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From a Arutz Sheva articles:
Carpet Bomb Launch Sites: Former Chief Rabbi Calls to Carpet Bomb Launch Sites:
Former Chief Rabbi Calls to Carpet Bomb Launch Sites [/] 14 Sivan 5767, 31 May 07 04:19
(IsraelNN.com) Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calling on him to carpet bomb sites from which Kassam rockets are launched at Israeli towns. The areas should be bombed regardless of civilian casualties among the local Arab population, Rabbi Eliyahu said, explaining that Israel should do “whatever it takes to make them stop.”
Rabbi Eliyahu quoted biblical sources to show that the civilian population of Gaza is responsible for stopping the launch of Kassam rockets from their territory. As they do nothing to stop the rockets, he said, there is no moral prohibition against attacks that endanger their lives. According to Rabbi Eliyahu, the government has a moral obligation not to endanger the lives of IDF soldiers or Jewish residents of the western Negev in an attempt to avoid Arab casualties in Gaza. [My ellipses and emphasis]
"Cut Off All Connection": [[Avigdor (not Joe)]] Lieberman: Disengage from Gaza:
[[Avigdor (not Joe)]] Lieberman: Disengage from Gaza [/] 14 Sivan 5767, 31 May 07 04:52
(IsraelNN.com) Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman will present a plan to the government on Thursday in response to rocket attacks from Gaza terrorists. [/] Lieberman proposes that Israel cut off all connection to Gaza, and begin to treat it as an enemy entity. “Participation in the axis of evil has a heavy price—financially, politically, and militarily,” Lieberman explained.
Among the steps Lieberman proposes are the complete closure of crossings between Gaza and the western Negev [[(Egypt)]], the bombing of Gaza neighborhoods in response to Kassam rocket attacks, and an end to diplomatic contact with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Lieberman also recommends ending the flow of water, electricity, and gas to Gaza and the immediate cessation of visiting rights for family members of terrorist prisoners until the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. [My ellipses and emphasis]
Be Prepared: Homefront Increases Wartime Preparations:
Homefront Increases Wartime Preparations [/] 14 Sivan 5767, 31 May 07 05:10
(IsraelNN.com) The Homefront Command has begun increasing its preparations for wartime scenarios, while reassuring the public that there is no concrete threat. The preparations include a public campaign telling Israelis what to do in case of an attack. “Our job is to prepare for an all-out war,” Colonel Hilik Sofer explained. [/] The Homefront Command has also begun more specific preparations in the south, and is preparing cities within 15 kilometers of Gaza for potential rocket attacks. Rocket warning systems have been set up in Netivot and Ashkelon, and residents of both cities have received pamphlets describing the proper response to an attack. [My ellipses and emphasis]
Cut and Run: Background: History of PA Shelling Against Israel:
Background: History of PA Shelling Against Israel [/] 14 Sivan 5767, 31 May 07 04:32 [/] by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) On Jan 31, 2001, for the first time in the Oslo War, Arabs shot a mortar shell into Netzarim, a Jewish town in central Gaza. [/] [...] On April 3, in only the 5th or 6th mortar attack on Gush Katif, toddler Ariel Yered was critically wounded by shrapnel to his head. Israel retaliated, the terrorists increased their fire, and mortar shells quickly became a commonplace occurrence and lost their shock value - but not their lethal punch. On Nov. 24, reserve soldier Barak Madmon, 26, was killed outside Kfar Darom when a mortar shell hit his IDF outpost. [/] [...] Two weeks later, on Mar. 5, 2002, Sderot was first targeted: Two Kassam rockets hit a home in the Negev city, wounding three children.
[...] Between the time the first shell hit Gush Katif and the time Sharon made his initial Disengagement announcement, almost three years passed. If it took less than three years of mortar attacks against Jewish Gaza for Israel's government to come up with the idea of running away, how long will it take for the "Convergence Plan" in Judea and Samaria to be taken out of its deep freeze? [My ellipses and emphasis]
Poll Question: Gaza: What Should Be Done? | Poll choices:
1. Follow the Oslo accords. / 2. Follow the Roadmap. / 3. Let the Quartet mediate. / 4. Let the United Nations mediate. / 5. Let the Arab League mediate. / 6. Let Syria mediate. / 7. Let Iran mediate. / 8. Let any or all of 3 thru 7 above mediate. / 9. Redeploy to Okinawa. / 10. Cut and run. / 11. Be prepared. / 12. Hold Bush fully responsible! / 13. Cut off all connection. / 14. Destroy Infrastructure (Like Clinton in Serbia). / 15. Military occupation. / 16. Carpet bombing. / 17. 'Cry "Havoc!", and let slip the dogs of war!' / 18. No opinion. Important issues require much study. / 19. No comment. / 20. No opinion. / 21. This poll is worthless. / 22. This poll is of negative value. / 23. Other.
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