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When you are fighting scum and the world gets upset, when you protect yourself while, at the same time, the world asserts you have every right to do so, it behooves you to come up with a new approach. Israel has.
Perhaps Gov. Perry needs to give this stuff to our weaponless National Guard troops on his border! ( Click below.)
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/
and then when the Iron Dome fails does God take over? (see 1 below.)
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Why must it take another war and a president who tells Israel he has their back and then seeks to stab the very back he professes to defend, to bring liberal Jews to their senses? (See 2 below.)
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Because Israel was able to stop the potential killing of Israelis, and most particularly children, the world remains only interested in the fact that Arabs are being killed in a war their corrupt leaders started.
So let's see if I have this straight:
Israel is attacked for being attacked.
Israel is attacked for defending its citizens
Israel is attacked because it exists.
Israel is attacked for killing innocents placed for that sole purpose.
Israel is attacked for fighting more humanely than any comparable nation.
Israel is attacked for warning those soon to be attacked they must take refuge.
Israel is attacked for not having more casualties.
Is there something perverse going on? You decide.. (See 3 below.)
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A captured Hamas document says it all! (See 4 below.)
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 Iron Dome Operator: God Moved Missile We Couldn't Hit
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system has been wildly successful during the current Gaza war, but on occasion it can and does miss incoming terrorist rockets.
One would think that the 10 percent or so of Hamas rockets predicted by Iron Dome’s radars to hit populated areas that are not intercepted would still cause significant Israeli casualties. But somehow, they don’t.
An earlier, unconfirmed report floating around the Internet had a Gaza resident attributing the lack of Hamas accuracy to Israel’s God moving the rockets off-course to protect His people.
“We do aim [our rockets], but their God changes their path in mid-air,” a Hamas commander was said to have told someone who wondered why Gaza-based militants can’t seem to hit their targets.
Whether or not that report is accurate, an Iron Dome operator whose battery failed three times to down an incoming missile headed toward Tel Aviv last week said the overall assessment is.
"A missile was fired from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these missiles are going to land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular missile was going to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds could have died.
"We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed. Second [interceptor]. It missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this point we had just four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified emergency services to converge on the target location and had warned of a mass-casualty incident.
"Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind speeds, among other things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong wind that…sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and shouted, ‘There is a God!’
“I witnessed this miracle with my own eyes. It was not told or reported to me. I saw the hand of God send that missile into the sea.
Also last week, Col. Ofer Winter, commander of the Givati Infantry Brigade, described a mysterious fog that favorably covered he and his troops as they advanced on an enemy position in morning light, after their nighttime raid was postponed.
Col. Winter labeled the covering as “clouds of glory.”
Earlier in the Gaza war, Col. Winter sparked heated national debate when he encouraged his troops to lead the charge against an enemy that “curses, defames and abuses the God of Israel.” Col. Winter concluded his letter by praying that the “Lord your God go with you, to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.”
Incredible: Hamas Terrorists Witness Miracle While Firing Rockets At Israel.
As the conflict between Israel and Gaza escalates, Islamic terrorists are finding it more difficult to fire rockets towards Jerusalem, and the reason why is sure to give you chills.
Since Israel’s Iron Dome only works 90 percent of the time, Israeli citizens have been desperately praying for a miracle – and they may have had their prayers answered. Headlines in Israel claim the Jews are being protected from Hamas missiles by nothing less than the hand of God himself, but the claims actually stemmed from Hamas terrorists after an invisible force has stifled them from carrying out their attacks. The Jewish Telegraph opened with a quote from David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, saying, “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
While every Jew might not believe in miracles, Muslim terrorists are starting to sing a different tune:
‘[T]he Talmud Yerushalmi tells us that in no way are we to depend on miracles. It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural. How perfectly relevant are both of these views today. We witness hourly miracles.’ As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: ‘We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.’ Amen! And when our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our ‘start-up nation’ is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.
It’s incredible to see such devout militants of Islam openly admit they are at war with another religion’s god. In Islam, this may be considered an admission of a superior religion, which can be equated with apostasy under some theological clerics. In short, professing the existence of a god other than the god of Islam is forbidden and carries severe punishments under Sharia law. Israel, however, is not shaken by the appearance of such miracles. Earlier this month, Israeli paper Arutz Sheva details the importance of miracles to the Jewish people:
The Jewish nation’s existence for six millennia is a miracle. There is no single Jewish life without a miracle. Miracle is an essential part of our belief; it is a gem of Jewish folklore. It is a source of our hope in the dark, and it is a gift of our dreams. And we know why – because these miracles are true.
Are these actual miracles or simply convenient coincidences? Either way, Hamas militants are becoming discouraged, which gives Israeli citizens a moment’s peace.
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By Niall Stanage
Republicans believe the deepening crisis in Gaza could ultimately
loosen the grip the Democratic Party has traditionally held upon
American Jewish voters.
While declarations of a rift between Democrats and the Jewish community have
proven premature in the past, things could be different this time, they
assert.
Just in the last week, the Obama administration used unusually strong
language to condemn the shelling of a United Nations-run school in Gaza,
apparently by the Israeli military, and drafted a document for a cease-fire
that Israeli officials denounced as favoring Hamas.
Conservatives say the overall stance of the administration has created an
atmosphere of skepticism in the Democratic base toward Israel.
They point to a succession of recent polls to make their case. A Gallup
survey last month found that only 31 percent of Democrats believed Israel's
actions against Hamas were justified, whereas 65 percent of Republicans held
that view.
A Pew poll during the same period asked people which side was most to blame
for the violence. Democrats split almost evenly on that question, with 29
percent blaming Hamas and 26 percent blaming Israel. By contrast, more than
four times as many Republicans held Hamas culpable (60 percent) as pinned
the blame on Israel (13 percent.)
"The bigger issue is not whether the Obama administration imposes a
cease-fire on Israel or not," said Noam Neusner, who worked for the
administration of President George W. Bush as a liaison to the Jewish
community.
"The bigger issue is with the Democratic Party electorate, namely academic
elites, African-Americans and younger voters. As those blocs of voters
become more skeptical of Israel's right to defend itself - and that seems to
be happening - that is going to make American Jews who are Democratic Party
voters less comfortable in their own party."
Other observers note that the attitudes among the base have the capacity to
change the approach of Democratic office-holders to Israel.
Highlighting the recent polls, another Bush administration Jewish liaison,
Tevi Troy, said, "Democratic voters are much less likely to be supportive of
Israel and Republicans voters are overwhelmingly supportive. That means
that, if you are a Democratic politician and you are speaking to your base,
the audience that you're speaking to has a less than 50-50 shot of being
pro-Israel."
But Troy also noted that expectations among conservatives that Jewish voters
will align themselves with Republicans have been raised - and dashed -
before.
"I have been around many blocks and I've heard it so many times: 'Now is the
point that it's all going to change.' And it never happens. It's like
'Waiting for Godot.'"
Those doubts have a solid foundation. In presidential elections,
approximately three-quarters of Jewish voters give their support to the
Democratic candidate.
In 2012, pollster Mark Mellman (who is also a columnist for The Hill), Aaron
Strauss and Kenneth Wald published an in-depth report: "Just the Facts:
Jewish American Voting Behavior 1972-2008."
They found that, in presidential elections from 1992 to 2008, the Republican
candidate had never got more than 24 percent of the ballots cast by Jewish
voters.
In the 2008 presidential election, Obama commanded the support of 78 percent
of Jewish voters, according to exit polls.
But the trend lines may be moving. By 2012, that number had fallen to 69
percent. Obama's 2008 opponent, John McCain received the support of 21
percent of Jewish voters, whereas Mitt Romney increased that share to 30
percent in 2012.
Some prominent Democratic politicians have been at pains to emphasize their
support for Israel during the current crisis.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) addressed a New York rally in support of
Israel last week. "Let us not forget one word describes why there are so
many innocents who died: Hamas," he told the crowd.
Meanwhile, Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice addressed a Jewish
leadership conference last week and told the audience, "Israel is not alone
- not in war and not in peace. . We have Israel's back."
Some of the most supportive Democrats in the Jewish community insist that
the idea of a major shift in support is overdone - and so too, they add, is
criticism of the administration during the current crisis.
"I think the administration has handled this absolutely appropriately and
correctly," said Andrew Weinstein, a Florida lawyer who serves as the
finance chairman of the Florida Democratic Party. "They have expressed their
strong support for their ally, Israel, and they have expressed the
appropriate level of concern for making sure the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]
do everything they can to protect loss of life, while still maintaining
their ability to destroy these tunnels."
Neusner cautioned that Republicans should not expect any immediate influx of
Jewish support.
"The issue here is whether the American Jewish community votes on a single
issue? The answer is no," he said. "It takes a lot to move somebody from one
party to another party once they have established a political
identification.
atmosphere of skepticism in the Democratic base toward Israel.
They point to a succession of recent polls to make their case. A Gallup
survey last month found that only 31 percent of Democrats believed Israel's
actions against Hamas were justified, whereas 65 percent of Republicans held
that view.
A Pew poll during the same period asked people which side was most to blame
for the violence. Democrats split almost evenly on that question, with 29
percent blaming Hamas and 26 percent blaming Israel. By contrast, more than
four times as many Republicans held Hamas culpable (60 percent) as pinned
the blame on Israel (13 percent.)
"The bigger issue is not whether the Obama administration imposes a
cease-fire on Israel or not," said Noam Neusner, who worked for the
administration of President George W. Bush as a liaison to the Jewish
community.
"The bigger issue is with the Democratic Party electorate, namely academic
elites, African-Americans and younger voters. As those blocs of voters
become more skeptical of Israel's right to defend itself - and that seems to
be happening - that is going to make American Jews who are Democratic Party
voters less comfortable in their own party."
Other observers note that the attitudes among the base have the capacity to
change the approach of Democratic office-holders to Israel.
Highlighting the recent polls, another Bush administration Jewish liaison,
Tevi Troy, said, "Democratic voters are much less likely to be supportive of
Israel and Republicans voters are overwhelmingly supportive. That means
that, if you are a Democratic politician and you are speaking to your base,
the audience that you're speaking to has a less than 50-50 shot of being
pro-Israel."
But Troy also noted that expectations among conservatives that Jewish voters
will align themselves with Republicans have been raised - and dashed -
before.
"I have been around many blocks and I've heard it so many times: 'Now is the
point that it's all going to change.' And it never happens. It's like
'Waiting for Godot.'"
Those doubts have a solid foundation. In presidential elections,
approximately three-quarters of Jewish voters give their support to the
Democratic candidate.
In 2012, pollster Mark Mellman (who is also a columnist for The Hill), Aaron
Strauss and Kenneth Wald published an in-depth report: "Just the Facts:
Jewish American Voting Behavior 1972-2008."
They found that, in presidential elections from 1992 to 2008, the Republican
candidate had never got more than 24 percent of the ballots cast by Jewish
voters.
In the 2008 presidential election, Obama commanded the support of 78 percent
of Jewish voters, according to exit polls.
But the trend lines may be moving. By 2012, that number had fallen to 69
percent. Obama's 2008 opponent, John McCain received the support of 21
percent of Jewish voters, whereas Mitt Romney increased that share to 30
percent in 2012.
Some prominent Democratic politicians have been at pains to emphasize their
support for Israel during the current crisis.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) addressed a New York rally in support of
Israel last week. "Let us not forget one word describes why there are so
many innocents who died: Hamas," he told the crowd.
Meanwhile, Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice addressed a Jewish
leadership conference last week and told the audience, "Israel is not alone
- not in war and not in peace. . We have Israel's back."
Some of the most supportive Democrats in the Jewish community insist that
the idea of a major shift in support is overdone - and so too, they add, is
criticism of the administration during the current crisis.
"I think the administration has handled this absolutely appropriately and
correctly," said Andrew Weinstein, a Florida lawyer who serves as the
finance chairman of the Florida Democratic Party. "They have expressed their
strong support for their ally, Israel, and they have expressed the
appropriate level of concern for making sure the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]
do everything they can to protect loss of life, while still maintaining
their ability to destroy these tunnels."
Neusner cautioned that Republicans should not expect any immediate influx of
Jewish support.
"The issue here is whether the American Jewish community votes on a single
issue? The answer is no," he said. "It takes a lot to move somebody from one
party to another party once they have established a political
identification.
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3) Hamas Tunnels Intended To Target Israels Kindergartens
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IDF forces in the Gaza Strip found a Hamas manual on “Urban Warfare,” which belonged to the Shuja’iya Brigade of Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. The manual explains how the civilian population can be used against IDF forces and reveals that Hamas knows the IDF is committed to minimizing harm to civilians.
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By Mordechai Ben-Menachem
Multiple media outlets report Hamas offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israels border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (Sept 24th) as a mass terror attack.
The attack was meant to generate as many as ten thousand casualties, men, women and particularly children and hundreds of captives. Explosives were particularly placed underneath kindergartens to make certain that these institutions would be the first struck, even before any thing else.
The IDF recently published the below map showing that tunnels were created in pairs, to empty out on both sides of nearby communities. The known cost of the infrastructure – each tunnel costs upward oof some $1 million – clearly shows that Hamas was planning a cooordinated mega-attack. It must be understood that use of even one tunnel would inevitably trigger Israeli retaliation against the entire network.A map of a small portion of the tunnels meant to be used 9 weeks from now.Revelations regarding the planned tunnel attack magnitude played a decisive role in the Israeli governments rejection of a ceasefire proposed late Friday by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Unbelievably, Kerry actually proposed in his latest cease-fire proposal – none of which haave been honored by Hamas so far – that Israel refrains from degradiing remaining attack tunnels. This mind-boggling concept would necessarily be rejected by any sane government, of any country.
Israeli security sources, citing information acquired in interrogations of captured brigands, described a scenario under which hundreds of heavily armed Hamas fighters would have spilled out into Israel in the dead of night and within 10 minutes been positioned to infiltrate essentially all Israeli communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. Waiting then in hiding until schools and kindergartens were occupied, the terrorists would then attempt to kill the children first, and then kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible. The plot was set to take place during Jewish New Year, on September 24.
It's like the Underground, the Metro or the Subway,Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said. These tunnels are all connected. I would describe it as Lower Gaza.
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said, A whole city of terror tunnels has been found. Without the ground operation, we would have woken up one day to an Israeli 9/11.Except, the actual objective was to be five times 9/11.
This picture shows clearly the width of one of the tunnels, sufficient for wheeled vehicles to transverse it. Hamas did not build a subway system for Gaza residents. They built an infrastructure for one purpose, and one only, an industry of death.
Israeli military officials reported that the tunnels are stocked with tranquilizers, handcuffs, syringes, ropes and other materials used for subduing abductees, civilians and soldiers. The tunnels also had fantastic quantities of explosives and additional military materiel meant to be used in the up-coming mega attack. Much of these explosives had already been placed underneath Israeli kindergartens. Some of these tunnels were as deep as 30 meters underground.
Fantastic quantities of explosives were stored in every tunnel, meant to be used in a mega-attack on civilian communities and infrastructure.
Sources say the Gaza Strip war, Operation Protective Edge, could serve as a prelude for a more extensive underground war with the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah. Perhaps, not just in the Middle East.
The tunnels inside Gaza and under the Israeli border are not a secret project Hamas ran under the noses of Israel and the Palestinian public. Everyone in Gaza, knew that beneath Gaza, the City and all of its environs, a network of tunnels was being dug over the past five years, with an investment of tens of millions of dollars. Yet no one in Israel, public or military, was prepared for the scope of the tunnels – the danger that became clear in the past week or two.Senior Hamas operatives show off their offensive tunnels to their spouses. Unbelievably, this is actually a picture of a Marriage taking place in the ˜place of deathâ.
In order to create this monstrosity, Hamas needed significant professional help; and this help had to have come from a large organization or state entity. This is not just the monetary aid it received from Qatar, Americas ally. This is professional guidance for the performance of such an underground feat. Perhaps Hamas could have used experts from the tunnels dug at Rafah under the Gaza-Egypt border, but those were significantly simpler, and did not demand any extraordinary investment or effort.
A Hamas operative climbing upward in a pier of one of the major tunnels. Notice the work on the sides of the tunnel.
Who supplied these quantities of material? Who planned what would be needed? How did Hamas acquire thousands of ampoules of tranquilizer, syringes and other, additional drugs to be used? These are far beyond the quantities and variety of what is needed by any civilian medical service.
How was all this brought in to the Gaza Strip? The logistics of this planned attack are the work of a well-organised military, not that of a militia or club. This was no amateur plan.
Observers note that attack scenarios lined up with recently revealed data about the sophistication, scope and nature of the offensive tunnel network. As previously reported here, this sophistication and know-how is being copied right now by Mexico-based Hezbollah agents along the Southern US border. Tunnels in Southern Lebanon, as in South US, are significantly more difficult to detect than those in the sandy terrain of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas planned these tunnels for years, and planned to use them to kidnap soldiers,Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Mordechai Almoz said. [Now] they see the tunnels collapsing one after the other. For the last two years, the Israeli army has sought to develop skills and equipment to fight in enemy tunnels and bunkers. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have used tunnels to operate command and control, to infiltrate Israel and abduct soldiers, to fire rockets and to conceal fighters amid invasion of the Gaza Strip.
IDF forces in the Gaza Strip found a Hamas manual on “Urban Warfare,” which belonged to the Shuja’iya Brigade of Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. The manual explains how the civilian population can be used against IDF forces and reveals that Hamas knows the IDF is committed to minimizing harm to civilians.
Throughout Operation Protective Edge, Hamas has continuously used the civilian population of Gaza as human shields. The discovery of a Hamas “urban warfare” manual by IDF forces reveals that Hamas’ callous use of the Gazan population was intentional and pre-planned.
This Hamas urban warfare manual exposes two truths: (1) The terror group knows full well that the IDF will do what it can to limit civilian casualties. (2) The terror group exploits these efforts by using civilians as human shields against advancing IDF forces.
The Manual:
In a portion entitled “Limiting the Use of Weapons,” the manual explains that:
The soldiers and commanders (of the IDF) must limit their use of weapons and tactics that lead to the harm and unnecessary loss of people and [destruction of] civilian facilities. It is difficult for them to get the most use out of their firearms, especially of supporting fire [e.g. artillery].
Clearly Hamas knows the IDF will limit its use of weapons in order to avoid harming civilians, including refraining from using larger firepower to support for infantry.
The manual goes on to explain that the “presence of civilians are pockets of resistance” that cause three major problems for advancing troops:
(1) Problems with opening fire
(2) Problems in controlling the civilian population during operations and afterward
(3) Assurance of supplying medical care to civilians who need it
Lastly, the manual discusses the benefits for Hamas when civilian homes are destroyed:
The destruction of civilian homes: This increases the hatred of the citizens towards the attackers [the IDF] and increases their gathering [support] around the city defenders (resistance forces[i.e. Hamas]).
It is clear that Hamas actually desires the destruction of homes and civilian infrastructure, knowing it will increase hatred for the IDF and support their fighters.
Why Shuja’iya is Important
It is also of no small importance that this manual belongs to the Shuja’iya Brigade. The IDF fought a major battle in the neighborhood of Shuja’iya, which had been turned into a terrorist stronghold. The discovery of this manual suggests that the destruction in Shuja’iya was always part of Hamas’ plan.
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