Not long Pakistan bought something like two dozen drone spy planes to use for information regarding militants.
Where did this drone come from? I hope Israel has enough debris by now to know for sure.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad wanted intelligence to know where to send their rocket barrage. They wanted to kill people, not just scare them.
10/08/2012 11:24
By YAAKOV LAPPIN, BEN HARTMAN
The IDF struck targets in Gaza (click here) in response to a barrage of more than 30 rockets and mortar shells fired into farming districts in southern Israel by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
...An army source said that a tank directed fire at a Hamas position hidden inside a mosque located in southern Gaza. The source added that Hamas often uses "religious sites as cover for its terrorist activities against Israelis."...
They are using Mosques and people and neighborhoods as human shields. I remember the day it was announced the IDF had a precision strike killing The Sheik. Remember him? The one man that would never give Arafat the peace he was looking for.
After he was killed in a vehicle in a neighborhood near where he lived, I realized the people that came to him for prayer or ministering were actually soldiers for him. The Sheik used his home as a military strategic compound. The young men that came and went were not about religious devotion to Allah at all, they were about being brainwashed into The Sheik's hatred and to protect him from death while killing Israelis.
The Sheik ruthlessly used innocence as a human shield. We are seeing that in large measure among al Qaeda in Pakistan. These similarities are not coincidence. There is a common understanding of the decency of USA and Israeli morality in war. The morality of protecting the innocent while vanquishing the enemy, which found life in the Geneva Conventions, is being used against peace and peaceful intentions.
I don't approve of Israeli occupied territories, but, that is also a strategy to end any killing. It is why the people of Israel carry out that 'fashion' of muscle. The occupied territories of Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem are distained by civilized nations. First world nations dislike the aggressive tactic Israelis carry out to save their lives from violence and promote integration and peace. YET. When it comes to militants using human shields as protection, the world remains silent.
The USA is ridiculed on a regular basis by Karzai and the Pakistani government for strikes that kill their civilians. It is an act of aggression these country's leaders abhor. But, when it comes to militants using their own military on guard of their sovereign borders or innocent people in cities, town and tribal areas somehow that is something that cannot be handled.
Why was it at all necessary for the USA drone at the Pakistani border struck to kill al Qaeda using the Pakistan military at their border as a human shield? Why was it the Pakistani military didn't root out al Qaeda and gun them down. Why can't they remove the militants to prison as Saudi Arabia does? Why isn't there a Most Wanted list in Gaza, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West Bank? Why is it the USA and Israel are always made to look like blood thirsty and ruthless killers when all we are trying to do is stop the violence and encourage autonomy within peace for these regions?
To speak to occupied territory through, it is a form of genocide if cultural icons and genetic purpose is to end the existence of a society. It is not what is intended. Israel is not sending out soldiers to rape women to dilute the genetic basis of the Palestinians. They are not destroying and closing Mosques. That argument doesn't work there and it gives no brevity to any reality today.
The purpose of the occupied territories is to remove the segregation that allows violence. Yes, it strongly appears an attempt by SOME Israelis to stop the violence in one manner or another. But, it is not intended to destroy cultural content or genetic strength among the Palestinian people. Israelis have never sought to destroy the existence of the Palestinian people, but, only to live in peace with them.
I congratulate Israel for being protective of its sovereign borders and it would be a good thing if the Israeli Prime Minister would point out exactly how difficult it is to defend those borders when a jet operating in its own air space has to turn on a dime to prevent from crossing a 'near border' and creating more tensions or QUESTION to their defensive action.
The Prime Minister should realize by now logic and level headed reasoning goes further than inflammatory rhetoric, especially on military and international stages.
