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...sound filled the azure Mediterranean sky: the rolling boom of Israeli bombs and missiles slamming into Gaza. Many Israelis climbed the low, green hills outside the city of Sderot and cheered while watching black pillars of smoke rise over Gaza as a wave of 64 Israeli jet fighters struck again and again. It meant that Israel's leaders were hitting back at the Gaza militants who had rained rockets on the communities of southern Israel even weeks before Dec. 19, when an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas officially ended. (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...
...first Apache fired a Hellfire missile, which went rumbling into the Palestinian side of the border. A few seconds later the crowd broke into cheers at the resulting sight: somewhere between the Jibalya refugee camp and the outskirts of Gaza city a ball of heavy black smoke was rising. (See pictures of Gaza under Hamas...
Then the second Apache moved forward and two minutes later it shot another Hellfire missile. Another ball of smoke, smaller but just as black, rose half a mile north of the first target. Later on, the spectators listened to radio reports that Israeli helicopters had attacked Qassam launchers, the weapons that Hamas militants have been using to terrorize Israeli towns along the Gaza Strip. The choppers attacked immediately militants had fired a Qassam towards the town of Netivot, six miles east of the Gaza Strip. Hamas claims that the attacks have killed nearly 300 people over the course...
...there you have it: the war on Christmas is a godless plot cooked up by a cabal of latte-sipping liberals, greedy retail tycoons, bearded ACLU communists and Ban Ki-moon acolytes who secretly gather in Bay Area synagogues to smoke pot, deface Bibles and perform abortions...
...smoke that clogged her throat and the soot that burned her eyes, Roxanna groped along the molding of the walls until she reached the door. Air! She sucked in great lungfuls of it as she ran as fast and far away as she could from that house of sin. She stopped finally on a hilltop overlooking the manor, unable to run anymore. Her head was light from all the smoke, but her body felt heavy and pendulous...