Posted on 05/15/2021 5:33:57 AM PDT by billorites
If all’s fair in love and war, why is everyone on the IDF spokesman’s case? For it looks like Israel has pulled off one of the shrewdest military feints since the eve of D-Day, when America fielded the First United States Army Group.
Just after midnight Friday the Israeli Defense Force spokesman released a carefully-worded statement, informing the press in Hebrew, Arabic, and English that “IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip.”
The statement was technically accurate. Tanks, artillery and other IDF units that can accurately be described as “ground troops” indeed joined the Airforce in an attack on Gaza. Then again, it was also, perhaps deliberately so, a bit off the point.
Those ground forces conducted their attack from the Israeli side of the Gaza border. They did not cross into the Hamas-controlled strip, as in the last Gaza war, in 2014. At that time a major land invasion resulted in a high number of casualties, including many civilians. With that in mind, leading American editors ran ahead of what turned out to be the more important “ground troop” story.
One reason is that the IDF English-language spokesman, Jonathan Cornicus, went a bit further than the original statement, telling reporters of the New York Times, Washington Post, and wire services that troops indeed went into a Gaza enclave, telling them, “Yes. As it’s written in the statement: Indeed, ground forces are attacking in Gaza. That is that they are in the Strip,” according to the Times of Israel.
The Hebrew language IDF spokesman, Hidai Zilberman, later clarified that no troops infiltrated Gaza, but by then the headlines were out. As Liz Sly, a Washington Post reporter based in Beirut, dramatically tweeted, “Breaking: Israeli troops have crossed into Gaza, the Israeli military confirmed early Friday.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Beautiful. The Israelis get it. 101 level Sun Tzu. “All warfare is deception”. I hoped these Pali maggots all were buried. I wish my fellow Americans would learn something from this. Fight smart.
Hopefully that pulled hamas into the kill box...however many fighters the Israelis killed wasn’t enough however...Gazans could have a peaceful prosperous community but they do not want that...their misguided religious fervor causes them to continuously attack and attempt to destroy Israel...so when this phase is over they will salvage and consolidate their remaining munitions and rebuild their terror infrastructure with help from the US, Iran, UN, and all the usual suspects...
Excellent article.
I find it deeply satisfying that the Leftist anti-Israel media was used so effectively & successfully (it appears) by Israel to demolish their enemy. Doubly satisfying to use the Leftist press since the Leftist, feckless, weak Biden regime all but, if not actually, encouraged/enabled the attacks by not supporting Israel & releasing money President Trump had cut off to the terrorists. If the ‘spokesperson’s credibility’ has been “damaged”, but no more bombs/attacks are happening to Israel, that’s a very small cost to pay & well worth it.
Using deception against people of color is racist.
Trolling the Jew-hating press and trapping terrorist scum like rats. Sounds like a sad day at the NYT.
This was a hopefully big strike against Hamas and against the media that supports them.
Fabulous.
Can you understand why our allies might be reluctant to share information with the current administration? It would put operations like this in jeopardy. In fact I bet it will come out that the Israelis played Biden officials for fools.
Smart move, it’ll be interesting to hear more on this later.
From the article....
“In an emergency, these tunnels serve also as a hiding place for Hamas military brass. Unlike most of Gaza’s civilian population, these commanders have a place to hide when attacked from the air. Arms and other major military assets, including Hamas’s most secret weapons, are also stored underground.
Once the story about a pending ground invasion led major world press outlets, Hamas bigwigs ran for safety under the ground, lest Israeli troops would find and kill them.
Except that Israeli intelligence apparently has had these underground facilities well-mapped. The IDF Air Force promptly started shelling the underground facilities. Air attacks first targeted tunnels’ entryways and exits, and later, apparently using American-made bunker-busting bombs, destroyed the tunnels, burying everything in them.”
In fact I bet it will come out that the Israelis played Biden officials for fools.
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A simple task, at most.
Take away oil and the bulk of the Muslim Middle East would look like Afghanistan.
No kidding! You just know the top scum ran into the tunnels while the innocent kids had no place to hide. I can’t wait to see how many of the top scum were taken out.
The IDF didn’t technically lie, right?
And the statement fooled the punks in the fake news biz AND the terrorists of Hamas (both groups hate freedom and liberty, by the way)...and it APPEARS some bad dudes were eliminated.
Good stuff.
As Dennis Prager said, “If the Israelis laid down their arms today, they would all be dead tomorrow. However, if the Palestinians laid down their arms today, their would be peace tomorrow”.
“their misguided religious fervor”
I believe it is envy of Israel that leads the Palestinians astray.
Envy is a sin.
Since little tiny Israel kicked the living crap out of 6....SIX Muslim countries which attacked her I have been a fan and great admirer of Israel and her people.
Bkmk
This weekend’s feel-good story.
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Feel better: this is the second time Hamas fell for this trick, only this time they lost half of their 15 regular brigades; the wounded and dead being left in the tunnels to avoid funerals, thus revealing their catastrophic losses
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