Militant, from Latin meaning soldier or warrior. If the world and the media want to refer to the the Palestinian terrorists as soldiers, then this is a war. It is a war between the people who live in Gaza and the Israelis. There is no such thing as excessive force. There is only the one rule that must be followed.....kill them before they kill you. As in most wars, there will be civilian casualties. The Israeli civilians go under ground. Hamas and Islamic Jihad hide behind their civilians (especially teenagers) and use them as cover. When the civilains are killed then they become media propaganda tools. Right Muslim Girl? Talk about recycling. If the Gazan and West Bank leadership would only stop shooting rockets and mortars into Israel there could be peace and no more war. As long as the militants (terrorists) continue to attack Israel there will be war.

Israel-Gaza truce mostly observed

The number of Palestinian rocket attacks dropped sharply after the ceasefire went into effect overnight

That means that while Israel observes, the terrorists (not militants!) are not. Looks kinda lopsided truce.

It sorta seems like this fight is really one-sided. One Israeli gets killed due to some fanatic and in a sense of fair play the Israelis kill 200. Israel's biggest obsticle to peace is their own government and the few fanatics they cater to. You know, the ones that steal Palestinian land for settlements and new housing and call the previous occupants terrorist when they try to defend whats theirs.

Dave555-1684791

Israel is not bitching, they are laughing at the pathetic palestinians.......

Dave, that comment of your's is the coldest and most pathetic thing I've read so far. You must be one those conservative fundalmentalists Christians who feel that blindly defending "God's Chosen" people maybe you can be one of them.

Wrong is wrong no matter who you are.

Sorry man, I think if God came back today and looked at His "Promised Land", He'd say, He changed his mind.

mimi jacques

US/EU list Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.Islamic Jihad and the PLFP and Hamas "press bureau' moved out of Syria when it got too dangerous for them. Upto now there has been 250 rockets into Israel- and yet US/State/HRC is calling for Israel restraint- in response of rocket attacks -latest Made in China- multiple rocket launchers from the trucks seen in Libya (while Egypt and MB were sleeping). These attacks are the trial run on behest of Syria (distraction)- Egyptian MB/Salafist in cahoots with Lebanese Hezbollah and their Iranian money/ammo daddies. March 30 is the March to Jerusalem where Iran,,Egypt,Jordan,Turkey,Asian muslim orgs,EU/US ' Jews are Judaizing Al-Aqsa (Jerusalem)- Yet US/State/HRC and DoD Panetta and Obama adm. want Jordan to get Syria's chemical arsenals and selling Turkey the dead duck F-35's, Drones . Pres.Obama's allies whom he consults and whose advise he listens to are no other than King Abdullah II of Jordan and PM Erdogan of Turkey.

Dude your statement has conspiracy theorist written all over it. I'm sure you'll not be heard from once March 30th has come and gone. Oh well, maybe you'll just change the date. Sort of like those "End of the World" rapture people or the 2012 Mayan calendar nuts. Have you taken your meds today?

The pallies just want to destroy Israel, nothing new. They cant do it so they cry and say oh poor us. Just like most muslims, they are nothing but savages.

He's no better than bin laden. senseless killing of innocent people.

Why do the Gazans spend so much time, money (and lives) building and launching rockets? Couldn't the effort be better spent on providing food for their families?

Typical of MSNBC. The only violations to this latest truce have come from the side of the cowardly terrorists in Gaza.

After operation Cast Lead, Gaza was peaceful for years. It is obvious that a more intense operation is needed.

There is the question of why Israel started this fight to begin with. An editorial in the Isreli newspaper Haaretz suggested that it was that they hoped to get Hamas to fight - giving up their recent plan to renounce violence and combine with Fatah. If that was the plan, apparently it didn't work.

Good that Iron Dome works quite well. Obama gave Israel 200 million dollars to develop this system. I don't think the American plan was to have the Israelis start a fight just to test it out.

Glad to hear that the Israeli public isn't enthusiastic about a repeat of the 2008/9 campaign where they killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians in retaliations for 28 people killed in Israel by rockets from 2001 to 2009. Maybe at some point Israel will again choose a government more interested in peace than in expanded conflict.

Netanyahu rejected a reasonable peace for the West Bank in 2010 (proposed by Israeli Defense Minister Barak, supported by President Peres and the Kadima party and accepted in principle by Fatah). Netanyahu rejected the peace in favor of more land grabs by his violent extremist settler coalition. Mubarak was going to sell the peace (less than 1967 borders) to all the Arab countries and a majority of the Palestinians, eclipsing Hamas and Iran. It was really foolish for Netanyahu to reject the peace because now they are stuck with 2.4 million West Bank Palestinians who may become permanent residents of Israel instead of residents of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.

The key issue is Jerusalem. Barak's proposed peace would have give Israel most of Jerusalem plus the settlements along the border, the temple mount would be autonomous and the Arab quarter of Jerusalem would go to Palestine. That proposal is dead for the moment but is the only real possiblity for peace. The World's 1.5 billion Muslims are most worried about their mosques on the temple mount (which Israel promised would be protected under Muslim control in the 1994 peace with Jordan - Prime Minister Rabin was killed by a Jewish radical for making the peace with Jordan and wanting peace with Palestine).

Good that Egypt seems more interested in peace than war, even though the Muslim Brotherhood was victor in the parlimentary elections. If Amr Moussa, former Secretary General of the Arab becomes president of Egypt he could broker the same peace that Mubarak was willing to broker (less than 1967 borders but protecting the mosques). But a peace won't be possible until Egypt and Syria settle down and Israel gets a new Prime Minister.

Israel was right to retaliate against rocket attacks in 2008/9 but the retaliation was excessive. The rocket attacks which began in 2001 killed a total of 28 people by 2009 and the operation cast lead killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians. The Israelis did give a slap on the wrist to the soldiers who used civilian teenagers as human shields and "melted" women and children with US-supplied white phosphorous (similar to napalm in effect), but the lost the friendship of Turkey by the excesses.

Turkey was brokering a peace between Israel and Syria that would have moved Syria from the Iranian camp into the US camp - too late now until Syria gets rid of Assad and settles down. Earlier, the French offered to replace Turkey as mediator, but Netanyhu wasn't interested. The new Syrian government will be at least as strongly anti-Israel as the previous one unless/until it gets its land back. Israel could have made peace with Fatah and Syria and eclipsed both Hamas and made Iran's anti-Israel posturing ridiculous even within Iran. Instead Hamas and Ahmadinejad have been strenthened by Israeli action and the US is facing a regional war against Iran and Lebanon - which Netanyahu is trying to start (and Iraq's Shia government will likely support Iran - at least logistically).

Note - prior to Operation Cast Lead, the Kadima govenrment was trying to make a reasonable peace but Prime Minister Olmert was charged with corruption and had to resign so he wasn't able to make the peace with Fatah for the West Bank (Gaza would have joined afterward in a referundum, eclipsing Hamas).

Tzipi Livni, current head of Kadima offered to support Netanyahu in Parliament if he would leave his extremist settler coalition partners and go for peace "if only to hold his shaking hand" when he signed. But he declined in favor of more land grabs.

Why is the guy in the picture up top firing his rifle right next to the other guys ear? I think that picture says a lot about a lot of different things...

5/5/2011

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to London on Wednesday without his military attache, who fears arrest there for war crimes.

A senior Israeli political source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu raised the issue at his Wednesday evening meeting with British premier David Cameron at his Downing Street headquarters.

Yohanan Locker chose to stay behind in Israel rather than expose himself to the risk of possible prosecution because of his role in "Operation Cast Lead", the devastating military offensive on Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009, which saw more than 1,400 Palestinians killed and another 5,000 injured. Most were non-combatants.

British law allows a judge, if a case is brought by a plaintiff, to issue an arrest warrant against a foreigner entering the country if the judge has grounds to believe that person may have been involved in crimes against humanity, even if they were not committed on British territory............

A Palestinian reacts as a gunman fires a weapon in the air during the funeral of Islamic Jihad militant Mohammed Daher in Gaza City on Tuesday.

The cover picture for this article was pretty funny. The caption should read: "ugh...could you please not fire that AK-47 right next to my ears you ****'ing idiot!?!?"

Looks like the terrorists are still at it:

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=261871

The Egyptian-brokered ceasefire which went into effect on Tuesday appeared to collapse Wednesday night when two Grad-model Katyusha rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Beersheba.

The IDF was expected to retaliate to the renewed rocket fire. Assessments within the IDF were that the rockets were fired by small, splinter terror groups and not by Islamic Jihad, which has behind the bulk of the rocket fire into Israel since Friday.

One of the rockets landed outside Beersheba and the second one was intercepted by the Iron Dome rocket defense system. No one was injured. On Tuesday night, a Grad-model Katyusha landed in Netivot.

Before the rocket fire Wednesday, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Tal Russo warned that Israel might be required to launch a large-scale operation in Gaza in the near future to stop the attacks.

The silence from the pro-Hamas MSNBC is deafening!

Well, now a terrorist has attacked a female soldier on a bus in Jerusalem. The soldier was stabbed in the chest and almost died.

Now the IDF will knock down the terrorist's house, in accordance with Israel's long established policy.

And then the liberal hand-wringers of MSNBC will decide that this is 'newsworthy'.

Here's another example of what MSNBC calls the terrorists "mostly observing" a truce:

Iron Dome intercepts Gazan Grad rocket fired toward Ashdod
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV LAPPIN
03/15/2012 21:30

Earlier in the day, rockets are fired at Beersheba, Sdot Hanegev Regional Council; Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beersheba and Gan Yavne shut schools due to ongoing attacks.

The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted a Grad rocket that was fired from Gaza toward the Ashdod area on Thursday night.

The latest rocket was fired after hours of relevant calm in the South. Earlier Thursday, two rockets were launched from Gaza into southern Israel, casting further doubt on reports that a 'ceasefire' was being observed by jihadi Gazan organizations.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=262064

The silence from the pro-Hamas MSNBC is deafening!

Events are being deliberately misrepresented to avoid any clash between Obama and Israel. If he gets re-elected, he will certainly turn on Israel and seek favor with his Muslim masters.

Yawn! are these people still fighting... Wake me up when I give a sh#t

Now this is impressive. Here is an Iron Dome missile re-directing and hitting a new target after the original target Grad is destroyed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndOXXjFCMGM

What makes the terrorists think they can ever achieve their goal of destroying Israel?

This may end the Muslim problems....

A short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.

In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan, discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew.

If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

"A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew.

If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the "Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio, Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have Muslims made? Who knows? Their press is very, very bad. They only seem to get coverage for murders.

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

Mostly observed, must mean Israel killed a few, and stole a little ???