Act of war. By Amos Harel in Haaretz:
Hamas wants to create a "balance of terror" with Israel in the Gaza Strip, in order to deter the Israel Defense Forces from making a major ground forces incursion into the territory, IDF officers have concluded on the basis of the organization's greatly accelerated munitions acquisitions over the past few months.Since the beginning of the year, more than 20 tons of explosives, anti-aircraft missiles and antitank missiles have been smuggled into Gaza.
Senior IDF officers told Haaretz recently that Hamas is working to improve its offensive capabilities, with an emphasis on Qassam and Katyusha rockets, while at the same time establishing a solid defensive position in order to prevent the IDF from entering built-up areas within the Strip. By increasing the range of its missiles, the deadly force of their warheads and above all, by using high-quality blast explosives, Hamas hopes to heighten the threat to the northern and western Negev from the direction of Gaza.
If Hamas succeeds in improving the rockets in its possession, it will be able to store them for months, as opposed to just days, as it does now. That would enable the organization to fire massive salvos at the Negev for days at a time during periods of escalation, as Hezbollah did in northern Israel during the second Lebanon war.
Yeah, that was a good thing Israel did, handing Gaza back to the savages. Maybe now the US will pressure Israel into handing over Tel Aviv next.
So much for trading land for peace with a bunch of maniacs who have no clue what peace is.
The end result of this will be that Gaza will be leveled. And none too soon.
Isn't it lucky that modern weapons are so hard to come by in gaza.
I can't believe how stupid right wing radicals are.
There were about 3,000 Jews living in Gaza, each one of them was a hostage to the muslims.
By moving them out of the camp of the enemy, the state of Israel was able to give the muslims unfettered attention whenever they acted up, which is what they do daily.
And I can only hope that if they launch any attacks out of Gaza, that Israel goes in an bulldozes everything to the ground. But that won't teach the muslims anything, as muslims are incapable of learning, incapable because they are filled with self righteousness and lust for martyrdom. Take an empty vessel and fill it with ideations, beliefs, of self righteousness and choseness and dreams of paradise (surcease from the agony and anguish of life temporal, and the promise of extemporal sensual desires that are forbidden here and now and you have a recipe for perpetual mayhem.
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The IDF says that Hamas is building up weapons for defensive purposes? To defend territory against Israeli incursion? I don't have a huge security apparatus at my disposal, but even I know what Hamas's intentions really are. The IDF has been paying too much attention to Islamic propoganda claims of "Zionist aggression" and not enough attention to the teachings of the Qur'an. Oh well, we've been disappointed by every other government leader and organization in the world. Add the IDF (Israeli DEFENSE Forces) to the list.
Nariz said
Thankfully, those 3,000 Jews have been forcibly removed from their homes and shipped out. In return, Israel is enjoying a blossoming of peace and security in Gaza.
Next, there are 4.75 million Jews in Israel, each one of them a hostage to the Muslims. If they can just be forcibly removed from their homes and shipped out, then Israel will finally be at peace, just like the peaceful Muslims always said.
Let us hope that the IDF has been making good use of the after-action reports detailing Israeli tactical and logistical failures in the Lebanon.