Sentence examples for operation pillar from inspiring English sources

Uri Avneri, the peace campaigner and former MP, said Operation Pillar of Defence should be renamed Operation Short Memory, explaining: "Netanyahu counts on people not remembering that four years ago Israel went to war in Gaza, killing 1,300 civilians in three weeks, which otherwise did not make any significant change to the situation.

Fear quickly became, for English speakers, a source of on-the-ground information about Operation Pillar of Cloud.

Operation Pillar of Defense came to a halt the day before the evacuation that I had organized for the family.

"In Operation Pillar of Defense," the name the Israel Defense Forces gave the Gaza operation, "Israel was not confronting Gaza, but Iran".

This may well be Netanyahu's criteria for a tactical victory from Operation Pillar of Defense (along with victory for Likud on Jan . 22.

Abdurrahman Fayez, a teacher, lost his 16-year-old brother, Abdelrashid, in the first day of Israel's Operation Pillar of Defence.

Rapid Egyptian and US-led ceasefire efforts in November 2012 helped ensure that the then Israeli operation "Pillars of Defence" would last only eight days and with far less devastating consequences.

All of this has been done in the name of self-defense, and yet none of this has demonstrably made Israel feel any safer (chest-thumping over the Iron Dome's efficacy, notwithstanding); the door to needing operations like Pillar of Defense thus remains open.

In the meantime, it must be said that during the first forty-eight hours of this operation, known as Pillar of Defense, the I.D.F.'s success is quite impressive.

Like Cast Lead, this operation (dubbed "Cloud Pillar") came shortly before national elections in Israel (scheduled for January 2013).

Mr. Hatch's mine is the old underground room-and-pillar operation.