Israel assassinates Leader Of Hamas

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This just in....

An Israeli airstrike has killed the leader of Hamas, and it looks like out and out war with Gaza. Drudge is tying this to Iran, which could be very bad news indeed.

"Hamas’s military apparatus is tied to Iran, says Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “Anyone who is part of the Qassam Brigades gets Iranian training.” Schanzer believes that today’s operations against Hamas positions in Gaza are likely related to last month’s bombing of a factory in Sudan, believed to have been the work of the Israeli military." (From The Weekly Standard)

Egypt is also planning on getting involved.
Today, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood – a party formerly headed by current President Mohammed Morsi – announced that Egypt would get involved if Israel continued to kill terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Such Israeli action, said the party, would prompt “swift Arab and international action to stop the massacres.” The party also warned that Israel “must take into account the changes in the Arab region and especially Egypt … [Egypt] will not allow the Palestinians to be subjected to Israeli aggression, as in the past.” (From Breitbart.)


http://freebeacon.com/its-war/

Sad day for the middle east.

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Hamas said Israel "had opened the gates of hell".

Let's hope not eh?

37 days, and counting...

He was the chief of Hamas' military wing, but calling him "the leader of Hamas" seems to be stretching it a little.

I think an Egyptian invasion is highly unlikely, Morsi knows he would have little chance in a war and that a defeat of any sort would end his career and maybe even that of his organization, he's just posturing for a domestic audience.

Just heard that the Israelis are calling up their Army reservists, which means they are seriously going to invade the Gaza strip.

19:20 GMT: People in Gaza describe how ships have been shelling the ground, they can hear bombs dropping, F16s flying above them all day & drones buzzing overhead, according to tweets from inside Gaza.

19:15 GMT: Hamas has announced a state of emergency in Gaza, and evacuated all its security buildings, according to bloggers in Gaza.

I hope not, I'm looking forward to my birthday on the 22nd!

there's a live feed here:
http://rt.com/news/gaza-israel-hamas-attack-687/
http://english.al-akhbar.com/live-event ... s-war-gaza

israel has indicated that it will be pursing a ground operation.

that snippet its from al-akhbar and there are other sources that say the same thing. this is operation cast lead all over again. already the death count is high and this includes children and babies and medical supplies are running low already.
by coincidence there was a protest planned in sydney for palestine today and in the last few hours the number of people attending has jumped by 40 people or something(6 in the last 15minutes). people are angry and they should be.

I sincerely hope Israel is met with severe reprisals for this.


Chances are pretty slim though.

This killing of a Hamas leader is itself a reprisal for a massive launch of some 120 rockets over the last four days from Gaza into Israel by Hamas.

It's awesome that they nailed the military leader with a missile. These are people who built careers on sacrificing other people's lives, ordering people killed, and otherwise causing death and destruction. But I wonder why, if they're so able to take out targets with so little collateral damage (killing someone's kids is totally cool, amirite?) how come they haven't done the world a favor and toasted Assad?

alas that is not the world we live in:
http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/gaza/u ... rikes-gaza

the usa was never going to take any other side. pretty sure at the time the article was published no israeli had died by the way... and it is the same rubbish about israel defending itself. if you are attacking civilians can you even pretend it is self defence? if it is babies under one year old can you still say that? even if the casualties weren't what they were i wouldn't believe it but with them it is just ridiculous.

If Hamas launched their rocket attacks first, then it is still self-defence.



Yes you can, especially if Hamas is using the civilians as human shields to protect legitimate targets. It's actually against the Geneva Convention to use civilians as human shields, so if Hamas is using them as human shields then they are responsible for their deaths not Israel. Also, although the deliberate targeting of civilians is against international law, that does not include collateral damage where the civilians were not the targets.

I'm substantially more sympathetic towards Hamas than a bunch of self righteous squatters.

Yeah, ''little colleteral damage''.

''Panicking civilians ran for cover and the death toll mounted quickly. Ten people including three children were killed, the health ministry said, and about 40 were wounded. Also among the dead were an 11-month-old baby and a woman pregnant with twins''

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/ ... WP20121114

There is NO EXCUSE for this.

yes using people as shields is wrong.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXq57XK2L0A[/youtube]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/no ... avoid-jail
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... s-1.320311
very wrong.

and yeah, much as i dislike hamas and it's tactics, it is self defence seeing as palestinians have to contend with an occupying country and israel does not because it is the occupier. israel's been launching rockets at palestine for a long, long time. a lot of things israel does is against the geneva convention.