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Report: Hamas Morale Collapsing, Terrorists Flee IDF
breitbart.com ^ | 7/25/14 | Joel Pollack

Posted on 07/25/2014 8:40:58 AM PDT by cotton1706

In an otherwise excellent article on the Hamas terror tunnel network in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post buries the lede. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier in the field told the Post that while Hamas fighters offered fierce resistance when the ground operation began, now Hamas operatives are fleeing, abandoning their positions, leaving behind weapons and other material that the IDF is using to expand its assault on the terror group.

The source added that in recent days, a recognizable wave of demoralization has washed over Hamas's combat battalions. "They simply escape, leaving behind weapons and suicide bomb vests that were laid out for battle. This morning we stormed a position, and they just weren't there. I don't see a determined enemy. We have encountered stronger pockets of fighting in the past. But now, I would not give them a high grade for fighting spirit."

Using further eyewitness reports, the article describes how Hamas has integrated the tunnel network into the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, constructing entrances in homes and even mosques. "I have not entered one civilian home that did not have weapons, suicide belts, or booby traps in it," the source told the Post, stressing the lengths to which the IDF goes to protect innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, regardless.

The reports of a collapse in Hamas fighters' morale lends credence to other reports that Hamas leaders were considering a temporary truce suggested by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The organization has insisted in the past on making a ceasefire conditional on the removal of the international blockade of Gaza, which exists to prevent Hamas from importing weapons and materials to build its terror network even further than it has.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cowardlyhamas; gaza; hamas; hamasunderchildren; hamasunderhospitals; israel
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1 posted on 07/25/2014 8:40:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

All we need now is to hear the lamentations of their women (or goats).


2 posted on 07/25/2014 8:42:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: cotton1706

What’s this? Hamas can’t put up a fight unless they hide amongst kids and schools and hospitals? Get them in the open and they fold? Well well.


3 posted on 07/25/2014 8:43:45 AM PDT by lesko
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To: cotton1706

Good. Kill them as they flee, even if cowardly among refugees. Use Napalm and FAEs on them! When the widows and children emerge from the rubble, I want them to stone to death the first person that curses Israel, the Jews, or the west. I want them to live in fear, and thus respect of the IDF.


4 posted on 07/25/2014 8:44:40 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“All we need now is to hear the lamentations of their women (or goats).”

That’s the funniest line I’ve seen all day!


5 posted on 07/25/2014 8:45:57 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: cotton1706
"Using further eyewitness reports, the article describes how Hamas has integrated the tunnel network into the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, constructing entrances in homes and even mosques. "I have not entered one civilian home that did not have weapons, suicide belts, or booby traps in it," the source told the Post, stressing the lengths to which the IDF goes to protect innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, regardless."

The answer to that situation would be to Dresden the entire Gaza strip, but Israel would never do it.

6 posted on 07/25/2014 8:46:27 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: cotton1706

It would be rather easy to pump water from the Med Sea into the tunnels. It works on gophers.


7 posted on 07/25/2014 8:46:41 AM PDT by lurk
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To: cotton1706

Strafe the demons.


8 posted on 07/25/2014 8:46:46 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Truth is the enemy of our dysfunctional government.)
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To: cotton1706

They’ll be calling for “peace” and a “cease-fire” here pretty soon so they can reconstruct their tunnels, re-arm, and rest up.


9 posted on 07/25/2014 8:47:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: cotton1706

Actually, I hope IDF takes them OUT before they can flee.


10 posted on 07/25/2014 8:48:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: cotton1706

God Bless the IDF as they pound Hamas back into the stone age. America has Israel’s back (despite Obama and his anti-Christian/anti-Jew pals). The Great OZ has spoken.


11 posted on 07/25/2014 8:48:57 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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Cease fire when Israel can exist and live in peace.


12 posted on 07/25/2014 8:49:58 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: cotton1706

Don’t let Hamas off the hook.

Wipe them out. All of them.


13 posted on 07/25/2014 8:50:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cotton1706
"They simply escape, leaving behind weapons and suicide bomb vests

I've often wondered how long the hoards of imbeciles wiling to strap on a vest would last. While they still have some left I believe that strategy will ultimately run it's course.

14 posted on 07/25/2014 8:51:32 AM PDT by ontap
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I’d spread the rumor that gas that makes your genitalia fall off is being pumped into the tunnels.


15 posted on 07/25/2014 8:55:46 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: cotton1706

NO . TRUCE !!!

Wipe out the bloody HAMAS!

They need to be ERADICATED as completely and thoroughly as possible.


16 posted on 07/25/2014 8:57:03 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Their goats have more sense than to lament the death of these creiins.


17 posted on 07/25/2014 8:57:22 AM PDT by txrefugee
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bttt


18 posted on 07/25/2014 8:57:43 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: txhurl

LOL


19 posted on 07/25/2014 8:58:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Truth29
The answer to that situation would be to Dresden the entire Gaza strip, but Israel would never do it.

Modifying that a little. If a house, mosque, etc. has weapons, booby traps, etc. then remove everyone and bulldoze. Rinse and repeat.

20 posted on 07/25/2014 8:59:16 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Global Warming is caused by illegal immigrants!)
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