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BREAKING: Israel Begins Ground Operation Against Hamas
Townhall.com ^ | 5/12/2021 | spencer brown

Posted on 05/13/2021 3:58:45 PM PDT by bitt

As Thursday evening turned into Friday morning in the Middle East, the Israel Defense Forces began a ground operation against Hamas targets following days of indiscriminate attacks from the Iranian funded and equipped terrorists.

Israel Defense Forces @IDF IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip.

Shortly after the IDF announcement that ground troops were joining the air attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a video in which he says "I said that we would charge a very heavy price from Hamas," adding "the last word was not said and this operation will continue as long as necessary."

VIDEO

As Katie reported Thursday morning, an IDF spokesperson confirmed that a ground invasion was an option on the table as Israel continued to launch successful air strikes against terrorist targets, taking out a number of key leaders behind this week's attacks on Israeli cities.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: groundoperation; hamas; israel
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To: minnesota_bound

the whole world is “testing testing testing”....


41 posted on 05/13/2021 4:53:08 PM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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To: Fzob

Attack Iran, they are doing g it, china has plans to help them


42 posted on 05/13/2021 4:53:14 PM PDT by aces (and )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I pray they stay strong and are unharmed.


43 posted on 05/13/2021 4:53:25 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: mass55th

Amen


44 posted on 05/13/2021 4:54:59 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: bitt

Hamas id using heavy new missile systens

Fajr 5 (military codename M-75) and Burkan (A-122), Fajr 5, an Iranian product with a long range and 333mm caliber which is mounted on a Mercedes Benz 2631 forward control chassis. This rocket weighs a ton, Its warhead is packed with 175kg of fragmentation warhead containing 90kg of high explosives. Hamas’ rocket engineers reduced its payload to extend the Fajr’s range to 170km

They are waiting to get GPS kits for the missiles

This is the why of the ground assault.

Story here
https://www.debka.com/hamas-brings-out-high-powered-rockets-to-hit-strategic-israeli-targets/


45 posted on 05/13/2021 4:54:59 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

I see your Cat D-11T CD with coal blade, and raise you a
Komatsu D575A Super Dozer.


46 posted on 05/13/2021 4:55:47 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: twister881

Sounds like a plan.


47 posted on 05/13/2021 4:56:33 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: gitmo

and they are speeding up, our enemies have to make it as overwhelming as possible..


48 posted on 05/13/2021 4:56:42 PM PDT by aces (and )
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To: PIF

How much did the Biden team pay/help them with this technology, I wonder.


49 posted on 05/13/2021 4:59:23 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Texas resident
Bring in the Cat D-9 dozers. The Rachel Corrie offense.
50 posted on 05/13/2021 5:00:19 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
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To: bitt

I’m good with total annihilation of Hamas and the non-existent people whom they represent.


51 posted on 05/13/2021 5:03:24 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Paladin2

I think nuking Mecca just by itself might actually destroy Islam as a religion.

One of the 5 pillars of Islam is the pilgrimage to Mecca. It’s expected of every good Muslim who can figure out a way to get there to make that pilgrimage.

The Muslim conception of Allah is such that they believe it is, quite literally, impossible that Allah would permit Mecca’s destruction.

Nuking the place would undermine their faith in a way that it is hard for Westerners to conceive.

It would not be at all similar to, for example, Muslims nuking Rome in an effort to undermine Catholicism. Catholics can imagine that; Muslims literally cannot imagine Allah permitting the same to happen to Mecca.

It would, to many of them, more or less positive inarguable proof that Allah does not really exist.

I personally believe that Bush should have announced on 9/12 that the West was hereafter holding the Muslim world collectively responsible for the acts of Muslim extremists, that it was up to Muslims to police their own, and that any repeat of the 9/11 attacks, or any other terrorist activity on a similar scale directed at the West, would immediately and inexorably result in Mecca being nuked.

He could have called it the “Bush Doctrine.”


52 posted on 05/13/2021 5:10:03 PM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: mass55th

AMEN!


53 posted on 05/13/2021 5:12:02 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World)
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To: grey_whiskers

Can you explain how this Jew/Arab conflict with deaths on both sides is a distraction from Arizona election fraud?


54 posted on 05/13/2021 5:13:16 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: mass55th
Please God, protect the men and women of the IDF, and may they be completely victorious against their enemies.

Amen

55 posted on 05/13/2021 5:16:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
I see your Cat D-11T CD with coal blade, and raise you a Komatsu D575A Super Dozer.

The Super Dozer:


56 posted on 05/13/2021 5:23:06 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Fzob

How did Iraq and Afghanistan end up.

Easy to start an event, impossible to stop.

And Europe is not on Israel’s side, and the US has enough problems to deal with.


57 posted on 05/13/2021 5:25:26 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: bitt

IDF can push straight across Gaza to the Sea along .5 km avenues spearheaded by combat engineers. From those lines sectoring up Gaza, they will then begin the above and below ground “Grid Square” clearing of Hamas and other terrorists. Iran may well be targeted as well since they are the primary sponsor of the proxies Hamas. Beyond Iran there is the issue of Russia supporting Iran, but Russia has never intervened directly on Iran’s behalf against Israel.

Iron Drome is essentially the Israeli project of the Patriot Missile system. My wife was the Arrow Rocket Program Program Manager in Tel Aviv when I serving at the AmEmb Tel Aviv.

I have waited 15 years to see if the IDF Colonel’s tactics against Gaza, as mentioned above, is carried out.


58 posted on 05/13/2021 5:25:51 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: bitt

Every square millimeter of Gaza is within artillery range from Israeli territory.

Israel should and will take advantage.

But they’re going to have to dig out 10,000 committed fighters from tunnels, hospitals and apartment buildings.

And kill them one by one.

Hamas will rue the day they agreed to do Iran’s bidding. If any of them survive anywhere.

They even have the support of the Biden administration, something I’m startled by.

Hell, even the squad has been quiet the last 24hrs.


59 posted on 05/13/2021 5:30:42 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jumper

Sounds similar to how the US Army cleared out Fallujah.

Your thoughts on Fallujah?

I’m retired US Military with 4.5 years active. 15.5 reserves


60 posted on 05/13/2021 5:34:39 PM PDT by Tailback
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