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| Israel Gaza strikes to go on 'as long as necessary': PM |
| 2012-03-12 |
| [Dawn] Israel will continue air strikes against Gazoo "as long as necessary," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, giving no indication that a ground operation was likely for now. "We extracted a high price from them and will continue to do so," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. "We will act as long as necessary." His comments came as Israeli war planes carried out four air strikes on Gazoo on Sunday morning, bringing the corpse count in three days of festivities to 18. Violence between Israel and Gazoo Orcs and similar vermin erupted on Friday afternoon when an Israeli strike killed the leader of the ultra-hardline Popular Resistance Committees, sparking a bloody cross-border exchange. Since then, Orcs and similar vermin fired 124 rockets at Israel, of which 68 were Qassams and 44 were the longer-range Grad variety, a defence ministry statement said. In response, the air force carried out 26 air raids, 15 of which targeted Orcs and similar vermin who were in the act of firing on Israel. The Iron Dome air defence system set up around the southern cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beersheva intercepted 30 rockets, it said. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said the flareup meant that Israel would soon have to consider sending troops back into Gazoo as it did in Operation Cast Lead, a massive 22-day offensive which ended in mid-January 2009, leaving 1,400 Paleostinians and 13 Israelis dead. "Sooner or later, we will probably have to put an end to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, regime, the terror regime, in Gazoo," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman justified the initial attack against PRC leader Zuhair al-Qaisi, calling him "a ticking bomb" who was about to attack Israel. But he said a ground operation was "not desirable," unless it had the clear goal of overthrowing the territory's Hamas rulers. And Environment Minister Gilad Erdan argued that a ground operation would be a dangerous diversion from Israel's current priority -- preventing a nuclear Iran. "Our defence systems are working well, particularly Iron Dome, and the army has inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists, so for the time being, there is no need for a ground operation," he said. "The Israeli interest is for the world to focus on sanctions on Iran, not on an Israeli military campaign." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 As I said yesterday, this will remain necessary until there are no rockets, mortars or rifles OR the savages to use them left in Gazoo. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-03-12 08:51 |
| #1 TOPIX > NETANYAHU: IRAN CONTROLS/CREATED ISLAMIC JIHAD. Militant Group has now declared its "truce" wid Israel to be over. Over, nada, you betcha we're done - perhaps since Iran thinks the HAMAS Boyz have given up the fight like France as per the "Paleo Struggle/Resistance"??? and * SAME > IRANIST: US [+ Israel] NOT READY FOR WAR AGZ IRAN. IHO the USoA is putting on a mere "show" for its buddy + partner Israel. Iranian Expert Sevak Sarukhanyan. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-12 00:45 |