An Israeli man injured in a terrorist rocket attack is treated by paramedics
At least one Israeli was killed and several others sustained serious wounds, including a woman who’s now in serious condition, after more than 80 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Saturday.
Earlier in the evening, a Grad rocket from Gaza landed on a home in Ofakim, starting a fire and sending shrapnel and debris flying that injured a four-month-old baby, a nine-year-old boy and a man in his early 20s.
An eight-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man were also hurt in the attack, officials said.
Hamas, Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Early Saturday Hamas announced that it is no longer committed to a truce with Israel.
Police have instructed residents of the south to remain in safe zones and to remain tuned in to instructions from the IDF Home Front Command.
The attacks come two days after a series of Palestinian terrorists attacks around Eilat killed 7 Israelis and wounded dozens.
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August 20, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Hoi Polloi
The stench of bigotry in this headline at the Independent:
Israel mourns its dead – and takes revenge on Palestinians
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-mourns-its-dead-ndash-and-takes-revenge-on-palestinians-2340819.html
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I wonder how this would sit:
“Britain mourned its dead – and took revenge on Germans”
or this:
“Britain mourned its dead – and took revenge on the Irish”
Or this:
“Britain mourned its dead – and took revenge on the Jews”
August 20, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Irit
Britain takes its revenge on the Jews without mourning anyone. As ever, our very existence is our crime.
August 22, 2011 at 10:21 am
ziontruth
“I wonder how this would sit: ‘Britain mourned its dead – and took revenge on Germans’ ”
Or the insinuation that those V2 rocket attacks are “manageable” (yes, one Graun CiF columnist used that very word regarding the Kassams). Or even better, the suggestion to negotiate with Nazi Germany in order to make those V2 rocket attacks stop.
But it’s not the double standard that angers me so much as their poking their noses in our affairs in the first place. Not “Double standard!” is my cry, but “What’s it to you?”
August 20, 2011 at 7:48 pm
tlozuk
“Early Saturday Hamas announced that it is no longer committed to a truce with Israel.”
Like they have ever been committed to a truce ¬_¬
August 20, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Tom Wonacott
From the NY Times
“……Mohamed Bassiouni, a former Egyptian ambassador to Israel, called the episode a lesson to Israel about the new politics of a more democratic Egypt,……. “The Egyptians do not accept what has happened, and it means that Israel should take care. If they continue their behavior toward the Palestinians and the peace process, it means that the situation will escalate more.”…..”
A former Ambassador to Israel frowns upon the way Israel treats the Palestinians after the Palestinians conduct a terrorist attack from Egyptian territory targeting and killing Israel civilians (in affect, condoning the attack). In addition, the Palestinians were reportedly wearing Egyptian uniforms which puts Egyptian security at risk. Three Egyptian soldiers, or security people, die from Israeli fire – and Egyptians are pissed off at Israel?
Fuck you Mr. Bassiouni. How about Egypt taking responsibility for the attack conducted from Egyptian soil? The “Arab Spring” is hardly an excuse for allowing terrorist a safe haven to plan attacks against Israel.. Egypt should apologize…
August 21, 2011 at 3:48 am
Hoi Polloi
Some years ago I was complaining to an Israeli, a man who incidentally is now a very prominent Israeli entrepreneur, about the shtetl mentality that is so much a feature of Jewish life in Britain. It was just as bad in Israel, he confided. If Barak is anything to go by, it obviously still is. Thus, in the recent incident, Egypt screams blue bloody murder. Ehud Barak apologises. Not enough, says Egypt. When will individuals like Barak learn that Israel’s enemies (I would include Europe here) are not interested in peace and reconciliation, but in humiliating Israel, in deligitimising her, and, ultimately, in destroying her? Get off your knees Israel and instead of apologising blow a raspberry. Take your lead from Avigdor Lieberman. He has the right idea.
August 21, 2011 at 9:22 am
Tom Wonacott
It is all about maintaining alliances, but the writing may be on the wall for Egypt.
August 21, 2011 at 5:36 am
Geary
Taking responsibility for one’s actions is not a speciality of Arab politicians.
But what irks me most is the way the western liberal press panders to them.
August 21, 2011 at 6:37 am
Gerald Kreeve
There must be some lesson or moral or something healthy for my soul that I should have learned as a child to be gathered from all this but all I can see here is blessed are the Arabs for they are many and have oil.
August 21, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Irit
Have you read the book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People?” In it, a Conservative rabbi whose son died of a terrible disease has to come to terms with a loving God who allowed it to happen to an innocent child.
He comes to realize, and explains in detail, that in order for the universe to work according to the laws of physics, that there is a decided randomness factor built in. God created the universe and its laws according to His plan, but for things to work the way they work, even He must allow randomness to exist. For whatever reason, this is the best universe for human life (as far as we know), and thus all living things must accept randomness.
The illness of the rabbi’s child was random, and oil of the Arabs is
random. They are not blessed, they were lucky. And perhaps not so lucky. For all of their wealth, the oil is depleted a little every day, and their societies are not learning enough to save them. Who knows?
As for being many, have you seen their internecine quarrels? The only thing which keeps them from destroying each other utterly is their united hatred of us.
If you want something healthy for your soul, this is what I tell my children: human beings have two duties in life, a debt which we must repay for the gift of life. The first duty is to worship God (however you define Him), and the second is tikkun olam, as I have told my kids, to leave the world a better place than you found it. This second duty is the
best and highest form of worship. Allow yourself to do good, and your soul will feel the better for it.
I am a believing Jew, and I know that the God of our fathers and mothers is never far away.
August 21, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Thank God I'm An Infidel
For Hamass,
No Hudna, Just NAKBA.