[Star Traveler]

As the article said, it was announced that the IDF would go no further than about four kilometers in, and it might take about two weeks.

[Iron Munro]

Israel's Gaza incursion to focus on locating, destroying tunnels

Those tunnels are like undergroung sausages - packed full of crazed Jihadis.

Fry them up !!!

[blackdog]

I once lived in an area which was nothing but red shale rock, covered with about a foot of topsoil. A developer was building a whole neighborhood about a half mile from my house. One saturday I decided to walk my dog there.

Dogs are curious animals, particularly over anything freshly dug or burried. Well, he started digging at these mounds of dirt with cables. There were hundreds of them all in linear patterns. After pulling and pulling, I pulled out a "Blasting Cap". Well it turns out the best way to make a backhoe's job a lot easier to dig about 500, 50' X 50' X 20' deep basement foundations was to blast it all to hell and turn the rock to gravel.

Why not just bury explosive charges about 30' down about every 100 feet and just set off the charges? Every tunnel, cave, void, etc.... will just collapse.

[Piranha]

The newspaper that contains this article is more leftwing by orders of magnitude than the New York Times. It has a circulation of about 30,000 in Israel and lots of international BDSers and other Israel haters.

There is broad consensus in Israel that this is the time to eliminate Hamas as a credible threat to Israel. Obama, through John Kerry, is bullying Israel into limiting the operation to destroying a few tunnels. Netanyahu has bent to Obama’s pressure repeatedly. Without the pressure exerted on him by rightwingers like Danny Danon, Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s policies at this time would be close to those of Tzipi Livni. She is the former conservative turned leftwinger whom Netanyahu appointed to negotiate with the Arabs. Thankfully, the conservatives are aligned with public perceptions.

Only leftwing trolls argue that the tunnel destruction at the border is sufficient.

[canuck_conservative]

If Israel really wants to do it right, it should wire the whole area up with listening devices.

[montag813]

They need to find the underground bunkers where the Hamas leadership is hiding, and incinerate them alive.

[dennisw]

ground penetrating radar!!! fire them up!!

[onedoug]

Until they dig more.

What a bunch of crap.

[Star Traveler]

Here’s a running account of news reports related to these recent events with Israel and Hamas. If you want to catch up on the news accounts ... they are here ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stisraelhamas/index

It’s listed from newest to oldest, so go to the bottom to start.