IDF intelligence sources have learned that the Arabs of Judea/Samaria are at the height of general preparations for the battles widely expected to follow the planned expulsion/abandonment of Gaza.Posted on 06/30/2005 6:55:52 PM PDT by M. Espinola
IDF intelligence sources have learned that the Arabs of Judea/Samaria are at the height of general preparations for the battles widely expected to follow the planned expulsion/abandonment of Gaza.
The reports say that food and medicine - and weapons - are being stockpiled in villages and cities throughout the PA-controlled areas in Judea and Samaria. The Arabs expect the increased terror and other attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers to lead to army-imposed closures and encirclements around the cities and centers of combat.
This stockpiling is of special concern, army elements say, because it is reminiscent of the measures the Arabs took before they initiated the Oslo War in late 2000. Among the arms being amassed are light weapons, mortar shells, rockets and more.
Arutz-7's Shimon Cohen reports that the security establishment is particularly concerned that the shift of the center of fighting from Gaza to Judea/Samaria (Yesha) is more dangerous from several standpoints. The Arab and Jewish populations in Yesha are physically much closer to each other than in Gaza, placing the Jews in greater danger.
In addition, the Arabs have greater accessibility to the roadways on which Jewish citizens drive to and from their communities.
In addition to conventional threats on Jewish traffic, the threat of Arab rockets, including accurate anti-tank rockets, is also being taken into account. Such weapons could also endanger reinforced vehicles.
Also of concern is the fact that the soft sandy earth of Gush Katif absorbed much of the impact of terrorist-fired rockets, while rockets that hit the hard rocky land of Yesha could be more dangerous. Rocks could be splintered and fire off their own shrapnel, multiplying the effect of the missiles.
IDF officers have informed security coordinators in many Yesha communities that they must begin preparing the residents and emergency teams for the coming offensive. To this end, Yesha civilian security officers will tour Gush Katif today, to learn the threats faced by the residents there over the past several years and the means with which they dealt with them.
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Extirpate them. Think "Cartago deleda est"!
Yet more evidence that land for peace doesn't work--it only emboldens the terrorists. Of course, it won't matter to Liberals as they ignore evidence that doesn't square with their beliefs.
My best guess was that the Gaza gambit was to provoke the predictable overconfidence of the Islamonazis, so that the needed counterstrike to terror, the extermination of the Gazans - perhaps the most vile people on Earth - could be executed in context.
It's like 1938 all over again.
Could very well be. Even the Arab states want nothing to do with the Palestinians. They stopped talking to Arafat in his last years, they stopped giving money to the PLO and the UN refugee works agency, and as the general testified above, they won't even help in the Road Map. Game, set, match?
But, where will they go?
They will have to go to Jordan, and the US will have to pick up the tab - Jordan has disciplined royal forces, but cannot afford 3 million refugees - unless we give Iraq to Jordan, too. Then they will be able to afford it.
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