JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has given the military permission to mobilize up to 40,000 additional reservists as it steps up an offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday’s decision came hours after Israel launched an offensive aimed at stopping weeks of heavy rocket fire out of Gaza.
The Israeli military said there were no immediate plans to call up the reservists, but the order was a contingency if the offensive needs to be expanded.
Israeli officials say the open-ended operation could go on for some time.
I’m ready and willing to let the entire area go down in flames like some say God has planned in the Bible. What’s wrong with these people? All the do is fight each other and generally act crazy or depraved. Maybe it’s time to give Iran a bomb if they haven’t developed one yet? Someone needs to put them all out of their misery?
Another excuse for the Likudist war criminals to kill Palestinians. Netanyahu should be arrested when he travels to Europe and put on trial at the Hague.
The blogs of many IDF soldiers reveal that they are psychopaths who take pleasure inflicting physical pain and torture on Palestinians; especially women and children.
And these are the “allies” that we support with our national treasure and the lives of our military service personnel. All the ills of the Mid-East stem from the unwillingness to resolve the Palestinian homeland issue. the illegal settlements continue to be built in contravention of all signed agreements and international law.
Israel is becoming an outlaw nation. Their supporters dictate our foreign policy and put our country in great peril.
Is it Israel’s fault that we started a war in Iraq? Is it Israel’s fault that we’ve been propping up dictators since the 50s?
The Middle East’s problems run much deeper than Israel I’m afraid. It’s far too convenient for us to just blame all our problems on Israel, when we’ve been complicit in many of their worst abuses.
And what do you mean by “becoming” an outlaw nation? If you take international law seriously (many Americans don’t) then Israel has been an outlaw nation for decades now.
yes … those people in Hamas are just the best kind of folk, why, I bet those rockets were full of candy and little puppy dogs for their Israeli neighbors.
Hamas provoked this, as they always do, this is their biggest fundraising solution, keep poking Israel until Israel finally hits back then scream to the world how the big mean Jew is beating up on them again.
If they cared HALF as much about the Palestinian people, who are the ones who really suffer for this, as they cared about killing Jews, they would sign a treaty and get about the business of building their country.
With regard to all those rockets that are fired into Israel, why do we never read of any casualties? Is it because they are an overblown phenomenon and a mere pretext for killing evermore Palestinians?
And the desperation of people subjugated for decades makes them do desperate things.