Could Gaza War spiral into a wider war with Iran?

[A.Rafay]

Silly Article, israel want to drag iran in war with them.

 

[Abii]

Why should we say fuk you to Arabs? They're our neighbours. They're not going anywhere. We're not going anywhere. Our goal should be to peacefully coexist with them, buy from them, sell to them, etc... Of course some of them may be too backward to understand this just yet. That's why we need to be strong in order to ensure they are respectful and understand their boundaries. And we're on our way to reach that point. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take the initiative to shape the environment in a fashion beneficial to all of us.

by fuk you I mean not interfere in their problems. The pali issue is their problem not ours.

Tajikistan gave away some land to China a few years back, did any of us even care? Do you even know about this? It's time to get our priorities straight. Why the **** are we interfering in **** we have no business interfering in? The arabs don't want us to do this, the West doesn't want us to do this and the Iranian public also doesn't want Iran to be in this mess.

Of course we should trade with everyone and respect our neighbors, I didn't say close the borders.

Screw wahabis palis, screw the zionists, screw the lebs... Let's focus on building our own home.

Its like arguing with ignorance.

AK47 can be had in black market and can be smuggled in a cargo.
Very different than a non-export missile manufactured and used by only one country in the world.




In that case Iran will have no means to retaliate other than fire some rockets.

wahabi, libya and syria have the Fajr missile as well. How do you know they didn't give it to Hamas?

 

[Developereo]

No, this conflict was ignited by NuttyYahoo to try and win the election. These Israeli Likud have no qualms about sacrificing a few Palestinians for domestic Israeli politics. If some Israelis get killed along the way, they won't care either.

5 of last 7 elections took place after IDF ops - JPost

Operation Pillar of Defense began only 69 days before the January 22, 2013 election, making it the fifth election out of the last seven to take place months after an IDF operation.

Left-wing activists and politicians accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak of launching the attack on Gaza on Wednesday in order to win the electorate's approval.

However, recent history shows that such actions hurt a sitting government as often as it helps it get reelected.

Operation Grapes of Wrath was launched on April 11, 1996, when Shimon Peres was prime minister. In an attempt to stop Hezbollah from shelling northern Israel, the IDF launched over 1,000 air raids. The military operation ended 16 days later, with a ceasefire.

On May 29, 1996, Israel held its first direct vote for prime minister, and Netanyahu was elected as premier for the first time, though Labor was the largest party in the Knesset with 34 seats.

The 1999 and 2001 elections were not held shortly after a military operation.

On June 22, 2002, the IDF launched Operation Determined Path during the Second Intifada, which was meant to reach the objectives of Operation Defensive Shield (March 2002) that had not been achieved in the West Bank, and lasted about one month.

An election was held seven months later, on January 28, 2003. Israelis once again voted only for a party, and prime minister Ariel Sharon was reelected with the Likud remaining the largest party in the Knesset.

The IDF launched Operation Lightning Strike in February 2006, in response to rocket fire from Gaza, six months after Israel disengaged from the area. Four senior Hamas figures were assassinated in the operation, which involved air and artillery strikes.

In March 2006, Sharon's Kadima party won the election with 29 seats, and Ehud Olmert became prime minister.

Operation Cast Lead began in December 27, 2008 in response to rockets from Gaza and following Hamas' refusal to continue a six-month ceasefire. Cast Lead combined airstrikes, naval operations and a ground invasion and ended in a unilateral ceasefire by Israel, three weeks later.

Less than a month after Operation Cast Lead ended, on February 10, 2009, Kadima was elected the largest party in the Knesset, but the right-wing bloc was larger than the Left, and Netanyahu became prime minister.

 

[Developereo]

Tension fuelled by election and UN bid

Ruth Pollard
ANALYSIS

Even before Israel launched the missile strike that killed the leader of Hamas's military wing overnight, local media observed that senior government ministers appeared to be making an unseemly dash towards the cameras in the country's south.
Mr Netanyahu's colleagues called for renewed targeted killings in Gaza and advocated cutting off water and electricity to the strip's 1.6 million residents.

The Knesset elections, scheduled for January 22, along with the determination of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to push for enhanced status at the United Nations later this month in the face of a furious campaign by Israel, had somehow put its leaders on the back foot.

So when Gaza militants escalated their rocket fire on southern Israel in response to a series of targeted attacks by Israel that killed seven Palestinians, including five civilians, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised not to sit idly by.

Now Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari and his deputy, as well as eight civilians – including two children – are dead and Hamas is threatening retaliation, leaving two civilian populations, one in Gaza and the other in southern Israel, caught in the middle.

"It is impossible to prove that there is a connection between the decisions that the government will make to deal with the rocket fire endangering approximately one million Israelis and the upcoming Knesset election," wrote Shimon Shiffer in the mass circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth.

"But there is definitely a link between the prime minister and ministers' mad dash towards the cameras and microphones in the southern communities and the fact that in 69 days we will be going to the polling stations." Mr Netanyahu's colleagues called for renewed targeted killings in Gaza and advocated cutting off water and electricity to the strip's 1.6 million residents.

The Labor Party chairwoman, Shelly Yachimovich, cautioned earlier in the week that the time was not right for a large operation in the Gaza Strip.

"We are on the eve of elections, and an operation that goes beyond an air strike or a pinpointed strike against the dispatchers of the terrorists requires some kind of stability on our side and a national consensus. Such an operation may be necessary, but not now," she told Army Radio.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood accused Israel's leaders of turning up the heat on the conflict with Gaza to score political points ahead of the election.

The statement from the Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, referred to Israel as a "racist state" and said it was "in the framework of elections that Israel is witnessing a recent military escalation against occupied Gaza and the occupied Golan Heights".

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 but controls its airspace, coastline and most land border crossings.
Its last major incursion into Gaza – Operation Cast Lead – ran for three weeks from December 2008 to January 2009, killing 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Its like arguing with ignorance.

AK47 can be had in black market and can be smuggled in a cargo.
Very different than a non-export missile manufactured and used by only one country in the world.




In that case Iran will have no means to retaliate other than fire some rockets.

Which fajr missile you are talking about , the artillery rocket we are talking about is very much exportable and in fact have been exported to several middle east and north aferican country and incidentally several of those countries thanks to some others intervention lost their central government or the central government become much weakened .

 

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A future war with iran can`t happen untill Israel weakens the resistance in Gaza adn Palestine

So this is why they are conducting missing to weaken local resistance after which they can focus on iran

The fear they have is that if iran and israel goes to war local Palestininas will uprise from within and overthrow government in Israel