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Title: Seven more IDF soldiers and officers killed in clashes with Hamas
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URL Source: http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Prot ... trated-Israel-from-Gaza-368343
Published: Jul 21, 2014
Author: staff
Post Date: 2014-07-21 20:34:53 by Horse
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Seven IDF soldiers and officers were killed in battles with terrorists in Gaza and southern Israel on Monday, as the IDF continued to consolidate its hold on areas of Gaza and destroy sections of Hamas's terror network.

Four were killed when their military jeep was hit with an anti-tank missile fired by a Gazan terrorist squad, which used a cross-border tunnel to infiltrate southern Israel on Monday morning, and three were killed in exchanges of fire in Gaza.

The terrorists who entered Israel surfaced from a tunnel near Kibbutz Nir Am, and were dressed in IDF uniforms. They were detected by an IDF lookout, after the army received an intelligence alert from the Shin Bet warning of an imminent attack.

The first terrorist squad was hit by an air strike, but the second was able to move around in Israel and fire on an army jeep, before the IDF struck it. The following soldiers and officers were killed in the jeep: Lt.-Col. Dolev Kidar, commander of the Gefen Battalion, of the IDF's Bahad 1 officer training base. Kidar was 38, and a resident of Modi'in.

Sgt. Nadav Goldmacher, 23, a soldier from the Bahad 1 training base.

He was from Beersheba. Goldmacher was posthumously promoted from the rank of corporal.

Sec.-Lt. Yuval Haiman, 21, a soldier from from the Bahad 1 officer training Base. He was from Efrat. Haiman was posthumously promoted from the rank of segrant.

CWO Baynesian Kasahun, a 39-year-old soldier from the Northern Brigade of the Gaza Division.

Three additional soldiers, all from the Golani brigade, were killed in exchanges of fire on Monday in the Gaza Strip. The IDF named them as: St.-Sgt. Tal Yifrah, 21, from Rishon Lezion. He will be laid to rest at 11 am in Rishon Lezion on Tuesday.

St.Sgt. Yuval Dagan, 22, from Kfar Saba.

St.-Sgt. Jordan Ben Simon, 22, from Ashkelon. Dagan was posthumously promoted from rank of sergant.

Police closed roads in Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council near the Gaza border due to the attack, and residents of Erez, Nir Am, Ra'im, Ein Hashlosha were instructed to stay in their homes.

The latest tunnel infiltration by two Hamas squads underlines the threat posed to the South, OC Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Sami Turgeman, said after the attack.

Uncovering the tunnels is a complex and challenging task, requiring intelligence and technology, he added.

The IDF's work in destroying tunnels, both inside Gaza and against cross-border tunnels, "is disturbing the enemy," which spent years digging them,Turgeman said.

Meanwhile, IDF Ground Forces continue to advance to positions in the northeast Gazan Sajayia area overnight between Sunday and Monday, and took part in heavy exchanges of fire with terrorists in the area.

An IDF unit killed 10 terrorists in exchanges of fire.

Three soldiers have been seriously injured, 8 moderately wounded, and 19 were lightly injured throughout Monday.

More than 16 tunnels have been found in the area, and Hamas has attempted to hinder the IDF's tunnel destruction work by opening fire on ground Meanwhile, the air force continued its air strikes throughout the strip. One of the strikes killed the head of Hamas's surveillance unit.

The IDF arrested 20 terrorists overnight and is questioning several of them.

Gaza's tunnel network began expanding rapidly after the Second Lebanon War of 2006, as part of Hamas's strategic decision to build up an underground attack capability, alongside a rocket arsenal, a senior army source said Monday.

Hamas purchased homes, greenhouses, school yards and a warehouse, under which it begins tunnelling towards the Israeli border. The structures are fortified with concrete, making them sturdy.

One of Hamas's goal is to be able to send large numbers of terrorists simultaneously through multiple tunnels, creating a large-scale attack on southern Israel.

Many of the tunnels serve as weapon and equipment storage centers, containing ceramic vests, clothes, weapons, and other items needed for combat. IDF uniforms are also hidden in the tunnels, to enable terrorists to descender into them and emerge on the Israeli side disguised as a soldier.

Large numbers of explosives are inside, the officer said.

The IDF is investing large resources to deal with tunnel network threat, and is working to develop a defense system against it.

It takes Hamas around two years to complete work on a tunnel. Many of them were constructed between Israel's last clash with Hamas, in November 2012, and now, the officer added.

Infantry soldiers have uncovered many tunnel shafts since the ground operation began on Thursday night, and have destroyed 16 tunnels, including cross-border tunnels. Liquid explosives are used to demolish the structures.

Some of the searches are guided by intelligence data, the source said.

Three soldiers were injured in exchanges of fire overnight between Sunday and Monday.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon visited the Home Front Command's central base on Monday, and received a briefing from Home Front Commander Maj.-Gen. Eyal Eizenberg.

During his visit, Ya'alon said the ability of Israeli civilians to remain resilient in the face of the security situation is "as important" as the IDf's operation in Gaza.

"We have to be patient, since the fighting will continue for as long as it is needed. The steadfastness of the public is a central component in our power," the defense minister added.


Poster Comment:

Is everyone in the Israeli Army either an officer or a sergeant? They have no dead privates and corporals.

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#1. To: Horse (#0)

The Palestinians are the ones who are fighting the terrorists.

bush_is_a_moonie  posted on  2014-07-21   20:40:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse (#0)

Judaism has always been a conquering religion, not for the purpose of converting gentiles to become Jews, but rather with the mission of returning the world to the universal covenant between G-d and Noah. For halachic reasons too numerous and detailed to list here, gentiles today who follow Christianity, Islam, or other religions are not, for the most part, "righteous gentiles" who inherit the World to Come. That status belongs only to those gentiles who carefully observe the Seven Laws of Noah, including following the halachic authority of the oral Torah and the rabbis.

That situation has completely reversed itself today. The very fact that Amalek can stir up such chaos in the world is proof that gentile society no longer presents true opposition to Jewish teachings. One now sees anti-Semitism only where Amalek is provoking trouble, which is precisely where gentiles are the most desperate for guidance. As Christianity spirals downward into strife and theological confusion, it becomes a vacuum unable to defend itself against either the lies of Amalek or the truth of Torah. Amalek can exploit the worldwide collapse of Christianity only by default—that is, only when the Jewish people do not seize the unprecedented opportunity.

And as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has explained, by transforming the gentiles we can quickly create a vast army of supporters who will help us reveal Moshiach and bring all Jews back to the Torah. Specifically, the Rebbe has emphasized that the "peace process" in Israel will be defeated only through our influence on the gentiles—especially through the campaign to teach the Noachide Laws (see Sichos in English, vol. 16, [19 Kislev 5743]).

As the world plunges headlong toward the imminent revelation of Moshiach while the last walls of the exile disintegrate, the number of confused gentiles ready to change is rising exponentially. If the Jewish people immediately begin preparing adequate structures for the Noachide movement, this tide will be channeled directly into a glorious revelation of Truth. But if we allow ourselves to be caught unprepared, this same overwhelming force for social change can, G-d forbid, be diverted to empower Amalek's final assault on holiness. It is not a matter of whether gentile society will explode in the face of the growing crisis; this event is an inevitable, and fast-approaching, reality. We do not want to miss this incredible opportunity to provide light in the final moments of darkness.

The world has reached its ultimate point of decision, and the power to succeed belongs entirely to the Jewish people. We can wait until Moshiach comes on his own, following a world war, or we can bring him through our own actions, as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has stated is our mission. The choice is ours.

There is not a minute to waste. Jews everywhere, unite!

www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm

bush_is_a_moonie  posted on  2014-07-21   21:29:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Horse (#0)

"...according to the known Jewish ruling that Christians are idol worshippers." (Likkutei Sichos 37:198)

A gentile...is liable for the death penalty...if he has invented a religious holiday for himself...The general principle is we do not allow them to make new religious rituals and to make 'mitzvahs' for themselves by their own devices. Rather they may either become a Ger Tzeddek and accept all the Mitvahs; or he (the Noahide) should stand fast in his Torah (the seven Noahide Laws) without adding or diminishing...and if he does make some new 'mitzvah,' we lash him, punish him, and inform him that he is obligated with the death penalty for this..." (Rambam Mishne Torah—Hilchos Melachim 10:9)

"...it is however obvious that if it will be perceived by them (the nations), also the matter of the negation of shituf, until they even have some recognition of the Unity of Hashem—that 'there is nothing else besides Him'; this will add both in their carefulness and meticulousness in fulfilling the seven Noahide Laws [with all of their ramifications!] and also in their aiding of Jewish people in all of their matters pertaining to Yiddishkeit and all of their needs in general..." (Likkutei Sichos 25: YudTes Kislev)

"Any person who has already worked successfully in this area should try to influence other Jews to do likewise. Resistance should not deter one when attempting to influence a further individual to accept upon himself the task of disseminating the Noahide Laws amongst the nations." (Hisvaduyos 5750)

• "...There no longer exists even a remote doubt of any danger involved with spreading the Noahide Laws...". Consequently, the Jewish people must now become totally involved to the maximum of their capacity and effort to fulfill the Torah obligation to teach and transform all gentiles throughout the world. Anyone who seeks to exempt himself from this mitzvah, claiming he is already busy with other mitzvahs (ahavas Yisroel, etc.), is, in effect, throwing off the yoke of heaven. "This is the opposite of Torah, and is neither a benefit for him nor for those [Jews] whom he is helping—and utilizing—to exempt himself from kabbalas ol malchus shamayim [accepting the yoke of heaven]!"

Christianity, moreover, is absolute idolatry, not shittuf (partnership of deities), based on at least two of its beliefs (held almost universally by the estimated 1.9 billion Christians worldwide): (1) That the other two members of the "trinity" are of equal power and stature to Hashem (G-d forbid!), and (2) that the physical world is primarily under the dominion of the Satan, who is in an actual state of rebellion against G-d (G-d forbid!). Christianity, therefore, does not fit the definition of shittuf given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe ("Mayim Rabim," Sefer Hama'amarim vol. 1, pp. 51-62; 1957).

The Rambam, indeed, officially rules in three places that Christianity is idolatry and thus forbidden to gentiles (Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Ma'achalos Asuros 11:7 and Hilchos Avodas Kochavim 9:4; commentary on Mishnah, Avodah Zarah 1:3), and implies the same in a fourth place (Hilchos Melachim 11:4) The Rambam further rules that any religion which would believe in shittuf would also be prohibited to gentiles (Hilchos Melachim 9:2). www.noahide.com/infiltration/xmas2.htm

bush_is_a_moonie  posted on  2014-07-21   21:35:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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