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Posted on 08/04/2014 7:25:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They took five years to build, and just a few weeks to demolish. The IDF will pull ground forces out of Gaza over the next few days, leaving a lot of destruction behind, and perhaps not just a few questions for Hamas to answer once Israelis soldiers return to their side of the Gaza border:
The IDF has destroyed Hamas’s flagship terrorism project: its network of tunnels that snuck into Israel.
Hamas spent five years preparing this strategic threat; the IDF wrecked 31 tunnels in two weeks.
By Sunday, all of the tunnels that the IDF discovered during the offensive, or knew about before the war, will be destroyed.It is assumed that there are a few tunnels that the army has yet to identify.
Many of the underground passages were designed to send heavily armed murder squads into Israeli communities and to attack army positions from the rear. They were filled with weapons, explosives and other equipment, enabling terrorists to enter a shaft in Gaza dressed in civilian clothing and emerge in Israel, disguised as IDF soldiers and equipped to inflict mass casualties.
In some of the tunnels, the army discovered motorcycles that Hamas had earmarked for speedy raids into Israel and subsequent retreats back into Gaza.
Despite a unilateral cease-fire by Israel, Hamas continues to fire missiles northward. Israel has returned fire through airstrikes, which will also continue even after ground forces leave.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
This battle is coming to an end. For now the rockets have stopped falling and many assault tunnels have been destroyed. However there has been no fundamental change to strategic realities. There are still nearly two million hostile Palestinians living in Gaza adjacent to Israel. Hamas or a successor organization closely aligned with the jihadists will continue to govern. The jihadists will have no trouble recruiting suicide terrorists. The missiles will become more sophisticated and stealthy. There is no real peace.Both sides claim the same lands. Peace will not come until on or the other ceases to be a definable political entity.
There is no real peace...
Matthew 24
“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.” Jeane Kirkpatrick
I wonder how much deeper the Palestinians will try digging now?
I bet they go to UN and demand to be paid for the cost of the tunnels that have been destroyed.
Won't Israel be risking humanitarian ire by striking at poor innocent AP/Rooters Hamas sycophant reporters when they just happen to be innocently filming a report within inches of a launched Hamas rocket?
4gw warfare. Hamas doesn’t have to win, just make Israel look bad and take a few causalities.
There is no nice clean way to win this.
Reduce it to rubble. They can live in it. It is a hell of their own making.
There can and will never be peace. The vile monster Yitzhak Rabin made sure of that, by resurrecting Yasser Arafat and turning him from a mass-murderer into a statesman, and giving the “Palestinian” fiction worldwide creedance. May he burn in hell.
The Israelis should discreetly plant underground listening devices to detect tunneling through triangulation. If they do that, then when they know a tunnel is there, they can use a very accurate munition to destroy it.
A 250 pound, GPS guided small diameter bomb (SDB) can penetrate up to three meters of steel reinforced concrete, so it could likely penetrate five meters (16.5 feet) of ground before detonating just above or within a tunnel, significantly reducing surface damage, especially if it did not have its full charge of explosives.
The Israelis are going to destroy hamas' main location, beneath a hospital, and the fact that they are with drawing some ground troops does not indicate that they are finished.
This war will be over when the Israelis believe that they have won.
{In the words of the one...PERIOD}
If the bearded savages had more intelligence than a mole, they would have used their energy to do something useful and to produce things, instead of just trying to kill Jews.
Their society is so third-world, that any attempt to improve the quality of life will merely underscore how bad it is. An external threat is so much easier to blame everything on than doing anything about it.
When the Israelis abandoned the strip, leaving very highly productive horticulture equipment behind (ie, to grow food!),
the Palis/Arabs came in, stripped the equipment, and sold it off.
Like a bunch of monkeys.
The rockets have been falling all morning there.
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Think Israel woke up to another fact. With Iran continuing to develope a nuke thanks to our courageous leader, what’s to say the Iran wouldn’t sneak one into Israel and set it off?
Whether rockets were fired or not, Israel knows how long they have and would have gotten to this eventually. They just needed a reason and the Palis gave them one.
Interesting article, Lots of food for thought, and, much little known trivia about the "accepted" conventional wisdom about terrorists as victims.
Humorous: Israel is now in possession of many muslim motorcycles, explosives, arms and other equipment, stolen from terrorist tunnel warehouses.
Mind boggling 1 : The non-distinction between armed resistance with all the regular weapons of war, and regular war. Everything applies, except the formal rules.
Mind boggling 2 : The recent infantile concept of "proportionality in war." Proportionality is appropriate for games. War is not a game. The infantilism is confirmed by the fact that the concept is embraced by both mass random killer terrorists and Geraldo Rivera.
Mind boggling 3 : The perversion of Ghandi's "peaceful resistance" into "we will force you to kill ours (NOT us) until you either give up, or we kill all you all. And it's accepted as normal human behavior.
Mind boggling 4 : The ever growing "international laws" invented by irrelevant countries or groups, which apply randomly to groups of their choice, which change from time to time.
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