HAMAS MAY NOT WANT TO BE EMBARRASSED!
March 11, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Hamas has done a lot of crowing and bragging about how they were so powerful that they drove Israel out of the Gaza Strip. I do not think the Kassams are being launched by Hamas, but rather by Islamic Jihad and al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades.
I confess that I am guessing, but it may be that Hamas will would be so embarrassed by Israel being able to reenter the Gaza Strip at will, after all their crowing and bragging, that they may persuade the other two terrorist groups to temporarily cease their Kassam attacks.
I suspect all the terror groups need a Hudna (truce) to get their acts together in the crescent that runs from the Persian Gulf across Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and into the Palestinian sections of Israel.
The Article which follows by Yaakov Katz in the Jerusalem Post does contain a very real threat.
If launching of Kassam rockets continues, then it is likely that Israel will again enter the Gaza Strip in a massive ground operation.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
IDF: Gaza Land Operation Inevitable
March 8, 2006
Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Since the IDF has been unable to eradicate the firing of Kassam rockets in
to Israel, senior IDF officers said Tuesday that Israel would have no choice but to launch a massive ground operation into the Gaza Strip
in the near future.
While artillery fire on launch sites, as well as targeted interceptions of key terror figures, did deter attacks to some degree, it was “only a matter of time” before the IDF would need to reenter Gaza which it left last summer under the disengagement plan.
“The exact timing depends on…when we will be fed up with the rocket attacks,” one officer said.
“Most of the Kassams are fired at the Ashkelon power station,” the officer said. “They look up and see the two smoke stacks and do all they can to try and hit them.”
Former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon last month called to “escalate military action against the Kassam launchers, even if it means entering the Gaza Strip.”
End Jerusalem Post Article
If the Kassams continue to be launched, sooner or later, Israel will say enough is enough, and reenter the Gaza Strip, staying long enough to do in the launch zones and places of Kassam manufacture. It will be very interesting to see how Hamas will respond.
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