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Todd Warnick · Top Commenter · Jerusalem, Israel
There are some assumptions that Avi makes in this article that aren’t entirely clear. Would we lose hundreds of soldiers in uprooting Hamas? Why does he think that? We are starting to get to their commanders and their best forces went down in Sajaiyah and now are being defeated/killed/surrendering left and right. As to not taking over Gaza again - at least temporarily until we destroy all the tunnels - it’s not clear that this isn’t on the agenda. See: repeated Lapid and Livni statements. The only thing that might stop us is more incomprehensible pressure from the US - after all, President Obama was the one that twisted our arm and forced us to transfer to Gaza from the Nesher Cement Company 600 tons of cement - dual-use materials that in the end were used solely for building tunnels and terrorist infrastructure. Thank you Mr. President!
Thats great intel. Fred.
Obama had the cement imported, a sign that Obama is micromanaging Hamas agression, and that includes getting Gadaffi’s arsenal of hand held surface to air missiles into Gaza from where Obama had them distributed in Benghazi, the devils own work.
Now the world knows.
To that end, the US is sending $47 mil to Hamas for “humanitarian aid”.
There are many suicidal Israelis who still want to give peace a chance, thus, the assumption.
The assumption does not take into account the reality on the ground where Hamas is suffering one defeat after another as they fall back to the central command city under Gaza city.
A pause or ceasefire would be just to Hamas’ liking when things get too hot. Iran will then rebuild the entire tunnel infrastructure, a new supply of rockets, and possibility a defense against the Merkava 4’s Windbreaker missile defense systems.
Then Hamas, and if Hezbollah is not still tied up in Syria, launch a two pronged attack. Maybe Iran will be able then to step in with a nuke for Tel Aviv.
Hamas must be totally defeated and Gaza occupied by Israeli mil to give peace a chance.