[corkoman]

Oh yeah - so many wishing to invade pali and steal all their booty.

[kjam22]

What they consider aggression is Israel existing anywhere in the middle east.

[Semper Paratus]

A Palestinian Army under Hamas would not last as long as the Eygptian Army did in June '67 when the balloon goes up.

[Bender2]

Bender? Palestine has an army?

No problem...

We got Kiran and is she packing!

[Emmett McCarthy]

Even if all their crazy Arab neighbors armed them to the teeth (some of them have teeth I hear), they couldn't and wouldn't stand up in any kind of conflict. They know how to murder innocents women and children. If they ever had to face a grown man, they'd run off blubbering and crying.

[Dog Gone]

It's still early, but the hopes that Hamas will have to moderate in order to govern aren't being reflected in the rhetoric.

[bnelson44]

Oh, cool! They have decided to make this an easy decision for Israel!

[Thoro]

Yep, this should be priority numero uno for a corrupt beauracracy.

On the plus side, this does supply Israel a large and legitimate target.

[peyton randolph]

If Hamas puts their terrorists in uniform as a military, they get all of the protections of the Geneva Convention. OTOH, if they hit Israel, it is an act of war to which Israel can respond by wiping the Palis off the map.

[Cicero]

Hamas politburo chief

Hmmm.

[skinkinthegrass]

*mode: armchair general* ... If this is a country, it has borders/an army/leadership...Now the IDF has definable targets

Aren't these bad things for a terrorist network; it has no viable sanctuary, its army can't melt into the background, its leadership is known.

[pissant]

good. And preparing for the "mother of all battles" too, I assume.

[Just mythoughts]

I do wish these spokespeople would be identified, these articles sound like our media leaking from unidentified officials.

[trebb]

Good news - with an army, it will be easier to kill large numbers all at once...

[sgtbono2002]

This is great news for Israel. Israel has been curtailed in their fights with the Palestinians because the attacks on Israel have come from guerrillas, Israel copundt invade when the official policy of Palestine was that they couldnt control their citizens.

Now if the palestinians form an army the army will attack Israel and Israel can call it an official act of war, go into Palestine and clean out this nest of vipers once and for all.

Nice move dummies.

[conservativecorner]

I said the war started as soon as the election was over. Now their plan has swung into action, and the destruction of Israel is the goal.

[Chgogal]

BTTT

[fish hawk]

How are they going to pay their army? I suppose we will give them the money.

[TXnMA]

Hey, Hamas: Go for it! Just be sure to include lots of mass formation drilling in your training.

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[dennisw]

If Hamas is going to form an army this means they will bring in advanced weaponry and Jihad fighters from outside. Not immediately, but gradually. Euro-scum-antiSemites will get what they wanted all along. An army on Israel's doorstep that will try to destroy it