Israel Vows No Let-Up in Hunt for Militants

[Herschel]

- Israel's army said on Tuesday there would be no let-up in its hunt for Islamic militants after it killed 10 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and wounded about 100 in a day of air strikes in the Gaza Strip.


Palestinian militant groups vowed to avenge the raids. In one attack on a refugee camp, a helicopter gunship chasing suspected militants in a car fired a missile into a crowd of people, killing seven civilians.


Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon also piled pressure on the Palestinians to crack down on militants behind a wave of suicide bombings by renewing a threat to remove Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in a speech to parliament on Monday.

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Israel cannot rest. Sadly, these operations must continue. I admire the restraint the IDF has shown.

[bluesoul]

1. Unbelievable

You admire the "restraint" od the IDF when most of those they killed were CIVILIANS?!? Oh god, this is not even worth commenting, because I would have to use some words I rather not...:puke:

[Resistance]

2. making excuses for Israeli terrorism

is nothing new around here.

In other news, Hamas vows no let-up in retaliation for the Israeli attacks...

[yotam]

3. If the IDF were unrestrained

it would be black september all over again for the poor pals...

[Herschel]

4. Well said

There are 10-15 dead to my recollection. These sad accidents are few in relation to the scale of the operation.

[rini]

14. Hamas

Hamas, according to the United States government and the European Union, is a terrorist organization. The group preaches and practices violence and regularly espouses Israel’s annihilation.

Yet, Palestinian attacks have been regularly characterized as “revenge” or “retaliation.” Hamas needs no provocation to attack, since it considers Israel’s very existence provocation enough. The preamble to the Hamas charter makes this abundantly clear. It states “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."


So please cut the crap.

[Darranar]

15. I didn't know a piece of paper could carry out...

suicide bombings, run an organization, and protect it from attackers. Must be some strange feat of nature.

[Darranar]

5. What restraint?

Oh, you mean not repeatedly bombing and killing militants with high damage to innocent civilians?

Did yoiu miss yesterday's news completely?

[bluesoul]

6. Obviously

they did...

[Herschel]

7. The news was not missed

It was viewed with perspective and reason.

[Darranar]

8. So killing innocent people is "reasonable?"

[Herschel]

9. They were unintended

You know that.

[Darranar]

10. Firing into a crowd of people...

was either an example of tremendous stupidity and incompetence, which is possible, or a malicious act of murder.

[Herschel]

11. You will never understand

why the United States and even our own Democratic party support such efforts.

[bemildred]

12. No we don't.

[Darranar]

13. I won't...

that's true.

How could the supposedly liberal party of the US support a campaign of oppression?