Gaza rocket hits Ashkelon, Israel files complaint with UN

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into the southern city of Ashkelon from the Gaza Strip Monday evening. No one was hurt and no damage was caused in the attack.

In light of the ongoing rocket fire from Gaza this week, the parents' association of the Ashkelon school system announced that they would shut down area schools, as the buildings are not properly fortified against rocket attacks.

The parents said that they would go to the schools and physically prevent students from entering the buildings, Israel Radio reported.

Meanwhile, Israel filed an official complaint with the United Nations on Monday over the continuing rocket fire.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1068093.html

Or is this a different organization?

I C WHUT U DID THAR

but now look to them as their savior! How refreshing.

When the UN does next to nothing, Israel will then claim they have no other recourse but to do some more heavy damage to Hamas, but this time under Bibi.

Do you? They can air raid Gaza all they'd like, because it doesn't get reported in the media, but when a rocket lands next to a kindergarten in Ashkelon, its all over DU... that makes me very sad that Palestinian deaths and injuries means less than Israeli's being treated for shock :(

Are you serious? What media do you get? Because the conflict in Gaza has been pretty well covered in the media I've been reading.

You really seem to be downplaying the fact that rockets are still being launched from Gaza. Is it really your opinion that Israelis are concerned because they fear the dangers of shock?

I don't think Israel needs any more pretext in their minds to justify another operation

Because in their twisted minds, Israelis actually consider these increasingly sophisticated rockets landing in their cities and schoolyards to be justification for a response. So if refraining from taking any action doesn't work, and then warning the militants doesn't work, and then filing a complaint with the UN doesn't work, they might actually consider launching another operation intended to stop the rockets from being launched against their civilians.

It's almost as if those Israelis are placing the lives of their own citizens above those of the nation that's been attacking it! The fiends! Clearly they should opt for the obvious alternative instead... you know the one... um, what was that again?

Have you heard how many times the Israeli military has broken their own cease-fire since January 17th? Probably not, but every rocket attack is publicized extensively.

ah issue a statement? So not issuing a statement is excuse for more of Cast Lead?

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Good thing the poster was aiming that comment at Gaza. If they'd suggested doing that to Tel Aviv or Askelon, the post would have been swiftly deleted, but not after a barrage of outraged posts from folk who only seem to get outraged when that sort of ugly sentiment is aimed at Israelis, not Palestinians....

I'd like to ask duckhunter whether in their opinion levelling Gaza should happen after the population has been ethnically cleansed, or whether it's more humane and left-wing to just level people's homes with them inside...

The comment was made to me last night "What if we woke up in the morning and the Israelis were under siege in Gaza, and the Palestinians were dropping Iranian/Chinese/Russian bombs on them?"

I think we all know the answer.

Double standards again.

Not a double standard, par for the course.

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And why is it you amongst others who jump on any ugly comment similar to that made against Israel had not one word of disapproval when it came to post #5?

The question posed:

"What if we woke up in the morning and the Israelis were under siege in Gaza, and the Palestinians were dropping Iranian/Chinese/Russian bombs on them?"

The included response

"I think we all know the answer."

The scenario hits a little closer to home for me which is probably what prompted a response.

Many in Israel are only a generation or two removed from people who did wake up one morning to find themselves under seige and facing even worse horrors.

And the answer was that most of the world did not give much of a shit.

That's part of the reason why Israel has such a fuck-the-world attitude today I dare suggest.

Y'know, the one about why you didn't have a single word of disapproval for post #5? Am I missing something or do you just not give a shit when it comes to the same ugliness against Palestinians that you'd be outraged about if it's Israelis?

Amazed that it's still up.

I wonder why when I alerted on it nothing happened, but when you did it got deleted? But you alerting on it doesn't answer the question I asked you...

Not sure why when you alerted on it nothing happened and when I did it got deleted. Why do you think that was the case?

As to your other question, I really don't know why I respond to some posts and let others go.

And I have no idea as to why when I alerted nothing happened. I could annoy the mods and ask, but seeing as how I wouldn't probably get a reply to my question and it'd be wasting their time, why bother?

I didn't ask you why you respond to some posts and let others go. I asked you about this specific example of a hateful post advocating the flattening of Gaza and why you didn't express a single word of opposition to it, even though when similar things have been posted aimed at Israel, you've been there consistantly voicing yr opposition. You must have some idea as to why one elicits silence from you and the other doesn't. I'd like to think that most people in this forum are find bigotry and hate equally repellent no matter who it's aimed at, but given yr 'I don't know' response, I'm not as confident as I used to be of that...

I do not know why I did not post a response condemning the post in question. Please be assured that I find the sentiments expressed in the deleted post to be repellent.

If you would like to know my thoughts on any particular post made here, please feel free to PM me and I would be happy to share them.

the excuse that you were yourself beaten as a child does not make your actions any less wrong. Also, I don't remember seeing WWII photos of arabs in nazi uniforms, around the warsaw ghetto or anywhere else.

How about the native americans start kicking land-owners off their property? How long would that last?

You are joking, right?

Just to point out, seeing as thoug you like irony so much, I compared the siege of gaza to the warsaw ghetto on this board before and the usual suspects got their knickers in a twist.

Anyways the fact is the people of gaza or the palestinians were not responsible for the warsaw ghetto or the halocaust, and to attempt to excuse or explain israels behaviour towards the gazans by historic means is as disgusting as excusing the million dead in Iraq because '9/11 changed everything'.

Apologies if my previous retort was snarky, but I would encourage you to learn more about the role of those and other prominent Arab leaders in the Nazi Holocaust if you are curious.

To clarify, I am not implying that the people of Gaza or any present day Palestinians were responsible for the Warsaw Ghetto or that any of Israel's behavior today can be justified by those past events.

The only response I was making was in response to the hypothetical what-if scenario you propose.

The point being, that an even worse scenario actually did occur and the response from the world community was underwhelming to say the least.

I'm sure there was arabs who supported the nazis, after all theres also black republicans, and if turkeys could vote I'm sure the odd one would vote for thanksgiving.

what do you seriously believe the death toll would be?

Less than 1300, somewhat more, or hundreds of thousands - if not the entire 1.5 million?

whoever was killed before the US to come to the rescue of the Israelis and blew the hell out of the palestinians, and took heaven knows what actions against the suppliers of the ordinance.

There is of course the fact that the palestinians wouldn't drop 100's of tons of ordinance on the israelis in the first place, knowing the worlds only superpower would decimate them. Its the fact that Israel has no such worry that gives them the green card to commit these crimes against humanity.

The double standard is my point.

Hamas has massacred Israeli civilians several times throughout the early part of this decade and the US took no military action in response.

This is in spite of the fact that several Americans have been killed by some of those Hamas attacks.

Apparently, a CIA analyst I watched yesterday said this several times was the reason we went into Iraq.

http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php/component/content/article/28-all-videos/4137-marching-toward-hell

of genocide against the Israeli people. I would say the death toll would be... what is the population of Israel?

before the US flattened them?

And anyways, would hamas be running the show in a non-sieged, non-opressed palestine in the first place?

Israel has been involved with numerous conflicts since its inception and not once has the US done any of the things you are claiming it would do.

as long as no one stopped them.

Current situation in the Middle East is very unstable and alarming. Politicians of the region, as always, seem to have no realistic ideas as to how the conflicts can be solved. What concerns the most are inhuman conditions that people are living in. Humanitarian aid for the Gazans seems to be constantly delayed while people are being deprived of basic supplies of food and water. The aid that actually comes to the needy is not even close to securing them a normal nutrition. And that is only one aspect that generates a normal living. Recovering of Gaza's infrastructure will take years, but will Gazans ever recover from the loss of innocent lives? They have lost their homes, and schools, clinics, factories and businesses have been destroyed. I recommend you to read a book called The Age of Nepotism which talks about this and many other world's issues. The author Vahid Razavi speaks for those who are subjected to injustice and cruelty, as he speaks of how the conflicts between neighbors occur and how we can all work on successfully avoiding them in the future. You can also check out the site www.theageofnepotism.com