Gaza will be destroyed due to rocket bazi

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So what’s new in the happy land of Middle East. Truce is over and rocket bazi from Gaza has started again. Same old tired tactics will bring the same old death and destruction. Who cares about about the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians. Sad!

Gaza truce recedes as rockets hit Israel

Sunday, 21 Dec, 2008 | 03:56 PM PST |

JERUSALEM: Barrages of rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns Sunday and the Israeli air force responded with a missile strike as violence surged following the official expiry date of a shaky truce.

One rocket scored a direct hit on a house in the town of Sderot, the blast scattering rubble and furniture inside. ‘Everyone is traumatized,’ the house’s owner, Maya Aviar, told AP Television News.

No one was injured in that attack, but the Israeli military said a worker at a farming community near Gaza was lightly wounded by shrapnel in a separate rocket hit. Another rocket landed in an industrial zone in Ashkelon, a city of about 120,000 people 10 miles north of Gaza.

Ashkelon is the biggest population center in rocket range, and Israel has responded harshly to past attacks on the coastal city.

The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad took responsibility for Sunday’s rocket fire. An Israeli aircraft launched a missile at a rocket launcher that had been preparing to fire in northern Gaza, the military said. Militants typically prepare rockets for launch and then fire them from cover a safe distance away. There were no reports of casualties in the strike.

A truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers expired on Friday, six months after it began. The truce had frayed since early November, and rocket fire at Israeli towns has been increasing steadily in recent days.

On Saturday, militants fired more than 30 rockets and mortar shells into Israel, and the Israeli air force killed one militant who was launching rockets.

Israel has said it wants to preserve the truce and will not take military action if the militants hold their fire, but has threatened to carry out a broad military operation in Gaza if the barrages persist.

‘The scenarios are clear, the plans are clear, the determination is clear, and so are the ramifications of each of the steps. A responsible government is not happy to go to war, but does not evade it,’ Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at his Cabinet’s weekly meeting.

The government has come under heavy pressure to react to the rocket fire, but the military has so far been wary of doing so for fear of casualties.

DAWN.COM | World | Gaza truce recedes as rockets hit Israel RS

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If you hadnt noticed, before the end of the 'ceasefire' Israel was slowly choking the life out of Gaza with a complete blockade of resources. What kind of peace is this exactly???

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Israel blockades due to rocket attacks. If Hamas sends more rockets, the life in Gaza will be even more difficult.

Thus a tit for tat policy hurts Gaza much more than what it does to Israel. I hope you see the difference.

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ever heard of false flag operations?

israel is one of biggest, admitted users of such operations

makes you think ay?

or as another poster wrote, israel makes gaza citizens desperate when they had no medication, electricity and so on....

but i do not support the killing of people on either side, i just want people to not see this one sided

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Nobody wants to see people killed. This thread was meant to express anguish against the rocket bazi of the Palestinian militants.

--- Palestinians have a policy of firing rockets from Gaza
--- Israelis have a policy to respond to this rocket bazi with air attacks.

Considering the recent sad events, it is clear that Palestinian policy of rocket bazi is terrible for Gaza. That's all.

This thread is not focused on history. Instead this effort is to focu the two Gaza Palestinians' policy and its result on the life on Gaza.

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Guess who broke the ceasefire - no NOT Hamas. Read the article.

So killing people by starving them, through lack of medicine, clean water, and other basic amenities is not aggression? Not breaking a ceasefire? Two and a half years of collective punishment, against ALL international conventions and norms, and the Palestinian victims should not REACT?

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Re: Gaza will be destroyed due to rocket bazi

Ceasefire, it's all made up.. there is no such thing. It's clear that Israel wants to kill off all Palestinians.

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Re: Gaza will be destroyed due to rocket bazi

Israel has some nerve... last time they did the same at Beirut, Lebanon.

What is Israel trying to achieve by killing so many who already did not have much food / water?

If they have so much power - then I just WISH they can WIPE off all. Then there will be no more pain.

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Man O Man!! I’ve said earlier and will repeat that there are people who always keen to find somewhere, somehow, faults of their so-called “ISLAMISTS”. Here again, instead of condemning the Israeli merciless attacks on innocent people , you have opened up a thread to express yr “anguish” against rockets…

Even when there comes a point that Israel wipes off whole Palestine (God Forbid) I know you’ll be trying to find hands of “Islamists” in that, whether in the shape of hamas or someone else.

I strongly suggest you to peek into whats actually going in Gaza so that you may know how people are living there. Then we may only discuss the facts which lead to what you named “Rocketbazi”

So, just tell me in “Yes” or “No” , that do you think that if rockets are stopped, there will be an eternal piece in that area??? Israel will return all of Palestinians land, uplift all embargos and let the human aid go there???
Plz, just “Yes” or “No”

O yes , dude, you need to focus on history. You have to go through all what happened since the birth of Israel, then only you’ll be in a position to comment on that region. I bet the hatred you have against all “Islamists” will be converted to that against the oppressive party which is Israel. Even there are so many jews who admit that.

Seriously, you really have to open your eyes!! :smash:

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Re: Gaza will be destroyed due to rocket bazi

^^

Frustrating, aint it.

You can point people towards the truth, however wether they accept the Facts or not is some thing different, reminds me when a few years ago, a debate started between work mates regarding the palestinian and Israeli situation, after every argument that was put forward by a colleague in favour of Israel was refuted, when he had nothing left to offer, he ended up with saying ''who cares about the palestinians,anyway"

Sadly, some people are just blinded by hate and will remain so, even after the Facts have been revealed to them. ...Ignorance really is Bliss.

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Re: Gaza will be destroyed due to rocket bazi

Someone comes to your house... after a while kicks you out... if you try and protest.... you are called a 'terrorist' and 'badmash' are called up to give you a good beating.

If my brother/son/sister/mother is killed in those air attacks, there might be nothing in this world stopping me from taking 'revenge'.

Its not tit-for-tat from Israel (an illegitimate state)... its from Palestinians... Its just that they do not have the fighter jets or cnn.

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This is indeed a very gloomy no win situation which Hamas has trapped itself and Palestenian people in. They are completely wrong in thinking that they can bring Israel down to its knees with this idiotic approach of raining down virtually ineffective homemade rockets. Lebanon was a different case where Israel was using the area as buffer zone but here things are different and this rocket bazi would only irritate and give yahuds the chance to use disproportionate force against unarmed civilians in occupied land. Hezbollah is still licking its wounds and now after this latest round of death & destruction, Hamas will lie damaged & weak both politically & militarily. They are going to lose support among Palestenians as they stand no chance of giving any solid blows to Israel’s military might and yet entire Gaza has pretty much been turned into rubble. Sad to say but the reality is that Palestenians have no chance of succeeding until & unless some bigger powers (Arab states) take up their case both militarily and politically which obviously would happen only after hell freezes over.

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Re: Gaza will be destroyed due to rocket bazi

How interesting, Israel launches a disproportinate attack against the Gaza strip and the West merely voices 'concern. Yet when Russia did likewise to Georgia all kinds of sanctions and diplomatic threats were made.

It seems the West can always choose where on the hill of morality it would like to stand according to what suits them.

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Hezbollah and Israel conflict 2006 - I think we all know which side failed miserably in every single point of its agenda on the battlefield.

GS Apprentice - TEAM 2 (Task 1)!!!!!!
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[FONT=&quot]In pictures: Gaza Massacre Pak Alert Press

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Sid bro! Open your eyes instead and see the posting date and the quoted news.

This thread was opened BEFORE the Israeli response. Thus it was meant to forewarn people about Hamas and Palestinian rocket bazi. That's all.

FYI! Condemnation has been going on for 60 years and it is not going to help this time as well. Oh-I-see types are just a storm in the gahwa-cup. Pragmatic ways out of this mess must be found.