Israeli army warplanes attacked the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, threatening a three-day ceasefire. This followed reports that a Palestinian fire balloon landed on a kindergarten, causing no casualties.
The Israeli Army has been told to prepare for a “large-scale military operation” against the Gaza Strip, and the military has recently been conducting drills simulating a full-scale military conquest of the entire strip.
Hamas is scrambling to try to stop the balloon and kite flying from their side of the border, but an invasion is expected in fairly short order if they are anything short of 100% successful. The Israeli military doesn’t seem to be immediately on board for such a war, however.
Senior Israeli officers are pushing the government to try something other than an invasion first, suggesting that they might be able to “pressure” Gaza’s civilians in an attempt to force Hamas to avoid the war.
The military sees the closing of the lone border crossing as pressuring the civilians, and wants the government to give it time. After months of public protests against the Israeli blockade, one would think Israel would not overestimate the ability of Gazans to influence policy.
Still, it is noteworthy that the Israeli military is trying to delay an invasion at all. Historically, invasions of the Gaza Strip have been frequent, and have faced little public resistance from the military leadership.
Here we go again with the “kindergarten routine”.
Between 2001 and 2014 I monitored all the reports of kindergartens being hit with rockets from Gaza. There were at least 50 all whilst no one was in the kindergarten and all with very shakey evidence that the rocket was actually fired by Hamas.
Offcourse its a great headliner “kindergarten hit by rocket” but I ask how many kindergartens can there be?
Here’s my theory….IsraelI bombs pile up….Raytheon hires blackwater to fire a couple random rockets into Israel….Israel expends entire stockpile on Palestinians…..Raytheon sells more bombs to israel…..rinse, repeat
My theory is that the IDF has a special squad that dresses up like Arabs – they go out into the desert and launch some cheap, harmless rockets – making damn sure that no Israeli is seriously targeted. Their actions then become reported as an attack upon Israel which then is sufficient cause to kill a bunch of Palestinians. If you think that that is farfetched, America and its British allies did as much in Iraq.
On the one hand, given the generally ineffectual nature of the rocket attacks, etc., that seems very plausible.
On the other hand, it’s not unheard of for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et al. to issue statements claiming responsibility for at least some of the attacks.
How do we know “who” took credit for anything of that nature? It is not like there is an official Islamic Jihad correspondence center.
And less you think that I am pulling theories out of my “sphink-sphink” (Max Keiser’s phrase), remember that the Iraqis caught British special forces, dressed in Arabic dress, hanging around a mosque and carrying explosives. Very clever – blow up a Sunni Mosque and then watch the Sunnis blow up a Shi-ite Mosque and get the two sides to fight each other.
“How do we know ‘who’ took credit for anything of that nature? It is not like there is an official Islamic Jihad correspondence center.”
Well, there’s an official Hamas correspondence center, on which they claim responsibility for attacks on Israel on July 14, using exactly the kind of language the Israelis do (“we were responding”).
The word “war” is absurd when the “terrified defenseless Israelis” have ALL the power, ALL the weapons, All the impunity and support from the USA.
“War” is the politically correct and approved language when reporting on Israeli actions in Gaza.
Why don’t we just let the Israelis go on and invade Gaza; make the Palestinians dig large open graves; herd them into these graves; and then let the IDF machine-gun the civilians and then let the large IDF Caterpillar bulldozers cover it all to the strains of Hava Nagillah.
Be patient, Jared K is doing his utmost to bring about that denouement.
If the Gazans light a match, I am sure there will be a severe Israeli response.
My God, how stupid has Israel become…
Last time they sent ground units into Gaza, 66 IDF goons came back in body bags.. The Zios threw in the towel after that.
Ordinarily, I’d say let that be a lesson to them but I think they’re going to need a whole lot of lessons before they wise up.
They don’t keep secrets very well anymore.
I wonder how well that would go done in the arab world especially Saudi Arabia especially since MBS seems be in league with the Israelis
Mr Assad might find it a good way to get rid if the salafists if he would point out they might redeem themselves if they where to stop fighting arab brothers and help the downtrodden in Gaza
It is a terrible thing for people to live in overcrowded refugee camps for 70 years; it is a terrible thing for a people to be at war for 70 years, and to have to keep their children living in bomb shelters. Hamas rejects peace; both sides want all the land for themselves, and deny the humanity of their enemies. the Israeli government cannot allow their people to be shot at with impunity, so a bunch of Gazans will be killed and not very much accomplished,, until the next battle. The people on this site are thinly veiled Jew haters looking to get their rocks off, and the world will go on sadly.
“The people on this site are thinly veiled Jew haters looking to get their rocks off”
You’re one of the people on this site. Are you a thinly veiled Jew hater looking to get your rocks off? Or do you think you’re the magical sole exception to that description?
“The people on this site are thinly veiled Jew haters looking to get their rocks off”
You’re one of the people on this site. Are you a thinly veiled Jew hater looking to get your rocks off? Or do you think you’re the magical sole exception to that description?
I’ll just leave this handy little website right here!!
https://ifamericaknew.org/