Their surprise is entirely warranted, with Olmert still in power. In any case, their victimology mill is already grinding into high gear. Watch for staged photos of civilians being hit, coming soon from all the wire services.
"Hamas source: IDF strike unexpected: Organization admits Air Force offensive in Gaza caught its people off guard since no one thought Israel would strike on Shabbat," by Ali Waked for Ynet News, December 27 (thanks to Ruth King):
A Hamas source in Gaza confirmed Saturday that the Israeli Air Force attack on the Gaza Strip, caught the organization completely off guard. Hamas, said the source, did not believe the IDF would launch a strike on Shabbat.Earlier in the week, many Hamas operative went underground, fearing an Israeli assault, but despite the precautions taken by Hamas, many of its police stations across the Strip were operating as usual, again – believing an Israeli attack will not begin over the weekend.
Hamas spokesman Fauzi Barhum told the media that the organization learned on Friday that Israel was not going to launch any military operation in Gaza. Egypt had recommended Hamas cease all rocket fire immediately, in order to allow Israel to postpone its planned offensive in the Strip.
According to a Hamas source, the organization believed an Israeli offensive would mimic past ones and target Hamas training and other minor facilities, and not offices meant to provide services to the general population.
Among the offices hit were the Gaza passport bureau and the Preventive Security Headquarters.
Hamas further said that the message sent by Israel was one stipulating that that are no more line in the sand, and therefore the organization's would respond accordingly.
Earlier Saturday, Hamas interior minister confirmed that all Hamas infrastructure in the Strip was hit during the string of IAF strikes. The Palestinians further reported that one of the strikes was aimed at a Hamas cadet course readying for its graduation ceremony. According to the Palestinian police spokesman in Gaza, many of the cadets were killed, including Tawfiq Jabar, commander of the Gaza Police.
Eyewitnesses reported black smoke towering over the Gaza Harbor, as well as over several building used by Hamas' armed forces in the city. The Palestinian television is broadcasting images of dead bodied across the city, and of the wounded being rushed to medical facilities.
Official Palestinian reports estimate 150 people were killed in the strike and 300 injured.
Hamas further said that the message sent by Israel was one stipulating that that are no more line in the sand, and therefore the organization's would respond accordingly.
Obviously the Israeli Air force didn't do a good enough job.
Hit them again.
And again.
And again.
Israel have a coup? Not that I am complaining.
Not suprising, considering that Isreal has reached "had about enough" of the attacks coming from Gaza. If Olmert has had about "enough' with this garbage, and there is a good chance with a future election, that a certain "Bibi" gets back in, that Gaza should look to have more of these "suprise attacks" coming.
YES!! Well done and about time.
As a general once said,"It is well started, but better ended!"Do not cease now, no matter what the rest of the world says. Hamas and the rest of the Islamic fanatical threat needs to end NOW!!
Wow! I get up and read MSNBC news and they actually did 1/10th of what they need to do! And it wasn't even 'proportionate'
The article is, as usual, full of weeping moaning Palestinian victims "My son! Oh where is my son!"
and about Eight other 'vignettes' of such crude and heart-wrenching bias I wanted to PUKE. Get ready for the international 'tut-tut-tut' at that gigantic bully state Israel.
Realisation of the holy Qur'an - Basic Palestinian Human Right.
The right to worship and practise religion ritual is a basic human right issue of our modern society; and it is a honourable cause to allow anyone to reach their full potential of their religious realisation.
The holy Qur'an is the centre of existence for majority of Muslims in the world, accordingly daily routines, laws and interaction with the people surrounding are mastered. A jihad is a novel cause to reach the higher self of education, religious practice and spreading the word of Allah. Spreading jihad can be both peaceful and more forceful as the holy Qur'an also calls to Kill and be Killed when spreading the word of god to infidels, thus Kill and be Killed is an Islamic Human and Religious Right when following the holy script. Death is an Islamic quest and as such a religious realisation.
Palestinians elected democratically Hamas, which with it’s religious founder the slain Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin preach and glorify suicide bombings by becoming martyrs thus entering paradise. Islamic clerics teach this philosophy not only in Gaza, but as we have seen on TV, in Mosques, community centres all over the world and here in Europe as well. We can see on TV young children in Gaza strapped with vest demo explosives put by their own parents at rallies against the West. Women, men and children when interviewed want to become martyrs; they show proudly on TV their ready vests. Death is their purpose of living.
Islamic clerics glorify entry to paradise by martyrdom, suicide bombing and advocating Kill and be Killed. Palestinians have been following meticulously this religious obligation. Palestinians voted in democratic elections their quest to Kill and be Killed; Palestinians kill Israelis, Israelis retaliate and kill them. Palestinians kill and they are being killed and reaching heaven to harvest their promised 72 black-eyed virgins in realisation of the holy script of the Qur'an; Israelis are allowing Palestinians to fulfil this democratic choice. Israelis are gratifying a basic Palestinian Religious Right to Kill and be Killed and as such are enabling them to reach their humanitarian and Islamic religious quest – realisation of the sacred script of the holy Qur'an.
Way to go ... Palestian has to be flattened .. the fact that Hamas's capability to strike inside Israel is getting enhanced day by day is a cause for concern ...the more Israel waits ...the more dangerous it will become ..
The lesson learned is that one must strike back at terror with massive force. Force is brutal, people will be killed, some of them will be innocent, but without the willingness to spill a lot of the enemies blood one might as well close up shop. The enemy has no compunction against spilling non-Muslim blood. It doesn't even blink at killing its own children.
On the 7th Day (Shabbat) G-d rested...Why you ask? To make way for the Israeli Military, that's why!
Good going Olmert you finally pulled your fingers out of nose and did something smart!
Enough is enough; firstly that Hamas "ceasefire" was a joke; but here comes the "punch line" in the form of rockets courtesy of the Israeli Airforce. Go for it Tzhal; end the madness, and make Sderot, Ashkelon, and those areas within missile range a safe place to live once and for all!
More info:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
What was Israel supposed to do? Develop a new national hobby of sitting and counting the incoming rockets?
Wow. I really hope we back up our friends in Israel on this one.
As usual, israel didn't finish the job; won't finish the job; will perform a limited operation; will NOT use overwhelming force; and we will see another six months of tit-for-tat gamesmenship.
Look, if you people can't stomach the notion of destroying the enemy who means to destroy you anyway, DON'T DO THIS!!
Furthermore, WHO is israel's ENEMY anyway? Can't identify them can you! NO, HAMAS IS JUST A METAPHOR JUST LIKE "EXTREMIST," "INSURGENT," OR "FRINGE GROUP."
Name me the enemy, THEN you will convince me that you mean to DO business for a change! Otherwise, this exercise in pyrotechnics is doomed to failure AS USUAL!
The Sabbath just ended here about 40 minutes ago. We just finished lighting the 7th night of Hanukah candles and I switched on the PC.
IT'S ABOUT TIME! Still too little too late but I'm not stopping anyone.
I thought something was happening earlier today because I commented to my wife that it's unusual to hear several fighter jets in the sky on the Sabbath and let alone (relatively) far away here in Jerusalem.
"Hamas cadet"--Is that the new fashionable term for terrorist? Will we start seeing "cadet" in "news" stories replacing such terms as militant, gunman, activist...you know, the kind of people who "become radicalized" among "restive populations."
I hope those "cadets" don't become "susceptible to appeals from extremist clerics" who are "enemies of true Islam" as understood by Tony Blair, Condi Rice, Carl Ernst, Ehud Olmert, Barack Obama, etc., especially since they live in an area where there is a "lack of economic opportunity," a "deficit of freedom," and a "culture of despair."
Anyone who didn't realize that the comments I just wrote were sarcastic in nature, please educate yourself about Islam. It is "THE ROOT CAUSE" of the jihad against Israel and all infidels around the world. Perhaps add in some Arab beduin tribal values--which influenced Islam practices and were then frozen in place by Islam's inability to allow for free thought and innovation--and you will have a far better idea of "why they hate us" than by reading most of the nonsense put out by the media, academics and politicians.
"Hamas cadet"--Is that the new fashionable term for terrorist? Will we start seeing "cadet" in "news" stories replacing such terms as militant, gunman, activist...you know, the kind of people who "become radicalized" among "restive populations."
I hope those "cadets" don't become "susceptible to appeals from extremist clerics" who are "enemies of true Islam" as understood by Tony Blair, Condi Rice, Carl Ernst, Ehud Olmert, Barack Obama, etc., especially since they live in an area where there is a "lack of economic opportunity," a "deficit of freedom," and a "culture of despair."
Anyone who didn't realize that the comments I just wrote were sarcastic in nature, please educate yourself about Islam. It is "THE ROOT CAUSE" of the jihad against Israel and all infidels around the world. Perhaps add in some Arab beduin tribal values--which influenced Islam practices and were then frozen in place by Islam's inability to allow for free thought and innovation--and you will have a far better idea of "why they hate us" than by most of the nonsense put out by the media, academics and politicians.
They gave up Gaza in hopes that it would make things more peaceful. Guess not
Cadets and Cluter Munitions. Were they lined up all perdy like?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024073.php#comments
So, who is confused now?
Not enough terrorists were killed, but keep up the bombing, take Gaza back, send the muslims back to Egypt and jordan were they belong. who cares what the UN says, or the EU, they will have more muslim riots and we will not feel sorry for them. Israel is the canary in the mine. what happens there will happen here. take care of it there now!
Someone in the IDF has been reading the books of the Maccabees.
See 1 Maccabees 32-41.
Verses 32 -38 describe a group of Jews who refused to break the Sabbath by defending themselves against their persecutors.
Verses 39-41 describe the conclusions drawn by the Maccabees:
"When Mattathias and his friends heard the news about this [massacre of Jews, because said Jews refused to fight on Sabbath], they were greatly saddened, and said to one another,
'If all of us do as these fellow Jews of ours have done, and refuse to fight the Gentiles to defend our lives and our religion, we will soon be wiped off the face of the earth'.
'On that day they decided that if anyone attacked them on the Sabbath, they would defend themselves, so that they would not all die as their fellow Jews had died in the caves." END CITATION.
The stakes not just for Israel but for us all, in the current war of self-defence of non-Muslim humanity against the Global Jihad, are just as high as they were for Israel in the times of the Maccabees.
Israel is fighting for her own life and religion, and for more than herself: for she is fighting against the Global Jihad that is waged by the likes of Hamas, who intend by that Jihad not merely to destroy Israel (that is only the first step) but to violently enslave all of humanity to the totalitarian death cult of Islam, and subject us all to the horrible antilaw that is sharia.
The Hamas, who worship death, should have remembered that in Judaism the principle of pikuach nefesh, saving life, trumps all.
Every time Israel obliterates the jihadists (those jihadists who would, while howling Allahu akhbar, gleefully mass-murder non-Muslim men, women, and children, with all sorts of inventive cruelties, as human sacrifices to allah, the war-god of the Arab imperial religion) Israel affirms and defends *all* those non-Muslim humans who love life.
That, to me, seems perfectly consistent with the deep meaning of the Sabbath.
So, for the IDF soldiers, who are fighting for Life - for us all - let's have these rousing words of G K Chesterton, describing another battle against a different lot of death-worshipping barbarians:
'Spears at the charge, yelled Mark amain
Death on the gods of death!
Over the thrones of doom and blood
goeth God that is a craftsman good
and gold and iron, earth and wood
loveth and laboureth.
'The fruits leap up in all your farms
the lamps in each abode.
God of all good things done on earth
all wheels or webs of any worth
the God that makes the roof, Gurth,
the God that makes the road.
The God that heweth kings in oak
writeth songs on vellum
God of gold and flaming glass,
confregit potentias,
arcuum, scutuum, Gorlias,
gladium et bellum".
Viva Israele.
Am Yisrael chai.
Maybe not, Israel destroyed their movie studios. Hee hee.
When Germany launched V-2 rockets with 2000 pound anti personnel bombs at civilians, UK and allies bombed the hell out of Germany killing 100's of thousands. Germany learned their lesson. It didn't happen again, did it. That is how you win a war!
We knew how to send our message with force in those days. Now we have forgotten how to wage war and maybe we are destined for extinction as a country.
To all the jewish morons of the world and their surrogates:
More and more destruction! so that the anger of the young and those who were dooped by the fake west and its ideals, to increase beyound limits.
Clashes between the islamites and the west lead by the jews is a must. this is the beliefe of the jews, christian and muslims! isn't it?
The fact to the matter is that the nato are loosing in afghanistan and that war, plus other factors that i will explain it to the west later, has caused the worst financial crisis yet to the "good.. not " west.
Keep the pressure up... we need to hate you more and more..
keep in mind 72 virgins and may much more.. pearly boys and the results will be loss of safe heaven for the jews any where in the world.
This is what i read in many articles.
I tend to doubt some..
But i am sure that islamite will win against the west.
believe that.
Nothing to loose:
Gazan's are used to having nothing.
72 virgins....
jews have a lot to loose. The most cowrd nation on the face of earth!
I have seen on TV, Young palastinian kids, may be 9 years old, exposing their bellies to the well armed jewish soldier with no fear at all.
All out war... the looser undoubtedly will be the jews..... Make no mistake about it.
my call to the jews and to their westren slaves.. do not stop your atrocities...
more of it and wait for the response..
Arabs tend not to forget.
arabs tend to teach their kids to love to revenge from the cancer of societies... jews
love to live vs love to die:
What can the stupid jews achieve out of this "humane" killing of Gazans?
In their crooked culture and religion.. they get closer to their gods.
they tend to beleive that an idiology can be defeated... really stupid... Hitler as they claim have burned millions of them... so what happened to hitler? He is gone as they definitly be gone..
Hazb allh taught the dirty jews a harsh lesson in lebanon! didn't they?
Bush and the bad west have helped the jews all the way to find thatthey were utterly defeated.
Yes, some folks will die.
yes. some folks will loose their homes because of the usual atrocities of the wicked jews.
Yet, victory is always to david, the rag tag,ie. helpless gazans, against Golliath, the well equiped, ie the dirty jews.
your days are counted!
your wicked faith tells you that
History proves that.
take my word for, you morons.
Hamas know by now that any attack on Israel will be met with retaliation yet they continue with their mindless fight. Are they stupid or what?
What amazes me is that the press photographers seem to know where to stand to get the best pictures of the action and never get hit. Perhaps they know something that Gazanias don't. This mornings papers are full of pictures of the wounded and in particular the blood splattered face of a little girl deliberately placed on the front page of the London Times for maximum effect.
fancy- Are you on VIAGRA or are you always this aroused?
lets face it, you have quite the woody for people getting killed. You seem to care little as to who they are. Seeing great good in the death of all.
Be a man of your convictions and lead the way to Gaza. Become one of the many you desire. Show the Kiddies how it's done.
Arabs tend not to forget.
arabs tend to teach their kids to love to revenge from the cancer of societies... jews
Posted by: fancy
No Arabs...no problem? Are you saying that all Arabs should be killed because they cannot be retrained or otherwise pacified in their hatred against Jews and Christians? Arabs killing and harrassing Jews cannot continue and will not be tolerated by the West.
Mohammetans have been hating, robbing, killing, castrating, and kidnapping Christians and Jews for 1400 years. Mohammetans should get a life and come into the current century.