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Hamas Rocket Hits Shopping Center

Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:29:38 am PDT

Hamas is really asking for it. Gaza rocket hits Israeli city.

JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, wounding at least three people and leaving two trapped under rubble, officials said.

Rescue service spokesman Eli Bean said two babies were among the wounded. Witnesses told Israeli radio stations that the rocket caused considerable damage and Bean said at least two people were trapped.

The rocket attack came as President Bush wrapped up talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The Israeli leader said at the end of the talks that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza militants.

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1 Nevergiveup  5/14/08 8:30:16 am reply quote

Wonder if the President will visit down south?

2 Sharmuta  5/14/08 8:31:39 am reply quote
Hamas Rocket Hits Shopping Center

And obama understands why these people endorse him.

3 Kalak  5/14/08 8:31:45 am reply quote

Can we has carpet-bombing nao?

4 NoSubmission  5/14/08 8:31:54 am reply quote

hamas hearts obama

5 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:32:01 am reply quote
The homemade rockets militants usually fire at Israel do not have enough range to reach Ashkelon. Militants use longer-range rockets to hit the city of 100,000, 9 miles from the Gaza-Israel border.

TERRORISTS, you ignorant buffoons.

6 Alouette  5/14/08 8:32:03 am reply quote

Happy freakin' Nakba!

7 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:32:25 am reply quote

Where did they get that long-range missile?

8 Sizzlack  5/14/08 8:32:29 am reply quote

While the rest of the world yawns...

9 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:32:46 am reply quote
The Israeli leader said at the end of the talks that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza militants.

I feel so much better, don't you?

10 redshirt  5/14/08 8:32:51 am reply quote

GO GET THEM!

11 Alouette  5/14/08 8:33:20 am reply quote

Today was supposed to be the day "millions" of "displaced Palestinians" were going to march, drive, fly, into Israel to assert their "Right of Return."

Haven't heard anything about that.

12 bosforus  5/14/08 8:33:35 am reply quote
Hamas is really asking for it.

Ask and ye shall receive...hopefully.

13 jcm  5/14/08 8:33:39 am reply quote

re: #1 Nevergiveup

Wonder if the President will visit down south?

McCain visited Sderot in March.

Prayers for the rapid recovery of the wounded.

and
72 white raisins of the rocketeers.

14 Kosh's Shadow  5/14/08 8:33:52 am reply quote

One rocket came close to the power plant.
If Hamas damages the plant, and Israel is short on electricity, think the world will still tell Israel to supply power to Gaza, and if they need to black out part of Israel, do so?

Time to let the Israelis take out Hamas. That means replacing Olmerde first, though.

15 AndyMacOP  5/14/08 8:33:57 am reply quote

Enough of this silliness, take the gloves off already.

16 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:33:59 am reply quote
A rocket fired from Gaza

See? It's all the fault of those darned Israeli settlements in Gaza.


Oh, wait...

17 ggt  5/14/08 8:34:05 am reply quote

re: #7 MandyManners

I don't want to know. I'm still reading John Bolton's book and I'm learning a lot I didn't want to know.

Being grown-up sucks sometimes.

18 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:34:14 am reply quote

re: #7 MandyManners

Where did they get that long-range missile?


Iran

19 JammieWearingFool  5/14/08 8:34:16 am reply quote

They had better get it soon. If a Democrat is elected this fall, Israel will be under siege more than ever, with nobody to help if necessary.

20 Sizzlack  5/14/08 8:34:32 am reply quote

re: #11 Alouette

Today was supposed to be the day "millions" of "displaced Palestinians" were going to march, drive, fly, into Israel to assert their "Right of Return."

Haven't heard anything about that.

Probably because they are too busy firing rockets into civilian centers trying to murder whoever they can

21 Ward Cleaver  5/14/08 8:35:03 am reply quote

re: #6 Alouette

Happy freakin' Nakba!

Write that on the JDAMs.

22 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:35:06 am reply quote
two babies were among the wounded

Well now if that doesn't call for a spontaneous Pali block party, I don't know what does.

/spit

23 Orbit Rain  5/14/08 8:35:10 am reply quote

If you support "Palestine" then you support baby killers.

...pretty simple...

24 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:35:10 am reply quote

I can't even fathom living under the conditions these good, innocent people do... God bless them...

I hope Israel can at a minimum neutralize this threat, if not completely destroy it...

25 laZardo  5/14/08 8:35:13 am reply quote

re: #6 Alouette

It's their party, after all...

/someone needs to spin while Babba's gone...

26 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:35:21 am reply quote

re: #18 storagemanager

Iran

Provable?

27 Sharmuta  5/14/08 8:35:37 am reply quote

re: #16 Occasional Reader

See? It's all the fault of those darned Israeli settlements in Gaza.


Oh, wait...

It must be the fault of the constant sore.

28 ggt  5/14/08 8:35:59 am reply quote

re: #20 Sizzlack

They're not civilians, they are infidels --even worse, they are jews.

What, aren't we suppossed to understand them?

////!

29 Nevergiveup  5/14/08 8:36:05 am reply quote

re: #13 jcm

McCain visited Sderot in March.

Prayers for the rapid recovery of the wounded.

and
72 white raisins of the rocketeers.

It was just a thought, but I am sure the Secret Service would not allow it, and for good reason.

30 Ward Cleaver  5/14/08 8:36:16 am reply quote

re: #26 MandyManners

Provable?

I'll bet it is.

31 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:36:24 am reply quote

re: #26 MandyManners

Provable?


They are too smart for that.

32 Kalak  5/14/08 8:36:41 am reply quote

re: #14 Kosh's Shadow

Or perhaps something they'll understand.

One rocket, one cruise missile going back to the launch point.

Two rockets, two cruise missiles.

And so on.

33 ec marm  5/14/08 8:36:48 am reply quote

Could you imagine?

Houston - A rocket fired from Mexico exploded in a shopping center in the southern U.S. city of Houston on Wednesday, wounding at least three people and leaving two trapped under rubble, officials said.

Rescue service spokesman said two babies were among the wounded. Witnesses told radio stations that the rocket caused considerable damage and said at least two people were trapped.

34 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:37:04 am reply quote

re: #26 MandyManners

Provable?

Well, it likely would not matter... We know Iranian weapons and fighters are killing our guys and gals in Iraq and we do nothing...

35 coquimbojoe  5/14/08 8:37:15 am reply quote

Isn't it time that Israel repatriates the Gaza Egyptians with Egypt?

36 rawmuse  5/14/08 8:37:44 am reply quote

Sad way to start the day, news like this.
I can't linger, I am taking more exams today.
Carry on.

37 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:37:47 am reply quote
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denounced the 60th anniversary of Israel's establishment. Speaking to domestic and foreign reporters, the Iranian leader said "celebrating birth anniversary for a dead will not have any effect on it nor will the presence of those who intend to attend the ceremony be of any help in giving a life to the dead body."

"Those who are to gather in the occupied land in Palestine and attend the ceremony marking the establishment of the illegal regime assume that their action would help bolster the declining regime," said the Ahmadinejad, according to IRNA. The world public opinion understands that holding such a ceremony indicates the weakness and decline of the fabricated regime, said the president.

A message was sent to President..a rocket in a shopping mall. [Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]

38 Who Watches the Watchmen?  5/14/08 8:37:48 am reply quote

re: #5 MandyManners

If any other people with an elected government fired rockets from their territory into a neighboring state, would they be called "militants?"

39 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:38:09 am reply quote

re: #32 Kalak

One rocket, one cruise missile going back to the launch point.

Two rockets, two cruise missiles.

Nice start, but not good enough. (Also, cruise missiles are too expensive).

One rocket = one sustained, prolonged 155mm counterbattery fire.

That's better.

40 Stringart  5/14/08 8:38:16 am reply quote
Rescue service spokesman Eli Bean said two babies were among the wounded.

And the heroic bravery of warriors who can defeat babies will be celebrated for generations.

41 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:38:35 am reply quote

re: #35 coquimbojoe

Isn't it time that Israel repatriates the Gaza Egyptians with EgyptAllah?

Fixed!

42 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:38:41 am reply quote

re: #33 ec marm

Could you imagine?

If we just give them back Arizona, we'll have peace.

43 JammieWearingFool  5/14/08 8:38:44 am reply quote

re: #33 ec marm

Could you imagine?

That's only because we occupied their land.

/

44 Nevergiveup  5/14/08 8:39:04 am reply quote

re: #31 storagemanager

They are too smart for that.

There were reports that Hamas was getting technical help from Hizballah, which means from Iran. But with the Gaza-Egypt border being as porous as it is, it could be coming from anywhere.

45 NoSubmission  5/14/08 8:39:06 am reply quote

How about a real war to settle this?

46 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:39:23 am reply quote

They are all Iran..........

Former ambassador to Syria tells Arab newspaper, 'The resistance in Lebanon materialized following the Iranian revolution and later reached Palestine'

Hizbullah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are the Iranian revolution's legal sons, a former Iranian ambassador to Syria and one of Hizbullah's founders has said.

In an interview published Wednesday with the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, Mohamed Hassan Akhtari said that "the imam Khomeini and the Islamic Republic of Iran saw the Palestinian problem their own, and therefore set the global Jerusalem Day in the month of Ramadan in support of the Palestinian issue.

"As we all know, the Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad were established after the Islamic revolution victory in Iran, inspired by the imam Khomeini and the resistance he led."

[Link: www.weaselzippers.net...]

47 Who Watches the Watchmen?  5/14/08 8:39:25 am reply quote

re: #35 coquimbojoe

Isn't it time that Israel repatriates the Gaza Egyptians with Egypt?

The only time the Gazans are repatriated to Egypt is when they blow a hole in the wall Egypt built on the border to keep them out.

48 ggt  5/14/08 8:39:28 am reply quote

re: #33 ec marm

No, I can't. The rest of the world mocks us because they see us as naive, yet we have managed to create a society in which a diverse culture can prosper in peace.

Israel is no different in that respect. The only difference is that we don't have generations of uneducated, inbred psychopaths bent on our total destruction living right next door.

G-d help Israel.

49 Red Dawn  5/14/08 8:39:50 am reply quote

I wonder how the MSM will play it down this time.

50 jcm  5/14/08 8:39:52 am reply quote

re: #26 MandyManners

Provable?

No, but an very good possibility. Hamas can only stuff low grade solid fuel in a pipe with a pointy end and fins. Guidance and range they need some help.

51 chinesearithmetic  5/14/08 8:39:57 am reply quote

Almost on a daily basis, Hamas launches rockets into southern Israel, occasionally killing some poor soul. The latest victim was a woman of about 70 who was killed yesterday. Israel usually retaliates, and Palestinians -- some of them just as innocent as the Israeli victim -- are killed.

Richard "Israel Was a Mistake" Cohen, Washington Post, as quoted by Power Line. Notice how Hamas kills one at a time, but Palestinians die in the plural. Cohen sees Hamas as a riddle that the clever Obama, not the blunderbuss McCain, can solve. Reminds me of the English actress who said she could have cured Hitler of antisemitism, though perhaps she'd have needed two or three sessions.

52 laZardo  5/14/08 8:40:22 am reply quote

re: #34 tfc3rid

Upding'd #41, but I suspect the Army's keeping a lid on what's happening with Iranians because they don't want any more negative MSM exposure than they're getting now.

53 coquimbojoe  5/14/08 8:40:23 am reply quote

re: #41 tfc3rid

Fixed!

Let their enablers deal with them.

54 galloping granny  5/14/08 8:40:29 am reply quote

Militants? Those aren't "militants" - they are terrorists.

55 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:40:33 am reply quote

re: #31 storagemanager

They are too smart for that.

Can the Israelis trace the shrapnel?

56 dhimmi smits  5/14/08 8:40:34 am reply quote

olmert's not going to do anything, either. lebanon + gaza = a hot summer

caroline glick is right on

by extension, so is ralph peters

57 Russkilitlover  5/14/08 8:40:55 am reply quote

re: #19 JammieWearingFool

They had better get it soon. If a Democrat is elected this fall, Israel will be under siege more than ever, with nobody to help if necessary.

You know, I actually that Hillary would not be bad for Israel. Neither would McCain, of course. But BHO would be a singular disaster.

58 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:41:10 am reply quote

re: #34 tfc3rid

Well, it likely would not matter... We know Iranian weapons and fighters are killing our guys and gals in Iraq and we do nothing...

We're not doing anything yet.

59 Cognito  5/14/08 8:41:21 am reply quote

"Asking for it" is a bit of an understatement. I'd say they're pretty well demanding it.

60 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:41:46 am reply quote

re: #37 storagemanager

A message was sent to President..a rocket in a shopping mall. [Link:

61 zmdavid  5/14/08 8:41:51 am reply quote

re: #33 ec marm
We only look the other way when Americans are kidnapped in Mexico.

[Link: www.google.com...]

62 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:41:57 am reply quote

re: #57 Russkilitlover

You know, I actually that Hillary would not be bad for Israel.

I think she'd be more or less status quo. Which is bad, but (arguably) not disastrously so.

63 buzzsawmonkey  5/14/08 8:42:10 am reply quote

re: #2 Sharmuta

And obama understands why these people endorse him.

They feel an affinity for him because he has rocketed ahead in his campaign.

64 coquimbojoe  5/14/08 8:42:16 am reply quote

re: #50 jcm

No, but an very good possibility. Hamas can only stuff low grade solid fuel in a pipe with a pointy end and fins. Guidance and range they need some help.

This comes with Iran's declarations of wanting to kill Israel today... Just another day in Paradise.

65 jcm  5/14/08 8:42:21 am reply quote

re: #39 Occasional Reader

Nice start, but not good enough. (Also, cruise missiles are too expensive).

One rocket = one sustained, prolonged 155mm counterbattery fire.

That's better.

With the counterbattery radar the IDF has they know the launch point while the rocket is still in flight, they could have a barrage outbound before the bastards had a chance to yell aloha snackbar. But counterbattery fire is not pinpoint.

66 Golem Akbar  5/14/08 8:42:34 am reply quote

And Condi Rice has what to say, now?

67 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:42:45 am reply quote
Lebanon set to cancel anti-Hezbollah measures

[Link: www.reuters.com...]

68 Nevergiveup  5/14/08 8:43:01 am reply quote

re: #57 Russkilitlover

You know, I actually that Hillary would not be bad for Israel. Neither would McCain, of course. But BHO would be a singular disaster.

Well that is the problem. Israel can't afford even one "SINGULAR" disaster. The Arabs know that and are just bidding their time.

69 laZardo  5/14/08 8:43:18 am reply quote

re: #61 zmdavid

Because we're probably sending in people like this...to try to rescue them?

/likes that movie...

70 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:43:58 am reply quote

re: #55 MandyManners

Can the Israelis trace the shrapnel?

It doesn't matter...no one seems to be stopping Iran anyway.

71 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:44:11 am reply quote

re: #58 MandyManners

We're not doing anything yet.

From your keyboard to the Pentagon's ears Mandy!

72 Occasional Reader  5/14/08 8:44:11 am reply quote

re: #65 jcm

But counterbattery fire is not pinpoint.

Yep. So I guess some of the Palestinians who let the rocketeers set up in their neighborhoods might feel the pain, too. Damn shame, that...

73 WriterMom  5/14/08 8:44:24 am reply quote

re: #66 Golem Akbar

"

We will not let this attack on the peace process hamper the road leading to a fully democratic Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and harmony with Israel, singing kumbabaya and having felafel sales together from Gaza to Ramallah to Haifa and Tel Aviv," said Rice

.

JUST KIDDING BUT THAT'S WHAT SHE'S THINKING

74 David Simon  5/14/08 8:44:32 am reply quote

re: #26 MandyManners

Provable?

From the horse's mouth:

Senior Hamas operative figure tells London Sunday Times’ Gaza Strip correspondent about Iranian and Syria military aid, detailing the training received by hundreds of Hamas terrorist operatives and describing the transmission to Hamas of Iranian technical know-how for the manufacture of rockets and IEDs.

[Link: www.rightsidenews.com...]

75 republic  5/14/08 8:44:57 am reply quote

The world is pretty much already set, where a full scale assault against Israel will draw yawns from the U.N., and most of the West.

It's frustrating to live in these "perilous times", where there are "rumors of wars", and watch nearly the entire world filled with a deep deception, much of the USA included, where these people call evil good, and good, evil.

This world and existence truly are in Gods control, because at this point, mankind couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag, and that will never change.

God Bless Israel and God Bless America

76 laZardo  5/14/08 8:45:02 am reply quote

I'd like to ask something...

Weren't the "liberation" groups of the 70s very Arab-Socialist/Nationalist rather than Pan-Islamist? That would explain why the uber-lefties are so infatuated with the "liberation" of Palestine...

77 lawhawk  5/14/08 8:45:05 am reply quote

And will the Palestinians pass out candies again for wounding Israelis at a shopping center?

78 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:45:06 am reply quote

re: #70 storagemanager

It doesn't matter...no one seems to be stopping Iran anyway.

Soon, I hope, soon, it will change.

79 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:45:11 am reply quote

So if Israel should return engagement to Gaza-morons, will they be ordered to restrain themselves yet again?

80 WriterMom  5/14/08 8:45:18 am reply quote

re: #51 chinesearithmetic

Israel = the Jew

81 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:45:21 am reply quote

re: #71 tfc3rid

From your keyboard to the Pentagon's ears Mandy!

I wish.

82 Kalak  5/14/08 8:45:21 am reply quote

re: #65 jcm

That's because the Palis tend to put the launchers on top of occupied apartment buildings, schools or even hospitals.

The return fire would kill all the people down below. The Palis know this. It's their human shields, and their PR when it happens. They can declare that the Israelis killed innocent people.

83 Nevergiveup  5/14/08 8:45:26 am reply quote

re: #71 tfc3rid

From your keyboard to the Pentagon's ears Mandy!

Now you wouldn't be accusing the NSA of peeking at our computer communications would you?

84 DistantThunder  5/14/08 8:45:30 am reply quote

Why kind of sociopaths launch rockets not knowing if they will hit women or children - and not caring - since those women and children are truly the intended target?

Hamas aka known as Obama supporters.

85 BrianA  5/14/08 8:45:45 am reply quote

Olmert probably won't do anything because he's up to his arse in alligators. OTOH, a swift response might divert some of the attention away from his troubles.

Talansky to give preliminary testimony in PM probe May 25

86 WriterMom  5/14/08 8:45:49 am reply quote

re: #77 lawhawk

Just wait for it...I'm sure we'll get the pictures soon.

87 Darwin Akbar  5/14/08 8:45:56 am reply quote

This is the usual Palestinian M.O. Whenever a foreign diplomat (Zinni, Condi, etc.)shows up to promote "the peace process," they ramp up the terror. It is designed to tell Israel "who's in charge," especially since Israel will have to smile and take it.

As others have noted above, Israel had better take action soon, as President B. Hussein Obama will only "hold up a mirror" to the Jews, to teach them to die with dignity so as not to upset "our allies."

88 laZardo  5/14/08 8:46:21 am reply quote

re: #65 jcm

Case in point?

/no pun intended.

89 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:46:25 am reply quote

re: #74 David Simon

[Link:

90 firebreather  5/14/08 8:46:32 am reply quote

Actually, I don't have a problem with the term militants. Very often, the wire services & the NY Times (et al) refer to them as activists.

Better that they're militants than activists, freedom fighters, social workers, reformists, or whatever other laudatory term the MSM chooses to describe terrorists.

91 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:46:35 am reply quote

re: #83 Nevergiveup

Now you wouldn't be accusing the NSA of peeking at our computer communications would you?

I would actually be pleased if they were reading here... Maybe they would learn a thing or two...

92 Golem Akbar  5/14/08 8:46:44 am reply quote

re: #73 WriterMom

"


.

JUST KIDDING BUT THAT'S WHAT SHE'S THINKING


True enough. Sometimes misguided idealism hurts more people than anyone realizes (giving her some credit for believing her bs). It's time to wake up and smell the burning flesh of innocent Israelis.

93 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:47:00 am reply quote

re: #85 BrianA

Olmert probably won't do anything because he's up to his arse in alligators. OTOH, a swift response might divert some of the attention away from his troubles.

94 Cognito  5/14/08 8:47:06 am reply quote

re: #76 laZardo

I'd like to ask something...

Weren't the "liberation" groups of the 70s very Arab-Socialist/Nationalist rather than Pan-Islamist? That would explain why the uber-lefties are so infatuated with the "liberation" of Palestine...

Uber-leftists just love anything that fashions itself as a 'resistance.'

95 ggt  5/14/08 8:47:07 am reply quote

re: #69 laZardo

I liked that movie too.

96 Lawrence Schmerel  5/14/08 8:47:34 am reply quote

The Associated Press writer said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the attackers Gaza militants.

I wonder if that is actually what Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said or if he called them terrorists.

97 MandyManners  5/14/08 8:47:45 am reply quote

re: #79 tfc3rid

So if Israel should return engagement to Gaza-morons, will they be ordered to restrain themselves yet again?

ORDERED?

98 Nevergiveup  5/14/08 8:47:59 am reply quote

re: #77 lawhawk

And will the Palestinians pass out candies again for wounding Israelis at a shopping center?

Well if I were the Israeli Prime Minister, they would be passing out candles for a very different reason, since the lights would be going off all over Gaza, and would not be coming back on for a long time! But that's just me.

99 seekeroftruth  5/14/08 8:47:59 am reply quote

Will Obama condemn the behavior of Hamas? Especially since they have endorsed him?

100 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  5/14/08 8:48:08 am reply quote

Return fire a thousand fold.

101 Oh no...Sand People!  5/14/08 8:48:50 am reply quote

re: #90 firebreather

Actually, I don't have a problem with the term militants. Very often, the wire services & the NY Times (et al) refer to them as activists.

Better that they're militants than activists, freedom fighters, social workers, reformists, or whatever other laudatory term the MSM chooses to describe terrorists.


Give it a week and they will start calling them 'social workers' and then we'll get frustrated that they are no longer calling them 'militants'...

102 jcm  5/14/08 8:49:08 am reply quote

re: #82 Kalak

That's because the Palis tend to put the launchers on top of occupied apartment buildings, schools or even hospitals.

The return fire would kill all the people down below. The Palis know this. It's their human shields, and their PR when it happens. They can declare that the Israelis killed innocent people.

Stand up bunch of guys those Hamas "Militants" takes a real [deleted] man to hide behind a baby's crib.

103 alegrias  5/14/08 8:49:18 am reply quote

re: #46 storagemanager

They are all Iran..........


[Link:

104 republic  5/14/08 8:49:22 am reply quote

Trying to appease evil has never worked, and never will work.

Evil either needs to be destroyed, or it will rule.

This world doesn't have the stomach to destroy evil, hence, evil seems to be ruling, the key word here, being, "seems".

105 storagemanager  5/14/08 8:49:22 am reply quote

In a sane world...someone would stop this........

A man who witnessed the Grad rocket hit in Ashkelon told Ynet, "Suddenly we heard a loud explosion. The whole place was shaken. People left everything and began running scared, trampling each other. There was a great panic." (Shmulik Hadad)

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

106 tfc3rid  5/14/08 8:49:29 am reply quote

re: #97 MandyManners

ORDERED?

Well, what would you call what they were 'forced' to do against the Hezzies a few summers ago?

107 David Simon  5/14/08 8:49:31 am reply quote

re: #89 MandyManners

Hoo boy!

I don't think Iran stopped at training on how to assemble them.

Correct:

Iran aids and supports Hamas in the following ways: by transferring enormous sums of money to the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and to the Hamas movement; by training Hamas operatives in military skills in Iran; by smuggling arms into the Gaza Strip, including the 122mm Grad missiles which recently attacked Ashqelon

108 jcm  5/14/08 8:49:32 am reply quote

Gotta run work calls.

109 alegrias  5/14/08 8:51:11 am reply quote

re: #57 Russkilitlover

You know, I actually that Hillary would not be bad for Israel. Neither would McCain, of course. But BHO would be a singular disaster.

* * *
Hillary co-hosted Arafat for 8 straight years in the Lincoln Bedroom, for nothing but continued attacks against Israel and our allies and ourselves.

110 Kalak  5/14/08 8:52:12 am reply quote

According to J post, it was a Grad-type rocket, copies of which are made by Iran, Egypt, China, North Korea, etc.

The Grad is a relatively accurate, fin-stabilized rocket and launch system, the rocket usually having a fragementation warhead.

In other words, it's not a rocket you can knock together in a garage. It's spin-stabilized as it leaves the launcher, which requires precision machining.

Hamas couldn't make them on their own.

111 firebreather  5/14/08 8:52:44 am reply quote

re: #96 Lawrence Schmerel

The Associated Press writer said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the attackers Gaza militants.

I wonder if that is actually what Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said or if he called them terrorists.

Sir, are you inferring that the media might actually deliberately misquote somebody? Are you inferring that the media, whose ethical standards are 2nd to no other profession on earth, would be willing tools of propaganda on behalf of Islamic terror groups? Shame on you!

/Sarc

112 republic  5/14/08 8:53:19 am reply quote

My goodness, I see on WND, that Hamas is going to make a statement saying that they now don't endorse Obama.

I'm sure that some more of Obamas Hamas supporting advisors quickly met with Hamas and told them that Hamas' support could harm Obamas chances.

The fact that this country is even taking Obama seriously as a POTUS contender, means this country is already screwed, because it's only a matter of time, if not November, that one of these kooks will be elected, while their kook counterparts control the Congress.

The world is insane.