See? The Gazans have been working hard, not just living off the international dole!
"IDF finds Kassam silos in Gaza," by Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post :
In a clear sign that Hamas is adopting Hizbullah tactics, IDF troops uncovered underground Kassam launch silos inside the Gaza Strip during an early-morning foray there on Thursday. During the operation, the troops killed seven Palestinian gunmen affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Pictures released by the IDF Spokesperson's Office showed two underground Kassam rocket silos, a meter in diameter and two meters deep. The launchers, the army said, were big enough to hold a Kassam or Grad-model Katyusha rocket that could be launched by remote control.
The IDF estimates that there are additional underground rocket silos throughout the Gaza Strip. The silos were discovered by the Golani Brigade's elite Egoz Unit and defense officials said that their discovery proved the need for continued ground operations inside the Gaza Strip.
Some 20 Kassam rockets hit the western Negev on Thursday. One of the rockets hit a garage adjacent to a house in Sderot, causing a fire and sending three people into shock.
How now, old mole?
What with the digging of all those tunnels, one after the other, dozens or hundreds of them, hundreds of meters long, to bring in much-needed supplies -- explosives, rockets, grenades, rifles -- that the long-suffering Gazans so desperately need, and what with the effort that must have gone into destroying those greenhouses that had been handed over to them by the Israelis in perfect working order, and what with all the construction of villas for such warlords as Arafat's cousin (or was it his nephew), and what with the digging, and re-digging, of holes for those rockets, aimed or rather not aimed, simply shot into the air, to fall to earth they know not where, somewhere in the middle of Sderot or other civilian "targets, and what with all the counterfeiting of American dollars, and attacks on local Christians (now terrified into either silence, or strangled-throat praise of the Muslims whose "protection" they must endure), what will all of the infighting by the various warlords, and their henchmen, and the foot-soldiers, all so eager to take a larger share of the loot, the Infidel loot, that is available (and that is the real quarrel between the Fast Jihadists of Hamas and the Slow Jihadists of Fatah -- they differ not in goals, but in timing and tactics, and the Slow Jihadists of Fatah are more interested in getting their hot little hands here and now, on whatever can be inveigled -- so far about $8 billion in the last go-round of "international donors" to the "Palestinians" -- out of the Infidels, and then they can proceed, at a slighly more cunning and stately pace, to undo, by degrees the Infidel nation-state of Israel. And the members of Hamas, having endured more than a decade of rule by the corrupt Fatah men, lording it over them, strutting about, building those villas, behaving at times not as Muslims are supposed to behave, are less concerned with the here and now becuase for them, Paradise were Paradise enow.
So dig they must. Dig those tunnels for those explosives -- or maybe not, now that they can bring them right across the border, without the Egyptian police stopping them. Yes, it's the "Palestinian" Arab version of Boston's Big Dig.
And dig they will.
And the Israelis will keep have to returning to unearth those tunnels for smuggling, those tunnels for entering Israel to kidnap Israelis, those holes for those rockets.
How now, indeed?
As much energy they put into this digging and continual war - they could have grand cities, economies, etc. Instead they work on digging holes for weapons, learn how to use weapons, learn how to kill.
And with whose money??!!!!???
Ours - our hard earned tax money!
STOP GIVING ALL MUSLIMS OUR MONEY!
The Israelis should start firing something like the Kassam rockets at Gaza.
Actually I think more of a WWII type of response is warranted by Israel. For every attack from the a muslim country, a muslim village is levelled by the IAF.
When Sherman marched across Georgia, destroying eveything in his path, the people of the south were less inclined to keep fighting. When the cities of Germany and Japan were destroyed, the German and Japanese people were less inclined to continue the fight.
In those instances, we were fighting people that at least cared about themselves and their families. These people we are fighting now are raising their children to be suicide bombers and looking forward to death.
Unmerciful brute retaliation is the only way to win a war with these people.
Will someone PLEASE tell the Israelis to stop reporting figures for people with "shock". It sounds ridiculous and stereotypical. It almost sounds like a plea for sympathy, and it detracts from the deadly nature of rocket or bomb attacks.
I wonder if any of the soldiers that found the silos had enough of a sense of humor to relieve themselves into the silos?
Israel isn't going to wage total war. They never have and they won't be starting anytime soon, especially with Olmert running the show. Now personally, they should just forget about all these so-called peace plans and deal with the matter as they had before(occupation), but with the walls and checkpoints. But once again, with Olmert in office and the US walking the wrong path politically in regards to Israel and the ME, it won't happen either. So, they are just stuck in the present set of circumstances allowing them a restricted number of options to respond.