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: Olmert asks cabinet for more troops (Extra)
Dec 30, 2008, 21:13 GMT
Tel Aviv - Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked his cabinet late Tuesday to approve the call-up of an additional 2,500 reserve soldiers, Israeli media reported.
The cabinet, in its weekly session Sunday, had already approved the call up of some 6,700 reserve troops.
Olmert ordered the cabinet's secretary to conduct a round of telephone calls to the government's 25 ministers to ask for a green light for the additional 2,500 troops.
The Israeli military has refused to comment on how many total troops have been mobilized.
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honor
Israel has already killed approximately 500 Palestinians in four days. When you compare the Gaza Palestinian population of 1.5 million with the 200-times larger U.S. population of 300 million, the 500 dead Palestinians (most civilians, at least 25% women and children) would equate to 100,000 dead Americans. In four days that is double the U.S. dead over about a dozen years in Vietnam. What would you do as an American if another nation inflicted 100,000 dead on your country in a naked aggression? Would you fight back? Or would you listen politely to Tzipi Livni (Israeli Foreign Minister) telling you that 'people die in wars.'
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If Olmert's requestDec 30th, 2008 - 22:38:13
is honored by the ministers, there will be 2500 more Israeli soldiers given the honer to laugh to tears as they blow-up and gun-down innocent women and children. A real party for these guys. Killing is an Israeli soldiers favorite pastime.
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