New IDF Sheriff : Avigdoe Lieberman continues his Game Change .... Disproportional Immediate Response to every Rocket and Mortar that lands in Zion

The game with Hamas has changed



When the IDF hit high value targets in the Gaza Strip following a rocket attack on Sderot Wednesday, Israel was continuing its strategic policy as laid out by new Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman—hit Hamas targets along the border with tanks as quickly as possible after a rocket attack (sometimes less than a minute later), while managing to bomb quality Hamas targets from the air within hours.

This is different than the former policy, where by the IDF would wait until nightfall to carry out its retaliatory attack, causing little damage. Even then, most of the attacks were on missile launch sites, sites which were dismantled anyway by the time the jets came to hit them.

By contrast, on Wednesday the Israeli Air Force hit Hamas targets with heavy bombs all throughout the afternoon. The airstrikes were exact, surgical, massive, and destroyed Hamas offensive strategic capabilities—capabilities that Hamas has been preparing since the end of the last war in preparation for the next one.



The IDF is currently evaluating the results of Wednesday’s attacks on Gaza. The air force hit targets including warehouses used for storing weapons equipment stores used by Hamas naval commandos.

These targets were identified months ago through the joint efforts of the Shin Bet and Israeli Military Intelligence. Destruction of these targets was enabled as a result of the “window of opportunity” provided by the rocket launch from Gaza, and due to the IDF’s newer, harsher policies regarding keeping Hamas from building up its offensive attack capabilities.



According to Israeli security assessments, Hamas is not interested in an escalation of violence, as it is fighting against the Salafi Jihadist organizations in the Strip, which are trying to undermine Hamas’s power.

Israel is also uninterested in an escalation, despite the large scale of recent attacks. In fact, Israel wants to mitigate any chance of an escalation, especially in light of the High Holy Days, during which huge numbers of Israelis travel to the south of the country.

As such, it seems that the IDF isn’t focusing its military efforts on small terror cells that launch rockets of their own accord, thereby leaving these terror cells more or less intact. This despite the fact that Sderot has been hit four times since the end of Operation Protective Edge.



However, according to IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, the IDF’s number one target is uncovering and destroying the Hamas “terror tunnels” that cross into Israel. Hamas allocates the majority of its budget to the construction of these tunnels. IDF efforts to mitigate the threat posed by them can be seen with new technology currently being developed and used to locate these tunnels, along with the continuing efforts of Israeli intelligence to locate and destroy these underground threats.

All this notwithstanding, though, the IDF’s new method of hitting high quality Hamas targets in real time may bring about a new threat: namely, that the Hamas military wing might start a new war sooner rather than later.

Hilary Israel and Clinton versus Bernie Sander on Israel - US Status Quo, Disproportionate Response to Indiscriminate Rockets attacks on Zion

A good politician can spin a position both ways bit the worst type of Antisemite is a Jew. Antisemitism is  Anti- Zionist. Zionism and Judaism have been inextricably linked since Zionism became Israel and more so with the rise of Fundamental Islam and second by second as it happens media coverage of events in the Middle East in social media in particular Facebook and Twitter. Bernie Sanders remarks can be interpreted as both. These aren't simply a Liberal Zionist remark. This is antiZionism, Anti Israel and hence anti- Semistic. Bernie Sanders has challanged the long time status quo of the US- Israel Relationship. Her track record on Zion isn't without blemishes but it comes with tremendous experience . Vote Hilary Clinton

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders -- the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential nominating contest -- believes Israel's response in the 2014 Gaza war was "disproportionate."

"Was Israel's response disproportionate? I think it was," he told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on "State of the Union."

"Israel has a 100% -- and no one will fight for that principle more strongly than I will -- has the right to live in freedom, independently and in security without having to be subjected to terrorist attacks," he said. "But I think that we will not succeed to ever bring peace into that region unless we also treat the Palestinians with dignity and respect, and that is my view."

The seven-week conflict in 2014 was an Israeli response to Hamas rocket fire into southern Israel. More than 2,130 Palestinians were killed in the conflict, and it's not clear how many were civilians. At the time of the ceasefire, the United Nations estimated that more than 70% were civilians, but Israel reported a higher number of militants among the dead.

Tapper asked Sanders about an interview he gave to the New York Daily News earlier this month in which the Vermont senator said his recollection was that more than 10,000 innocent people were killed in the conflict. Sanders told Tapper that he wasn't sure what the death toll was, and when a Daily News editor clarified it to him, he accepted it.

But the claim attracted the attention of the Anti-Defamation League, whose CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, released a statement on Thursday saying he had spoken with Sanders and that the senator had clarified that his recollection was "inaccurate."

"As you know, the number was much lower," Tapper said.
"Yes," Sanders said.

The Vermont senator then stumbled when Tapper asked Sanders about criticism of Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., over Sanders' views of the Gaza clash.
"Who is Mr. Oren?" Sanders asked, apparently unaware of Israel's top diplomat to the U.S. during President Barack Obama's first term.

"Michael Oren, the former ambassador of Israel to the United States. And now he's a politician in Israel," Tapper said.

"I see. And he's attacking me for a statement I did not make," Sanders said.

Later in the interview, Sanders, a secular Jew, said he hopes to provide a "balanced" view on issues related to Israel and Palestine than most U.S. politicians.

"It is interesting ... that the first Jew in American history to win a delegate, much less a primary, is taking this position with Israel," Tapper told Sanders. "Usually in American politics, everyone just supports Israel whatever Israel wants to do, but you are taking a more critical position."
"I'm taking a more balanced position," Sanders replied.

He added: "Whether you're Jewish or not Jewish, I would hope that every person in this country wants to see the misery of never-ending war and conflict ended in the Middle East. It's a difficult issue and good people have tried to deal with it for years."

Sanders said the United States must play a role in supporting Israel while not ignoring the challenges of the Palestinian people.

"Of course we are going to support Israel, but you cannot ignore the needs of the Palestinian people in Gaza right now: poverty, unemployment, their community has been decimated," Sanders said. "You can't ignore that fact. And you can't just be only concerned about