Posted on 07/25/2014 8:40:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
In an otherwise excellent article on the Hamas terror tunnel network in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post buries the lede. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier in the field told the Post that while Hamas fighters offered fierce resistance when the ground operation began, now Hamas operatives are fleeing, abandoning their positions, leaving behind weapons and other material that the IDF is using to expand its assault on the terror group.
The source added that in recent days, a recognizable wave of demoralization has washed over Hamas's combat battalions. "They simply escape, leaving behind weapons and suicide bomb vests that were laid out for battle. This morning we stormed a position, and they just weren't there. I don't see a determined enemy. We have encountered stronger pockets of fighting in the past. But now, I would not give them a high grade for fighting spirit."
Using further eyewitness reports, the article describes how Hamas has integrated the tunnel network into the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, constructing entrances in homes and even mosques. "I have not entered one civilian home that did not have weapons, suicide belts, or booby traps in it," the source told the Post, stressing the lengths to which the IDF goes to protect innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, regardless.
The reports of a collapse in Hamas fighters' morale lends credence to other reports that Hamas leaders were considering a temporary truce suggested by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The organization has insisted in the past on making a ceasefire conditional on the removal of the international blockade of Gaza, which exists to prevent Hamas from importing weapons and materials to build its terror network even further than it has.
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You need the Rodenator!
I see those tear-streaked faces of the little Palestinian boys and girls and I feel pity on them until I realize that each and all will fight and try to kill each and every Western.
Perhaps having lived in the ME >20 years and seeing what is going on there I have grown callous.
My heart does go out to the Iraqi Christians whose deadline is tomorrow, Saturday. Where are our “Christian” congress critters and the MSM with any comments on that situation?
Unfortunately, no one wants to fight ANY war like WWII.....and even more sad, they will never win, decisively, like WWII. No one has the stomach for total war anymore.
If the IDF kill 500,000 Palestinians in this conflict, wouldn't be better than 5,000,000 dead in another all-Arab attack on Israel with possible nuclear and chemical weapons from ISIL, Syria, and Iran? Even Jordan and Turkey are turning more friendly to radicalism and that is very, very, very bad.
God speed Israel. I hope the peace you are trying to make, lasts.
Modify a little more. Bring in a fence and an Israeli flag. Any home that has weapons found in it, or Hamas, is now PERMANENTLY Israeli land.
From the article, that would be all of them.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
Not surprising that they are abaandoning their positions, especially when they don’t have women and children to hide behind. Have Muslims always been cowards? Come to think of it, the Muzz “fighters” in Iraq and Afghanistan do the same thing.
Get a grip. You're hysterical.
It sounds like a good option. “Hysterical”? No...reasonable and prudent. It is a war, you realize.
My advice to Israel has always been thus:
Take 10 yards of Gaza from the North permanently and expel its inhabitants for every missile or terror attack.
Soon, they’ll all be so squished in the South that they’ll use their own tunnels to invade Egypt.
Kill them all. Honestly, kill them all. If they are taking up arms against an otherwise peaceful nation that has attempted repeatedly to negotiate for peace only to have rockets launched on innocent citizens and terror attacks on innocent citizens, kill them all.
It is the only thing they understand
bump!!!
“back to the stone age”? These seventh century savages never left it.
I saw on Fox news a commentator stated that periodically, Israel needs to clean out Gaza and kill the terrorists. He made a great analogy: it is like mowing your lawn.You have to mow the lawn when the grass gets too high. Isreael is now mowing the lawn of terrorists. They will have to mow again in the future when the terrorist count gets too high.
It was said of the French that their armies were most dangerous when they believed they were winning.
Perhaps the same applies to Hamas.
They also have the option of treating the lawn.. so the grass doesn’t come back.
You still have that hope that Israel can live in peace among the Muslims?
You probably also think that the same can happen between us and the ROP that we allowed in our society?
Not until they completely reject the contents of their Satanic Verses and that will not happen any time soon. Just get set for the next 9/11.
Neither Israel nor Western Civilization will ever have peace as long as islam is alive.
The problem is the grass seeds that float in from other surrounding countries, and reimplant in the same lawn.
Maybe a nuclear winter would be the season in which the grass would not grow.. for a long time.
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