{"id":54041,"date":"2014-07-19T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T13:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54041"},"modified":"2014-07-19T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T13:25:24","slug":"israel-invasion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54041","title":{"rendered":"Israel invasion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54042\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Washington-Post-Israel-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Post Israel\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Washington-Post-Israel-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Washington-Post-Israel-500x259.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Washington-Post-Israel.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The above screenshot is from the front page of the Washington Post&#8217;s webpage. I guess it&#8217;s for the majority of the low-information readers of the Post who just read the front page headlines. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/israeli-clashes-with-hamas-militants-intensify-in-gaza\/2014\/07\/19\/f2e14608-0f0b-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html?hpid=z2\">But reading the articles<\/a> gives a different story of the second day of the incursion by the Israel Defense Force into Gaza;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one incident, the militants strapped a donkey with explosives and pushed it in the direction of Israeli soldiers, said Israel\u2019s military, adding in a statement that soldiers \u201cengaged the donkey and it exploded at a safe distance\u201d without injuring any troops.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Israeli ground forces targeted Hamas\u2019s tunnel networks inside Gaza \u2014 their main stated objective \u2014 Islamist militants tried to infiltrate Israel early Saturday through a tunnel in central Gaza, Israel\u2019s military said.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent target was an Israeli community on the Gazan border. The militants, Israel\u2019s military said, encountered an Israeli army patrol and fired an anti-tank missile and machine guns at the forces. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video from the IDF shows one destruction of a tunnel;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mv8xR1FPakY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/07\/19\/gaza-crisis-un-chief-set-to-visit-region-as-casualties-mount-on-both-sides\/\">Fox News <\/a>says that Ban Ki-Moon, the UN General Secretary is on his way to observe the situation there. I know know how well he&#8217;ll be able to see it from a hotel conference room, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will leave Saturday for the Middle East to help end the conflict, the U.N. political chief said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>At an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said a cease-fire is &#8220;indispensable.&#8221; But the only way to make it stick is for the international community to &#8220;assume its responsibility to urgently help restore a serious prospect for a two-state solution that brings an end to the decades-long conflict and occupation,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What &#8220;decades-long occupation&#8221;? Didn&#8217;t the UN sanction the settlement of Jews in Israel when they broke up the British Mandate (<a href=\"http:\/\/domino.un.org\/unispal.nsf\/0\/7f0af2bd897689b785256c330061d253\">Resolution 181(II)<\/a>)?<\/p>\n<p>From the Post;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United Nations estimates that roughly 80 percent of the casualties are civilians, many of them children. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are seeking refuge in U.N. shelters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They should try and convince Hamas to stop hiding behind civilians. The IDF has been trying to avoid civilian casualties, but you know, when Hamas even drafts donkeys into their ranks, it hard to avoid non-combatants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above screenshot is from the front page of the Washington Post&#8217;s webpage. 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