Israel's elections are coming up in February.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

Israel's government engages in preemptive strike against Gaza in what the Financial Times has described as a new "shock and awe" campaign.

Of course, this is just a coincidence, right? No one would ever use military action to drum up support for an upcoming election...

[thewiseguy]

1. Note to self: You are not allowed to criticize the mighty Israel in GD forum

[SoCalDem]

2. We should use code names like republicans do

I= Narnia
P= Oz

[Double T]

3. This might be another incredible disappearing thread.

10..9..8..7.......

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. Not at all a coincidence

Ehud Barak has regularly used military aggressions (usually against Lebanon in his case) as a plank in his election programme.

And this thread will be promptly nuked in 5...4...3...2.........

[Duckhunter935]

5. Yes Israel overreacted

But I guess the morters and rockets killing citizens is nothing to worry about. I do not think this was preemptive. Try reactive, just much over than was required.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

7. I really hope you're right.

I just don't trust governments in general these days.

And welcome to DU

[DavidDvorkin]

8. You're right

But you'll be attacked for saying that, anyway. There's a loon wing on DU that loves to paint Israel as utterly evil and refuses to treat as a serious matter the rockets fired into Israel.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Netanyahu is a certifiable lunatic

If that son of a bitch gets reelected say hello to Armegeddon. :nuke: