The IDF killed five Hamas terrorists, and wounded a number of PRC terrorists. Nicely done, but not good enough, since rockets are being fired just about every day.
An Israeli airstrike killed five Hamas members early Saturday, prompting threats by Gaza militants to fire longer-range rockets at Israeli border towns.
Eight people were wounded, including one critically, in the strike near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, close to the border with Israel, said Moaiya Hassanain of Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Hamas said the dead were members of its military wing, while many of the injured belonged to the Popular Resistance Committees, a smaller militant group allied with Hamas. Hamas said the men were on a night patrol east of the town.
Gee, you think that “patrol” may have been like this one?
Each six-man unit travels with rocket-launchers, machineguns and grenades and carries a locally made antitank mine similar to the explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that have wreaked havoc against allied armoured vehicles in Iraq.
If so, good shooting, IDF. Five out of six!
And of course, the threats continue:
Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, said his brother was one of those killed in the airstrike. “This is a tax we pay for (creating) a homeland,” he said.
Abu Mujahed said his group had plans to fire longer-range rockets at Israel.
“The real barrage of rockets has not yet begun,” Abu Mujahed said, adding that “22 kilometers is not the ceiling.”
It appeared to be a threat to use 122mm Katyusha rockets, which can hit targets up to 19 miles away, about twice the range of the thousands of homemade Qassam projectiles that Gaza militants have fired at Israeli communities in recent years.
Gee, ya think? And once again, note the modifier “homemade,” as if these rockets don’t kill or wound. They do.
“If so, good shooting, IDF. Five out of six!”
And now you know how hard it can be to shoot accurately.
Meanwhile, here’s a quote from a certain Holocaust-denying faux-president (a legitimate target for an IDF sharpshooter, in my opinion, given his complicity in the Munich Olympics atrocities and the continuing murders by his Fatah terrorists), who said today:
“From a historical perspective, there are two states: Israel and Palestine. In Israel, there are Jews and others living there. This we are willing to recognize, nothing else”
when asked if the Palestnians would officially recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
He said this while en route to a visit with the Saudi King in a certain country he has no problem recognizing as Islamic.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546775369&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
That certain Holocaust-denying faux-president also insists that any deal he makes with Israel must be applied to Gaza as well. This would extend the umbrella of Palestinian sovereignty over their break-away province, to deny the IDF the right to attack it. (Peace treaty, peace treaty!)
Sounds good to me — no peace treaty until he fulfills his obligation to stop terrorism from Gaza as well as from Judea & Samaria.
Impossible. Let’s end the farce, extend full Israeli sovereignty over Yesha, and invite the “Palestinians” to go somewhere else for citizenship.
Did anyone mention Jordan?
At least Bush did refer to Israel as the Jewish state at Annapolis. That didn’t just happen. I only hope the next administration can publicly say the same thing when the Arabs are there.
It’s pathetic that after 60 years we still have to talk about this.
I meant, it didn’t just happen by accident. He said it for a reason (apart from the fact that it’s true).
It’s a pity that the USA does not have a competent diplomatic service. A competent one would realize what a chimaera “Peace in the Middle East” is and let it lie for a few decades, until the Arabs are so sick of losing that they finally will want to make peace. Until then it is just futile.
When the Arabs say “Peace in the Middle East” they mean the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews. When they whine for “American evenhandedness” they mean we should help them do this. No, nay, never.
Even from a so-called realist perspective it makes no sense to help them towards their evil goal. We would not make friends among these barbarians by stabbing Israel in the back. We would only reap a justified contempt for having murdered our friends. American foreign policy should be guided by the maxim: Help your friends and hurt your enemies.
It does not seem to me all that difficult to identify who is a friend and who is not. Israel is our friend, Syria, the Palis, and the Wahhabist Entity are not. Egyot is equivocal. But there are a lot of people in our foreign policy and academic elites who are growing fat off Saudi money. Prof. John Esposito is one example. The Wahhabists have wisely invested in buying agents of influence in the USA among our elites.