THE IDF SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO HEELS!
An Army in the North and an Army in the South!
November 10, 2007
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The three articles which follow give an outline of the threats flowing via the Hamas Army in the Gaza Strip, the Hizbullah Army in Southern Lebanon, and the Israeli Army sandwiched between the two.
THE NOVEMBER 26 ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE
Over the last several weeks I have read glowing reports of expectations on the optimist side of great enthusiasm, and others of deep depression which say nothing even faintly resembling Middle East peace will come out of it. Being born a natural pessimist by my genes, as well as by long experience in Middle East peace attempts, I don’t expect much to come out of it and, if I am wrong, then I assure you, it will be a false peace, not a true one.
Begin Haaretz Article
IDF Reservists: Hamas Fights Like an Army
Amos Harel
(Ha’aretz)
November 8, 2007
After a month of reserve duty in Gaza, an IDF paratroop officer told Ha’aretz: “On the professional level, Hamas in the Gaza Strip is nothing like the terrorists we dealt with before.”
“In all parameters – training, equipment quality, operational discipline – we are facing an army, not gangs,” he said.
Within two weeks, his unit engaged in three live-fire incidents with Hamas. In one encounter with a Hamas cell west of Khan Yunis, two Hamas men died in a brief, close-range battle.
“The fingerprints of Iran and Hizbullah are all over it,” a veteran intelligence officer said.
“The Palestinians never looked like this.”
On the bodies of the Hamas fighters the reservists found, in addition to their weapons, night-vision equipment identical to the IDF’s.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Hamas: Terrible surprises await IDF should they invade Gaza
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 9, 2007
Many terrible surprises await the IDF should Israel launch a wide-scale operation in the Gaza Strip, a spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing warned on Saturday.
In an interview with an Israeli-Arab weekly which was quoted on Army Radio, the spokesperson said that Hamas was eagerly awaiting the incursion, and that the group had yet to take advantage of the full array of their arsenal.
Speaking about the fate of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit, the spokesperson assured that Hamas has no intention of harming the captive, even if Israel invades the Strip.
He added that the group would not offer any more information about the condition of Schalit until Israel answers their demands for a prisoner release.
Meanwhile, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday that Israel had informed PA authorities in Ramallah of its intention to send the IDF into the Gaza Strip in order to regain control of the Philadelphi Corridor and put an end to Hamas smuggling of weapons and cash through tunnels from the Egyptian side of the border.
According to the report, Israel told a number of Arab states that after the November 26 Annapolis peace parley it intends to embark on an extensive operation in the Strip.
Palestinian sources received explicit information stating that during the projected first stage of the operation, Israel is determined to gain control of Rafah and areas along the Egyptian border ranging as far as Khan Yunis, the paper said. The second stage will reportedly include an incursion into the central and northern Gaza Strip.
According to Al-Quds Al-Arabi’s sources, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who rejected out of hand Israel’s plan to recapture the Philadelphi Corridor, intends to send emissaries to regional countries in an effort to convey the sense of urgency regarding the danger of an Israeli incursion.
Abbas, the paper said, will state that an Israeli incursion would destroy the Gaza Strip and its infrastructure.
Begin YNet News Article
Hizbullah: We’re preparing for upcoming war
Deputy of militant Shiite organization says Hizbullah training for future conflicts, just recently conducted major maneuver; Nasrallah’s right-hand-man claims UNIFIL forces aware of drill
By Ali Waked
November 8, 2007
Naim Kassem, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s deputy, described a training exercise the group conducted at the beginning of this week as preparation for the next war with Israel.
In an interview with the Arab-Israeli paper Sawt el-Balad published Thursday, Kassem said that the Shiite organization’s weapons arsenal can hit all parts of Israel. He described the maneuvers as “enormous and important and they were carried out as part of our deployment so that we won’t be caught by surprise.
“Our exercise was unrestricted and was meant to cover all of the territory of the Israeli entity and not simply to strengthen our companies,” he stated.
Kassem added that UNIFIL forces detected the increased Hizbullah activity but, since no militants were carrying weapons, he claimed
they were acting in accordance with UN Security Resolution 1701.
“The drill was part of our obligation to make our presence and readiness known and (to show) that we act how we deem necessary,” Hizbullah’s number two said.
Nasrallah supervision
On Monday, the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar reported that Hizbullah General-Secretary Hassan Nasrallah himself supervised the drill.
He claimed the maneuvers were orchestrated in response to a “threatening Israeli reinforcements.”
The drill included infantry, anti-tank missile crews, and anti-aircraft teams. Engineering units, search and rescue teams, military propagandists, and communication and logistics teams also took part.
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