Israeli troops mobilize as Gaza assault widens, page 1

Israeli troops mobilize as Gaza assault widens

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AZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers Sunday, pounding smuggling tunnels and a central prison, sending more tanks and artillery toward the Gaza border and approving a reserves callup for a possible ground invasion.

Israeli leaders said they would press ahead with the Gaza campaign, despite enraged protests across the Arab world and Syria's decision to break off indirect peace talks with the Jewish state. Israel's foreign minister said the goal was to halt Gaza rocket fire on Israel for good, but not to reoccupy the territory.

With the two-day death toll nearing 300 Sunday, crowds of Gazans breached the border wall with Egypt to escape the chaos. Egyptian forces, some firing in the air, tried to push them back into Gaza and an official said one border guard was killed.

Hamas, in turn, fired rockets deeper than ever into Israel, near the Israeli port city of Ashdod.

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Here's some more breaking news on the ever continuing situation in Gaza, Hamas now firing rockets deeper into Israel then ever before! Killing continues and chaos abounds as this story unfolds.Israel has the goal of stopping Hams rockets for good but not reoccupieing the territory, does that mean they plan on utter destruction of Hamas forces?

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reply to post by Kat77

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Yup! your right, the media is controling how the world vievs the sittuation, through deceptive and distorted stories, wich in turn favors the favorite and people start "cheering" on the obviously stronger of the two and want to see the "little" guy get kicked when he's down, the problem with this analogy is that real killing is happening and the "armchair' quatrerbacks are cheering it on.

Hamas needs to get better control over his people. You guys are are taking the easy road, war is wrong, Israel should stop, the US is just watching it happen (don't get me started). This is happening right now, does this look like something that Israel is about to stop. No. Maybe they should stop, call a cease fire and start the whole thing over 6 months from now.

Israel is not going to give back the land. The Palestinians are going to be angry. Israel has a population which it is obligated to defend. Hamas has people firing rockets just after the cease fire ended. We had that thread and it is right here Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza. Where were the people complaining about loss of life then? Yes loss of life is bad but it happens, and it is bad whenever it happens. People like to talk about the media being one sided.

People are talking about Palestinian militants being against the Israel government and Israel targeting civilians. Israel is sending in SF to hit planned targets, it's own troops on the ground. Palestinian militants are lobbing rockets over the boarder.

People will demonize the US media while directing you to watch some anti-Israel youtube video, and then insult your intelligence. Me myself, I prefer to take everything in and realize that there is not one truly unbiased media source out there.

This is not directed at the OP by the way. This is just how I see the matter. Anything resulting in military action such as this is going to result in the loss of life. The loss of life is so unbearable that I don't have words to describe it. What we must focus on is what can happen at this point given the situation.

We have a intelligent group of people here. I think it would be interesting if we had a thread in which people would pretend to be Israel and others would pretend to be Palestinians. On this thread people would attempt to work out some kind of negotiation. If it ended up in a firefight I would be quite disappointed.

reply to post by Styki

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I like your idea about a thread. You should make one asking for solutions only. It would be interesting to see what members would suggest.

reply to post by alyosha1981

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Yes, you are very correct when you say both sides are guilty. Innocent people are caught on both sides of the fence. However, I feel Hamas must go if there is to be a chance at peace. I don't know if militarily is the way but we may soon find out.

Starred

reply to post by jam321

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Thanks Jam I feel like the argument over who is right and wrong is beaten onto the ground, I think the answer to the problem would involve a cease fire agreement as well as some land being returned to Hams in exchange for complete demiliterzing of the Gaza strip for starters.

reply to post by alyosha1981

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I think it should be given to Jordan or Egypt as a temporary territory, kinda like Guam and Puerto Rico, in addition to the land Israel had agreed to give up in previous talks. Once Jordan or Egypt whip the place back in shape, they could hand it over to the Palestinians to run themselves. Not that yours was a bad idea, but I wouldn't give nothing to Hamas.

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