Israel – PM Benjamin Netanyahu Pays Surprise Visit To Gaza Border

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli defense minister Moshe 'Boogie' Ya'alon meet with Israeli soldiers as he tours the southern Israeli border with Gaza. May 03, 2016. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPOIsrael – The nearly two years since Operation Protective Edge has been the quietest in the Gaza Strip since Hamas took control of the area in 2007, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an unannounced visit to border with Gaza on Tuesday.

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    Hours after Netanyahu left, Palestinians fired on an IDF patrol near the fence in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported.

    Netanyahu went to the site of the large terror attack tunnel from Gaza into Israel that was discovered last month. Netanyahu was accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, and other top IDF officials. He received a briefing there on the security situation in the area.

    Speaking to soldiers in the area, Netanyahu compared the situation today where IDF soldiers are defending the country to the situation 70 years ago during the Holocaust when we “we were like a leaf driven in the wind, with no defense force, helpless. They massacred us, slaughtered us.”

    Today, he said, “we have a country, an army, , the ability to defend ourselves in this sector, in all sectors – near and far – and what motivates me is to secure the future of Israel in its land.”

    The Jewish people, he said, has no future without its country.

    Netanyahu praised the soldiers for their “spirit,” saying this is what makes the army what it is.

    Touching on a theme he frequently repeats, Netanyahu said that Israel is an isle of stability in a very stormy Middle East sea.

    “We are in the eye of the storm, I want you to know this,” he said. “ A half million people have been murdered around us in Syria, which is collapsing. Iraq has collapsed, neither of them – actually – still exist. Yemen collapsed, Libya collapsed.”

    As a result, the premier said,. There is a massive flow of migrants to Europe who are “running for their lives.”

    And amid it all, Netanyahu said, Israel is the most stable, quietest and safest country in the region.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli defense minister Moshe 'Boogie' Ya'alon meet with Israeli soldiers as he tours the southern Israeli border with Gaza. May 03, 2016. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO


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    kenyaninwhitehouse
    kenyaninwhitehouse
    7 years ago

    Half of the soldiers wear yamakas, instead of being in beis medrash they risk their lives for the atheists/Hellenists/Socialist Zionist enterprise, woe is us.

    7 years ago

    to number 1:
    Maybe you should have said:
    Half of the soldiers wear yamakas, instead of being in beis medrash they risk their lives help their brethren benei Yisroel to live safe and secure life as it says in this week’s parsha, “v’ahavta l’reacha c’mocha”