Israel Responds To Lebanon Rocket Fire

Israel Shells Lebanon After 2nd Rocket Attack During This Conflict, No Known Injuries

(CBS/AP)  Israeli forces fired artillery north into Lebanon on Wednesday in response to a rocket attack, and Lebanese troops dismantled more rockets that were set to be fired, Lebanese security officials said.

The exchange was the second since Israel launched an offensive in Gaza against Hamas on its southern flank on Dec. 27 and threatens to ignite a new front in the north.

No one was hurt after three rockets fell in open areas near the Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona, but residents were ordered into bomb shelters, Israeli police said. There was no immediate word of casualties in the retaliatory fire on Lebanon.

Hours after the initial morning exchange, three more Grad rockets that were set to be fired were discovered and dismantled by Lebanese troops, the security officials said.

Southern Lebanon has been largely quiet since the summer 2006 war between Israel and the militant Hezbollah movement - a bruising 34-day battle in which more than 1,000 people were killed in Lebanon and about 160 in Israel.

The Lebanese said several rockets were fired Wednesday from the south and at least one fell short inside Lebanon. No one claimed responsibility for them.

Israel responded by launching at least eight artillery shells at the source of the rockets near the village of Kfar Hamam. Also, Israeli helicopter gunships flew reconnaissance missions along the heavily protected border as Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers sent out patrols, Lebanese officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the press.

Residents in the region took their children out of school in fear of an escalation.

The area from where the rockets were fired is controlled by Lebanese troops and the U.N. peacekeeping force.

Last Thursday, four rockets were also fired on northern Israel from the area, but from the stretch of the border closer to the Mediterranean coastline. At that time, Israel also responded with several shells.

Lebanese and U.N. troops intensified patrols after last week's attack. Lebanese briefly detained several people after that attack but released them after it turned out they were not involved.

Speculation has focused on small militant Palestinian groups in Lebanon seeking to aid the militant Palestinian Hamas.

In related developments:

CBSNews.com broke the story Wednesday morning of a new audiotape by al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden said the decline of America's dominance on the world stage was one of the main factors which prompted Israel to launch its offensive in Gaza. He called for Jihad to defeat Israel.

Aides say Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stands by his claim that he caused the U.S. to abstain from a U.N. resolution calling for a halt in Gaza fighting. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice negotiated the resolution. Olmert claimed earlier this week that he humiliated Rice by persuading U.S. President Bush to instruct her not to vote for it. Rice spokesman Sean McCormack has called Olmert's claims "100-percent, totally, completely not true."

The Israeli navy has intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with medicine, food and clothing destined for Gaza and forced the vessel to head toward an Egyptian port, Iran's state television reported Wednesday. Meanwhile, in a gesture of support with the Palestinians in Gaza, Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious opinion, or fatwa, declaring the purchase of any Israeli goods or trade with Israeli companies to be forbidden.

Hezbollah, the main anti-Israeli force in Lebanon which fought Israel in the 2006 war, denied responsibility for Thursday's attack, and said it did not want to be drawn into a battle with Israel. The Shiite militant group, an ally of Hamas, possesses a formidable arsenal of rockets and fired about 4,000 on Israel during the 2006 fighting.

The Lebanese government moved quickly since to try to prevent an escalation, condemning the firing of the rockets and pledging to remain committed to the 2006 U.N.-brokered truce.

Troops later discovered disused rockets during one of the patrols, and on Tuesday Defense Minister Elias Murr said army commandos have been deployed to comb southern valleys and hills for more rockets.

A spokeswoman for the 13,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon said Wednesday the exact location of the latest firing has not been confirmed. Yasmina Bouziane said the mission, in cooperation with the Lebanese army, is currently investigating on the ground in the eastern part of the peacekeepers' sector to locate the launching site.

Southern Lebanon has for decades been used as a launching pad for rocket attacks against Israel, first by Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s and in the 1980s through 2006 by Hezbollah and other factions. Israel has often retaliated with punishing raids on Lebanon and two major invasions of its northern neighbor in 1978 and 1982.

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by trishab59-02 January 14, 2009 8:27 AM PST

So Lebanese are not moving. Good. They don''t need this war, or any other.

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by missingamerica January 14, 2009 9:12 AM PST

"Rice spokesman Sean McCormack has called Olmert''s claims "100-percent, totally, completely not true."

Now if I only had ONE reason to still believe that this Administration always told the truth...

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by wardoglrs January 14, 2009 9:57 AM PST

What Israel is doing to them they will do to you just give it some time.
The Phony Israel Nation thinks that there the chosen ones But what they really are is an Occult that hijacked the real Israeli Jew''s philosophy of the bible and way of life.

This occult has infratraded the USA and other countries Banks and politico positions of power.

You better wake up fast people your kids are going to war.

I believe that this Zion nation along with of course the US will start the draft very soon.

You had your chance when Dr Paul spoke about unintended consequences and how all the wars where a lie started by our own CIA and there economic hitmen

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by wardoglrs January 14, 2009 9:58 AM PST

%u201CWe are opposed...by a ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the [war] with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match...%u201D John F Kennedy, 1961.

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by country1st January 14, 2009 10:04 AM PST

Jews have lived there for 3,500 years. Islam is only 1,500 years old. Part of Syrian Ottoman Empire became British Mandate in 1917 and called it Palestine. Never was a country. Arabs sided with the Nazi in WWII. In 1948 the Arab countries took the gamble to declare war on Israel instead of creating Palestine as approved by the UN. After losing with the Nazis in WWII, the Arabs again lost the war in 1948 against Israel. Jordan took possession of the West Bank and Egypt took possession of Gaza. So the Arab countries refused to create a Palestinian state on the land they controlled just after the UN had approved the creation of a Palestinian state on virtually that same area but Israel with the size of New Jersey is blamed for the Palestinians not having a state and 60 years of misery? Every country in the world except Australia has had its borders change.
Now sixty years later the Palestinians (Fatah) have finally agreed to have a two state settlement and co-exist in peace with Israel. Israel is not fighting the Palestinians just like the USA and its allies are not fighting the Iraqi%u2019s or the people of Afghanistan. Unless the world supports Israel to defeat Hamas, Hezbollah and other fundamental Islamic extremists Palestinians and Israelis will continue to suffer as will ultimately the rest of the world.

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by dee633-2009 January 14, 2009 10:08 AM PST

Concerning the nation of Israel

The LORD says:

Jeremiah 31:1
"At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be my people."

Isaiah 52:12
But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 44:6
"This is what the LORD says%u2014 Israel''''s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.

Isaiah 43:3
For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.

Numbers 23:21
"No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.

2 Samuel 7:24
You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God.

1 Chronicles 16:36
Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then all the people said "Amen" and "Praise the LORD."

Psalm 68:26
Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.

Psalm 94:16
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

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by enviro_wacko January 14, 2009 10:18 AM PST

Posted by Dee633 at 10:08 AM : Jan 14, 2009

Black Sabbath

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I''m the chosen one
Oh nooo!

Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan''s sitting there, he''s smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please God help me!

Is it the end, my friend?
Satan''s coming ''round the bend
People running ''cause they''re scared
The people better go and beware!
No, no, please, no!

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by trapbreaker January 14, 2009 10:37 AM PST

HAMAS
The Taliban
Hezzbollah
Iran
Al Queada
Whats not to like about such a positive cult ?
Posted by Moderator672

What is the right way to deal with Muslim terrorist in southern Philippines, Thailand, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Semolina, Ethiopia, Iraq, Palestine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, and the 30 countries elsewhere where Muslim terrorist are killing? If they can%u2019t kill Jews, or Hindus, or Brits, or Americans, or the government forces of the counties they live in, then they will just kill each other, like the Sunni woman who just suicide bombed and killed 35 Shiite pilgrims.

jihadi terrorist violence goes by many names, but it is all terrorism and murder by any name. They call themselves Hamas or Islamic Jihad, or Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in Palestine , Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM); in Pakistan, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) in Bangladesh, Taliban-HEI-Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Hezbollah in Lebanon, there are many more, they have different names in different countries, but you must understand that Jihadi terrorists recognize no national borders only murder.

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 11:55 AM PST

TrapBreaker:
PEACE!
I FEEL SORRY FOR A MAN WHO TELLS A LIE TO ADVANCE SHORT TERM GAIN. A MAN THAT SPREADS PROPAGANDA TO MISLEAD MEN. INDEED HE WHO LIES IS ALSO A VICTIM OF HIS OWN LIES, BUT MOST LIARS KNOW NOT.
TrapBreaker:
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO YOUR REAL ENEMY IS, LOOK INTO YOURSELF, AND YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU ARE INDEED FOLLOWING AN UNJUST PHILOSOPHY.
PEACE!

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by jmdintpa January 14, 2009 12:07 PM PST

so i do have a question for those that defend islam. WHY??? why defend a religon which has "blessed" us with 9/11, the london and madrid bombings, the attack on mumbai. why should israel attack if these thugs are lobbing missiles. listen i am about as liberal as they come but if hamas continues to fire missiles then wipe them off the face of the earth and the people who voted them to power.

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 12:18 PM PST

JmDintpa:
PEACE!
SO YOU ARE ASKING US TO DEFEND THE MURDER OF INOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN? INDEED YOU ASK US TO COMMIT AN EVIL DID. HOPE YOU MAY LIVE LONG TO SEE THE DAY WHEN YOU WILL PROVE YOURSELF WRONG IN SUPPORTING ZIONISM. IT''S NOT ABOUT JEWS AND MUSLIMS, IT''S ABOUT PEACE AND JUSTICE. SO FEAR YOUR OWN ILLUSSIONS AND SUSPICIONS AND TRY TO RESPOND WITH VIOLENCE IN A MOMENT OF PEACE. IAM MUSLIM AND I KNOW THAT IAM NOT TO KILL AN INOCENT LIFE. AND THAT I SHOULD NOT BE SILENT WHEN A CRIME IS COMMITTED. SO DOOMED ARE THE ZIONISTS AND THEIR EVIL PLOTS. PEACE TO THE WHOLE OF MANKIND.
PEACE!

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 12:22 PM PST

THE TROUBLE IS YOU SEE YOURSELVES AS LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES. AS JEWS AND MUSLIMS OR CHRISTIANS, AND FORGET THE REALITY OF EVERYONE OF US. THE REALITY OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY. WHEN YOU START SEEING THIS, YOU WILL BE CLOSER TO TRUTH AND JUSTICE. SO.........?
PEACE!

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by barsellers January 14, 2009 12:35 PM PST

If you think this story is shocking%u2026%u2026!!! But, when a father rapes his 5 year old daughter, and the society of a whole nation covers it up, nobody cares!!! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?

www.SurviveIran.com

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by secundus2 January 14, 2009 1:10 PM PST

I think "signtwo" is being ironic in saying that there has never been a terroristic act linked to Islam. Many who post here ought to calm down just a bit, so that they get the point that others are making.

I was encouraged by the report that Lebanese troops found other rockets waiting to be launched and dismantled them. If the Lebanese themselves and the international monitors can keep a grip on southern Lebanon, that means that Hezbollah is somewhat contained there.

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by antoniof123 January 14, 2009 1:10 PM PST

Oh brother no easy way out in fact looks like no way out.

It just keeps getting better and better.

Once again the real demon is Religion never changes.

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by clovernyc January 14, 2009 1:17 PM PST

Islam is a religion of peace
posted by signtwo
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What this delusional conveniently forgets to mention is that ''peace'' in the religion of Islam means decapitation and terrorist attacks to anyone who does not swear allegiance to their god of death.

As a sovereign nation, Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.

Peace and blessings to Israel.

May it triumph and crush Hamas once and for all.

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 1:22 PM PST

BARSELLER:
PEACE!
WILL YOU SPREAD THE TRUTH OR WILL YOU CONTINUE ON THE MISGUIGED PATH?
WILL YOU SUPPORT WAR AGAINST THE INOCENT CHILD WHILE YOU SPREAD PROPAGANDA FOR NEW GROUND OF WAR?
WILL YOU STOP SOREADING TYRANNY AND CORRUPTON IN THE LAND?
YOU MAY CHOOSE TO REPENT AND RETURN TO PEACE.
ALLAH IS MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL.
PEACE!

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 1:26 PM PST

HAS THE GLAD TIDINGS REACHED YOU?
OF THE RETURN OF JESUS, SON OF MARY?
INDEED THE TIME IS RIPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF ALLAH''S PROMISE.
AND ALLAH IS EVER TRUE TO HIS PROMISE.
SO WHILE YOU FEAR, HAVE HOP THAT THE GOLDEN AGE OF HUMANITY IS NEAR.
AND WHILE YOU HOP, SPEAK OF AND WORK FOR PEACE.
PEACE1

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 1:35 PM PST

OH MANKIND!
PEACE!
YOU WALK BY THE RUINS OF THE PAST GENERATIONS.
THEY WERE A PEOPLE ARROGANT AND PROUD...
MANY WHERE BUSINESS ME WITH MASTERY...
AND SOME WHERE LEADERS AMONG MEN.
GREAT SCIENTISTS THAT ENLIGHTED...
AND ARMIES ARMED TO THE TEETH.
INDEED THEY HAD PLOTTED...
NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM THAT WHICH YOU PLOT..
LONG GONE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE PAST.
LISTEN, DO YOU HEAR THEIR WHISPER?
NAY, THEY ARE DEAD, BURRIED IN THE GROUNG.
BUT, WAIT, WE TOO ARE JOURNEYING TO THE GRAVE.
AND THEIR, JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED.
AND FOR HIM WHO RPENTS,
ALLAH IS MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL.
WILL YOU STILL DENY?
PEACE!

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 1:48 PM PST

DO YOU HEAR THE TERRIFIED SREAM OF A CHILD?
IT IS A CRY FAR FROM YOUR PEACEFUL EXISTENCE...
WHILE YOU TYPE, AN ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN...
AND LOUDER IS THE SREAM..
BECAUSE THE ZIONIST PLANE IS AT A NEAR DISTANCE..
MUCH MORE IS THE TERROR...
FOR, THE ORDER TO STRIKE HAS BEEN COMMANDED...
SO BOMBED IS THE PALESTINIAN FAMILY...
AND SOME OF MAY CHEER..
MAN INDEED CHEERS FOR WHAT HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF.
IN A WORLD FULL OF HUMANITARIAN LAWYERS....
IT''S THEIR SILENCE THAT TORTURES ME.
SO IAM TORTURED WITH THOSE TORTURED IN GAZA.
AND MY ONLY MESSAGE IS PEAE.
PEACE!

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 2:03 PM PST

OH MANKIND!
PEACE!
HAS THE REALITY REACHED YOU?
THAT ALL LIFE SHALL TASTE THE CUP OF DEATH?
AND HAVE YOU WONDERED?
WHY YOU TALLY IN THE LAND?
INDEED YOURS AND MINE ARE A TIME APPOINTED...
SO YOU AND I MAY WORK FOR A DIGNIFIED RETURN TO OUR LORD.
WILL YOU WORSHIP THE MONEY AND WHAT IT BUYS?
WILL YOU WORSHIP YOUR TRIBE AND RACE AND WHAT THEY DICTATE?
OR WILL YOU WORSHIP ALLAH WHO CREATED YOU ONLY THAT YOU SHOULD WORSHIP HIM?
AND THAT YOU SHOULD BE GENEROUS TO THE LESS FORTUNATE.
INDEED ALLAH HAS COMMANDED LOVE AND JUSTICE...
BUT MANKIND HAS FORGOTTEN HIS OWN CREATOR..
SO HE PLOTS TO CONQOUR THE LAND...
AND IN THE END HE ONLY OCCUPIES A SMALL PEACE, SIX FEET DEEP IN THE LAND.
WILL YOU REMEMBER?
INDEED ALLAH IS FORGIVING TO THOSE THAT REMEBER THEIR PURPOSE.
PEACE!

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by zacjayman January 14, 2009 2:25 PM PST

PEACE, LOVE AND UNITY.
LOVE YOU ALL!

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by apndrgn January 14, 2009 3:06 PM PST

and here i thought hip hop was dead...

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by renojmc January 14, 2009 7:16 PM PST

Posted by drmaqazi at 06:03 PM : Jan 14, 2009
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You are seriously mistaken. The God of the Bible and the god of the Quran are NOT the same. The Quran is a satanic work that is a lie from the pit of Hell.

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by alaska47 January 14, 2009 8:23 PM PST

Muslim extremists use many English acronyms. One of them is "peace." That acronym stands for (p)ersecution, (e)xecution, and (a)ssassination by (c)utthroat (e)xtermists. The work ''Koran'' is also an acronym. It stands for (K)ill (o)thers and (r)age, (a)gainst (n)on-Muslims. They are just lovely people, aren''t they? (human garbage! Pour it on IDF. Turn Gaza into an inferno. Hizbullah is next and then the Big Enhilada, Iran!)

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by j40405 January 14, 2009 9:44 PM PST

Very well said ruger338wm . Go Israel, Put an end to HAMAS forever.

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by j40405 January 14, 2009 9:50 PM PST

signtwo, Is this what you meant to post?




Islam is a religion of War and hate. And it is proven everywhere in the world.

Islam only teaches hate and oppression to everyone. many of the people from Islam are misbehaving alot which makes entire Islam bad.

Islam has always spread nothing but oppression and death. Read the Koran and you will find it is filled with so much hate for the people of all other religion.

many muslims have done terroristic things in the world. Every muslim is filled with tremendous hate for the people of every religion.

So stating anything negative about the most hateful and oppressive religious cult islam.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posted by signtwo at 02:08 PM : Jan 14, 2009

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by rickstas January 15, 2009 4:53 PM PST

--Olmert claimed earlier this week that he humiliated Rice by persuading U.S. President Bush to instruct her not to vote for it--

He didn''t persuade Bush -- he ordered him to do it!!!!

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[trishab59-02]

So Lebanese are not moving. Good. They don''t need this war, or any other.

[missingamerica]

"Rice spokesman Sean McCormack has called Olmert''s claims "100-percent, totally, completely not true."

Now if I only had ONE reason to still believe that this Administration always told the truth...

[wardoglrs]

What Israel is doing to them they will do to you just give it some time.
The Phony Israel Nation thinks that there the chosen ones But what they really are is an Occult that hijacked the real Israeli Jew''s philosophy of the bible and way of life.

This occult has infratraded the USA and other countries Banks and politico positions of power.

You better wake up fast people your kids are going to war.

I believe that this Zion nation along with of course the US will start the draft very soon.

You had your chance when Dr Paul spoke about unintended consequences and how all the wars where a lie started by our own CIA and there economic hitmen

[wardoglrs]

%u201CWe are opposed...by a ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the [war] with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match...%u201D John F Kennedy, 1961.

[country1st]

Jews have lived there for 3,500 years. Islam is only 1,500 years old. Part of Syrian Ottoman Empire became British Mandate in 1917 and called it Palestine. Never was a country. Arabs sided with the Nazi in WWII. In 1948 the Arab countries took the gamble to declare war on Israel instead of creating Palestine as approved by the UN. After losing with the Nazis in WWII, the Arabs again lost the war in 1948 against Israel. Jordan took possession of the West Bank and Egypt took possession of Gaza. So the Arab countries refused to create a Palestinian state on the land they controlled just after the UN had approved the creation of a Palestinian state on virtually that same area but Israel with the size of New Jersey is blamed for the Palestinians not having a state and 60 years of misery? Every country in the world except Australia has had its borders change.
Now sixty years later the Palestinians (Fatah) have finally agreed to have a two state settlement and co-exist in peace with Israel. Israel is not fighting the Palestinians just like the USA and its allies are not fighting the Iraqi%u2019s or the people of Afghanistan. Unless the world supports Israel to defeat Hamas, Hezbollah and other fundamental Islamic extremists Palestinians and Israelis will continue to suffer as will ultimately the rest of the world.

[dee633-2009]

Concerning the nation of Israel

The LORD says:

Jeremiah 31:1
"At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be my people."

Isaiah 52:12
But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 44:6
"This is what the LORD says%u2014 Israel''''s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.

Isaiah 43:3
For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.

Numbers 23:21
"No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.

2 Samuel 7:24
You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God.

1 Chronicles 16:36
Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then all the people said "Amen" and "Praise the LORD."

Psalm 68:26
Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.

Psalm 94:16
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

[enviro_wacko]

Posted by Dee633 at 10:08 AM : Jan 14, 2009

Black Sabbath

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I''m the chosen one
Oh nooo!

Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan''s sitting there, he''s smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please God help me!

Is it the end, my friend?
Satan''s coming ''round the bend
People running ''cause they''re scared
The people better go and beware!
No, no, please, no!

[trapbreaker]

HAMAS
The Taliban
Hezzbollah
Iran
Al Queada
Whats not to like about such a positive cult ?
Posted by Moderator672

What is the right way to deal with Muslim terrorist in southern Philippines, Thailand, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Semolina, Ethiopia, Iraq, Palestine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, and the 30 countries elsewhere where Muslim terrorist are killing? If they can%u2019t kill Jews, or Hindus, or Brits, or Americans, or the government forces of the counties they live in, then they will just kill each other, like the Sunni woman who just suicide bombed and killed 35 Shiite pilgrims.

jihadi terrorist violence goes by many names, but it is all terrorism and murder by any name. They call themselves Hamas or Islamic Jihad, or Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in Palestine , Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM); in Pakistan, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) in Bangladesh, Taliban-HEI-Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Hezbollah in Lebanon, there are many more, they have different names in different countries, but you must understand that Jihadi terrorists recognize no national borders only murder.

[zacjayman]

TrapBreaker:
PEACE!
I FEEL SORRY FOR A MAN WHO TELLS A LIE TO ADVANCE SHORT TERM GAIN. A MAN THAT SPREADS PROPAGANDA TO MISLEAD MEN. INDEED HE WHO LIES IS ALSO A VICTIM OF HIS OWN LIES, BUT MOST LIARS KNOW NOT.
TrapBreaker:
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO YOUR REAL ENEMY IS, LOOK INTO YOURSELF, AND YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU ARE INDEED FOLLOWING AN UNJUST PHILOSOPHY.
PEACE!

[jmdintpa]

so i do have a question for those that defend islam. WHY??? why defend a religon which has "blessed" us with 9/11, the london and madrid bombings, the attack on mumbai. why should israel attack if these thugs are lobbing missiles. listen i am about as liberal as they come but if hamas continues to fire missiles then wipe them off the face of the earth and the people who voted them to power.

[zacjayman]

JmDintpa:
PEACE!
SO YOU ARE ASKING US TO DEFEND THE MURDER OF INOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN? INDEED YOU ASK US TO COMMIT AN EVIL DID. HOPE YOU MAY LIVE LONG TO SEE THE DAY WHEN YOU WILL PROVE YOURSELF WRONG IN SUPPORTING ZIONISM. IT''S NOT ABOUT JEWS AND MUSLIMS, IT''S ABOUT PEACE AND JUSTICE. SO FEAR YOUR OWN ILLUSSIONS AND SUSPICIONS AND TRY TO RESPOND WITH VIOLENCE IN A MOMENT OF PEACE. IAM MUSLIM AND I KNOW THAT IAM NOT TO KILL AN INOCENT LIFE. AND THAT I SHOULD NOT BE SILENT WHEN A CRIME IS COMMITTED. SO DOOMED ARE THE ZIONISTS AND THEIR EVIL PLOTS. PEACE TO THE WHOLE OF MANKIND.
PEACE!

[zacjayman]

THE TROUBLE IS YOU SEE YOURSELVES AS LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES. AS JEWS AND MUSLIMS OR CHRISTIANS, AND FORGET THE REALITY OF EVERYONE OF US. THE REALITY OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY. WHEN YOU START SEEING THIS, YOU WILL BE CLOSER TO TRUTH AND JUSTICE. SO.........?
PEACE!

[barsellers]

If you think this story is shocking%u2026%u2026!!! But, when a father rapes his 5 year old daughter, and the society of a whole nation covers it up, nobody cares!!! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?

www.SurviveIran.com

[secundus2]

I think "signtwo" is being ironic in saying that there has never been a terroristic act linked to Islam. Many who post here ought to calm down just a bit, so that they get the point that others are making.

I was encouraged by the report that Lebanese troops found other rockets waiting to be launched and dismantled them. If the Lebanese themselves and the international monitors can keep a grip on southern Lebanon, that means that Hezbollah is somewhat contained there.

[antoniof123]

Oh brother no easy way out in fact looks like no way out.

It just keeps getting better and better.

Once again the real demon is Religion never changes.

[clovernyc]

Islam is a religion of peace
posted by signtwo
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What this delusional conveniently forgets to mention is that ''peace'' in the religion of Islam means decapitation and terrorist attacks to anyone who does not swear allegiance to their god of death.

As a sovereign nation, Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.

Peace and blessings to Israel.

May it triumph and crush Hamas once and for all.

[zacjayman]

BARSELLER:
PEACE!
WILL YOU SPREAD THE TRUTH OR WILL YOU CONTINUE ON THE MISGUIGED PATH?
WILL YOU SUPPORT WAR AGAINST THE INOCENT CHILD WHILE YOU SPREAD PROPAGANDA FOR NEW GROUND OF WAR?
WILL YOU STOP SOREADING TYRANNY AND CORRUPTON IN THE LAND?
YOU MAY CHOOSE TO REPENT AND RETURN TO PEACE.
ALLAH IS MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL.
PEACE!

[zacjayman]

HAS THE GLAD TIDINGS REACHED YOU?
OF THE RETURN OF JESUS, SON OF MARY?
INDEED THE TIME IS RIPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF ALLAH''S PROMISE.
AND ALLAH IS EVER TRUE TO HIS PROMISE.
SO WHILE YOU FEAR, HAVE HOP THAT THE GOLDEN AGE OF HUMANITY IS NEAR.
AND WHILE YOU HOP, SPEAK OF AND WORK FOR PEACE.
PEACE1

[zacjayman]

OH MANKIND!
PEACE!
YOU WALK BY THE RUINS OF THE PAST GENERATIONS.
THEY WERE A PEOPLE ARROGANT AND PROUD...
MANY WHERE BUSINESS ME WITH MASTERY...
AND SOME WHERE LEADERS AMONG MEN.
GREAT SCIENTISTS THAT ENLIGHTED...
AND ARMIES ARMED TO THE TEETH.
INDEED THEY HAD PLOTTED...
NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM THAT WHICH YOU PLOT..
LONG GONE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE PAST.
LISTEN, DO YOU HEAR THEIR WHISPER?
NAY, THEY ARE DEAD, BURRIED IN THE GROUNG.
BUT, WAIT, WE TOO ARE JOURNEYING TO THE GRAVE.
AND THEIR, JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED.
AND FOR HIM WHO RPENTS,
ALLAH IS MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL.
WILL YOU STILL DENY?
PEACE!

[zacjayman]

DO YOU HEAR THE TERRIFIED SREAM OF A CHILD?
IT IS A CRY FAR FROM YOUR PEACEFUL EXISTENCE...
WHILE YOU TYPE, AN ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN...
AND LOUDER IS THE SREAM..
BECAUSE THE ZIONIST PLANE IS AT A NEAR DISTANCE..
MUCH MORE IS THE TERROR...
FOR, THE ORDER TO STRIKE HAS BEEN COMMANDED...
SO BOMBED IS THE PALESTINIAN FAMILY...
AND SOME OF MAY CHEER..
MAN INDEED CHEERS FOR WHAT HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF.
IN A WORLD FULL OF HUMANITARIAN LAWYERS....
IT''S THEIR SILENCE THAT TORTURES ME.
SO IAM TORTURED WITH THOSE TORTURED IN GAZA.
AND MY ONLY MESSAGE IS PEAE.
PEACE!

[zacjayman]

OH MANKIND!
PEACE!
HAS THE REALITY REACHED YOU?
THAT ALL LIFE SHALL TASTE THE CUP OF DEATH?
AND HAVE YOU WONDERED?
WHY YOU TALLY IN THE LAND?
INDEED YOURS AND MINE ARE A TIME APPOINTED...
SO YOU AND I MAY WORK FOR A DIGNIFIED RETURN TO OUR LORD.
WILL YOU WORSHIP THE MONEY AND WHAT IT BUYS?
WILL YOU WORSHIP YOUR TRIBE AND RACE AND WHAT THEY DICTATE?
OR WILL YOU WORSHIP ALLAH WHO CREATED YOU ONLY THAT YOU SHOULD WORSHIP HIM?
AND THAT YOU SHOULD BE GENEROUS TO THE LESS FORTUNATE.
INDEED ALLAH HAS COMMANDED LOVE AND JUSTICE...
BUT MANKIND HAS FORGOTTEN HIS OWN CREATOR..
SO HE PLOTS TO CONQOUR THE LAND...
AND IN THE END HE ONLY OCCUPIES A SMALL PEACE, SIX FEET DEEP IN THE LAND.
WILL YOU REMEMBER?
INDEED ALLAH IS FORGIVING TO THOSE THAT REMEBER THEIR PURPOSE.
PEACE!

[zacjayman]

PEACE, LOVE AND UNITY.
LOVE YOU ALL!

[apndrgn]

and here i thought hip hop was dead...

[renojmc]

Posted by drmaqazi at 06:03 PM : Jan 14, 2009
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You are seriously mistaken. The God of the Bible and the god of the Quran are NOT the same. The Quran is a satanic work that is a lie from the pit of Hell.

[alaska47]

Muslim extremists use many English acronyms. One of them is "peace." That acronym stands for (p)ersecution, (e)xecution, and (a)ssassination by (c)utthroat (e)xtermists. The work ''Koran'' is also an acronym. It stands for (K)ill (o)thers and (r)age, (a)gainst (n)on-Muslims. They are just lovely people, aren''t they? (human garbage! Pour it on IDF. Turn Gaza into an inferno. Hizbullah is next and then the Big Enhilada, Iran!)

[j40405]

Very well said ruger338wm . Go Israel, Put an end to HAMAS forever.

[j40405]

signtwo, Is this what you meant to post?




Islam is a religion of War and hate. And it is proven everywhere in the world.

Islam only teaches hate and oppression to everyone. many of the people from Islam are misbehaving alot which makes entire Islam bad.

Islam has always spread nothing but oppression and death. Read the Koran and you will find it is filled with so much hate for the people of all other religion.

many muslims have done terroristic things in the world. Every muslim is filled with tremendous hate for the people of every religion.

So stating anything negative about the most hateful and oppressive religious cult islam.


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Posted by signtwo at 02:08 PM : Jan 14, 2009

[rickstas]

--Olmert claimed earlier this week that he humiliated Rice by persuading U.S. President Bush to instruct her not to vote for it--

He didn''t persuade Bush -- he ordered him to do it!!!!