Is it Time for Operation Defensive Shield II
?
June 25, 2006
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Hamas and Fatah have a few things they agree on, one of which is the propaganda they both loudly proclaimed when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip.
The news spread across the Islamic world that Hamas Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades had crushed
the power of Israel and literally driven them out of Gaza by their military might. The announcement excited the Muslim world with a new flame of fire generated by the rising spirit of Jihad in the Islamic community of nations.
How appropriate it would be if Israel reentered the Gaza in a second Operation Defensive Shield and tore their backsides asunder.
It would discredit the Palestinian propaganda lie to
the uttermost, which is a thing the terror groups do not want to happen.
Israel is using the threat of launching a new assault into Gaza to influence them to stop the many Kassam launches against them. But suppose Israel did begin a second Operation Defensive Shield into the Gaza Strip. I assure you the second wave of propaganda spouted by the Palestinians would be one of: “See, the brutal occupational aggressors are killing our people and once again are stealing our land from us.”
The international community has long held the viewpoint that Israel should just ignore the launching of rockets into their territory and hop to it in signing a peace agreement with the thugs who are doing it. I wonder what England would do if the French daily launched rockets across the English channel over the White Cliffs of Dover? How does the song go…..: “tomorrow, you just wait and see!”
The Hamas incursion today into Israel proper by tunnel from the Gaza Strip, which produced an anti-tank launch against an Israeli tank, the death of two Israeli soldiers, and the kidnapping of one that was wounded, may well be considered serious enough for Israel to launch a second Operation Defensive Shield into the Gaza Strip. Israel has been pushed to the limit, and this week is likely to be
the week
the IDF is to be given the order to reenter the Gaza Strip.
Begin Haaretz Service Article
Ex-defense panel chair urges IDF to launch ground assault on Gaza Strip
June 23, 2006
By Haaretz Service
MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud), the former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, called on the Israel Defense Forces on Friday to launch a ground attack on the Gaza Strip in an effort to halt the Qassam fire on southern Israel.
“I call on the Israeli government not to wait any longer and to begin a comprehensive ground operation in Gaza in order to fundamentally damage the terror infrastructure in a few weeks,” Steinitz said in an Israel Radio interview. “And after the infrastructure is seriously damaged, perhaps there will also be a greater will on the part of Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] to take action against the weakened infrastructure.”
Steinitz compared the proposed attack to Operation Defensive Shield in
the West Bank, which the IDF launched following the Passover bombing of a Netanya hotel in 2002.
Earlier this week, Likud chairman and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF has the firepower to wipe out the Gaza Strip, but has chosen not to do so.
Palestinians fired three Qassam rockets at Sderot on Friday, causing no injuries. Residents of the Negev city of Sderot, which has been a regular target of the Qassam fire, are planning a protest march to Jerusalem on M
onday.
Israel has been responding to the Qassam fire by attacking rocket-launching cells. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that Israel would “continue to carry out targeted attacks against terrorists and those who try to harm Israeli citizens,” despite a growing number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza this week.
Justice Minister Haim Ramon echoed Olmert’s comments Friday, saying, “Whoever launches Qassams will ultimately be assassinated.”
However, Ramon dismissed Steinitz’s proposal that the IDF be sent back into Gaza.
“Those few weeks will continue for 40 years,” Ramon told Israel Radio. “After two months of being there, I promise you that they’ll say, ‘We have to rebuild Gush Katif.'”
Indeed, another Likud member, former defense minister Moshe Arens, suggested that Israel reoccupy part of Gaza.
“Israel leads in ballistic interception technology, but the trajectory of Qassams is just too short to make interception possible,” Arens wrote in an op-ed published in Haaretz this week. “The obvious move to cut down on this danger is for the IDF to reoccupy unilaterally some of the areas in the northern Gaza Strip that were so foolishly abandoned unilaterally last August.”
End Haaretz Service Article
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