SSG Emmanueloff, a 22-year-old infantryman of the Golani Bde, apparently is the first IDF KIA in the Gaza ground operation, at least according to the IDF’s English-language site. Others have been seriously wounded. May there be no more, though that isn’t very likely. This war that the Hamas terrorists have started isn’t a game.
UPDATE: Alas, there have been four more in quick succession. Small numbers to us are big numbers to little Israel.
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Tagged Gaza, IDF, Operation Cast Lead, SSgt. Dvir Emmanueloff
O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
— Psalm 130
Your battle is also our battle. Get some.
Via Monkey In The Middle. And with this.
It looks like the IDF is close to moving into Gaza, although the ground is wet from recent hard rains, because leaflets warning civilians to evacuate have been dropped and the mobile artillery prep appears to have begun. Good luck, guys.
UPDATE: So it begins. Tanks, engineers and infantry move into northern Gaza.
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Great Israeli Air Force video of a huge secondary explosion at another air-struck Gaza mosque. The second mosque bombing video I’ve seen. Debka reports that Egypt is urging Israel not to bomb any more mosques, even when they are known ammo and armament dumps. So far the IAF is ignoring them. Keep it up. More bombing, please. Save the troops as long as you can.
Via LGF.
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Tagged bombing mosques full of weapons, Debka, Gaza, Israel, secondary explosions
Still scouting around for appropriate links for likely end of the year sentiments.
I hope the IDF can end the Gaza deal with minimal casualties of its own. I’m sure our spineless leaders–who nevertheless provide IAF bombs–will force them to quit soon, as they always do.
Mr. Boy claims he wants to stay up until midnight, but he probably won’t make it. He had a sleepover last night at a pal’s place out in the western hills, events which usually mean little actual sleep. Fortunately he hasn’t heard about this yet, so we’re safe for another year, anyhow.
I’m hustling to finish a Civil War historical novel in time for Amazon’s Feb. 2 fiction contest. That will be it for me and make-believe. My next literary attempt will be some non-fiction Texana.
Mrs. Charm and I will spend a quiet evening and then enjoy her day off tomorrow, although forecast is for chilly. At the least we’ll get going on airline reservations for a planned D.C. trip in March.
UPDATE: My novel made the first cut to the top twenty percent. Then it went down in flames on the second cut to five percent. Oh, well. Bragging rights, at least, in the impending hunt for an agent.
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Tagged Amazon fiction contest, Austin's First Night, Gaza, Happy New Year, IDF, Southwest Airlines
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a goggle-eyed Democrat harridan with a fright-wig hairdo, has always been pathetic to everyone except, apparently, the Georgians who keep sending her to Congress. Pity she does not sleep with the fishes today off Gaza. Unfortunately, the Israeli navy did not slice in two and sink but only damaged the boat she was using to aid Hamas, in a publicity stunt for her wellknown anti-Semitism. Funny how, whenever the terrorists are under attack, the anti-Semites, anti-democrats, and anti-Americans come out of the woodwork to fist-punch the air and otherwise support them. If only Hamas would take McKinney and her clones permanently.
UPDATE: Ceasefire is in the daily’s headlines, put together last night although Israel had rejected the idea well before midnight. It comports with the frontpage picture yesterday of the handful of Hamas-supporting protestors outside the Texas capitol. Dead Jews aren’t news, as Ralph Peters says, only besieged terrorists. Meanwhile the local Jewish Community Assoc. sent out an email of moral support while cautioning that, in times like these, "anti-Jewish attitudes, expressions and activity [bring] an added risk to Jewish communal institutions."
As much as I support the Israeli bombing response to Palestinian rocket attacks, I hope the IDF follows Haaretz’s logic and avoids a ground invasion. Not for the enemy’s sake but for the sake of the young soldiers of the IDF. Certainly, nothing besides full-scale war is likely to stop the rockets permanently. And such war is impossible of success as long as Israel’s munitions come from the West which has a Leftist news media and its own interests in keeping the oil ticks happy. Even if we became energy independent, those interests (and the media) would remain. So periodic bombing to make the rocketing expensive, followed by more diplomacy, is probably the best that can be achieved.
UPDATE: Indeed, Hamas’ strategy relies on counting on its client media telling it like it isn’t. Uh oh, IDF has called up the reserves.
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