egyptian-moderated truce, That’s as funny a UN peace force You know why the UN’s wear blue helmets? No tell us why! Because Yellow would clash with the yellow streak down their backs. What was the rest of that song : “bring in the clowns—–”?

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momrules
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:00am
There is nothing Israel can do that the world will approve of. From the lowliest, most ignorant Obama supporter to the heads of states, Israel will always be considered the aggressor regardless of evidence.

Islam wants Israel eradicated. It will never compromise. We are just progressing toward the final war.

God bless Israel.

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