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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Kill them all.
Let God sort it out.
The liberal “Compassion” has no
standing here.
There will be a much, much higher cost of not destroying Hamas.
It sure appears that Israel is going to take care of business.
Thank you cabojoe; good reading here.
For those who trust in the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Yeshua, we must look into our own hearts...
We need to pray continually, that God do a miracle and give the forces of Israel complete victory, yet spare as many innocents (children) as possible.
Urban warfare is costly.
You are welcome. Thank you should be said more often. Good on you.
The cost of wiping out HAMAS, perhaps the worst of the many malignant putrescent muslim tumors on the ass of the entire world?
Versus the cost of the 1,300 Israelis killed, 3,000 injured and 150 taken as hostages to be beaten raped and tortured by death cult muslims?
And the next 1,300 or more,,,,,
And the next....
And the next...
Hmmmm.....
Spare not a single Hamas fighter , not a one . No quarter . Eradicate them from the fabric of humanity . 100%
Level it, pave it, paint parking spaces.
I’ve been thinking...bulldoze all the concrete, load it on barges, dump it in the ocean and make an island for iguanas and stuff like that.
Higher than they did when they weren’t bothering Hamas at all?
Not likely.
Thanks for posting, fair and detailed, without overt politics.
“Urban warfare is costly.”
The way Israel does it, it is costly, as they try to protect civilians, which often means losing men.
But I have a feeling it won’t be quite as costly this time, as Israel simply cannot afford to fight that way on such a large scale.
Estimates are there could be 10-15,000 of the Hamas roaches still in there
eliminating them would be a HUGE blow to Hamas and Iran
that’s probably why Iran is already screaming for Israel to stop
The “Jewish Messiah, Jesus Yeshua”? Ain’t no such thing. Sorry, this is NOT the place to be peddling your lies and messyonic crap.
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