Posted on 07/25/2014 9:00:11 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Israel’s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu revealed on Thursday that Hamas was intending to attack Israel from dozens of tunnels in a coordinated simultaneous attack. At the beginning of Thursday’s special cabinet meeting the prime minister said, “These tunnels enable the enemy to open a multi-pronged offensive and carry out a massive terror attack inside Israel.”
The attack Hamas was planning, the officials say, “would have made Israel drop to its knees.” They added that even the tunnels destroyed until now takes away from Hamas a strategic asset the terror group has been working on for years.
Hamas has prepared a veritable plan for ground warfare, after a few failed terror attacks and the realization that rockets are no match for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. Preparations for a ‘boots-on-the-ground’ war started when Hamas realized it had nothing to lose, but the organization was not prepared for the IDF to start the ground incursion so soon and hoped to have convenient exit strategies.
IDF officials warned that the drop in the daily number of rockets fired at Israel do not indicate Hamas is running out. While it is true that Hamas’s reservoir of projectiles has been significantly depleted, taking into account the number of rockets fired and the number of rockets and launchers destroyed by the IDF, the smaller barrages are seen in the military as a calculation by Hamas that the war can take a whole month and therefore it would need to retain its rocket-launching capabilities to the very last day. According to estimates, Hamas had 9000 rockets at the beginning of Operation Protective Edge. It has fired around 2000 and some 3000 were destroyed by Israel. It therefore still has some 4000 rockets in storage.
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Yeah ... just like the Israeli Ambassador is a “Hamas supporter” ... LOL ...
Turkish Prime Minister: Israel Has ‘Surpassed What Hitler Did To Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3185045/posts
WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ridiculed Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, accusing the Israeli government of “barbarism that surpasses Hitler.”
Speaking at a political re-election rally in the Turkish city of Ordu, Turkey’s prime minister said that Israel has “surpassed what Hitler did to them” and declared the country a “terrorist state.”
“[Israelis] have no conscience, no honor, no pride. Those who condemn Hitler day and night have surpassed Hitler in barbarism,” said Erdogan. He accused Israel of rejecting ceasefires that Hamas has proposed and “spitting death, spitting blood.”
Erdogan reiterated his opposition to Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip and said that the Israel Defense Forces have had a “disproportionate” effect and will end any positive relations between Israel and Turkey. Despite the climbing death toll of Palestinians – with nearly 800 killed during the most recent Israeli offensive in Gaza – Erdogan said that the Turkish people should not take out their frustrations on Turkey’s own Jewish community.
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Erdogan perpetuates the MYTH that Israel treats everyone in Gaza as “the enemy”. Israel doesn’t because Israel very clearly and specifically says that the Palestinian rtesidents are NOT the enemy - but Hamas and their terrorist operation is the enemy. Now no country is called a “terrorist state” for killing soldiers of another army when they are being attacked by that army. That’s what Hamas consists of ... soldiers of an attacking army, but ALSO terrorists who attack civilians.
Israel doesn’t attack civilians, but goes to the utmost extremes to avoid any collateral damage to them! Again, it’s a MYTH that Israel thinks that EVERYONE in Gaza is an enemy. That’s an absolutely false accusation that is meant to take the attention away from the true terrorists - HAMAS.
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