WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Israel unleashed a string of air strikes Saturday against targets in the Gaza Strip, reacting to the firing of rockets and mortars into southern Israel by Hamas militants as the United Nations called for an end to the bloodshed.

The death toll climbed past 200 as rescue workers pulled bodies from some 30 sites that came under attack, media reports said. And more than 700 Palestinians, including women and children, were said to have been wounded.

Israeli forces said they targeted security compounds run by Hamas, primarily in Gaza City, in the first retaliation since a cease fire with the Islamist group governing Gaza lapsed last June and an unofficial truce between the two sides ended days ago.

Militants recently stepped up the pace of rocket and mortar fire into Israeli territory, sparking calls in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for military retaliation.

gettin in some practice before they hit Iran..

Good show men.............

Charlie

"I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one. Do you understand?" said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, vowing to expand the operation if necessary.

Tel Aviv's newspaper Tel Astory said 4,000 Hamas militants were killed and 80,000 militants were wounded, also no woman or children were hurt and no buildings were damaged.

JonR

Tony Montana: "I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one. Do you understand? That piece of **** up there, I never liked him, I never trusted him. For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he's not. Do you wanna go on with me, you say it. You don't, then you make a move".

Tony Ben-Montanastein "**** Gaza Al-Gomez! And **** the ****' Hamas brothers! **** 'em all! I bury those camelroaches!"

I am mystified by posts 4, 5, and 6:

No.4.....were you fed ground glass as a baby?

No.5.....shallow comment, consistent with previous spoutings.

No.6.....TY for the clarification. Movie dialog, truly?

Every story I've read today has Israel as the aggressor, wantonly killing Palestinian women & children, flying American F16's supplied by Geo. Bush's war machine.

Sad to see how firmly rooted are some folks' prejudice. Gaza and the Palestinians have been a problem for Israel since I was a youngster in the 50's. When you consider the TRILLIONS of $$$ in petroleum revenues earned by Arabs in the intervening decades, it's clear that they don't care squat for their "poor," "down-trodden," "disenfranchised" Muslim brethern "crushed" beneath the heel of the only fundamentally democratic nation in the Mid-East.

Without the Palestinians to be their football, kicked all around since 1948, the other nations in the region could not have kept this miserable controversy, which has cost everyone so much in blood and money, viable.

The Jews have a Law of Return, but the Arab nations, mired in centuries of tribal distrust, have no such provision. They disgust me with their backwardness, their selfishness, and their silent, robust complicity with terrorists like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Brotherhood, Al-qaeda, etc. etc. etc.

That is all. I wish that was all.

^ 8 To answer your question, when the milk was gone, I ate the bottle.

Not breast fed, were you?

^ The bitch wasn't so inclined.

Pecan.....Brother!.....'Ya got pie for brains if you think Isreal has been the agressor. They have signed countless peace areements with whatever Arab leader will have the nuts to sit down and talk with them. And they have been boinked by them all. This is a situation I have followed for decades and IMNSHO I back them 1000% in whatever they do when it comes to the Palestinians. I do agree with you about the Arabs turning their collective backs on the problem, tho. This could all go away overnight if they would just put their "tribal" differences aside and try to move into the 18th century....let alone the 21st!!!

(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama spoke with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the violence in Gaza on Saturday, which has left at least 205 people dead, two transition aides told CNN.

“The president-elect appreciated the call and the information from Secretary Rice,” one aide said, adding that Obama initiated the eight-minute phone call. “He will continue to closely monitor these and other global events.”

Israeli airstrikes pounded targets in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, retaliating against Palestinian militants who have been escalating rocket attacks against southern Israel. The fighting sparked just one day after an Egypt-brokered cease-fire between Hamas and Israel expired.

Alonzo Harris: "Today's a training day, Officer Hoyt. Show you around, give you a taste of the business. I got 38 cases pending trial, 63 in active investigations, another 250 on the log I can't clear. I supervise five officers. That's five different personalities. Five sets of problems. You can be number six if you act now. But I ain't holding no hands, okay? I ain't baby-sitting. You got today and today only to show me who and what you're made of. You don't like narcotics, get the **** out of my car. Go get you a nice, **** desk job, chasing bad checks or something, you hear me?"

"We kill foking Hamas, got that"

LAPD Sgt Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) was one badass mfer.

Charlie

5. Author: JonR

War. Death. Destruction... And yet you make a joke about it and skew the casualty counts miserably. Why?

How long have they been slaying each other?

Way too long.

The doctrine of islam in intrinsically exclusional. You are either a muslim or you're **** from their line of thinking. As long as their cult believes this, the violence and bloodshed will continue. I've had a lot of dealings (business/legal) with members of this cult over the years and they have, to to the man, attempted to cheat and lie to me (an infidel), it's so predictable. The business ethic is so stilted; they will lie, cheat and defraud till caught and when they are and end up paying double, it doesn't seem to phase them, like it's a game. Maybe others in this forum have had different experiences but those are mine.

It's not a war it's a tradition.

JonR

For the record, I think you're an infidel, too.

But I wouldn't try to defraud you.

I would give you bad directions to the freeway, however.