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What’s the Death Toll & Rocket Stats in the Latest Israel-Hamas Conflict? Here’s Your One-Stop Post (Updated)

Nov. 20, 2012 2:32pm Tiffany Gabbay

UPDATE: Nov., 20 — 3:50 pm ET. — 809 rockets fired from Gaza hit #Israel + 389 Iron Dome interceptions = 1,198 rockets fired at Israel.

The Israeli soldier killed was not reservist but an 18 year old named Yosef Fartuk. The IDF states:

“Cpl. Yosef Fartuk, 18, from Emmanuel, was killed earlier today by a rocket fired from Gaza into Israel.”

Sharona Schwartz, reporting from Israel for TheBlaze, contributed to this report

Nov. 20 (2:00 pm ET)	Israeli	Palestinian
Dead	5	**111
Injured	70	**840

** Number of Palestinians injured and killed reported by the Gaza health authority, thus cannot be confirmed with certainty.

This building in Rishon LeZion took direct hit by a Hamas missile (screen shot from Israel Channel 2)

Miracle in Rishon LeZion

A long-range missile launched at Israel by terrorists in Gaza destroyed the top three floors of an apartment building in Rishon LeZion, a suburb of Tel Aviv.

Israel Channel 2’s Nir Dvory at the site of the eight-story building reports that all residents entered their safe rooms before the Iranian-made Fajr-5 missile landed; therefore, even though most of the top-floor apartments were decimated, the safe rooms were spared and the family living on the top floor was able to walk away with light injuries and psychological trauma from the frightening experience.

According to Israeli building codes, all news buildings have to have a “mamad” safe room made of reinforced concrete, with window covers made of steel.

Dvory says further that many nearby buildings on the street were heavily damaged.

Nov. 19 (9:00 pm ET)	Israeli	Palestinian
Dead	3	**111
Injured	70	**840

** Number of Palestinians injured and killed reported by the Gaza health authority, thus cannot be confirmed with certainty.

95 rockets were fired by Hamas into Israel on Monday alone, one hitting an Israeli school.

With the mainstream media and the entire Arab world against it, Israel has stepped up its targeted, defensive strikes on Hamas militants after the terrorist group slammed the Jewish State with at least 544 rockets — 19 of which were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system on Monday alone — since Operation Pillar of Defense began less than a week ago. More than 700 Hamas rockets have struck Israel since the beginning of the year, the most recent ones reaching as far as Tel Aviv and at least one striking a school.

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Nov. 20. Updates

Here are the latest updates Tuesday morning on the military – and diplomatic – fronts of the conflict.

THE FIGHTING

For the second time in a week, residents of Jerusalem rushed to find cover as sirens wailed in Israel’s capital. Hamas says it fired a long-range M75 missile. Israeli Police told Israel’s Channel 2 News that the missile fell in the open field near a Palestinian village in the area of Bethehem.

A brief overnight lull for residents of southern Israel was shattered early in the morning on Tuesday. By mid-day, Gaza terror groups had fired a heavy barrage of some 60 rockets of which some were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system. In Beer Sheba, one rocket landed near a bus, another near a vehicle and another on a house.

The IDF distributed this photo showing immense damage to a child’s bedroom in Beersheba Tuesday:

The IDF says it targeted 100 terror sites overnight including rocket launchers, terrorist smuggling tunnels and arms caches. The Palestinian Maan News Agency reports Israeli jets struck the Islamic National Bank in Gaza, an institution believed to be involved in terrorism financing. In 2010, the U.S. Treasury placed the bank on its terrorist-financing list.

Ynet reports the IDF overnight attacked the homes of two senior Hamas military operatives.

Here’s the IDF’s recap of the sixth day of Operation Pillar of Defense:

CASUALTIES

Palestinian fatalities in Operation Pillar of Defense now total 112 according to Gaza health officials.

A Bedouin Arab from the Beersheba area was killed by a Grad rocket attack Tuesday evening – launched by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza – and the man he was with was injured. Earlier on Tuesday, an Israeli reserve soldier was killed by mortars fired from Gaza over the Israeli border.

Channel 2 reports an Israeli woman in her 60s was wounded Tuesday by gunfire in the Etzion Bloc, a region of Israeli settlements near Bethlehem. Only initial details are known about the incident, but police are investigating in the direction of a nationalistic attack. Israel’s rescue service, Magen David Adom, says it treated five people in southern Israel with light injuries overnight, and four more people suffering from shock.

One person was lightly injured by shrapnel in the strike that hit the bus Tuesday morning in Beersheba per Israel’s Channel 2 News while others are being treated for shock.

Ynet reports an Israeli reserve soldier was moderately wounded in southern Israel.

Whats the Death Toll in the Latest Israel Hamas Conflict? Heres Your One Stop Post

Iron Dome intercepts many incoming rockets at once over Beersheba (screen shot from Israel Channel 2 News)

DIPLOMACY

Israeli media report Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is making a surprise visit to Israel Tuesday in an effort to move forward efforts at securing a ceasefire. She plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority officials but not with any Hamas representatives. She also plans to travel to Cairo to meet with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leadership which has close ties with Hamas. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is also on the ground and meets with officials in Jerusalem and Ramallah, but not Gaza where Hamas rules.

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro tells Army Radio that the Obama administration is not vetoing an Israeli ground operation in Gaza. Media reports quoting administration officials had suggested the U.S. was not in favor of Israel moving ground forces into Gaza.

Israeli government ministers met until 4am to discuss an Egyptian ceasefire proposal. Israel’s Ynet reports “Israel has agreed not to launch a ground offensive until the negotiations are exhausted.”

The Washington Post reports U.S. relations with the Islamist leaderships of Egypt and Turkey are being strained by the Israel-Hamas fighting. Egyptian and Turkish officials are expressing displeasure that the Obama administration is backing Israel.

Russia is also apparently unhappy with Washington. Reuters reports Russia is accusing the U.S. of blocking a bid at the Security Council to condemn the hostilities.

U.S. CITIZENS

CNN reports the U.S. is sending three Navy ships to the region in case U.S. citizens need to be evacuated from Israel (see related story here). Meanwhile, an Israeli man attacked a security guard at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv with a knife and an ax. Israel Police do not suspect political motives or that a protest of the military conflict are behind the attack. The man has been taken into custody.

Nov. 19. Background on data

While accurate tolls on those injured and killed in the conflict are difficult to assess due to skewed reporting and fabricated data often on the part of the Palestinians (i.e. a boy Palestinians claimed was killed by an Israeli rocket was in fact killed by a Hamas rocket), TheBlaze will attempt to provide the most up-to-date casualty tolls available.

Please continue to check this post as we plan to update the following figures each morning and evening throughout the duration of the conflict, but read with one caveat: Based on past conflicts, Hamas has been known to “pad” its casualty numbers and put its own civilians in harm’s way by operating its rocket-launch sites from within civilian areas. This is a deliberate propaganda method done to increase the casualty toll on the Palestinian side in an effort to vilify Israel and claim the IDF purposefully targets Palestinian civilians.

Further, Hamas is known to deliberately target Israeli civilian sites while the IDF specifically targets terror sites, often distributing Arabic-language leaflets to Palestinians in targeted areas in advance of an attack to ensure they’ve enough time to evacuate. The issue is that Hamas comprises guerrilla fighters who operate among their own civilians to use them as human shields. Thus far, in Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF has targeted over 1,000 Hamas terror sites.

Figures have been derived from various Israeli news sites including Haartez, Arutz Sheva and the Jerusalem Post with some Israeli casualty tolls coming directly from the IDF website. It is imperative to note that, thus far, the only source reporting Palestinian injuries is the Gaza health authority, which places the number of Palestinians injured at 720 (as of day six). Of course those figures are in question.

The Israel Defense Forces is also running a live-blog of its operation, providing daily recap videos featuring the number of rockets fired, the number of rockets intercepted by its Iron Dome defense system, and the number of Israeli casualties among other statistics. Below is the IDF’s Day 5 recap:

In 2011 alone, the IDF reports that 630 rockets from Gaza hit Israeli towns, an increase of 400 rockets since the year prior. Since 2001, more than 12,800 rockets and mortars, an average of 3 attacks every single day, have landed in Israel.

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Comments (130)

ginger100
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:22am
Palestinians love death more than Israelis love life

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- poorrichard09
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:31am
  There needs to be a third category in the first chart: “faked Palistinian deaths.”
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:45am
  Small correction: It is the extremists who teach the Palestinians who love death more than life, the Imam’s who teach the messages of hate and death and murder are one of the true evils behind that message of Radical and Extremist Islam.
  
  How many of these Imam’s sacrifice themselves the same they demand of the Martyrs?
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:42pm
  Obozo woud liket the Israelis to pay their fair share of deaths to the terrorist’s. Whooops! Er…Obozo calls the Muslims Terrorist’s Patriots. Whilst he and his fellow progressive, treasonous, pinkos call American Patriots and the Boston Tea Party terrorist’s. 2 + 2 = 5
  
  Google: Marxism, Fascism, Communism, Black Liberation Theology, Reparations, and Totalitarianism and it should spit out the name Barrack Husein Obozo.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:53pm
  Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}…people do what they want to do . don’t try to blame someone other than the perp….you sound like a progressive.
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:12pm
  And Israel is helping them attain their love!
  
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- CA Okie
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:53pm
  Good for them, kill them then.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Israel has long been killing more Palestinians, and many others. It’s a belligerent, war-loving nation.
  
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- Chi_Chi
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 6:13am
  The number of Palestinian deaths should equal the number who live in Gazza. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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truthsurfer
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:21am
Isreal needs to up those ratios about 20xand take out alot more of those smelly ************ POS. The mre of those stinky ba tards taken ut the better fr the planet. Hopefully they can take out some of those POS CNN reporters as well.

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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:43pm
  Unhinged much?
  
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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:56pm
  No, I think he’s largely right. Israel should ramp it up to the point where people can’t make up their own facts. Blast the ever-living hell out of Gaza, kill every swinging-Richard in the entire “country” and THEN see what happens to the number of rocket strikes in Israel (there would be very few, if any, from Gaza).
  
  I’m tired of listening to people defending enemies of Israel and the U.S. and of Christianity and the West as a whole. THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES! The only way to stop the love of Islam is to stop Islam.
  
  Before all this PC crap, I was willing to listen to both sides; but with people forcing their belief on me that Israel is evil and Muslims are peace-loving innocents…well, I’m done. Muslims are the enemy and if the only answer is to kill them all, well, it’s time to start making pig grease for my AR-15.
  
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- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:53pm
  israel should nuke iran and get it overwith, since that’s where the rockets are coming from. palestineans don’t own or produce anything and are just a bunch of camel jockeys
  
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crichton
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:47pm
I know some of you will take this the wrong way but if this is the blaze of truth, how come there are no stats about the number of rockets launched into Hamas territory? I want the whole truth, not just part of it.

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- maccow
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:30am
  Israel does not launch rockets as they are unguided and indiscriminant weapons. Israel uses guided missiles or smart bombs and the article clearly states that there has been 130 such attacks launched by Israel.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:39pm
  That is only 0.85 Gazans for every attack. That is appallingly inefficient and expensive. I hope the ratio goes up after the ground invasion.
  
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Grand design
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:27pm
Hammer the Strip, day and night, turn it into a parking lot! No more mister nice guy!

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RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:14pm
So far, plan fail. The Gaza Strip’s still there!

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:49pm
It’s Really not about Religion. It’s About Hate. People that Hate, Hate Themselves. I want to tell all these Haters, to spend a Day helping out at a Old Folks Home. It may give you some type of Prospective on Life. If it doesn’t. I would have to say you want your Legacy to be a Killer who Killed people he Hated. That you never met or never even spoke to. This sounds like a Bad Fiction Novel. For it actually to be True, it is just Sickening.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:41am
  Yes, it’s about The Wrath of Khan type hate — hate for hate’s sake. It is the core of islam. No number of hours at an old folks home is going to fix that. Only a God-heart-transplant will. Pray really hard for the sons of Ishmael to have a change of heart about the sons of Isaac.
  
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gsp9993
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:38pm
This is about as bad as the Lame Stream Media gets. Where’s the news and facts?

You have to search and serach to find the Truth.

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Elishasees
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:59pm
There is a great cartoon at http://elishavision.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/40000-deaths-dont-count/
Hiding behind children…also, click on the cartoon for a great article on “The Right to be a Human Shield.”

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- Le Sellers
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:26am
  Golda Meir said something like, “We can forgive your killing us. We can forgive your killing our children. We cannot forgive your forcing us to kill your children.”
  
  Mr. O’bama, will there ever BE any Jobs?
  
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sbenard
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:23pm
Hamas is notorious for using human shields to try to protect their arms and terrorists. It says more about them the Israelis. They don’t even care about their own people, much less anyone else! And what does that tell us about their religion?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:55pm
  Israel notorious for using illegal weapons against civilians.
  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index-of-illegal-weapons-in-lebanon/2877
  
  There are no good guys here.
- BenFrank1791
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:24pm
  There are good guys here they are called Jews. There is no such thing as Palestine , the real name is Judea. Has been for thousands of years.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:08pm
  Oh, I’m so surprised that The_Jerk defends Islamic terrorism and bashes Israel. How shocking.
  
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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:47am
  What does it say about their religion? About as much as can be said about the worst of any religion. Catholics priests molested thousands of children and had their crimes covered-up by the church leaders. Even the pope was aware of their crimes. To use your exact words, “They don’t even care about their own people. What does that say about their religion?”
  
  At least in Gaza they are fighting for their lives and liberty against an overwhelming occupying military. They are not just trying to get their rocks off (except for those that are throwing rocks, I suppose).
  
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- not a liberal
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:19am
  reality bites
  What does it say about their religion? About as much as can be said about the worst of any religion. Catholics priests molested thousands of children and had their crimes covered-up by the church leaders. Even the pope was aware of their crimes. To use your exact words, “They don’t even care about their own people. What does that say about their religion?”
  
  At least in Gaza they are fighting for their lives and liberty against an overwhelming occupying military. They are not just trying to get their rocks off (except for those that are throwing rocks, I suppose).
  
  invalid argument… those priests molesting kids were not told to do so by their religion, that is islam again…take a look at sharia law, they were allowed to marry 9 yr old girls for years, they do not believe in the sanctity of life
  
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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:04pm
  @The_Jerk,
  
  I understand your angst, but you’re still a child, and one day you will turn around and look at the thing you said in your 20′s and have a come-to-Jesus (Muhammad) moment.
  
  You like to argue. You like to think that everybody else is wrong and that only the craziest contrarian view has any validity. But you’re wrong in this. Some of what you hear on the TV is a lie. Most of what you read on the internet is a lie. Maybe you should open a history book printed before 1998 and understand what you are talking about.
  
  The Jews are a persecuted religion, with greater atrocities committed against them than any other race/religion (by a factor of 10 when compared to slavery, for instance). Israel was reformed as a spoil of WW2. It is rightfully theirs. “Palestine” is an artificial haven for terrorists and dissenters that is violent and aggressive toward its host.
  
  There may not be a clear side if all you hear is what is spoon-fed to you by people with an agenda. But if you simply read your history, understand the struggle and the genocide, you may finally understand that you are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with pure evil and hatred for freedom and humanity.
  
  Why do you hate Jews so much? Why don’t you just go hang a Black man from your front yard tree if you’re going to pick such an obviously evil side in this debate?
  
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- Mandors
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:25pm
  Yes, but that doesn’t mean that Israel can just disregard those shields and attack sites indiscriminately.
  
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stealthman
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:19pm
I live here in Israel, and I appreciate Glenn Beck and The Blaze very much. Thank you Glenn for all that you do. You need to hear it, or maybe you don’t. I have a good nose for human decency. And you have always smelled like a rose.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:16pm
  Hang in there! Stay as safe as you can, given what your country is having to deal with — Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and a hateful rest of the planet.
  
  Psalm 121!
  
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- KenshinDragon
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Continue to hang in there and know that you are not alone in the world. Many millions of us are praying for you, your country and even those who hate you. May the Lord God of Israel keep you safe from harm and change the hearts of the wicked!!!
  
  AMEN!!!!!!!!!
  
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- DisposableWorker
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:31pm
  We daven for you every day.
  
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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:59am
  Yeah it must be tough with only 400+ illegal nuclear weapons. Most people, when they find themselves some place where they are hated from all directions and clearly not welcome, just leave.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:46pm
  @ Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  
  Most people, when they find themselves some place where they are hated from all directions and clearly not welcome, just leave.
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Great advice. Self-compliance is the word of the day.
  
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- Tom K
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:41pm
  @ REALITY_BITES_YOU_ON_THE-ASS : Since God our Father in heaven promised and gave the land to His chosen people, No One could or should deny Israel THEIR own homeland. I don’t know about you, but, if I am surrounded by enemies on all sides, I would any and all weapons to proptct my family, my neighbors and myself; wouldn’t you ? Those 400 Nukes might not be enough !
  
  @ STEALTHMAN : God Bless you and may God continue to bless Israel. Free Americans are praying for you.
  
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universalphilos
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:12pm
A prophecy, February 19, 1971: “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.”
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzyT3fgGxb4-Mnp5THVvU0tNMFU

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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:56am
  Oh shove it up your…. Religion is the issue here and causes more problems for the world than anything else. Christians only support Israel because they believe Christ’s second coming cannot take place until Israelis call for Jesus to return as their messiah. Of course those Jews that do not turn to Jesus end up dead. Talk about selfish.
truthsurfer
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:07pm
the_jerk_offs mommy caught him again in her basement.

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- BetterInformed
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Know what the Psychiatrist said when the terrorism denier walked in his office wrapped in cellophane ?
  I can clearly see you’re nuts.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:35pm
  With your wife.
  
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- dr pepper
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:57pm
  Hey Jerk, I am quite sure Truth can cover himself, but “your wife”. Really. Is that the best you can do. What if Truth is not married or is a female and has a husband. Confusing as it may be what if Truth doesn’t have either a boyfriend or girlfriend. I mean this could get real embarrassing, I mean, who do you purport to be in the basement with. Oh, I bet you were being sarcastic weren’t you. The wit of a fifteen year old just whizzed right over my head. My bad.
  
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truthsurfer
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:05pm
Just test a nuke where the towel heads live and be done with it..

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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:01am
  That would be dumbest thing possible. If that happens, don’t be surprised if chemical and biological weapons rain down on Israel and the USA in retaliation.
truthsurfer
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:05pm
Looks like the moron the_jerk_off is back at it. I dont feel like losing IQ points reading what the loser says I can just assume its as stupid as the first of his post was,

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Truth, if you lose anymore IQ you’ll be in negative numbers.
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:04pm
Kill all the moslums. Maybe God will have mercy on them.

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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:05am
  What are moslums? Before you go advocating genocide, maybe you should at least learn to spell correctly. Let me guess, pro-life and christian, right?
  
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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:11pm
  kill all the moslums and moslum lovers
  
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Thornyrose13
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:59pm
If a group were launching hundreds of missiles a year into US soil, Americans would expect our government to do what it takes to destroy the capabilities of the attackers to damage us. While I feel some sympathy for the civilians the Israelis are killing, that sympathy is limited. They either allow or actively support the attacks on Israel, even when the attacks are launched among them. Every extremist muslim group cares far more about their ideology than they do the Palestinians. The various Arab and Muslim dominated nations in the region have used the Palestinians as pawns for decades. So long as one side calls for the absolute destruction of the other, that side has to live with the consequences of that mindset.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:39pm
  If a people born in a foreign land came and took your home, your business, your land, then placed your family into a ghetto with checkpoints, you’d do the same.
  
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- castious
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:02pm
  JERKoff no such critter as a Palestinian and you attack everyone just like a muslime terrorist with no thought but attack attack
  
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- dr pepper
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:11am
  Jerk, Arafat stole billions of dollars in aid sent to the Palestinians while he was in charge. Where is this money. They buy weapons to attack Israel instead of feeding their populace. They were given all of Gaza, as they wished, and still they rain down rockets on Israel. As someone earlier wrote they hate, but their hate is an all consuming hate which clouds the eyes of judgement and drives the soul into darkness. Finally, do you believe the Jordanians are as bad as the Israelis seeing as they will not allow Palestinians to become Jordanian citizens and make them live in ghettos?
  
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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:07am
  Thorn: You said the only care about their ideology. How is that different from Christians? They only support Israel because they believe the second coming will not happen until the Jews embrace Jesus or perish.
DadRocked
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:51pm
What’s the biggie here?
Bring a knife to a gun fight… What are you? Stupid?

Idiots and buttheads!
Who You Crappin’?

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nana1212
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:51pm
@THE JERK…Your “title, THE JERK” is EXACTLY what you are. Go publish somewhere else, better yet, stay off all media! You or your Blaze-published ideas are not welcome here!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:41pm
  That’s what I love about zealots. They’re all so open minded. Reminds me al Qaeda.
  
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deeberj
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:32pm
I also support Israel’s right to retaliate when they are bombed by someone outside of their country. I worry what the media, including the internet media, is saying about this. My 19 yr old son used to be pro Israel but within the last year has flipped on that. I can’t even talk to him about it. He won’t listen. I hate the media and what it is doing to our young folks.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Your son must have studied the issues. He’s correct.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Look, the evidence is showing who is killing who in greater numbers. And, it’s not the number of rockets fired, it’s the tonnage of the weapons… and Israel is way ahead on that too.
  
  Finally, as a citizen of a bankrupt America, why did we pay a billion dollars for Israel’s Shield defense? You guys are all suckers.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:53pm
  He’s only correct in the leftwashed history and in the land of Alex Jones where Jerkoff lives.
  
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- spfoam1
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:57pm
  @ THE_JERK…..Remember, Hamas started this by firing rockets. If you hit me once I will hit you back harder, 2 or 3 times, get it?
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:36pm
  @Jerk
  True more Palestinians have died, but how many of them were Hamas? Not one Israeli killed yet was in the military at the time. Moreover, Israel’s weapons are not only more powerful, but have a near 100% accuracy. Run the numbers Jerk. Israel is, on average, killing less than one person for every 10 attacks they launch. Since Israel uses precision to avoid civilians wherever possible and as a rule give forewarning before every airstrike to give people time to evacuate, casualties are tiny. Assad kills several times as many people each day and more Palestinians have died in Syria’s civil war than this conflict.
  
  Hamas has launched slightly fewer rockets and about a third of those get shot down by Iron Dome. Iron Dome specifically targets rockets heading for residential areas while ignoring the rest, which means that Israel’s death toll would drop dramatically in areas under the Iron Dome. Most of the rockets that land miss their targets and since Israel has sirens and bomb shelters most of the people are out of reach anyway. But most importantly, while Israel targets Hamas directed, Hamas ignores IDF targets in favor of civilian targets. Moreover, they intentionally put their own civilians in harms way in order to bolster their casualties for propaganda purposes.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:52pm
  DEEBERJ…………I just had a talk with my 24 Y/O about Islam. He had been brainwashed in college and by Ron Paul to believe that every ill in the world is either America’s or Israel’s fault. Keep on talking to him. They are not lost, just misguided. Prayers are with you as you try to reach your child with the truth.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:45pm
  TZion, the first figures that came out were 25 Palestinians dead, half civilians. At that time there were 3 Israelis killed, all civilian.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Please keep trying! That’s basically how the media has been ‘winning’ — they keep up the drumbeat forever. We need to have even more persistence, especially because truth and love are on our side. :)
  
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- UnknownUser1
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:00pm
  So the_jerk thinks even though Israel has fired almost the same amount of rockets as gaza, they shouldn’t fire them cause theirs(Israel’s) are better? you need to wake up. they would gladly replace the Jews with you and kill you just the same. WAKE UP
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:15pm
  Jerk — the Hamas killers hide behind their women and children, a typical islamist tactic. Saddam did the same in Desert Shield/Storm to make the US look like butchers. He put his undesirables w/their families right in the middle of our targets so that he could get twice the benefit for their inevitable deaths. He made the US look bad plus he got rid of his political enemies.
  
  Israelis do NOT do likewise.
  
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- EastCoaster
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:02am
  @momrules said…..I just had a talk with my 24 Y/O about Islam. He had been brainwashed in college and by Ron Paul to believe that every ill in the world is either America’s or Israel’s fault. Keep on talking to him. They are not lost, just misguided.
  
  ^^^ This is why most can’t see the manipulation. Let go of the misguide perception that America is running the show. The US was long ago corrupted by the “world elite”. Our “government” are merely their employees doing their bidding. We (the American People) are only a pawn being used to foot the bill in both $$ and lives. Look behind the curtain and you will find the corporate elite of the world. Their motives have nothing to do with religion, land, terrorist groups, etc.. Those are just the talking points they use to further their own agenda. The real end goal is money and power.
  
  People need to wake up and realize what is coming down before it’s too late….martial law for storms on the east coast, UN “observers” at the polls in TX, openly blatant fraud in the banking system resulting in crushing debt to taxpayers, a steady erosion of our liberties through regulations for our own “safety”, etc., etc., etc.. The info is out there, you just have to search for it with an open mind. Do it now before it disappears. Internet censorship has already begun.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:08am
  @Jerk
  Most recent data has Palestinian deaths at slightly over 100, less than half of whom were civilians. Israel has launched about 1500 air attacks. To put that in perspective, that means Israel kills about 1 civilian for every 30 airstrikes. Considering that all three Israelis died from a single Hamas rocket, that’s rather significant.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:30pm
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Hamas are cowards.
They use their women and children as human shields.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:41pm
  That is the way of terrorists, consider that when the SEALs took down UBL, the terror leader hid behind his wife.
  
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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:12am
  Which wife did he hide behind?
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:26pm
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Israel has every right to bomb the H*LL out of the Palestinians, with God’s blessing.
No other country would sit back and tolerate being bombed 1,614 times in less than 11 months.

We should be over there helping Israel, our ally. We may need their help some day. Our military could learn a lot from theirs. They are the best trained military in the World.

Their only disadvantage is, that their country is so very tiny, and they are surrounded by their enemies.
Israel is only eight thousand square miles, compared to America, which is approx. four million square miles.
Israel has less than eight million citizens, compared to America’s over three hundred million citizens.

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- ZAP
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:37pm
  David was very small compared to Goliath….
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:46pm
  Are you talking about the David that stole another man’s wife, then had her ex killed? Quite a heroic guy, no?
  
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- ZAP
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:01pm
  Jerk we all sin.The difference is David repented. HAVE YOU?
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:16pm
  Israel has shown more restraint than most other governments ever have. That alone speaks volumes, and their national enemies thinks their restraint is weakness when it means they will strike hard when the time is called for it to happen.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:40pm
  @Jerk
  Under Biblical law, a man must divorce his wife before going to war so as to ensure that his wife be able to remarry should he not return and his body is never found. David was punished for Uriah’s death and repented for it.
  
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- ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 4:20am
  arrg, this country is called the United States of America not simply “America”(which is a continent) I know its semantics but it is the heighth of arrogance and/or willful ignorance to ignore the 34 other countries that comprise the Americas.
  
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momrules
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:21pm
Though the Israelis try to avoid hurting civilians the Gazan terrorists make it darned near impossible. Hamas makes sure to put their rockets launchers and ammunition depots near schools, apartments and mosques hoping to deter Israeli strikes and not caring if their own are killed.

God bless Israel.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Facts are facts. Zionists are killing more women and children. You’re an excuse maker.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:55pm
  Blah Alex Jones Blah, derp derp derp.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:58pm
  Jerk – Oh well?
  Bring a knife to a gun fight… somebody’s a goner…
  Have their leadership stop the B.S.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:04pm
  jerk – “Facts are facts. Zionists are killing more women and children. You’re an excuse maker.”
  Oh well that these Zionists, as you call them, are killing women and children… They just hadn’t had a chance to have their suicide vests tailored fit yet.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Jerk…….Did you hear a little *whooshing* sound? That was me shaking you off my sandals. May God have mercy on your soul. I am through with you.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:05pm
  Zionists kill their women?
  
  You’re saying Taliban gunman who tried to kill Malala Yousafzai was a Zionist?
  The parents who killed their daughter with acid because she eyed a boy (a so-called “honor” killing) were Zionists, too?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:23am
  You have gone off the deep end Jerk. Your venom and hatred shine right through your posts now. Examine yourself.
  
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:19pm
I wonder if Hamas et al is testing the effectiveness of the Iron Dome defense system?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:49pm
  You mean the one that cost the American taxpayer a billion dollars? Israel uses us like a used wash cloth. You’re all suckers.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:07pm
  “You mean the one that cost the American taxpayer a billion dollars?”
  And your conttibution to the taxes is what?
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:43pm
  @Jerk
  Iron Dome is a purely defensive system that saves people’s lives everyday. To be against that would be similar to not wanting to send relief to Japan after the tsunami.
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:12pm
My thoughts and prayers are with Israel and I pray that Hamas and others can learn how to have a clean soul and want to have a life with a family instead of making war. Have a heart full of love not hate. Good not evil. Peace not war

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- bckeegan
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Too bad that will never happen. It is time to kill.
  
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:11pm
Israel all day, everyday. Too much pro-Israel propaganda.

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- BetterInformed
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:16pm
  Truth hurt? Bust your little bubble? Keep it coming.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:19pm
  Why do you hate Israel? What did they do to you?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:31pm
  I suggest a posting blockade of The_Hamas_Jerk! Your problem Jerk is easily remedied, if you simply do not show up here at The Blaze, all day, everyday!!!!
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Jerk – Then just boogie either to some other site or to some other country. Matters not…
  You have it good here pal… And we don’t want your kind in these parts…
  
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- spfoam1
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:03pm
  JERK….Please put your bomb vest on and push the button. Stand close to your family when you do it so the press can get some pictures.
  
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- MadJuan
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:14pm
  @The_Jerk
  What’s the trouble bubble? Does someone need hug and a nappy nap? I’ll pray for you after I go to MercuryOne.org and donate to Israel and be uplifting as opposed to being “The_Jerk”.
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Hamas kills their own…I get he feeling your on their side…..
  
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- meisterman41
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Hey JERK or should I call you Mr. Off? A Billion dollars is pocket change to your BOY Obama!
  
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- TyrannyNoMore
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:02pm
  Hey JERK_OFF….How many lives have been saved by the 90 BILLION dollars thrown away on Solindra and other (now bankrupt) green energy scams ? NONE, that’s how many. I know….. I know, in your morally corrupt, sophomoric mind, the joooossss are not worth saving. Guess what Jerky, I would gladly give up my life’s savings to save a single Israeli’s life, before I would spend a nickel to save yours !
  
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- themachinist239
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:32am
  @TYRANNYNOMORE
  
  There’s no need to lie so outrageously about the numbers regarding Solyndra (spelled with a ‘y’).
  
  “Solyndra received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee before going bankrupt. Under the Solyndra restructuring plan, the government is projected to recoup 19 percent on $142.8 million of the loan and nothing on the remaining $385 million.” —Definitely a huge loss, but nowhere near 90 billion dollars.
  
  Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/solyndra-lenders-ahead-of-government-won-t-recover-fully.html
  
  I disagree with Jerk on this one, but it’s important to get the numbers somewhat accurate.
  
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