Posted on 10/15/2023 2:35:03 AM PDT by cabojoe
Israel is on the verge of launching a major invasion. Over the last three days, the government has called up over 300,000 military reservists. It is massing forces near the Gaza Strip, and it has started bombarding the territory. In the early morning of October 13, it asked the United Nations to evacuate 1.1 million people from the north of Gaza, and later that day, it dropped leaflets in the territory telling people to move south. The question is no longer whether Israel will send its military into Gaza but rather how deep Israeli forces will go into the enclave and how long they will stay there.
On one level, an Israeli attack on Gaza is not entirely unprecedented. Israel and Hamas have clashed repeatedly in the strip since the militant group seized power there in 2007. But these battles were fairly limited. Israel hit Hamas hard with airstrikes on personnel and key infrastructure in Gaza, but it only ventured sporadic raids on the ground. The reason for this restraint was straightforward: Israeli ground offensives in Gaza are exceedingly bloody and difficult. During the last major one in 2014, approximately 66 Israeli soldiers, six Israeli civilians, and well over 2,000 Palestinians died, even though the military penetrated only a few miles deep into the enclave. Most of the Palestinian deaths were civilians; a quarter were children. To the Israelis, then, it has never seemed worth trying to retake the territory, especially because the Israeli government believed it could control and deter Hamas without ordering major assaults.
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The cost of ‘not’ crushing HAMAS is already known... The cost of crushing them will be well worth it.
It’ll be interesting to see with so much of Israels’s army in the field if there’s an Iranian second stage to Hamas’ attack.
Or they could drive the Philistines from the land. Let their Muslim Arab brothers take care of them. After they’re driven from the land, resettle the land with Jews who’ve recently entered Israel.
I think Israel will go for the siege
Cutoff food water supplies
Form a ring around the territory with ships and the existing fence.
Deploy drones and cadaver dogs to sniff out dead enders for elimination
Give the same “compassion” that was given to the innocent Israelis who were slaughtered.
Amen to that.
The Philistines need to be cleansed from this planet. They have been a thorn in the side of mankind.
The Philistines need to be cleansed from this planet. They have been a thorn in the side of mankind.
It would be wise to starve them out for a couple of weeks first.
Yep....poison the water, bomb aid trucks coming from Egypt, 30mm from Apaches for those military age males out in the open. Don’t just target those with green bandanas and ak47, hit any male 15-55 HARD.
No. Just level it and turn it into open prairie.
It’s easy. Turn it into a glass factory
Quit being nic
Cancer will always kill when allowed to go on unchecked! Islamic Terrorists are a Cancer wherever they are and in whatever nation they have entered..including our own nation.
I have no doubt they’ll hall out the hostages once Israels taken down most of Hamas and those supporting them. .....IF they are still even alive and last that long.
How about a thurogh napalming of Gaza? This would likely reduce opposition - at least. The nice part of this is that it will kill many in the tunnels as well.
just shut it off, and starve them out...
Stand off and rain artillery and bombs on the goat humpers.
In the old days, Muslim conquerers would give captives a choice - become a Muslim or die. The prisoners who refused were immediately beheaded. Sick twisted religion. Islam means "Submit"... or die.
There is no way to redeem Hamas fighter's soul, they will not give up being evil. Killing them is the only way to stop them.
Yes, move much of the populace out of the way, and starve the hidden Hamas fighters until dead. But... the international community won't let this continue for long. Which is why more extreme methods must also be employed. More bunker buster bombs, razing most buildings, air-fuel explosives to suck oxygen out of tunnels, etc. Kill as many of the hidden terrorists as possible in a short period of time.
One thing is certain -- there will be no tunnel network when the IDF leaves. There may not be much infrastructure either.
Which is exactly what should happen.
Israel's approach is smart, kill Hamas where they lay, but in the long term, force a permanent exodus from Gaza -- make the Palis the problem of Egypt, and Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and Dubai, where the Pali diaspora is already creating problems; and let the Mooselime crescent absorb their plague-carrying rats.
This is the best long-term way to punish Iran -- who always, always overplay their weak hand -- by sending the Palis to Iran's Mudshite enemies!
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