Posted on 01/12/2009 5:22:38 AM PST by BCrago66
Senior Hamas officials in Gaza are hiding out in a "bunker" built by Israel, intelligence officials suspect: Many are believed to be in the basements of the Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City, which was refurbished during Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip.
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Do what the Americans did to the “concrete battleship” in Manila Bay when they needed to neutralize it in 1944. Pour aviation gas in the vents and detonate it. Works real well.
If they can, they should evacuate the hospital, then drop a few daisy cutters on it. They built it, they should be able to destroy it.
Smoke them out.
I expect they only have one week left to carry out this operation before the new administration orders them to stop.
The people they are hiding behind are the same ones that swept them into power. We call it democracy. What are the coordinates?
Never forget (the Israelies never do): "Whenever legal conditions permit, kill terrorists on the spot. Do not give them a chance to surrender, if it can be helped. Contrary to academic wisdom, the surest way to make a martyr of a terrorist is to capture, convict and imprison him, leading to endless efforts by sympathizers to stage kidnappings, hijacking and other events intended to liberate the imprisoned terrorist(s). This is war, not law enforcement.
The voted for Hamas. They should get Hamassed.
I understand what you’re saying, but the IDF doesn’t need the global condemnation that would generate. Let them evacuate, then bomb.
Well, the residents of the children’s ward didn’t vote for Hamas.
Their parents did. And their parents have already taught them well.
When their parents and teachers dress them up as suicide bombers before they can walk, their prospects of having a positive impact on civilization have been squandered.
Wonder if Goggle Earth has this site covered? Could get interesting there.
To Dixie, Eric & Little Ray:
I think the traditional laws of war would allow Israel to bomb the hospital, including the children used as human shields.
But it would be a Pyrrhic victory. Israeli civil society - forget about the “international community” - would condemn it, it would demoralize the country, and lead to a dovish over-reaction making Israel more vulnerable to its many enemies.
Israel has a way to kill the Hamas leaders without killing the children, and it will do so.
And, not incidentally, it’s also a good thing that the kids will live, with the potential to be de-programmed out of being little hate machines.
or Goggle Maps - Streetscape.
That is what bunker busters are for.
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Nahh. Dig a tunnel into the basement and then chuck incendiary grenades.
Their ammo dump will then explode, taking out the hospital.
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