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Originally posted by Eliad
reply to post by xuenchen
the pics and vids show no evidence of continuing mortar shelling ......
They weren't shelling their location, but the general area.
In the video the guy says that the area is being mortared and that everyone needs to have a vest and a helmet.
With respect (for your efforts, if anything),
Eliad.
Let me ask you this though- If Israel is powerful enough to make Hamas confess to a crime that never happened, isn't it powerful enough to make Hamas shoot a rocket at a bus?
Why shoot it at a bus? I'm assuming they suspected it was a bus full of soldiers.
How is this event still being discussed and considered by some "training exercise" or "false flag op" if Hamas took responsibility for it already? 3 pages passed and not even one of you wannabe detectives and "truth seekers" managed to come up with any answer. Any answer will do.
Originally posted by Eliad
reply to post by xuenchen
lol you don't even speak Hebrew, how do you know what's being said?
So according to you all of Israel is in on this false flag conspiracy, even me, right?
Let me ask you this though- If Israel is powerful enough to make Hamas confess to a crime that never happened, isn't it powerful enough to make Hamas shoot a rocket at a bus?
With respect,
Eliad.
Originally posted by jackflap
reply to post by IsraeliGuy
How is this event still being discussed and considered by some "training exercise" or "false flag op" if Hamas took responsibility for it already? 3 pages passed and not even one of you wannabe detectives and "truth seekers" managed to come up with any answer. Any answer will do.
Who controls the media?
An internal Israeli Army review determined that the IDF was responsible for the boy's murder.
saleh1966 is based in Gaza, Ġazzah, Palestine, and is Reporter for Allvoices
They even ended up enlisting the Doctor that operated on the dead boy's father who was also wounded in the attack to make false claims and medical statements.
In the incident and the thread linked above it took the Israeli Propaganda Machine a half dozen years before it got the PR effort going into full swing, in realtion to a incident most considered open and shut and long dead.
An ability to change with the times might very well leave Israel a White Elephant if it doesn't figure out a way to change it's tactics and reinvent itself.
US to help pay for Iron Dome
Democrats, republicans slated to approve 2011 budget this week enabling Obama to increase security aid to Israel, transfer $205 million for development of anti-missile system.....
WASHINGTON – The United States is slated to provide Israel with $430 million worth of security aid in the near future which will include $205 million allocated for the development of Iron Dome batteries.
Democrats and republicans are slated to finalize the 2011 budget in the coming days. ....
[color=ffff000]The delay in the approval of the funds was caused by foot-dragging in passing the budget in Congress.
The budget was meant to pass five months ago but partisan conflicts delayed its approval.
According to an agreement between the US and Israel for the next 10 years, 2011 aid was slated to grow to $3 billion (from $2.77 billion) in addition to an extra $205 million for the development of the Iron Dome system.
Iron Dome Works As Promised
April 12, 2011: Israel has deployed two batteries of its Iron Dome anti-missile system near the Gaza border. One is near the town of Beer Sheva (the largest town in the Negev desert) and another near the coastal city Ashdod (the largest city within range of 122mm rockets fired from Gaza). On April 7th, a 122mm rocket was intercepted near Ashkelon, which is south of Ashdod. This deployment was prompted by an increase in rockets fired from Gaza, and the growing use of longer range (20 kilometers) 122mm rockets. Iron Dome proved that it could work under combat conditions, preventing the longer range, factory made, rockets from landing in populated areas.
This is a big turnaround for this system. Four months ago, the Israeli military revealed that its new Iron Dome anti-rocket system was not meant for defending towns and villages, but military bases. For years, politicians touted Iron Dome as a means of defending civilians living close to rockets fired from Gaza in the south and Lebanon in the north. [color=ffff000]But it turns out that it takes about 15 seconds for Iron Dome to detect, identify and fire its missiles. But most of the civilian targets currently under fire from Gaza are so close to the border (within 13 kilometers) that the rockets are fired and land in less than 15 seconds. This means that the town of Sderot, the closest Israeli urban area to Gaza, cannot be helped by Iron Dome.
This explains why, after Iron Dome was declared ready for action ten months ago, [color=ffff000]it was surprisingly placed in storage last year. The air force said they would prefer to save money and put the Iron Dome batteries in storage, to be deployed only for regular tests (and for training) and for an actual emergency (an expected large scale attack on southern or northern Israel.)
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 18 thanked U.S. President Barack Obama for helping fund a missile defense system protecting the Jewish state from Palestinian rockets, the White House said.
Netanyahu "expressed his deep appreciation for U.S. funding for the 'Iron Dome' rocket and mortar defense system, which he noted has successfully intercepted several rockets aimed at Israeli communities," the White House said in a readout of the phone call.
Obama "congratulated the prime minister on this impressive Israeli technological achievement and expressed his pride that Israeli-American cooperation made it possible."
Obama called Netanyahu in part to wish him a happy Passover, the White House said.
The U.S. Congress approved $205 million - sought in May 2010 by Obama - to help Israel deploy a short-range anti-missile defense system called "Iron Dome." The aid became official when Obama signed off on a 2011 budget appropriation.
Hamas history tied to Israel
But Sharon left something out.
Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years.
Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.
Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official.
As the HegelianDialectic is an aesthetic fundamentally bent on usurping binaries in favor of trichotomies, it is a numerology based upon the number 3. Which isn't to say it isn't useful or that it's somehow impoverished. Indeed, quite the opposite.