Israel Sends Message to Obama: launches 1st airstrike on Gaza since June

I hope Obama is listening to the message. Israel will defend itself.

Israel launched an airstrike in Gaza killing six militants early Wednesday after its troops clashed with Hamas militants who fired mortars into Israel.

The Israeli army said the clashes erupted late Tuesday after its forces uncovered a tunnel in central Gaza that militants planned to use to abduct Israeli soldiers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27541955

 

Obama won't be President til January 2009...

 

...and this is something new ? Israel has always done what it wanted. No President will ever change that.

 

I think its not going to effect President Obama

 

America have a big problem now, I guess it is time for israel to become more autonomous.
The funds or aid that goes to israel should stop now, american people need it more because of the crisis.
It's time for the us government to think about her own people first.

 

I agree I expect Israel to take more actions

 

Israel must stop land grabbing... If Israel respect the rights of Palestinians, there should be no war... Israel is the one who is always in offensive... Give the land to Palestinians and the war will stop..

 

Somehow tying the action in the middle east to Obama seems very strange.

I read about 6 news accounts from around the world. Israeli's reported they discovered a tunnel from Gaza to Israel. They attacked the tunnel, the people that were building it, and became engaged in a battle. Israel killed several Hamas or Palestinian's in the exchange.

It was reported as the first fighting since the June cease fire. Actually there had been some attacks from Gaza to Israel early on after the cease fire and Israel hadn't responded.

Israeli's claimed this was a pinpoint response to a direct threat. Hamas has used other tunnels to attack Israel and capture people who they use as hostages.

In that these types of things have been going on for decades in the middle east and for about 2 years since Hamas took over Gaza there is nothing unique about the altercation.

Clearly it is not a message to Obama, as you put in your Title. It is pretty consistent stuff in the mideast.

No message; merely a reminder to one and all that nothing or virtually nothing has changed.

 

more than 35 rockets landed in Israel from the morning... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3617932,00.html
SCUMS.

 

I wouldn't mind if the US just turns a blind eye and lets Israel do what they need to do to clean that place up.

 

I totaly agree with you...

 

Biden has said that Obama will be tested with a crisis witing his first 6 months as US President.

 

In the middle east you might call what just happened, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Its no crisis at this point.....and seriously the very active antagonism between Hamas and Israel has nothing to do with Obama, Bush, McCain, or George Washington.

 

Supposing Israel gave in to the Arab governments, giving up the West Bank ("the heart of the country") which comprises 25% of Israel's area:

This would leave the Jews with a state ten miles wide. All that would be left would be a truncated ghetto-state squeezed onto a narrow shoreline.

First off, Muslim Arabs and the modern Arab governments want a single Arab nation occupying the entire Middle East. As long as Israel exists in any form, that cannot happen. Second of all, the official Arab religion is Islam. Islamic fundamentalists believe it their duty to see Islam become the religion of the world. Again, with a Jewish Israel, this can never happen. Finally, the Arab dictatorships of the Middle East resent the West for the formation of Israel, and the prevention of a single Arab nation since the conclusion of WWI (in the Belfour Agreement, an outcome of World War I - the land granted to Israel in 1948 and acquired in 1967 is only a fraction of what was negotiated at the end of WWI).

Would the Palestinians be satisfied? The answer is no, and not because they wouldn't accept Jerusalem. They would simply demand more, and "The Palestinian Problem" would go on.

 

What's important is that Obama must keep his support for Israel, and fight terror

 

This has nothing to do with Obama.

 

Israel is part of that terror also. I hope you don't think Palestine = Evil and Israel = Good. Both sides are in the wrong on certain issues. It's just that Israel gets away with doing a lot of killing because they are looked as "defending". I had Jewish friends that live in Israel witnessing the Isralie army bulldozing Palestinians homes. Sometimes with people still in them.

 

The Israelis don't send sucide bombers to kill Palestinians or launch daily missle strikes attempting to kill civilians.

 

??????
killing with suicide bomber = barbarian
killing with other method = Civilization barbarian

It make huge different ..

 

what abt same thing happen to you or ur family ??