Posted on 07/11/2014 1:39:15 PM PDT by Star Traveler
However, the advantage of fighting on the ground is only the case in Judea and Samaria; in Gaza, Israel will find it vey difficult to act effectively on the ground for the following reasons:
1. Population size and density, especially in urban areas such as Gaza City, Khan Yunis, Rafiah and the refugee camps make it necessary for Israel to introduce large infantry forces to a considerable number of points.
2. A tank has no advantages in urban areas as it has limited maneuverability, cannot aim at upper floors and is a slow-moving, easily hit target for antitank weapons, such as RPGs and rockets.
3. An armored jeep is also an easy target for antitank weaponry in a built up area.
4. Soldiers making their way on foot in built up areas are sitting ducks for snipers. Hamas has laid mines, built tunnels underneath the houses, fortified sniper positions in strategically placed buildings.
5. Eliminating Hamas military and civilian infrastructure requires a large Israeli presence over a lengthy period of time, enabling Hamas to attack command posts and headquarters (that is what occurred in Tyre).
6.Total elimination of Hamas will not prevent its resurgence as soon as our soldiers leave.
These points lead to the conclusion that sending land forces deep into Gaza will cost many lives without much to show for it. The subsequent retreat will be presented as a victory for Hamas.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
I would rather see two billion Mooselimbs wiped off of the face of he Earth than see a single Israeli or Christian killed by a Hamas rocket.
I guess you’ll have to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a call and see if you can convince him ... :-) ...
That’s one reason why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing what he is doing - he’s not going to give Hamas a “public relations BONANZA” ... :-) ...
I generally avoid assigning “worth” to someone (or anyone) based on what they have accomplished. In our society that we live in here in the USA, that leads to the ELIMINATION of two groups, because they have either accomplished nothing or can no longer accomplish anything further - and that is the young and unborn, along with the aged and infirm.
I’m not going to give the government a “standard” by which they can start eliminating “groups” on the basis of “accomplishment.”
Now, what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does is eliminate the TERRORISTS and their “operations” - which is based on “what they do”. That’s valid.
My thinking is don’t waste bombs on the vermin.
Starve them out.
Shut off their utilities and all shipments into their area.
And just wait them out.
Gazashima and Nagagaza would end it in a hurry. Or maybe just one, to be nice and let it sink in to their primitive skulls.
The analysis of the utility of tanks in urban warfare seems a bit dated. In Iraq, one of the reasons the U.S. took very few casualties in urban warfare was the discovery that tanks are quite effective in dealing with snipers: take fire from a building, bring up a tank and level the building with a shell from its main gun, sniper problem sovled.
Globalist claptrap.
The Arabs DO love their children. They love them SO much that they are willing to part with them so they can die in glorious martyrdom operations while slaughtering the infidel, especially Jews, and ascend into paradise.
Not all people are the same.
The Israelis are going to be condemned no matter what, so they might as well bite the bullet and try to secure something better for their children.
The Palis will never stop trying to destroy Israel. Their children imbibe hate with their milk and have it fed into brains via TV.
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