Comments on: Operation Summer Rains: Day Fifteen http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/ Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:25:30 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Pajamas Media http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6346 Pajamas Media Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:15:07 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6346 <strong>Widening Into War?: The Israeli Response in Lebanon and Gaza</strong> July 12, 2006 22:50PDT Kesher Talk has a roundup of Arab bloggers reacting to the situation. Dutchblog Israel is among many Israeli blogs no longer counseling patience. 22:33PDT Raja@LebaneseBloggers has driven through the streets of Beirut which are n... Widening Into War?: The Israeli Response in Lebanon and Gaza

July 12, 2006 22:50PDT Kesher Talk has a roundup of Arab bloggers reacting to the situation. Dutchblog Israel is among many Israeli blogs no longer counseling patience. 22:33PDT Raja@LebaneseBloggers has driven through the streets of Beirut which are n…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6342 Anonymous Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:04:24 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6342 I'm sitting here in Melbourne with only our cold winter to complain about while you, your countrymen and women, and incredibly brave men and women of the IDF are taking the fight against terrorism and islamic dominance head on every day. Know that many people are with the Israeli's and wish that peace would be yours. I’m sitting here in Melbourne with only our cold winter to complain about while you, your countrymen and women, and incredibly brave men and women of the IDF are taking the fight against terrorism and islamic dominance head on every day.

Know that many people are with the Israeli’s and wish that peace would be yours.

]]> By: Pajamas Media http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6345 Pajamas Media Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:49:34 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6345 <strong>Widening Into War?: The Israeli Response in Lebanon and Gaza</strong> July 12, 2006 22:33PDT Raja@LebaneseBloggers has driven through the streets of Beirut which are now empty of all but police, like a "calm before a storm." From Haaretz: IDF are attacking Hezbollah strongholds inside Beirut, also Al Manar broadcasting s... Widening Into War?: The Israeli Response in Lebanon and Gaza

July 12, 2006 22:33PDT Raja@LebaneseBloggers has driven through the streets of Beirut which are now empty of all but police, like a “calm before a storm.” From Haaretz: IDF are attacking Hezbollah strongholds inside Beirut, also Al Manar broadcasting s…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6341 Anonymous Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:10:25 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6341 My Thoughts and prayer's are with Israel tonight. My family would like you to know that as Americans we are proud to stand side by side with Israel in it's fight for freedom. The Israeli flag flies proudly beside the American flag on the front of our home. Hopefully it will fly over Israel in peace in the near future. No quarter to Hamas or Hizbllah! Stay Strong Israel, Baxter Greene My Thoughts and prayer’s are with Israel tonight. My family would like you to know that as Americans we are proud to stand side
by side with Israel in it’s fight for freedom. The Israeli flag flies proudly beside the American flag on the front of our home. Hopefully it will fly over Israel in peace in the near future.
No quarter to Hamas or Hizbllah!
Stay Strong Israel,
Baxter Greene

]]> By: Wizbang http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6344 Wizbang Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:26:28 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6344 <strong>Israeli Airstrike Destroys Palestinian Foreign Ministry</strong> Updated After a two week offensive into Gaza in its effort to reclaim kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shilat, Israel bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Gaza City. From the AP: A bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane destroyed the Palestinian... Israeli Airstrike Destroys Palestinian Foreign Ministry

Updated After a two week offensive into Gaza in its effort to reclaim kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shilat, Israel bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Gaza City. From the AP: A bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane destroyed the Palestinian…

]]> By: A Barbaric Yawp http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6343 A Barbaric Yawp Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:40:22 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6343 <strong>They Were People Who Had Families and Dreams</strong> Israellycool has information about some of the soldiers who were killed today. After three torturous weeks, Staff Sergeant Eyal Banin was all set to finish this year’s stint of reserve duty today. It turned out to be the last day of his life. Ins... They Were People Who Had Families and Dreams

Israellycool has information about some of the soldiers who were killed today.
After three torturous weeks, Staff Sergeant Eyal Banin was all set to finish this year’s stint of reserve duty today. It turned out to be the last day of his life.
Ins…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6340 Anonymous Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:51:59 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6340 <blockquote>Kidnappings, rockets..if this is not war, I do not know what is. How would your country handle it if in a similar situation?</blockquote> By flattening cities that attacks originate from with B-52 strikes.

Kidnappings, rockets..if this is not war, I do not know what is. How would your country handle it if in a similar situation?

By flattening cities that attacks originate from with B-52 strikes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6339 Anonymous Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:00:37 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6339 I think you are wrong to blame the current violence on the withdrawl and Convergence plans. Is it possible to believe that if Israeli forces and settlers had stayed in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, there would be no attacks and casualties. The point is that with the old policy the casualties and level of fighting would have been higher, attacks into Israel would be taking place equally or more frequently and missiles would still be flying across the border. The withdrawal and convergence policy was instituted on the idea that Israeli forces would go back if necessary when Israel decided to send them, rather than be tied down in a daily war of attrition. No one seriously thought that the withdrawals would end Palestinian or HIzbullah attempts to attack Israel, only that it would make them more difficult. Hizbullah have made a mistake as the internal workings of Lebanon have changed drastically in the last year, this move could spell isolation within the major socio-political ethnic groupings in Lebanon (including the Shia). this might be the excuse that the Lebanese mainstream need to implement a demilitarisation of Hizbullah and a final blunting of Syrian influence in the State. I think you are wrong to blame the current violence on the withdrawl and Convergence plans. Is it possible to believe that if Israeli forces and settlers had stayed in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, there would be no attacks and casualties. The point is that with the old policy the casualties and level of fighting would have been higher, attacks into Israel would be taking place equally or more frequently and missiles would still be flying across the border. The withdrawal and convergence policy was instituted on the idea that Israeli forces would go back if necessary when Israel decided to send them, rather than be tied down in a daily war of attrition. No one seriously thought that the withdrawals would end Palestinian or HIzbullah attempts to attack Israel, only that it would make them more difficult.

Hizbullah have made a mistake as the internal workings of Lebanon have changed drastically in the last year, this move could spell isolation within the major socio-political ethnic groupings in Lebanon (including the Shia). this might be the excuse that the Lebanese mainstream need to implement a demilitarisation of Hizbullah and a final blunting of Syrian influence in the State.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6338 Anonymous Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:46:44 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6338 What your current situation tells you is that all the attempts at making peace are bearing fruit. Israel now has a free hand to do what needs to be done. Something she did not have when Lebanon and Gaza were "occupied". BTW do Israelis still play chess? Can most Israelis play more than one move in advance? Israel's weakness was never military it was political and diplomatic. Ending the "occupations" to a large degree fixed those problems. Think of how wars against Israel usually end: The US protects the defeated, either by direct diplomatic pressure or through the UN. Such is not happening this time. Even <b>Egypt</b> blames Hamas. Now the military can do its job without restrictive time lines. BTW I agree that Syria has to go. What your current situation tells you is that all the attempts at making peace are bearing fruit.
Israel now has a free hand to do what needs to be done. Something she did not have when Lebanon and Gaza were “occupied”.
BTW do Israelis still play chess? Can most Israelis play more than one move in advance?
Israel’s weakness was never military it was political and diplomatic. Ending the “occupations” to a large degree fixed those problems. Think of how wars against Israel usually end: The US protects the defeated, either by direct diplomatic pressure or through the UN. Such is not happening this time.
Even Egypt blames Hamas.
Now the military can do its job without restrictive time lines.
BTW I agree that Syria has to go.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/comment-page-1/#comment-6337 Anonymous Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:21:49 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/07/12/operation-summer-rains-day-fifteen/#comment-6337 The abducted and killed soldiers were not Druze. They were members of a reserve unit. The abducted and killed soldiers were not Druze. They were members of a reserve unit.

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