Next Stage of Gaza Operation: "Root Canal" for Terror -Hanan GreenbergIn Sunday's cabinet meeting, the ministers were informed that 73% of the 300 rockets fired on Israel in the last week were launched from areas that have now been seized by the army.
(Ynet News)
Hamas Using US Arms to Battle IDF -Khaled Abu Toameh
Hamas has all the weapons that Israel, the U.S. and other countries had given forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas. This includes tens of thousands of rifles and pistols, heavy machine guns, night-vision goggles and bulletproof vests, as well as vast amounts of ammunition.
(Jerusalem Post)
The Target: Hamas' Army -Ron Ben-Yishai
The IDF will focus on causing casualties among Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam fighting force. Another target is the fortified defensive system built by Hamas both below and above ground. In order to raze these targets, the IDF needs to gather additional intelligence - mostly via human sources within the Palestinian population.
(Ynet News)
U.S. Seeks to Formulate Ceasefire Agreement -Roni Sofer
The release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will also be stipulated as one of Israel's terms for a halt to the fighting in any agreement.
[Ynet News]
Israeli mother shields her child from an incoming missileunder a restaurant table
Israelis take cover from incoming Hamas missile Israel's Gaza Dilemma -Max Boot
Achieving total victory in Gaza would require Israel to wage war in the way that America fought Germany and Japan - all out until the enemy has no more capacity to resist. Then it would have to occupy the land and impose a peace at gunpoint to ensure that Gaza could never again be a launching point for attacks. None of this is beyond the Israelis' military capacity. Yet the odds are that they won't do it.
For all the accusations of brutality that are routinely flung at Israel's armed forces, their conduct has been exemplary by historical standards. They have shown far less propensity for indiscriminate killing than did European states in the 1950s when confronting insurgencies in such places as Kenya, Cyprus, Vietnam and Algeria.
(Wall Street Journal)
The Three-State Option -John R. Bolton
Given the current landscape, we should ask why we still advocate the "two-state solution," with Israel and "Palestine" living side by side in peace. Let's start by recognizing that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn.
Instead, we should look to a[n] approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty. Having the two Arab states re-extend their prior political authority is an authentic way to extend the zone of peace and build on governments that are providing peace and stability in their own countries. "International observers" or the like cannot come close to what is necessary; we need real states with real security forces.
Objections to this idea will be manifold, and implementation difficult. But either we do better, conceptually and operationally, or Iran will be happy to fill the vacuum.
(Washington Post)
Israel's Gaza Strategy -Martin Kramer
[M]uch of the world stands by, and parts of it (including some Arabs) quietly applaud.
Hamas assumes (probably correctly) that its Palestinian opponents fed Israel with much of the intelligence it needed to wage precision warfare against Hamas. There is likely to be a vicious settling of scores as soon as a cease-fire is in place, if not before.
(Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies-Shalem Center)
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3 comments:
I came to your blog from the NYT comments section.
Your blog sucks. Your claim to tell about the mid east is a lie
You have to notice that more and more Americans are no longer swallowing your Zionist lies. You are also losing the ability to stifle evidense of your thieving murderering ways with cries of racism and bigotry. If you scum Zionists lose your ability to cry racism you are through. Save all the lies about Jewish people there for centuries. You Zionist pigs killed their muslim neighbors and stole their land. I am not mistaken. You are just a thieving murdering liar. Fuck you.
The best part is the Federal Reserve Bank that allows the Zionists their chokehold on US politicians is broke. The USA is about to lose control of the coveted world currency status. This is a fact. The new world reserve currency will flow from Asia and they have no intention of allowing Zionists to create it. Isreal is fucked.
When my friends and I are done reminding America that all the bankers that ripped us off and caused the depression have Jewish names America will turn its back on Israel forever.
When we throw the whole peak oil scenrio in there your chances for survival go down further. Arabs will have oil you won't. Even if everything above does not turn America against you. (it will) Americans like driving cars way more than they like or care about Israel.
Either way Zionists are fucked.
I welcome any Jewish Zionist in the middle east Repenting and moving to the USA no questions asked. I welcome arabs slaughtering any Zionists who stay in the Middle East.
Fuck you murderer.
There is a lot here! It is unlikely that Israel will do everything it would need to, to get the job completely done, but hopefully they will do enough. Those other countries (Egypt and Jordan) will not take back any land as they do not want to inherit these problems or these people. Whatever is left of Hamas will likely turn on its own people for vengeance because little else will be left to it (hopefully) but the people need to turn on Hamas first!
There's more promise to Egypt and Jordan taking back their real estate, than meets the eye. Should the population be tamed both nations could be enticed to save the day and extend their power. OK...this could take a while.
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