Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border

[Sixties Fan]

Trauma and Terror: The View from the South | HonestReporting

 

[Mindful]

• The renewed Hamas attacks on Israel serve as a reminder that the terrorist group is not interested in a real truce. Hamas wants millions of dollars paid to its employees so that it can continue to prepare for war with Israel while not having to worry about the welfare of its people.
  
  
• Qatar's $15 million cash grant has failed to stop Hamas from launching hundreds of rockets into Israel. On the contrary, the money has only emboldened Hamas and increased its appetite to continue its jihad to eliminate Israel. All the money in the world will not convince Hamas to abandon its ideology or soften its position toward Israel.
  
  
• What the international mediators need to understand is that there is only one solution to the crisis in the Gaza Strip: removing Hamas from power and destroying its military capabilities. They also need to understand that there is only one language that Hamas understands: the language of force. The assumption that if you pay terrorists millions of dollars, they will stop attacking you -- rather than using the funds to build up their forces -- has proven to be false.
  
  
  Massive Missile Attack on Israel after Qatar Funds Hamas
  

 

[P F Tinmore]

• The renewed Hamas attacks on Israel serve as a reminder that the terrorist group is not interested in a real truce. Hamas wants millions of dollars paid to its employees so that it can continue to prepare for war with Israel while not having to worry about the welfare of its people.
  
  
• Qatar's $15 million cash grant has failed to stop Hamas from launching hundreds of rockets into Israel. On the contrary, the money has only emboldened Hamas and increased its appetite to continue its jihad to eliminate Israel. All the money in the world will not convince Hamas to abandon its ideology or soften its position toward Israel.
  
  
• What the international mediators need to understand is that there is only one solution to the crisis in the Gaza Strip: removing Hamas from power and destroying its military capabilities. They also need to understand that there is only one language that Hamas understands: the language of force. The assumption that if you pay terrorists millions of dollars, they will stop attacking you -- rather than using the funds to build up their forces -- has proven to be false.

(full article online)

Massive Missile Attack on Israel after Qatar Funds Hamas

The Israeli commando unit was not inside the Gaza Strip to kill or kidnap anyone. They were there as part of a routine covert operation to foil terrorist attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups. The commandos, all the same, were attacked by Hamas terrorists who did try to kill or kidnap some of them. The soldiers of the elite Israeli unit managed to return to Israel under the cover of Israeli airstrikes called in to aid their exfiltration.

What is clear is that it was Hamas, not Israel, that initiated the armed clash with the Israeli force. It was Hamas that attacked the Israeli soldiers, killed the officer,
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Read that carefully. Hamas engaged Israeli troops in Gaza. Then Hamas is accused of attacking them.

You can't make this shit up.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Besides making it clear that they believe that all of Israel is "occupied," the statement brags about targeting "houses of settlers" - which is not a military target under any circumstances.

Israeli settlers are not protected persons (read civilians) by the IV Geneva Convention.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Listeners were not told at this point or anywhere else in the programme that following the incident near Khan Younis on November 11th, Gaza Strip terrorists launched seventeen missile attacksagainst civilians in Israel.

Shah went on to quote a Tweet.

Shah: “Well the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process, Nikolay Mladinov, Tweeted a short while ago saying the escalation in the past 24 hours is extremely dangerous and reckless. Rockets must stop, restraint must be shown by all. No effort must be spared to reverse the spiral of violence. Well Avi Issacharoff [wrongly pronounced] is Middle East analyst for the Times of Israel and one of the creators of the Israeli political thriller Fauda. Does hethink a further escalation of violence is inevitable?”

Listeners then heard a discussion of the background to events with Avi Issacharoff beginning by stating “I do believe that we are into an escalation already.”

Shah: “But it comes – the timing is [unintelligible] – it comes as Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying very publicly that he wants to avoid war and many people believe that there are long-term efforts to try and maintain a truce, if not establish a better peace.”

Issacharoff pointed out that “Hamas is calling for the elimination of the State of Israel” and went on to mention a story about which BBC audiences have to date heard nothing.

Issacharoff: “Israel not only allowed more gas…into Gaza but also allowed Qatari money that will pass into Hamas’ hands to pay the salaries of Hamas’ people”

After Issacharoff had mentioned the Khan Younis incident as a factor behind the latest escalation, Shah brought up her own speculations.

Shah: “But what do you conclude from all of that then? Is Israel in a sense trying to curb Hamas before there is some kind of deal? Is this a preemptive action? What would you read into it?”

Having explained that any ‘deal’ does not mean a peace agreement in which the sides “live happily ever after with each other”, Issacharoff explained that such an understanding actually means that “there’s going to be quiet while both sides will continue to prepare themselves for the next war to come.”

Shah appeared rather shocked by the idea of an inevitable war:

Shah: “But you talk about the next war to come.”

With Issacharoff having again explained that “this will happen at the end of the day…” and that any agreement between Israel and Hamas is “a temporary truce”, Shah closed the item.

(full article online)

BBC Radio 4: nothing to see in southern Israel, move along to Gaza

 

[Sixties Fan]

IDF general warns Gazans not to approach border, ‘our patience has run out’

 

[Shusha]

IDF general warns Gazans not to approach border, ‘our patience has run out’

Nice, clear set of rules of the "Enter at your own risk" type.

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

A correspondent for the UK’s Telegraph newspaper who was in Israel and Gaza to report on the conflict could not believe what he saw and heard: the IDF going to extraordinary lengths just to avoid collateral damage in the strikes it was forced to take after terror groups in Gaza launched 460 rockets at Israel this week.

The reporter, Raf Sanchez, tweeted, “We’ve just come out of Gaza for a quick trip to see how things are after this week’s fighting. A couple of observations.”

“We got a sense of how careful Israel was to avoid civilian casualties during the airstrikes in Gaza,” he explained.

“The Israeli army called one guy we met and spent 45 mins on the phone with him, getting him to evacuate his neighbors before they blew up a Hamas media building next to his,” reported Sanchez.

Sanchez was referring to the IDF policy of warning Palestinian civilians prior to strikes, which it does in order to prevent innocent civilians from being injured or killed when action must be taken against the terror group that rules the Gaza Strip, Hamas, or other factions there, such as Islamic Jihad.

(full article online)

British Reporter Amazed by IDF Efforts to Avoid Civilian Casualties in Gaza

 

[Sixties Fan]

Arabs at the Gaza border with Israel on Friday afternoon, Nov. 16 2018, defying the directives of an Egyptian mediation team.
(full article online)

2 Gazans Dead After Violating Ceasefire, Ignoring Egyptian Request to Stay Away from Israeli Border

 

[Sixties Fan]

Today's Gaza fence protests are aimed against Gulf Arab states, not Israel! ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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[Sixties Fan]

BBC WS ‘OS’ presents an inverted portrayal of Gaza rocket attacks

 

[rylah]

Anti-Israel propagandist from the Gaza Terror Strip drops an accidental truth bomb:

Gaza’s Self-Proclaimed “Modern Anne Frank” Messes Up & Admits IDF Tries to Avoid Civilian Casualties

 

[rylah]

Hamas founder says he is willing to send his mother & daughters to a suicide mission

WHOOPS! Hamas Terror Leader Admits the Truth and DESTROYS Liberal Media Narrative.
Hamas leader admits he "sacrificed the bodies of our women and children" to "force the whole world to split its TV screen" at the US embassy opening.
The media played right into Hamas' hands. Palestinian lives were lost to create a media spectacle.
Muslims in Gaza fire rockets at Israel targeting Israeli civilians.
Kindergartens, synagogues, hospitals and schools are all in the range of Hamas rockets.
Why is the whole world silent? and Why the is media turning a blind eye? Because they do not want to damage the image of Islam, which is supposed to be a "religion of peace."

Hamas founder says he is willing to send his mother & daughters to a suicide mission - Speech Point

 

[Sixties Fan]

When is a protest not a protest? What is free speech, really?

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border
※→ rylah, et al,

This is an example of material that should be indexed as evidence of Rule 97 incitement of criminal activity.

v/r
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Hamas founder says he is willing to send his mother & daughters to a suicide mission

WHOOPS! Hamas Terror Leader Admits the Truth and DESTROYS Liberal Media Narrative.
Hamas leader admits he "sacrificed the bodies of our women and children" to "force the whole world to split its TV screen" at the US embassy opening.
The media played right into Hamas' hands. Palestinian lives were lost to create a media spectacle.
Muslims in Gaza fire rockets at Israel targeting Israeli civilians.
Kindergartens, synagogues, hospitals and schools are all in the range of Hamas rockets.
Why is the whole world silent? and Why the is media turning a blind eye? Because they do not want to damage the image of Islam, which is supposed to be a "religion of peace."

Hamas founder says he is willing to send his mother & daughters to a suicide mission - Speech Point

 

[Sixties Fan]

In a new violation of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal worked out by Egyptian mediators last week, a homemade military attack drone was discovered on Monday in a southern Israeli community near the Gaza border.

Security officials said the drone, which was carrying explosives, appeared to have landed several days ago in the Sdot Negev Regional Council district.

(full article online)

New Violation of Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

 

[Sixties Fan]

The recent spate of rocket attacks against Israel conducted by Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists was raised at the UN Security Council on Monday, in the context of broader remarks by US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Iran’s continuing malign influence across the region.

“Yes, Israel launched airstrikes on military posts, weapons depots, and intelligence assets in Gaza,” Haley told the Security Council meeting on the Middle East. “But it did so in response to over 400 rockets and mortars that were fired indiscriminately from Gaza into Israel.”

Continued Haley: “Neighborhoods were targeted. A bus was bombed by an anti-tank missile. Families were forced into bomb shelters to escape the barrage.”

Haley added that “even if you accept Hamas’ excuse that it launched its missiles in response to an Israeli covert operation, you cannot escape the fact that the Gaza militants targeted civilians in response.”

(full article online)

Iran-Backed Palestinian Terror Groups Targeted Israeli Civilians During Recent Gaza Flare-Up, US Envoy Haley Tells UN Security Council

 

[Shusha]

When is a protest not a protest? What is free speech, really?

This is actually a great example of how those of us in the US, Canada and most of Europe understand protests and apply our concept to Gaza, assuming that "protests" in Gaza MUST be the same as protests in Ottawa or DC. And, of course, Hamas exploits that.