• Netanyahu Says He's Prepared For Protracted Conflict In Gaza
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[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/10/339299812/netanyahu-says-hes-prepared-for-protracted-conflict-in-gaza"]NPR Link[/URL] [quote=NPR]Netanyahu's remarks come amid reports from The Associated Press, citing unnamed officials, that the Palestinians have agreed to a new 72-hour cease-fire. A Hamas representative at the Cairo talks later said the cease-fire proposal was being "studied." Even so, with no reciprocal agreement from Israel, the offer appears to be moot. NPR's Jackie Northam, reporting from Jerusalem, says Netanyahu spoke at the beginning of a Cabinet meeting focused on the war in the Gaza Strip. He said at no stage did Israel declare that its military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was over, and that it will continue until there is what he calls a prolonged period of quiet.[/quote]
Netanyahu: "Didn't want that cease-fire anyway"
"a prolonged period of quiet" sounds ominous as fuck.
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;45649552]Why bother when hamas launches rockets the second the cease-fire ends anyway, and sometimes doesn't even bother waiting for the cease-fire to end.[/QUOTE] Yes I prefer my conflicts to have never ending bombardments and untold humanitarian crisis.
Netanyahu should step up to be the bigger man and end this, if Hamas won't. If the first intrusion was justified, this continuation isn't.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45649630]Netanyahu should step up to be the bigger man and end this, if Hamas won't. If the first intrusion was justified, this continuation isn't.[/QUOTE] How was the first intrusion justified?
[QUOTE=Gentry;45649652]How was the first intrusion justified?[/QUOTE] To close Hamas tunnels and elimate the stashes of rockets they were using.
[QUOTE=Gentry;45649582]Yes I prefer my conflicts to have never ending bombardments and untold humanitarian crisis.[/QUOTE] Ultimately a humanitarian crisis will always exist because Hamas exists, and refuses to give any sensible terms for a peace treaty. The only reasonable part of any peace treaty offer was the ability to have easier access to water supplies, their fishing area to be extended to the Jericho Agreement of 20 miles, and for the Israelis to help rebuild any cities that were blown apart.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;45649735]To close Hamas tunnels and elimate the stashes of rockets they were using.[/QUOTE] But they were only using those rockets in response to Israel starting to strike Hamas in the Western Bank.
Go for it. We've come this close to getting rid of Hamas. Finish the job so the same thing doesn't happen five years from now. [QUOTE=Gentry;45649546]Netanyahu: "Didn't want that cease-fire anyway"[/QUOTE] Because it was obviously [I]Israel[/I] which broke the past ten ceasefires. [QUOTE=Gentry;45649822]But they were only using those rockets in response to Israel starting to strike Hamas in the Western Bank.[/QUOTE] Hamas's tunnels and plans to terrorize Israel using them were made long before any of that.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45649630]Netanyahu should step up to be the bigger man and end this, if Hamas won't. If the first intrusion was justified, this continuation isn't.[/QUOTE] He's been trying, constantly. Hamas doesn't really give him much of a choice by constantly launching attacks and violating agreements. Like it or not I don't think this conflict will end until Hamas is destroyed in its entirety.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45649576]"a prolonged period of quiet" sounds ominous as fuck.[/QUOTE] Like the sound of a mass grave.
I'm beginning to wonder if the IDF hasn't dug themselves into a position where the only way to stop these attacks is to completely annex Gaza and West Bank. Worse, I wonder if that's not exactly where they want to be.
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