Israel Pounds Gaza as Diplomacy Intensifies

Israel is really testing her American supplied fire arms, missiles and the most trusted iron dome missile shield to prepare for the bigger war of the Century, the coming IRAN WAR. The current Israeli war is not going to end unless the grand testing operation is complete and received green signal from the Pentagon.

Hamas is commiting the Genocide of the Palestinian peoples by constantly launching missles at Israel, and spitting at any cease fires or anything put on the table. The Palestinian people need to be liberated from the terrorists(and in doing so, their ignorance), and this is the first step. Step two is the Palestinians uprising against Hamas, so they stop using them as a political shield.

Jewish people really surprise me, they lived through holocaust. They know how it is when you oppress a group of people, why are they letting Israel oppress Palestinians? If you don't want Jewish to be affiliated with modern genocide then stop supporting actions of this country called Israel even know it is a Jewish country. Make it better fairer. And all the talk of this being defensive is just that, talk.

"To maintain this, the IDF is also taking different technical measures to warn the Gazan population: Throwing leaflets from planes, making phone calls, sending text message and other techniques." So how can it be genocide if its sui-geno-cide?

I only care about the civilians in Gaza ;they are losing their lives and properties. Please take into the consideration that Israel initiated this attack. let's spread the peace in the world.

The escalating violence between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is providing a perfect example of the false moral equivalence that profoundly threatens the state of Israel.

For more than a decade, millions of Israelis have lived under the constant threat of rocket attacks. Thousands of rockets have rained down on towns of peaceful citizens. In one day at the end of October, militants in the Gaza strip fired more than 65 rockets into Israeli civilian populations.

On Wednesday, the Israeli military took action to dismantle this threat. It did what the American military does routinely: assassinated a terrorist with a drone strike. The man, Ahmed Jabari, was a senior member of the military wing of Hamas, the terrorist group risen to government power in Gaza. He was responsible for numerous numerous acts of violence against Israelis.

Militants in Gaza responded with a barrage of hundreds of rockets on Israeli civilians, killing at least three and injuring several others.

Israel then launched a mission to destroy dozens of launch sites that it had identified in the Gaza strip. Satellite imagery released by the military shows that often militants had attempted to shield these sites by placing them next to civilian locations suchs as apartment buildings, mosques, and markets.

Today, forces in Gaza launched a long range rocket (possibly supplied by the Iranians) capable of hitting Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. It hit a settlement just south of Jerusalem, Gush Etzion. Yesterday another rocket reached the Tel Aviv area for the first time since 1991.

And what is the response of the UN Secretary General to Israel’s self-defense in the face of a decade of rocket attacks, a million people driven into shelter this week by the barrage, and long range missile strikes close to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv?

“Israel must exercise maximum restraint.” That is what his spokesman told reporters today.

The Secretary General “urgently appeals to all concerned to do everything under their command to stop this dangerous escalation and restore calm. Rocket attacks are unacceptable and must stop at once. Israel must exercise maximum restraint.”

The dishonesty of this moral equivalency is stunning. Militants and terrorists launch thousands of rockets into Israel, killing or injuring dozens of its citizens. Israel, a sovereign country with an obligation to defend and protect its people, acts to destroy these launch sites, which the militants hid intentionally among civilians, and the UN responds as though Israel is guilty of reckless violence.

How can there be a peace process under a discourse that affords a terrorist group diplomatic status and calls for “restraint” in the self-defense of a sovereign country? The United States should formally protest the UN's one-sided statement.

Awesome! Dont stop til they do. Im so proud of Israel growing balls. It shows they faith in their God of old. Wheres allah now, rock throwing, smelly savages?

As this conflict goes on, the fact of the matter: who is the aggressor and who is the defender(?) is buried and forgotten. Your headline implies Israel is the aggressor. Please may I remind you that Israel is the DEFENDER. Please consider how you word your headlines. This conflict reminds me of the smaller boy bully of Australia.

Let us not forget that Israel occupies Palestinians. In this day of age for us free people to support anyone occupying anyone else is unbelievable. Gaza is a jail controlled by warden Israel and its army of hateful thugs. It reminds me of black people in american south (won't call them African American because to me they are American period) half a century ago. When a group of white officers beat up peaceful protester they arrest him and charge him with assaulting po and resisting arrest.
This injustice going on in Gaza is a shame for all of us. We will be all judged by god for standing by and not doing anything while innocent died.

The Palestinian people and those living in Gaza in particular are striped from freedom and basic necessities. The Israelis army takes Palestinians to jail, torture them freely refuse them travel permits to the West bank. These people wait hours in line to cross the borders daily to go to work. Their children don’t have enough schools and have trouble pursuing higher education. The word freedom that we take for granted is non-existent in the Palestinian lands.
Yes, Hamas is launching rockets across the border; but Israel refuses to recognize them although they were elected by the Palestinian people and has forced them into military and financial blockage. I don’t call this terrorism; this is resistance from the occupation.