Posted on 10/30/2011 4:05:15 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Former IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. (res.) Dan Halutz, thinks Israel should mount a crushing offensive against Gaza. He called for a "mortal blow" to be dealt to Hamas's civilian and "military" leadership.
In an interview with IDF Radio, Halutz said, "We must bring back our deterrence vis-à-vis Gaza. It has not existed for even one moment since Operation Cast Lead and to this day."
Halutz said that in the end, Israel will have to conduct an extensive operation of this kind, and there is no reason to wait. "A rocket struck an empty school on the Sabbath," he said. "Why wait until a rocket strikes a full school in the middle of the day?" "This must be dealt with through a strong blow, beyond the expectations of the other side," he explained. "The other side creates equations based on its own preferences and we have to create different equations based on what is good for us."
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I have seen it in a vision.
Testify to your vision, brother.
I have seen a buildup in Ashkelon.
Amen.
I have seen Hamas preparing for another offensive from the North, tying children, women, old men and little puppy dogs to their launchers and guns in the North, preparin' defensive lines, all for an assault from the North.
Oooh, yeah.
And then I've seen two swinging doors, such as the one used on Little Round Top at Gettysburg.
Tell it to us, brother.
One of them from the East, through the Negev. Armor, foot soldiers and artillery supported from the air.
Mhhhmhmm.
One of them from the West, an amphibious naval assault backed by gun boats and airplanes. Both of them lightning quick. Kapow! Before they can turn their guns and launchers around, and scurry southward to fend them off.
L-rd, Hallelu-ah!
I see both of those columns joining hands in the South, to cut off access to the tunnels into Egypt.
YAAAAAYAAAAAAAAASSSSS!
I see clean-up operations, searching and destroying the discombobulated terrorist scum as they try, too late, to turn things around.
AAAAAMEEEENN!
This will be known as the six-hour war.
Hallelu-ah!
This is the right answer.
If they take another IDF soldier hostage, the only trade should be to capture the Gaza leadership, or the PA leadership, and hold them until all the soldiers are released unharmed.
Meanwhile, they need to push the border half a mile forward every time a rocket is fired into Israel. Land for Peace will work once the wires are connected properly. Attack us, you lose land. Stop attacking us, you stop losing land.
I profess to be largely ignorant of the intricacies of the struggle Israel has to stay alive, but it would seem to me that there can be no peace with those that live around her. They seem to be absolutely bent on destroying Israel, and for that perhaps an all out offensive to crush them is the answer.
Thanks Eleutheria5. He’s about 1/3 right.
Smash Hamas, check.
Smash Fatah, check.
Smash Hizbollah, check.
Annex Judah, and Samaria, and resettle all Arabs in Gaza, check.
Your words are my thoughts.
It’s time to teach these people that they cannot continue to attack Israel without suffering for it.
An offensive into Gaza now would enrage militants in power in Egypt and Turkey, and would probably draw into battle Hezbollah rockets from Lebanon, government forces of Syria, and whatever the Iranian mullahs want to do as well. The Sinai could also again become a wide battlefront.
Politically, it could collapse the royal regime in Jordan, and would accelerate anti-western sentiment in Libya, Yemen, the new government in Tunisia.
The Middle East is a powder keg which is just awaiting one poorly-conceived move before it erupts into the apocalypse that believers want to birth the reign of the 12th Iman.
Are you prepared for $10/gallon gasoline? If so, bring it on.
I hope he advocated this to his superiors when he was in uniform. Now he is retired, a private citizen, free to say what he believes.. he is right, of course. It is inevitable, so why put off to tomorrow what needs to be done today?
Your post is interesting and altogether not far off the mark.
Israel is damned if they do - and damned if they don’t.
Your central fallacy is that if we (israel) don’t invade Ghaza, the status quo will remain acceptable. Perhaps for a time, it will. But when Hezbollah, Egypt, Turkey, the PA and Syria, Libya and Iran are ready, they will explode that powder keg at a time of their choosing.
Not to put too sharp a point on it, but while you’re worried about gas prices, we (Israel) are worried about survival. But since we’re on the subject, $10 a gallon will look like the good old days if we wait on Islamofascistia’s convenience for a war.
The thing to do is to hit Ghaza now, while Libya, Syria, Egypt, etc., are disorganized. They’ll be enraged, but ineffective, because we’ll have taken out a key chess piece while they’re still floundering. Far from being ill-conceived, this would change the dynamic of the chess board.
Same strategy, as a tactic, worked in 1967. Make a dawn raid on Egypt’s air force and knock it out, and then Jordan has inadequate air cover. Nasser is too proud to tell Hussein the truth, and based on misleading info from Nasser, Jordan advances and is routed, then Egypt and Syria.
Do not let the enemy fight on its own terms. Demolish a weak point quickly and well, then you’ve created an even weaker point, and you can take them apart before their strategy takes shape.
Who knows? Maybe gas will only cost $8.50 at the pump when the dust settles and we(Israel) won.
It’s time also to settle matters once and for all. Enough of the attrition. It’s hurting everyone, including the Palis.
I wouldn’t agree about resettling all Arabs to Ghaza. I’d sooner see Gush Khatif re-Judaised, and the Arabs prospering as they did before the first Intifada. Will this make them cute and cuddly? No. But it will teach them where their interests lie in this world, whomever they get diddle in the next. That will mitigate them sometimes.
Other than that, we see 100% eye to eye.
Don't worry about gas prices. Go erRATicate the PA vermin!
Remember lining up for hours just to get gas?
Remember a 100% jump in the retail price per gallon at the pump?
That all happened after Saudi Arabia cut off exports to us, as punishment for intervening in the October 1973 war (which was started by Egypt and Syria).
The US was the undisputed economic leader of the world at the time. Now our anemic GDP growth rates are positioning us to be #2 to China before the end of this decade. How would a similar response by OPEC affect our economy now?
The better question is, how would it effect OPEC? OPEC could not effect such a boycott today, their economies require the cash much more now than in the past. Such a move would not punish us directly as it would Europe and China who get ME oil. Not to mention, we have military bases in these countries now that we did not have then.
Your scorn gets no applause.
The man is correct. Until there is death, death in humongious quantities, the is no solution.
If the death occurs in Gaza and not in the West Bank a message that is already understood will be delivered.
Gaza has a problem. The women and children choose to live amongst the fighters. They live in a combat zone. Unless they leave, they should be vulnerable.
What scorn? He’s preaching my religion. I’m saying “amen” and outlining how I think it should be done.
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