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| Israel Issues Rocket Retaliation Warning | |
| 2004-09-19 | |
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Sunday that Israel will retaliate against Palestinan rockets even if they are fired from civilian areas, and an arms manufacturer said Israel had installed a radar system in a border town to give warning of rocket attacks. Sharon's remarks and the reported radar defense were apparently aimed at hardline critics who say Sharon's planned withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 would expose Israel to intense rocket attacks. Numerous Israeli military forays into northern Gaza have failed to still the rocket fire. In the four years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Palestinian militants have fired dozens of inaccurate, low-explosive rockets at Israeli border towns and Jewish settlements in Gaza. The missiles caused deaths for the first time in June, when two Israelis, including a 4-year-old boy, were killed. Many missiles have fallen into fields, while others have damaged homes and cars.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I hope the Israelis use a big ass blanket of tear gas, from mortars and artillery, to set up a thick cloud between the evacuees and the Paleos. Even if you have a protective mask and try to cross it, you still can see diddly to shoot at--plus you can be seen before you see them. That, and some skillful counterbattery fires should put a serious crimp in any "rout" plan. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-09-19 2:14:07 PM |
| #3 While it is rather easy to regard Israel's retaliation upon the civilian areas used to launch rocket attacks as a form of collective punishment, one thing must be remembered. The majority Palestinian people vocally support Hamas' terrorists attacks against Israel. Just as the Palestinians use the pretext of Israel's mandatory conscription as an excuse to attack all Israelis (no explanation is given for how this definition is able to include Israeli children), so then must the Palestinian areas' majority support of terrorism serve as justification for retaliation against their civilian population. For far too long the Palestinians have been allowed to denouce Israel's tactics with apparent impunity. It is time to saddle all of terrorism's supporters with the consequences of their acts. The radar systems installed by Israel should quite easily be able to triangulate the launch points of subsequent rocket attacks. Each launch site should be subjected to counter-battery fire in turn. Until the Palestinians see the error of their ways, a gradual self-initiated process of thinning their population of all terror facilitators should apply. As I mentioned over in the "Video Shows Beheading of 3 Iraq Hostages" thread, there is essentially no end to terrorism. Those who are inclined towards anti-civilian violence will persist no matter the cost. Those of us who wish to remain alive must aggressively seek out and KILL every terrorist and anyone who is idiotic enough to support them. There is simply no other choice. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-19 2:12:56 PM |
| #2 I think the denunciation of Israeli's self defense is the F5 macro on the UN computer system. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-09-19 1:51:51 PM |
| #1 cause => effect lessons coming for the idiot Paleos. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-19 1:42:15 PM |