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My daughter-in-law forwarded this email received from her sister, Carole in
Israel. (David is her brother).

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We are dodging the bombs and all of us are o.k. Adam and Ronit have gone to
the center of the country to work and study. Naomi has gone with friends to
a New year's Eve party north of Tel Aviv and will probably stay there.
Hillel and Shalom are, of course, in the army. David's area has not been
hit yet and is on the fringe of the area the bombs can reach but they have a
good bomb shelter in their house. Debbie also has a bomb shelter in her
house for the 3 kids that are home - school as been cancelled - and it's a
good thing because Yeshai's school was bombed today and if the children had
gone we would have had a real tragedy. Hamas has fired over 30 large
rockets into Israel today - and it's only 2:00 in the afternoon. It really
is a miracle that more people haven't been hurt. We are passing truckloads
of humanitarian needs into Gaza for the innocent Palestinians - and there
are many of them. We are also accepting badly wounded Palestinian children
into our hospitals. Nothing good can possibly come out of this stupid war -
except of course - the end of Hamas (we hope).

In the meantime we are going to work and surviving so don't worry too much.

=====================================

Eisboch

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Eisboch wrote:
My daughter-in-law forwarded this email received from her sister, Carole
in Israel. (David is her brother).

======================================

We are dodging the bombs and all of us are o.k. Adam and Ronit have
gone to the center of the country to work and study. Naomi has gone
with friends to a New year's Eve party north of Tel Aviv and will
probably stay there. Hillel and Shalom are, of course, in the army.
David's area has not been hit yet and is on the fringe of the area the
bombs can reach but they have a good bomb shelter in their house.
Debbie also has a bomb shelter in her house for the 3 kids that are home
- school as been cancelled - and it's a good thing because Yeshai's
school was bombed today and if the children had gone we would have had a
real tragedy. Hamas has fired over 30 large rockets into Israel today -
and it's only 2:00 in the afternoon. It really is a miracle that more
people haven't been hurt. We are passing truckloads of humanitarian
needs into Gaza for the innocent Palestinians - and there are many of
them. We are also accepting badly wounded Palestinian children into our
hospitals. Nothing good can possibly come out of this stupid war -
except of course - the end of Hamas (we hope).

In the meantime we are going to work and surviving so don't worry too much.

=====================================

Eisboch



The end of Hamas would be a boon for mankind, but I don't see it
happening anytime soon.

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:24:31 -0500, Boater wrote:


The end of Hamas would be a boon for mankind, but I don't see it
happening anytime soon.

I hate to say it, but Israel has been fighting the same war, the same
way, for 50 years. If anything, bombing Gaza only strengthens Hamas.

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:20:00 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

My daughter-in-law forwarded this email received from her sister, Carole in
Israel. (David is her brother).

======================================

We are dodging the bombs and all of us are o.k. Adam and Ronit have gone to
the center of the country to work and study. Naomi has gone with friends to
a New year's Eve party north of Tel Aviv and will probably stay there.
Hillel and Shalom are, of course, in the army. David's area has not been
hit yet and is on the fringe of the area the bombs can reach but they have a
good bomb shelter in their house. Debbie also has a bomb shelter in her
house for the 3 kids that are home - school as been cancelled - and it's a
good thing because Yeshai's school was bombed today and if the children had
gone we would have had a real tragedy. Hamas has fired over 30 large
rockets into Israel today - and it's only 2:00 in the afternoon. It really
is a miracle that more people haven't been hurt. We are passing truckloads
of humanitarian needs into Gaza for the innocent Palestinians - and there
are many of them. We are also accepting badly wounded Palestinian children
into our hospitals. Nothing good can possibly come out of this stupid war -
except of course - the end of Hamas (we hope).

In the meantime we are going to work and surviving so don't worry too much.

=====================================

Eisboch

Glad to hear she's surviving. I can't believe the sympathizing I hear for
Hamas and the 'innocents' in Gaza. The fact that Hamas sets up its launch
sites in the middle of school grounds and hospitals doesn't seem to affect
attitudes much.
--
** Good Day! **

John H

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:20:00 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

My daughter-in-law forwarded this email received from her sister, Carole in
Israel. (David is her brother).

Here's hoping they stay healthy and well.

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On Dec 31, 2:03*pm, Tom Francis
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:20:00 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

My daughter-in-law forwarded this email received from her sister, Carole in
Israel. *(David is her brother).

Here's hoping they stay healthy and well.

Amen and Shalom!

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:10:19 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Dec 31, 2:03*pm, Tom Francis
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:20:00 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

My daughter-in-law forwarded this email received from her sister, Carole in
Israel. *(David is her brother).

Here's hoping they stay healthy and well.

Amen and Shalom!

OY!!!

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:04:19 -0500, John H
wrote:

The fact that Hamas sets up its launch
sites in the middle of school grounds and hospitals doesn't seem to affect
attitudes much.

During the Vietnam war games the enemy emplaced AA guns on school and
hospital roofs. If they drew fire, they had a photo-op.

Casady

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Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:04:19 -0500, John H
wrote:

The fact that Hamas sets up its launch
sites in the middle of school grounds and hospitals doesn't seem to affect
attitudes much.

During the Vietnam war games the enemy emplaced AA guns on school and
hospital roofs. If they drew fire, they had a photo-op.

Casady


Well, of course. Terrorists cannot compete with organized armies in face
to face battle, so they have a different set of techniques and methods.
That's why they are terrorists. Of course, now Hamas is a democratically
elected terrorist group, no small thanks to President Idiot.

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On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:54:57 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:04:19 -0500, John H
wrote:

The fact that Hamas sets up its launch
sites in the middle of school grounds and hospitals doesn't seem to affect
attitudes much.

During the Vietnam war games the enemy emplaced AA guns on school and
hospital roofs. If they drew fire, they had a photo-op.

Casady

NBC had some great (?) coverage of civilian injuries in Gaza tonight. It's
strange how their reporters never get coverage of the rocket launches from
the schoolyards.