Pope Francis demands justice for 1994 Argentine Jewish centre attack victims

BBC: 

The biggest bomb attack on Argentine soil killed 85 people and injured another 300. The Jewish community in Argentina - the most numerous in Latin America - said there was enough evidence to show that Iran planned and financed the attack against Amia and that the militant group, Hezbollah, carried it out. Argentine prosecutors accused Iran and Hezbollah in 2006. Eight suspects were named, including former Iranian Defence Minister, Gen Ahmed Vahidi. But no arrests have been made. ... 

 Pope Francis has demanded justice for the victims of a bomb attack against a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires exactly 20 years ago. 

In a recorded video to mark the anniversary, the Pope described the attack as an "act of madness". 

Eighty-five people were killed in the attack, which was masterminded by Iran, according to Argentine courts. Iran denies any involvement.
Last year, Iran and Argentina agreed to set up a truth commission. 

Pope Francis said the suffering of the families cannot be forgotten. He was the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires at the time. 

"My prayers for all the victims are accompanied today by my call for justice. Justice must be done," he said. "And may God give peace to all of those who died in this act of madness."

16 GLOBALLY RENOWNED SCIENTISTS SAY MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS BULLSHIT

WHO ARE THEY?

HERE: 

1. Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; 
2. J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; 
3. Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University; 
4. Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; 
5. William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; 
6. Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; 
7. William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; 
8. Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; 
9. James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; 
10. Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; 
11. Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; 
12. Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; 
13. Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 
14. Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; 
15. Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva;
16. AND: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever.

HERE'S AN EXCERPT:

In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?" 

In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts. 

Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2. 

The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. 

The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth. This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today. Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.

Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promoted—or worse. They have good reason to worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over the past thousand years. 

The international warming establishment quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed from his editorial job and fired from his university position. Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job. 

This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death. 

Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word "incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue? There are several reasons, but a good place to start is the old question "cui bono?" Or the modern update, "Follow the money."

RTWT!

ANTI-ISRAEL RIOTS ERUPT IN TURKEY

The Israeli foreign ministry withdrew its staff in Turkey because of anti-Israel rioting:

Violent protests erupted at the Israeli embassies in Istanbul and Ankara on Thursday night, with throngs of shrieking Turkish demonstrators hurling rocks at the embassy and at staff, screaming hate slurs, and waving pro-Palestinian flags and banners.

Hundreds of protesters attacked the Israeli consulate in Istanbul while similar numbers sought to break into the residence of the ambassador in Ankara.

Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to halt the protests in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning but in Ankara they stood on the sidelines.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman announced Friday that he would be retracting much of the Israeli embassy staff in Turkey following the senseless riots, citing safety concerns and growing anti-Israel incitement from the Turkish leadership.

Which, you can be sure, was encouraged by Recep Erdogan, also mentioned in the article:

The move follows a number of inflammatory and anti-Semitic hate slurs from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has become increasingly vocal against Israel after the IDF moved to protect millions of Israelis from Hamas rocket fire.

Erdogan has threatened to end the normalization process with Israel over "state terrorism" before, and also accused Israel of "lies" because "not enough" Israeli Jews have died in the conflict.

"They say (Hamas) is firing rockets. But is there anybody who died?" he asked. "The number of Palestinians that you (Israel) killed is now 100. Their (Israel's) life is based on lies."

"You will first stop this oppression. If not, it is not possible to realize normalization between Turkey and Israel," Erdogan said, on a separate occasion.

On Thursday night, he claimed Israel had a long history of "genocide" against Muslims, in a series of confused and violent slurs relating to the Ramadan fast.

"This is not the first time we have been confronted by such situations," Erdogan told a meeting of Islamic scholars gathered in Istanbul for Ramadan, a holy month of fasting for Muslims. "Since (the creation of the state of Israel) in 1948 we have been witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every day and every month. But above all we are witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every Ramadan."

Erdogan himself has also had a long public record of anti-Semitic statements, including several recently despite efforts to normalize relations.

If he keeps that up, he's obviously not trying to mend fences and "normalize". What's so normal about a man saying such ugly things? Update: Michael Rubin at Commentary has more about what Erdogan is like.

TERRORIST WHO BOMBED BUS IN SOFIA, BULGARIA WAS DUEL FRENCH/LEBANESE CITIZEN

The Bulgarian authorities have revealed the name of the jihadist who committed murder in Sofia:

Bulgarian prosecutors revealed for the first time Friday the identity of the bomber in a deadly attack on Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian sea resort of Burgas in 2012. Five Israeli tourists were killed in the attack as well as the driver of the bus and the bomber, while more than 30 other Israelis were injured.

The bomber was named as Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, a dual French and Lebanese citizen, born in Lebanon in 1989, prosecutors said in a joint statement with the national security agency DANS.

"He was positively identified thanks to a DNA test and other measures during the course of the investigation," they added.

"Friends and relatives of Husseini also posted messages of praise on social media for his martyr's death," the statement noted.

So here we have another jihadist who lived in France, and who's also got relatives and friends who condone his sadistic behavior. He should go to hell for what he did, along with all those who support him.

THE HOMES OF THE ISLAMOFASCISTS WHO MURDERED 3 YESHIVA STUDENTS WILL BE DESTROYED

The authorities discovered who the culprits are in the murder of the yeshiva students, and now, they're going to demolish their homes, as is justly deserved:

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday ordered the demolition of the homes of Marwan Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha, the two suspects in the kidnapping and murders of Israeli teens Gil-ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel. A further demolition order for the home of Hussein Kawasame, who is also suspected of involvement in the crime, was also issued.

The homeowners have been given 48 hours to leave their homes or to appeal the orders in court.

Kawasme and Abu Aysha are wanted by Israel's defense establishment and have been missing since the three teens were kidnapped on June 12. Despite the current focus on Gaza and Operation Protective Edge, the IDF Central Command and Judea and Samaria Division are continuing the search for the two suspects.

Since Operation Brother's Keeper began, relatives of the suspects have been arrested in an effort to learn more about their whereabouts. The defense establishment has promised that the search will not end until they are found.

It'll remain to be seen whether the families of these satanic worshipers will cooperate with the authorities to pinpoint the whereabouts of the turds they produced.

WHAT KIND OF MUSLIM WAS MOHAMMED, PBUH?

IF THE JIHADISTS ARE “MISUNDERSTANDERS” OF ISLAM, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED – AND THIS IS UNLIKELY.

IF THE JIHADISTS ARE APOSTATE EXTREMISTS, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED – AND THIS IS UNLIKELY.

IF THE APPEASING LEFT INSISTS THAT THE JIHADISTS ARE RADICAL ISLAM-TWISTING EXTREMISTS, THEN THE APPEASERS ARE ESSENTIALLY SAYING MOHAMED WAS EXTREMIST AND THE RELIGION HE FOUNDED IS AN EXTREMIST RELIGION AND NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE.

THAT’S THE PARADOX WHICH EXPOSES THE HYPOCRISY AND FALLACY AND USELESSNESS OF THE ‘ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE” ARGUMENT.

IRSHAD MANJI – A FAMOUS THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MUSLIM LESBIAN WHO BELIEVES THAT ISLAM CAN BE TRANSFORMED AND BE MADE COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY – HAS CALLED THE EXTREMISTS “LITERALISTS” :

What is the trouble with Islam? 

Irshad Manji: The problem with Islam today, in a word, is literalism.

MANJI HAS ARGUED THAT ISLAM CAN EVOLVE  IF MUSLIMS ASSUME A “FIGURATIVE” APPRECIATION OF THE KORAN AND SURA AND HADITHS AND THE LIFE OF MOHAMED.

BY MAKING THIS ARGUMENT, SHE IS TACITLY AGREEING WITH ME AND THE ”ROPMA” ARGUMENT (RELIGION OF PEACE, MY ASS!):

MANJI IS ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT MOHAMED AND THE HADITHS AND THE SURA AND THE KORAN ARE LITERALLY EXTREMIST AND JIHADIST AND VIOLENT AND SEXIST.

AND IN THIS SHE IS CORRECT.

NOT ALL MUSLIMS BAD OR ROTTEN TO THE CORE, BUT ISLAM IS.

REPEAT: NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE BAD, BUT THE CORE OF ISLAM IS.

MOST MUSLIMS DO NOT READ ARABIC AND ONLY KNOW WHAT THEIR IMAM TELLS THEM.

BECAUSE MOST IMAMS ARE NOT JIHADISTS AND ARE NOT EMULATING THE "PROPHET" MOHAMED, MOST MUSLIMS ARE NOT A THREAT TO THE FREE WORLD.

THESE MELLOW NON-THREATENING MUSLIMS ARE APOSTATES - ACCORDING TO WAHHABISTS, SALAFISTS, Q'TUBISTS, AND JIHADISTS LIKE THOSE IN I.S.I.S.  --- WHO ARE EMULATING MOHAMED AND WHO ARE LIVING ACCORDING TO THE EXPLICIT PRECEPTS IN THE KORAN, THE HADITHS AND THE SURA - AND WHO ARE SLAUGHTERING 100x MORE MUSLIMS THAN NON-MUSLIMS ARE!

OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON OUR ABILITY TO COUNTER-ATTACK EFFECTIVELY, AND THE APPEASERS' DENIALS ARE HAMPERING OUR EFFORTS.

THE UNPLEASANT TRUTH IS THAT WW4 IS A RELIGIOUS WAR – NOT BECAUSE “RIGHTWING NUTJOBS” SAY SO, BUT BECAUSE THE ENEMY SAYS SO AND BECAUSE THE ENEMY IS PROACTIVELY FIGHTING IN WAYS THAT SAY SO.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: IT'S US VERSUS THEM:

SAUDI ARABIA HAS AN ARMY.

THEY HAVE AMASSED 30,000 TROOPS ON THEIR BORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM I.S.I.S.

THE SAUDIS SHOULD INVADE IRAQ AND ATTACK I.S.I.S.

IF THE SAUDIS REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE SUNNIS IN I.S.I.S WERE APOSTATES, THEN THEY WOULD.

THE FACT THAT THEY HAVEN'T INVADED PROVES THEY SEE I.S.I.S. AS RIVALS, NOT APOSTATES.

WHICH ALSO PROVES THE HOUSE OF SAUDI ARE OUR ALLIES OUT OF CONVENIENCE AND NOT BECAUSE THEY VALUE, RESPECT OT LIKE THE NON-MUSLIM WEST.

RECENT EVENTS IN PARIS PROVE THAT EXILING MUSLIMS WHO LIVE IN THE WEST AND WHO SUPPORT SHARIA IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE WEST TO SURVIVE.

YOU CANNOT BE A CITIZEN OF THE WEST AND SUPPORT SHARIA.

IF YOU SUPPORT SHARIA THEN YOU ARE GUILTY OF TREASON AND SEDITION, AND SHOULD BE JAILED OR.... SENT SOMEWHERE WHERE SHARIA IS THE LAW OF THE LAND.

HERE'S A VIDEO TAKEN ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO OF MUSLIMS IN PARIS:



THIS BEHAVIOR IS NOT SPONTANEOUS OR ALIEN TO ISLAM.

THIS BEHAVIOR IS ESSENTIAL TO ISLAM AND TO ISLAMIZATION.

AND IT'S MADE POSSIBLE BY APPEASEMENT, MULTICULTURALISM AND COWARDICE.

UNLESS WE FIGHT BACK, ISLAMIZATION IS INEVITABLE.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

AS THE MUSLIM POPULATION INCREASES IN THE WEST - (VIA COLONIZATION/"IMMIGRATION" AND BY REPRODUCING LIKE INSECTS VIA MULTIPLE WIVES AND MANY CHILDREN) - ISLAMIZATION INCREASES.

FACTS:

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

• United States -- Muslim 1.0%
• Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
• Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
• China -- Muslim 1%-2%
• Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
• Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

• Denmark -- Muslim 2%
• Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
• United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
• Spain -- Muslim 4%
• Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

• France -- Muslim 8%
• Philippines -- Muslim 5%
• Sweden -- Muslim 5%
• Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
• The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
• Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

• Guyana -- Muslim 10%
• India -- Muslim 13.4%
• Israel -- Muslim 16%
• Kenya -- Muslim 10%
• Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

• Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
• Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
• Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

• Albania -- Muslim 70%
• Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
• Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
• Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

• Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
• Egypt -- Muslim 90%
• Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
• Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
• Iran -- Muslim 98%
• Iraq -- Muslim 97%
• Jordan -- Muslim 92%
• Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
• Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
• Palestine -- Muslim 99%
• Syria -- Muslim 90%
• Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
• Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
• United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

• Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
• Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
• Somalia -- Muslim 100%
• Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

SYRIA AND IRAQ MAY REVEAL THE SOLUTION: AS MUSLIM KILLS MUSLIM THEY ARE IN EFFECT TURNING THEIR ENCLAVES INTO "SELF-CLEANING OVENS".

BUT WE SHOULDN'T DEPEND ON THEIR FRATRICIDAL WARS TO SAVE US.

WE SHOULD TAKE EVERY STEP TO SAVE OURSELVES:
USING CIVIL LAW, DIPLOMACY AND EVEN.... WAR.

GAZA GROUND OPERATION BEGINS

Finally, it looks like the army is taking a much needed approach to put an end to the Hamas rocket attacks:

After days of waiting and deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night directed the IDF to send ground troops into Gaza to strike the terror tunnels into Israel.

A statement put out by the Prime Minister's Office said that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon Netanyahu directed the IDF to prepare to expand the ground operation.

The statement said that the security cabinet approved the operation after Israel agreed to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal on Tuesday, which Hamas rejected. In addition, the statement said, Hamas even fired rockets during the Thursday's five-hour humanitarian cease-fire.

“In light of Hamas' continuous criminal aggression, and the dangerous infiltration into Israeli territory, Israel is obligated to act in defense of its citizens,” the statement said.

The statement said that Operation Protective Edge, now in its 10th day, will continue until its goals are reached: restoring quiet for an extended period of time,and delivering a significant blow to Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza.

It's about time. The citizenry should not have to put up with this at all. One contributor to the Jerusalem Post says that the Hamas particularly likes to fire the rockets at times when parents take their children to school, because terrorists consider that the ideal way to terrify parents. So from here, we'll see what results the operation yields.

MOSQUES IN GAZA HAVE TO BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THEIR KEY ROLE IN JIHAD

Ethel Fenig at the American Thinker makes a good point about the role mosques play in jihadism, and points to a document explaining all this:

Military use of the Al-Farouq Mosque by Hamas is not an exception. Hamas and other terrorist organizations systematically use many mosques in the Gaza Strip for military and political purposes. Mosques in the Gaza Strip are used not only for worship but also for diverse military and political purposes, such as recruiting operatives for terrorist activity, storing weapons, meeting places for terrorist operatives, points of departure for terrorist attacks, training sites, places for firing rockets and mortar bombs and centers for political and ideological activity.

4. Military use of mosques is rooted in the perception of senior Sunni and Shiite clerics, including Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Hamas’s main religious role model that the use of mosques for military purposes as part of jihad (holy war) is legitimate. This perception is based on Islamic tradition (hadith) that states that the Prophet Muhammad himself used a mosque for military and political purposes, in addition to the classic function of the mosque as house of worship for the faithful.

They also use them for indoctrinating children, surely the worst part of preparations for jihad. That's why all those mosques should be turned into rubble, as it'll make it harder for them to run an indoctrination center.

PARIS BANS A PRO-PLO DEMONSTRATION

It's about time these pathetic excuses for "protests", which are really excuses for violence, were barred:

Paris police are forbidding pro-Palestinian protesters from holding a march, after violence marred a recent protest amid tensions in France around the fighting in Gaza.

France has Western Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations, and unrest in the Mideast sometimes translates into tensions between the communities.

"Tensions between"? It's the Islamofascists who're causing the tensions by turning to violent acts. As usual, the AP/Wash. Post resorts to moral equations. The city's done the right thing to put a halt to this, and should continue to do so for a long, long time. Ditto other cities like Lyon and Lille, among others.

JEWISH MISSIONARY KILLED BY HAMAS MORTAR FIRE

As was sadly possible, and now has happened, somebody was murdered by Hamas rockets:

Two Israelis were wounded following a barrage of rocket and mortar fire, one of whom succumbed to his wounds. The victim, Dor Chanin, 37, was at the Erez Crossing delivering food and cheer to soldiers when a barrage of rockets and mortars rained down and critically wounding him.

Absolutely terrible. Condolences for his family.

Update: the government says the Hamas will pay a price for refusing to cease fire, and indeed they should.

HAMAS REJECTS A CEASEFIRE

Israel accepted an Egyptian-brokered truce, but Hamas rejected it:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon ordered a restart of the attacks on the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon after Israel's acceptance of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire was met with a morning and afternoon of Hamas rockets fired at Israel.

Diplomatic officials said that the IDF actions, which came at 3:00 pm, six hours after Israel held its fire and responded positively to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal, were the result of Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejecting the cease fire.

IAF aircraft began striking targets on Tuesday afternoon following the decision. The IDF stated that it would strike all "elements that are behind terrorist attacks on Israel."

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip claimed on Tuesday that they had been receiving text messages and pre-recorded phone calls from the IDF that blame Hamas for the renewal of Israeli strikes following Hamas's rejection of the ceasefire.

Netanyahu had earlier warned that Israel would widen its offensive in Gaza if the rocket attacks continued.

It's pretty clear for now that Hamas has gone unhinged, as goes the saying. The army would do well to seriously mow them down.

TWO PRETEEN GIRLS INJURED BY ROCKETS IN BE'ER SHEVA

The Hamas rockets have resulted in more injuries:

Three people were seriously injured from rocket fire in Be'er Sheva on Monday, including two teenage sisters.

The sisters, ages 11 and 12, respectively, were hit by shrapnel after a rocket landed in a Jewish village close to Be'er Sheva.

They admitted themselves to Soroka Medical Center shortly after the attack; they are listed in moderate and serious condition.

An 81 year-old disabled man was also seriously injured in the attack. Magen David Adom (MDA) and Ichud Hatzalah medics treated him at the scene; he was transferred to Soroka for more treatment.

Another rocket was shot down by the Iron Dome Monday evening, and two additional rockets exploded in open areas near Be'er Sheva.

Two additional rockets exploded near Yeruham, with no injures or damage reported.

Sooner or later, the attacks will claim a victim in death. If the government continues to wait and not plunge into Gaza to deal with the monsters, it could happen, and that's not what any sane person wants.

CANADA'S STEPHEN HARPER COMES TO ISRAEL'S DEFENSE

Canada's prime minister has spoken up:

Terrorists are deliberately placing people in the path of an Israeli offensive aimed at stopping rocket attacks from Gaza, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Harper says there is evidence that Hamas, listed by Canada as a terrorist organization, is using human shields in its attempts to stave off the Israeli offensive.

“The indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel are terrorist acts, for which there is no justification,” Harper said in a statement issued Sunday.

“It is evident that Hamas is deliberately using human shields to further terror in the region.”

Harper also called on other world leaders to rally behind Israel as it tries to prevent rockets being fired from Gaza into its territory.

Silence, he suggested, would only embolden Israel’s attackers.

“Failure by the international community to condemn these reprehensible actions would encourage these terrorists to continue their appalling actions,” Harper said.

“Canada calls on its allies and partners to recognize that these terrorist acts are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”

Harper’s statements came as Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip.

I'm glad to see that ground troops were sent in, but a short time is not enough. It has to be much more time, but with cautious planning, of course, since the Hamas could've set up land mines and other death traps.