“Katie Barring the Door” on Gaza Strip Wild Asses!
September 24, 2005
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As I indicated in our BLOG of September 22, titled “Wildest Jackasses Taking Over Gaza Strip,” from which the following paragraph was taken, the Israelis are not going to play around with the terrorist groups when they launch a major number of rockets, or any other major act of terror that injures their people.
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Rest assured that the boldness of Hamas leaders and followers coming out into the open, is much to Israel’s joy, and that a complete file of all of the new members is being complied. Israel has had one primary goal in mind for some three years – Finish the security barrier and get the terrorists behind it!
Unless the Hamas gets bold enough to raise levels of terror attacks to an unacceptable level, the Israelis will let them jump, scream, shoot in the air, lift their tails in the air, make all kinds of threats, and even launch a few Kassams.
But if they, or any of the new terror organizations that slipped in last week across the Sinai border, were to pull off a major act of terror against Israelis, then Katie, bar the door.
And, even though the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah would surely scream bloody murder, in reality it might please them to get rid of some of their rival Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror competitors.
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The Israelis are determined to finish the Security Barrier and, while they are doing so, they will hit terrorist activity launched against them with the appropriate response. After the wall is finished, they will not stop their response to terror activities, but will deliver punishment to those inside the barrier for terrorist attacks.
Unfortunately, this is the only program that can get the attention of the terror groups and the general Palestinian population.
Terrorists groups didn’t launch a FEW Kassams – they launched 29.
The following article by Margot Dudkevich and the JPost Staff gives the account of the type of response that the Palestinians can expect from now on when they exceed the limits of an attack level set by the IDF.
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4 Hamas Members Killed, DM Threatens Ground Operation
By Margot Dudkevich and JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 24, 2005
The IDF has confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that it was responsible for the air strike that killed four Hamas operatives in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip Saturday, just before four p.m. Israel time.
The attack was the third air strike since Israel stepped up its operations against Hamas and Islamic Jihad cells which were responsible for the barrage of 29 Kassam rockets on western Negev communities over the weekend.
The operatives were killed when the two cars in which they
were traveling exploded.
Witnesses reported seeing IDF aircraft fire missiles at the vehicles.
A few people standing nearby were wounded from the explosion, Army Radio reported.
Earlier Saturday, the IAF launched missile strikes near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, hitting a number of Kassam launch-sites, the army said.
In response to the salvo of Kassam rockets, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had instructed the Israel Air Force on Saturday to go on the offensive, targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Mofaz gave the order after an emergency meeting Saturday morning with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, head of the Shin Bet security service, Yuval Diskin, and other security chiefs, which was convened in order to weigh Israel’s response to the 29 Kassam rockets which were fired at Israeli border communities overnight.
Hamas claimed the attacks were in retaliation for the explosion of a truck carrying Kassam rockets during a Friday night rally of Hamas in the Jebaliya refugee camp that killed 17.
While Hamas blamed the blast on Israel, the IDF strenuously denied any involvement. The Palestinian Authority likewise held Hamas responsible for the explosion in a statement declaring that Hamas operatives had apparently mishandled the explosives. The PA used the opportunity to renew demands that armed groups stop flaunting their weapons in public.
The Palestinian Interior Ministry called on Hamas “to shoulder its responsibility for these … explosions, instead of making accusations against others.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minster Ariel Sharon will convene his Security Cabinet later Saturday in response to the first major rocket barrage from Gaza since Israel’s withdrawal from the coastal territory, his office said. The Security Cabinet is usually asked to approve an Israeli military response, and a meeting set for Saturday evening suggested a sense of urgency.
In a first response Saturday, Israel fired missiles at three suspected Hamas weapons workshops in Gaza and sealed the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The buildings were located in the Jebaliya refugee camp, the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City and downtown Gaza City.
Declaring an all-out war on Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist infrastructure, Mofaz ordered Air Force operations to continue in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Mofaz also ordered the army to concentrate forces opposite the northern Gaza security fence, to be prepared to launch ground operations in the event that the situation deteriorated further.
At the same time, the defense minister demanded that the Palestinian Authority deploy its security forces in the northern Gaza area to prevent terror cells from perpetrating attacks against Israel.
Mofaz said attempts by Hamas to blame Israel for Friday night’s explosion and use it as excuse to attack Israel was “insufferable and unacceptable.”
Earlier Saturday, the IDF issued a statement saying that it held
the Palestinian Authority responsible for maintaining order in the Gaza Strip and preventing attacks on Israel.
“The IDF will continue to act decisively
to defend the citizens of the state. It holds the security forces of the Palestinian Authority responsible for ceasing and preventing all terror strikes from the Gaza Strip,” according to a statement by an IDF spokesman.
END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Israel had absolutely nothing to do with the large explosion of a truck carrying Kassam rockets last Friday.
Wild jackasses are not noted for their technological abilities or carefulness of character in being able to handle
their own teeth and hoofs, sometimes biting and kicking other wild asses when excited.
This is what happened last Friday.
At the time of the issuance of this BLOG some 29 rockets had been sent against Israel by the terrorists. I assure you if they continue to launch after this first IAF strike, that Israel will launch a new named operation which will be continuous until the launches of Kassam cease. Air strikes will take the lives of more and more terrorists with the launching of each new salvo. Terror is going be answered by terror from the air until the rockets cease to fly, and if they increase passed a certain level, the IDF will launch incursions into the Gaza Strip in search and destroy operations.