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

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...

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 !

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.

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

Keep up your propaganda.

This nefarious game of tit for tat will keep rolling on for the foreseeable future. Though I do not excuse Islamic fundamentalists I believe Israel bears the responsibility in this conflict.
Lets face it, Israel is a nation with one of the most highly sophisticated and advanced armies in the world, they have the best missile defense system and probably 300 nuclear weapons.

They keep the Palestinians in an open aired prison, under sniper towers, with humiliating check points and an economic blockade which has destroyed their livelihood. It's not the other way around. The Palestinians fire rockets at their oppressor. If you were in their shoes you would to, look at the IRA for example.

The first step in solving this conflict would be to recognize Palestine as a legitimate state and lift the embargo. As long as Israel and the US continue to stop this, it will never be resolved.

Why don't you fly your ass over to help them out?

Why don't you fly your ass over to help them out?

08:26
IDF expects heavy rocket fire will continue Thursday and after Jabari's funeral (Haaretz)
funeral will be over in 1 hr.

This, i have seen rockets firing from morning till night.

And besides, how large are these rockets? they have a 10+kg warhead? compare that to a 500-2000lb JDAM.

So...because they're not 500-2000lb jdams...that makes it ok?

Wtf are even blabbing about...jesus fucking christ you people fucking amaze me.

You'll make up childish excuses for all sorts of shit...

I don't even think you believe the garbage coming out of you own mouth.

This, i have seen rockets firing from morning till night.

And besides, how large are these rockets? they have a 10+kg warhead? compare that to a 500-2000lb JDAM.

Yes, believe it or not Jew-haters ARE that stupid & hateful.

Once their idiocy is disproved... instead of quitting, they get butt-hurt and just DOUBLE-DOWN on their idiocy. More nonsensical excuses and twisted "logic".

This time they are crying because Israel has built a MODERN society and as such can afford more expensive weapons
& care enough about their women and babies to build bomb shelters for them --- unlike Palestinians who want as many of their babies to die so that they can parade their corpses in front of Western cameras and score PR sympathy points.

Israel shoudl what? Take down the Security Barrier so that HAMAS psychos will flood in and start blowing up Israeli buses, restaurants, discos, synagogues, cultural centers --