January 5, 2009
CNN
Israeli Prime Minister EHUD OLMERT:
[The Israeli army's objectives were to] strike at the military infrastructure that Hamas has established and to take control of the areas from which most of the missiles have been fired at Israeli territory.
Hamas has fired 220 rockets into southern Israel in the past week from the areas of Gaza that Israeli troops have now entered.
In a responsible and determined country. It cannot be that the home front will be subject to attack and a daring, strong and well-trained military does not defend it.
We did not reach this conclusion lightly. For many months, we gave the calm a chance in the hope of avoiding a wide-ranging military operation. Our hopes were dashed.
This operation was unavoidable.
[Israel would not] allow a humanitarian crisis to be created in the Gaza Strip. We will help supply food and medicines like any enlightened and moral country must do.
The unenlightened: Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan with Fawzi Barhoum (Gaza Hamas) blinking in Morse Code next to him. His hands are so pale he must truly be living in a cave. Listen to their concern for the innocent civilians they are cowardly hiding amongst and watch the glee when he talks of killing.
To the Israeli Army: Your incursion in Gaza will not be a picnic. And we promise you that Gaza will be your cemetery. God willing.
You have no choice but to end this aggression and end the siege without any condition. You will not live in peace until our Palestinian people live in peace.
We will not abandon the battlefield, and we will stay on the thorny course, and we will fight until the last breath.
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