Israeli minister calls for major Gaza assault

GAZA CITY/ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: An Israeli Cabinet minister reportedly called for a major military push into Gaza Tuesday.The call came after Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, one day after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, wounding a woman.

Israeli public radio and state-run Channel One TV reported Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aaronovitch, of the hawkish Yisrael Beitenu party, as saying: “The steady shower of missiles” from Gaza could not be tolerated and Israel must respondwith a “broad military action.”

Neither broadcaster immediately aired soundbites of the comments.

Late Monday a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip crashed into southern Israel’s Negev desert and a woman who was at a graveside in a cemetery was hit by shrapnel.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Aug-03/Israeli-minister-calls-for-major-Gaza-assault.ashx

Deeply disturbing.

Then, a couple of years after that, another invasion of Lebanon to teach Hezbollah another lesson.
:sarcasm:

Lebanon-Israel border incidents could quickly turn to war: U.N.

(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News

August 2, 2011




BEIRUT: U.N. envoy to Lebanon warned that incidents such as Monday’s exchange of fire on the Lebanon-Israel border could quickly turn into a war, as Prime Minister Najib Mikati affirmed Lebanon’s commitment to defend its sovereignty by all legitimate means.

“This was a very disturbing incident ... you can go from an incident like this to war within a few hours. That is the reality,” U.N. Special Coordinator Michel Williams told reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati Tuesday.

"The good thing is that nobody was injured. The bad news is that we cannot afford any incidents like this," he added.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Aug-02/Lebanon-Israel-border-incidents-could-quickly-turn-to-war-UN.ashx#axzz1TvBLJR8A

August 03, 2011 01:18 PM The Daily Star


BEIRUT: Lebanon filed Wednesday a complaint at the United Nations against Israel over a recent border incident in south Lebanon, the National News Agency reported Wednesday.

The agency said Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry, through it representative in New York, submitted a complaint to the U.N. over the entry of an Israeli patrol on July 1, 2011, into Lebanese territory by a distance of 15 meters after it crossed the Wazzani River.

The Lebanese Army engaged in a brief confrontation with Israeli soldiers shortly after dawn Monday when an Israeli Army convoy crossed the Blue Line at Wazzani into Lebanon. The fight did not lead to any casualties.

The Foreign Ministry said the incident represented a violation and abuse of Lebanon’s sovereignty and to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, international law and the U.N. charter, and poses a threat the peace of the two countries.

UNSCR 1701 ended the 2006 July-August war between Lebanon and Israel and extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon, which monitors a cease-fire between the two countries.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams warned Tuesday incidents such as Monday’s exchange of fire on the Lebanon-Israel border could quickly turn into a war, as Prime Minister Najib Mikati affirmed Lebanon’s commitment to defend its sovereignty by all legitimate means.


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(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

IDF exchanges fire with Lebanon across border

The Israel Defense Forces and the Lebanese Army exchanged fire across the northern border Monday, a rare occurrence. There were no casualties in the incident, which occurred when Lebanese soldiers fired on an IDF patrol on the Israeli side of the border.

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UNIFIL said the initial findings suggest that the IDF did not cross the border, and that there had been no cause for the shooting.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-exchanges-fire-with-lebanon-across-border-1.376479

Hopefully this will be more of a constant vs any escalation:

"According to officers in Northern Command, clashes are usually restricted to shouting and the pointing of weapons, not shooting."

what should Israel do?

I don't want to speculate what that could translate to right now.

I'm hoping for the best for all concerned.

I would be insisting the Government and my Military do something,pronto!

The Government/Hamas will accept nothing less than a Jew free Mid East (and they freely admit it) ,and that will never happen.

like to see some justice done, but there is a reason most civilized societies do not let the victims decide the punishment

for most reasonable people major military operation is a bit of overkill, perhaps even the Bedouin man who's wife was the victim

If as many Rockets fell on Buffalo NY,, Toronto would be flattened.

into Gaza, but are you saying that another OCL is what you would prefer to see?

says it is for a constant shower of missles that have been increasing over the last few months as well as other attacks such as the firing of an anti tank rocket at a school bus that killed one kid and injured many others. No country would tolerate such attacks.

Some people do unfortunatly prefer a military solution even when there are others that would have equal or better effect but sometimes a military solution is the only one that you are left with and or that would have the most effect.

"Well the military action is not for this one single incident as you try to allude but as the article...."


Sometimes it is, I agree with that..in a generalized way so to speak.

that have caused several deaths including that of a child

You go out of your way to note that twice here.

something to call up patriotic spirit rally round the flag and all

Quite a few parties right now who could use a good distraction. Bibi certainly counts as one of them, also Little Assad, to name another.

as another poster became quite 'upset' by my posting an OP about the women who was wounded that did not provide enough personal info on her I look it up and Arutz Sheva says she is a Bedouin, so these MK's are using a Bedouin women being wounded on her legs by shrapnel to in part call for a major military action in Gaza is this a political ploy the appearance of PC caring and perhaps a clean up of more recent happenings between Israel and its Bedouin population? so many birds with one stone? I really do not know the whole thing is kind of bizarre

Interesting that you would use that particular source in this case.