"Pillar of Defense (Cloud)" - Israel & Hamas Agree to Gaza Cease Fire

It is an absolute last resort option !

live Israeli coverage in Hebrew but lots of footage

[link to www.flatplanet.tv]

A baby has been seriously injured in southern Israel from rocket attack on house.
Are any of you who cry for Gaza's children going to cry for the Israeli baby?
Protest on Israel's behalf maybe?

well, I did consider that. Wasn't sure how literally to take it.

I thought I remembered the ground attack the last time being at night however to give Israel and extra advantage.

Absolutely agree. I just think we are fast approaching that last resort.

Subzero86,

I tried to explain this to you before. Each intercept may cost 30,000-40,000 US dollars, but it's a BARGAIN when you consider

1) Lives & property saved (imagine if a rocket were to hit a CEO of Intel-Israel division and also kill his daughter -- you may have an international scandal on your hands and all kinds of lawsuits)

2) Saves huge costs in medical care & rescue services avoid for the dead, dying as well as serious non-fatal injuries from shrapnel. Easily in millions of dollars when counted surgery, ICU costs + long-term rehab & medication (plus, again, potential lawsuits against Israeli government)

3) The prestige of Israeli military industry, the Iron Dome project in particular. Remember, Iron Dome is very young, developed in record short period of time just over 2 years. It needs battle-testing & modification. For example: the 1st battery was first used in combat in April 2011. The 5th battery has just gone on-line a few weeks ago. Only 2 years apart between them, but in terms of technological capability, the 5th battery is YEARS ahead of the 1st one, in radar, in software, in the Tamir interceptor that can now even intercept larger Iranian rockets like Fajr-5 and Zelzal (remember, Iron Dome was originally only supposed to deal with much smaller mortar, homemade Qassam & Grad).

4) Additional US aid has pretty much paid for most of Iron Dome. So the "real" price Israel pays for Intercept is not 35,000 but more like 5,000 dollars. The rest comes out of the military aid.

5) Once Iron Dome version 2.0 is battle tested against bigger rockets & salvos.... South Korea, Singapur, Colombia and of course US would LOVE to buy it --- so in the end, Israel might actually make PROFIT from Iron Dome.

6) Iron Dome gives Israeli government flexibility to be patient and PREVENTS large-scale operations like Castlead. Considering that between March 2011 and now there have been whopping 6-7 seperate escalations by the Gaza jihadists, with literally 1,000 total rockets fired at Israel.... you potentially are talking about more than 1 Castlead in that time span.

And remember, Castlead alone cost 2 billion dollars in operations costs & paralyzed economy in the South. And of course it led to the libelous Goldstone Report & gave pretext to that cunt Erdogan to severe ties with Israel. So that too carries a big price tag in the longer-run.

Now multiply that by several Castlead-type operations.

You're talking billions of dollars... that Iron Dome potentially saved. To quote Donald Trump, it's "OOOJE".

7) And its experience is proving invaluable as far as Israel's new missile defense system, David's Sling, is concerned. Orinally, Israel was going to RUSH David's Sling or Magic Wand as it's also known in time for 2012. The version would have been far from optimal, very skeletal. But since Iron Dome 2.0 version has shown potential during testing, Israel probably made a decision that they will take their sweet time with Magic Wand and when it's finished in 2014, it will be super-advanced. Win-win situation.

Sorry, I am tired, but something along those lines, Subzero86.

If Israel sends ground troops, who or what will be their target/s and how far are they treading into Gaza?

Uh, well that's the 6.4 billion dollar Question... it seems.

Gaza-City makes Baghdad during the height of the Insurgency, look like stroll through Monaco in comparison. It's an absolutel (booby-trapped, RPG and Igla-S riddled) Death Trap for a Jew.

[link to www.liveleak.com]

Your countrymen? Iranians?

We don't hate the Iranian people, only the "Twelver" antichrist wannabe named "Ahmahinedad".

Follow the links to see your "fearless leader" threatening to wipe Israel off the map, or kill them, or whatever. Let's not get hung-up on semantics, but the spirit of what he is saying:

[link to www.youtube.com]

[link to www.youtube.com]

Oh, and your peace-loving Iranian leadership had two of it's "fighter jets" launch missiles against a US drone in INTERNATIONAL WATERS...and they both missed. What a laugh!

Your "air farce" can't even hit an unarmed drone with TWO fighter jets?

I fart in your general direction.

[liveleak] [link to www.liveleak.com]

i predict a dirty bomb or some b-c weapon blowing tel aviv in the skies within 48 hrs......

well Tel Aviv is full of the secular palestinian loving anti-Zionist Jews, so that might wake them up.

Uh, well that's the 6.4 billion dollar Question... it seems.

Because of Israel's tiny size, population, and the double-standard that UN applies to Israel's actions.... the Gaza operation would have to be INCREDIBLY innovative & effective.

Gaza-City makes Baghdad during the height of the Insurgency, look like stroll through Monaco in comparison. It's an absolutel (booby-trapped, RPG and Igla-S riddled) Death Trap for a Jew.

So Benny Ganz, Naveh and Barak better tread verrry carefully.

And that's not even counting what that nutsac-scratching MB retard Mohammad Morsi in Egypt might do...

No one is inocent in this. Neither side can claim moral victory in any war.

How Does the IDF Minimize Harm to Palestinian Civilians?

[link to www.idfblog.com]

Hamas does the exact opposite, they wait for Israeli children to come home from school and then they start firing rockets and mortars at them !

Really?

So you're saying FDR and Churchill... were as bad as Hitler & Goebbels?

That US dropped a few nukes to stop 5 million dead G.I. and 20+ million Japanese that Invasion of the Mainland would have likely entailed... is as "bad" as Imperial Japan treating Chinese, Phillipinos, et al like cockroaches and torturning them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.... are "the same"????

That when UN and African Union was finally fighting Rwanda militias.... both sides were equally evil?

Pol Pot... Ah, nevermind. The sheer Stupid Quotient here is overwhelming.