Hamas Missiles Can Strike Tel Aviv, Says Israel MI Chief

Haaretz:

Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip possess in their military arsenal a missile that is capable of striking Tel Aviv, the army's top military intelligence officer told a parliamentary panel in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

The head of Military Intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces, General Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee on Tuesday that Hamas has recently tested a missile capable of reaching targets at a distance of 60 kilometers.

Read the whole story: Haaretz

Comments

[NYkid]

PaIestinians have no choice but to keep fighting to free PaIestine.

[StCuthbert]

Easy for you to say. You don't have to fight and die for some abstract concept.

[Sentientbeing09]

Freedom from occupation isnt abstact.

[MosheDayanHero]

UN General Assembly Resolution 194.

7."Resolve­s that Holy Places including Nazareth should be protected and free access to them assured."
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/043/65/IMG/NR004365.pdf?OpenElement

Fact:Jordanian and Arab Palestinians violated that provision and destroyed or despoiled thousands (!) of Jewish holy places and thousand-year old cemeteries
Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria and other occupiers denied ALL Israelis-- Arab Christians and Jewish-- access to ALL holy sites in their controlled territories.

9. "Resolves that freest possible access to Jerusalem.­.. should be accorded to all inhabitants of
Palestine.­"
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/043/65/IMG/NR004365.pdf?OpenElement

Fact: Jordan And Arab Palestinains denied ALL Israeli citizens -- Arab, Christians and Jewish-- access to Jerusalem. Especially to the holiest place of Judaism--The Western Wall of the Temple.

next subject.

[NYkid]

PaIestine beIongs to the PaIestinians.

[MosheDayanHero]

Yep. And Israel belongs to Israelis. Sounds fair.

[MarcusT]

It's rather pathetic that the world leaves it to Hamas to enforce international law:

Palestinian refugees have the right of return -- UN General Assembly Resolution 194.

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are occupied territories a -- UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 based on the international principle of the inadmissability of the acquisition of territory by force.

It is illegal for the occupying power to transfer its population to, or to change the status of, the occupied territories -- Fourth Geneva Convention.

Israel’s unilateral actions to alter the status of Jerusalem are illegal and invalid -- UN Security Council Resolutions 252 and 478.

[MosheDayanHero]

"It is illegal for the occupying power to transfer its population to, or to change the status of, the occupied territories -- Fourth Geneva Convention­."

I suppose that's why Jordan annexed West Bank. And Turkey annexed a chunk of Cyprus. LOL

[Sentientbeing09]

Turkish occupation of Cyprus isnt recognized anywhere outside Turkey.

[StCuthbert]

It's more pathetic that you excuse Hamas' killing of civilians as "enforcing international law".

[MosheDayanHero]

"Palestinian group Hamas has declared that the fragile six-month ceasefire between Israel and Gaza is now over...
Speaking on Thursday - one day before the truce is due to expire - Ayman Taha, a Hamas official, said "the calm is over".
Fawzi Barhum, a Gaza-based spokesman for Hamas, told news agency AFP that "there was no possibility of renewing the truce".
... Rowland noted that Israel had been keen to extend the Egyptian-brokered truce - particularly as the country is expected to hold a general election..­."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/20081218165057572179.html

[MosheDayanHero]

Hmmm, Palestinian supporters and indeed Palestinains themselves always talk macho. It is the actual fighting that they chronically underachieve at. LOL.Well, unless it's against women and children, of course.

[MosheDayanHero]

If you're Jewish or just rational, and after reading these threads don't donate to ADL, you're not paying attention.
Donate now.

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[MosheDayanHero]

If Hamas fire on Tel Aviv, the reprisal will make Cast Lead look like cub-scout picnic.

[jasjohn128]

Maybe. Israel's been pulling its punches since 1948 and never gets anything but the back of the world's hand for its efforts.

I can't think of a population in any city in America that'd put up with what Israel's had to live with, not for six days much less 60+ years.

[Sentientbeing09]

If Israel had reigned in the settler crazies decades ago and stop claiming every scrap of land from Cairo to Beirut theyd may have been more popular with their neighbors over their short history.

Just sayin

[wwoody]

Israel really want to bomb Iran nuclear plants to end their nuclear program, they are looking for any excuse to do so. Hamas is giving them that excuse they have been looking for. Hamas has always played the cat and mouse game with Israel, throw a stone, and run like hell.

[wwoody]

Hamas is playing with fire, ....and plenty of people will get burn.

[DC]

OMG! Hamas is weeks away from creating the big one! No, they will be setting up for a lunar landing!!!!

[LeeCalif]

Boo hoo Israel.

What about Israel's 200 atomic bombs ?? And 10,000 Palestinian prisoners she still holds ??

Free US Foreign Policy from Israel.

Free US Foreign Policy from Israel's clutches .

Free US Now !!

[Americafirst2008]

Israeli clusterbombs can hit any child in gaza or lebanon

[vascopyjama]

Sounds like the Israelis are might be preparing the way for another Gaza invasion.

[KIVPossum]

Sure. Doesn't look like they are going to get to bomb Iran this year.

[MosheDayanHero]

One single stirke on Tel Avivi and Gaza will cease to exist as an administrative entity.
Bank on it.

[Macready]

but of course . . .

[blutigeroo]

The ostracism of Hamas is propoganda. The intent of the Israeli government is to divide on conquer and opposing Hamas' involvement in the "peace process" the Palestinian people are kept divided; unable to overcome the occupation. The PA plays into Israel's hands because Abbas and his croonies realize that forming a coalition with Hamas will mean a death sentence for Fatah and the perks of power they enjoy.
So Abbas plays along in this hypocritical game with the Israelis and the US, whilst making the obligatory noises of protest every now and then.
Israel and the US can loathe Hamas as much as they want but the truth is that Hamas was elected to represent the Palestinian people. Granted, Hamas as a non-legitimate organization committed atrocities against Israeli civilians, but no more so than the legitimate Government of Israel. In other words, Hamas is just as "rogue" as it's Israeli counterparts. To suggest that any Palestinian government should be subject to the Israeli and US selection undermines the very notion of a sovereign state for Palestinians.
Hamas has to be brought to the table and made to cooperate in the peace process. Otherwise all "peace processes" and "talks" will not be able to achieve long-term peace.

[DC]

Hamas was created and funded by Israel in the early days to weaken the PLO. The irony is that without the support of Isreal, Hamas never would have come into existence.

Look it up.

[Khirad]

Good, well-rounded post. Much appreciated.

[MosheDayanHero]

re."That Hamas was elected to represent the Palestinian people."

Fine, and now Gazans who elected Hamas are paying for their choices. Enjoy.

[TonyMbutu]

If Hamas succeeds in hitting Tel Aviv, one wonders whether you will be 1) sitting here noting that the civilians of Tel Aviv are paying for their choice of electing war criminals and human rights abusers for decades or 2) calling for innocent Arab blood to be spilled...