But mainly, yeah, it was the air strike:
Hamas has said that Israeli air strike in Gaza which killed Ahmed Jabari, the head of its military wing, “has opened the gates of hell” . . .
Jabari, who is the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago, was killed in an air strike on a vehicle, in a dramatic resumption of Israel’s policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders.
Jabari has long topped Israel’s most-wanted list, the Associated Press reported, and was blamed for in a string of attacks, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.
His son was also reportedly killed in the targeted air strike, according to Osama Hamdan, a Hamas representative in Lebanon . . .
The air strike was accompanied by this Twitter exchange between the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and the Hamas “Al Qassam Brigades”:
We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) November 14, 2012
@idfspokesperson Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves)
— Alqassam Brigades (@AlqassamBrigade) November 14, 2012
And here’s the IDF video of the strike that took out Jibari:
Hat tip: Alex Yudelson on Twitter.
Lay on, MacDuff
And damned be he who first cries “Hold, enough!”
More, please.
Finally…some good news.
What JeffS said.
These big-mouthed barbarians keep saying they want it, give it to them – good and hard.
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Driving around in broad daylight while shooting missiles at the most formidable military in the Middle East. Saladin is shaking his head.
Oh, oh. This could turn into a flame war. The FBI should seize both sides emails for the past 3 years.
Well a famous General once said “War is the remedy our enemy has chosen and I say give them all they want”. His name escapes me at the moment…
IDF theme song:
And another one gone
and another one gone,
another one bites the dust.
Hey, I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
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General William Sherman.
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Nuke em