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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 18, 2012 8:20:15 GMT -8
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Restaurants and bars across Tel Aviv were half-empty this weekend, as many residents of Israel's commercial center stayed indoors for fear of rocket attacks.
On Saturday evening a siren sounded across the city and its surrounding suburbs, sending beachgoers diving into the sand and pedestrians ducking behind cars. It was the third day in a row that rockets fired by militants in Gaza managed to reach Israel's center.
"Tel Aviv was always a city that was too cool to care," said Boaz Himmel, a waiter at a trendy cafe. "There was war in Lebanon, war in Gaza, war in Syria and we would just sit here sipping cappuccinos."
On Saturday, however, he said that few customers lingered over their coffee.
"People are definitely going about their daily lives, but you know, they are keeping one ear out for the siren and one eye up at the sky," he said.
Those who were looking toward the south Saturday evening could see the Iron Dome missile interceptor system exploding a rocket which was aimed at southern Tel Aviv. The system, which was deployed in Tel Aviv earlier this weekend, has been one of the great successes of Israel's military arsenal.
As of Friday, police officials said that more than 600 rockets had been fired into Israel by militants in Gaza. Of those, more than half fell in open areas away from civilian infrastructure, and more than 240 were intercepted by the Iron Dome.
"Some people think they don't need to run for cover. They think that Iron Dome is a fail-safe, but it's not," said Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel Aviv. "We are still urging all Israeli citizens to take cover in shelters or in reinforced areas when they hear the warning sirens."
Hamas militants took responsibility for the rocket fire into central Israel, confirming Israeli claims that they were firing Iranian-made Fajr-5 missiles.
Israel, meanwhile, bombarded the Gaza Strip with more than 300 air strikes, widening its attacks to include Hamas administrative buildings.
An Israeli air strike also destroyed the Hamas prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a police training area. Witnesses in the southern Gaza Strip said that Israeli air strikes were also hitting the hundreds of smuggling tunnels linking Gaza to Egypt.
Israel's Channel Two News reported that tanks along the Gaza border also opened fire into Gaza Saturday, the first time Israel has used artillery since it launched Operation Pillar of Defense four days ago.
The use of artillery fire furthered speculation that a ground operation into Gaza was imminent.
Speaking to reporters on a military base near Gaza, Maj. Gen. Tal Russo, head of the military's southern command, said that Israel was "absolutely" ready to send in ground troops.
The recent exchanges between Israel and militants in Gaza came as Egypt attempted to broker a ceasefire amid the various Palestinian factions in Gaza.
So far, 42 Palestinians, including 13 civilians, have been killed, while three Israeli civilians have died.
Sheera Frenkel is a McClatchy special correspondent.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 18, 2012 9:49:29 GMT -8
It's murder. It's like Hitlers Final Solution. They are being sanitized.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 18, 2012 10:01:54 GMT -8
It's shameful. Israel is a scourge
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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 18, 2012 10:14:29 GMT -8
We are too. If I wanted to kill for corporate interests I would have become a hit-man. The pay is so much better. Ask any of the boys at Blackwater. |
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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 19, 2012 8:14:30 GMT -8
I don't know, short of kicking Israel's ass and putting them in there place. I personally stopped pulling a trigger for money, and lies.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2012 6:37:57 GMT -8
Bus bomb in Tel Aviv.
A bomb attack on a Tel Aviv bus that police suspects being a terrorist attack wounded 21 people, one seriously.
An "apparent explosion" on a Tel Aviv bus was first as been reported by the Israeli ambulance service.
"A bomb exploded on a bus in central Tel Aviv. This was a terrorist attack. Most of the injured suffered only mild injuries," said Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In Gaza celebratory gunfire was fired and loudspeakers from a Mosque said Hamas' armed wing, the Al Qassam brigades, was behind the bomb.
However, despite celebrating the attack, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri did not claimed the responsibility.
"Hamas blesses the attack in Tel Aviv and sees it as a natural response to the Israeli massacres...in Gaza," he told Reuters.
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"Palestinian factions will resort to all means in order to protect our Palestinian civilians in the absence of a world effort to stop the Israeli aggression," Abu Zuhri said.
"We told you IDF that our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are, "You opened the Gates of Hell on Yourselves," Al Qassam tweeted later.
Reports that Israeli security forces held a man have been denied by police that is looking for two suspects.
The blast occurred reportedly near a Israeli Ministry of Defence building, on the corner of Shaul Hamelech and Henrietta Szold Streets.
However "the target of the terrorist bombing was a regular metro bus and its civilian passengers, not the Israeli Ministry of Defense," Gendelman said.
Eyewitnesses said it was not a suicide attack since they saw a terrorist planting an explosive before running away, Haaretz reported.
The wounded have been taken to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2012 14:09:41 GMT -8
Now if they can just stop hating.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 21, 2012 14:19:28 GMT -8
United States Secratary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Announces cease fire.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Nov 21, 2012 14:44:12 GMT -8
She is tough. And smart too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2012 13:43:24 GMT -8
Iranian officials on Wednesday acknowledged providing military assistance, including missile technology, to the Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Iranian-engineered Fajr-5 missiles struck near Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during the conflict this week, and Israeli officials said that Iran supplied the longer-range missiles to Hamas. A senior Iranian official disputed that accusation, but acknowledged that his country has shared its Fajr-5 missile technology with the militant group that controls Gaza. “The Fajr-5 missiles have not been shipped from Iran. Its technology has been transferred, and [the missiles are] being produced quickly,” Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was quoted as saying by Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency. Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said his country was “honored” to help Palestinians with “material and military aspects.” Read more: Iran admits giving Hamas technology for missiles - Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/21/iran-admits-giving-hamas-technology-for-missiles/#ixzz2DB9oFAO4 Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter |
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Post by kpad1 on Nov 25, 2012 0:18:50 GMT -8
turn israel loose...they'll take care of business...too much pc these days...
it's a family feud...it will not have a peaceful conclusion...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 9:16:11 GMT -8
Hamas backs Abbas bid to upgrade Palestinian UN status France24 - Latest update: 26/11/2012 Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (pictured) supports efforts by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to secure state observer status for the Palestinians at the United Nations this week, a Hamas statement on Monday said. Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on Monday told Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas that his movement backs a Palestinian bid for enhanced United Nations status, a Hamas statement said. But the statement, backed by a similar one from another member of the Hamas politburo in exile, appeared at odds with sentiments expressed by Hamas members in the Gaza Strip. ... Abbas is set to ask for state observer status for the Palestinians this Thursday, a little over a year after a failed bid to secure full state membership. That request stalled in the Security Council, where is has been blocked by the United States, a permanent member and veto holder in the council. Israel and Washington both oppose the new bid for enhanced UN status for the Palestinians, but the bid is expected to easily win the required majority in the General Assembly. On Sunday, Abbas said he was "fully confident" ahead of the new application. "We are going to the UN fully confident in our steps. We will have our rights because you are with us," he told a crowd of around 1,000 people demonstrating in support of the bid. "We ask for a just peace, which is agreed on by the international community which will give us our state with east Jerusalem as its capital. Without that, there is no hope at all," he said. ... He said the UN move would be followed by steps to bridge the bitter political divide between his Fatah movement and its Islamist rival Hamas. "Today, the UN. After that, reconciliation, and after that, our own state," he said. (AP) www.france24.com/en/20121126-hama....-status-upgrade |
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Post by Pilgrim47 on Nov 26, 2012 13:23:28 GMT -8
Those are some nice looking boots.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 13:27:27 GMT -8
Those are some nice looking boots. Thanks, reindeer fur.... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 13:32:27 GMT -8
Nice boots. Karma me up now. :P Can't I just karma'd pilgrim. |
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Post by Pilgrim47 on Nov 26, 2012 13:33:33 GMT -8
The ribbon fits nicely also.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 13:35:16 GMT -8
You have executive powers. :D Oh but that wouldn't be fair now would it? |
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