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bigtree

(86,004 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 12:41 AM Aug 2014

BREAKING Israeli army announces total retreat from Gaza

Agence France-Presse ?@AFP 4m

#BREAKING Israeli army announces total retreat from Gaza: spokesman

The Associated Press ?@AP 6m
BREAKING: Israeli military: All forces will have withdrawn from Gaza by start of cease-fire at 8 a.m.


Peter Lerner ?@LTCPeterLerner 9m
After the destruction of 32 terror tunnels, from 0800 the #IDF will implement a 72 hour cease fire, from defensive lines, outside of #Gaza

Yahoo News ?@YahooNews 12m
Israeli radio: Army has completed main Gaza war mission of destroying cross-border tunnels: http://yhoo.it/WXTuwI



(my son) Oakley Fullwood ?@OakleyFullwood 4m
Now what, Israel? groundstrikes?
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BREAKING Israeli army announces total retreat from Gaza (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2014 OP
Congrats, Hamas. RandySF Aug 2014 #1
How brilliant were the Israelis in supplying the atrocities Hamas supposedly wanted? Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #2
Like I said RandySF Aug 2014 #5
Congratulate that fucking child murder Netanyahu whatchamacallit Aug 2014 #7
This! regnaD kciN Aug 2014 #10
blame the dead for their killing. nice nt msongs Aug 2014 #11
Thank you. ellie Aug 2014 #18
Abraham Lincoln once remarked: bigtree Aug 2014 #4
You would think Netanyahu (or any leader) would be smarter then that. 4now Aug 2014 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author rateyes Aug 2014 #15
puke rateyes Aug 2014 #16
you make me hit you, honey frylock Aug 2014 #19
So maybe the forty gazillionth Likud/Hamas war is at an end? eom MohRokTah Aug 2014 #3
It does seem to be "their" Right Wingers against "our" Right Wingers. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Go Vols Aug 2014 #6
Ground troops Aerows Aug 2014 #8
"Now what, Israel? groundstrikes?" Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #12
Looks and sounds like good news, but.... ReRe Aug 2014 #14
I watched BBC International News a short while ago malaise Aug 2014 #17

RandySF

(59,020 posts)
1. Congrats, Hamas.
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 12:49 AM
Aug 2014

You won by firing rockets from populated areas knowing full well that a hothead like Netnayahu would send the troops after you, causing the civilian deaths you knew would happen. Even more brilliant is how you got much of the world community to ignore how you goaded this conflict to begin with. Bravo.

bigtree

(86,004 posts)
4. Abraham Lincoln once remarked:
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 12:55 AM
Aug 2014
"A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"


At Edwardsville, Illinois, on September 11, 1858, Abraham Lincoln said:

"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoast, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not the reliance against the resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle."

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty, which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is the preservation of the spirit, which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere." Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your down doors."


4now

(1,596 posts)
9. You would think Netanyahu (or any leader) would be smarter then that.
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 02:10 AM
Aug 2014

Or is he stupider then George Bush?

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ReRe

(10,597 posts)
14. Looks and sounds like good news, but....
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 03:54 AM
Aug 2014

... it's coming out of Israel. I want to believe it, but Israel isn't always good at keeping it's word.

malaise

(269,101 posts)
17. I watched BBC International News a short while ago
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 07:37 AM
Aug 2014

The host asked a Lieutenant from the IDF if it was true that Israeli troops were still on the ground in Gaza.
He said they had all left. Then in response to another question he said 'that's why we left troops ...caught himself and then said the troops had withdrawn from Gaza but were surrounding Gaza in case they were needed.

It was a classic gotcha moment.
All LIES, all the time. I'm finished with Israel.

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