Posted on 01/11/2009 8:37:52 PM PST by Lorianne
"We have begun to integrate reservist forces into the action in the Gaza Strip," military spokesman Avi Benayahu said on Israel's Channel 2 TV. "We aren't acting in panic, but cautiously."
His phrasing left it unclear whether Israeli forces had been ordered to storm into built-up areas, risking higher military casualties as well as heavy civilian losses.
Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met to discuss their next move, Israel radio said, predicting more attacks on smuggling tunnels used by Hamas on the Gaza-Egyptian border, and possibly a wider operation.
Thick black smoke rose over the city of Gaza as fighting raged on in the Hamas-ruled territory in defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand for a ceasefire. Medical workers said about half the Palestinians killed on Sunday were civilians.
"Israel is getting close to achieving the goals it set for itself," Olmert told his cabinet in Jerusalem.
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*sigh* Couple thousand feet, couple sorties, problem solved. Ground wars need to go the way of the typewriter.
In this case, I concur.
You can’t capture personnel, equipment, and documents in an air war.
They have been talking this way since Billy Mitchell. One will always need infantry, human or cylon.
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