Why Rockets Are Raining Down On Innocent Israelis

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1. The Jerusalem Post –
   With Jordan, Lebanon border violence Israel faces 4-front conflict
   Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas coordinated messaging on Quds Day on May 8, claiming Israel could be defeated in one large tactical operation.
   By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MAY 14, 2021 16:22 Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger
   Hamas members burn a coffin draped in an Israeli flag, rally marking 13th anniversary of Second Intifada, 2013 (photo credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)
   Hamas members burn a coffin draped in an Israeli flag, rally marking 13th anniversary of Second Intifada, 2013
   (photo credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)

   Lebanese protesters, likely urged on by Hezbollah, tried to breach an area of a border fence in northern Israel on Friday near Metulla. In Lod Israel continued a curfew after nights of violence that had the city looking like it is suffering a civil war.
   In Gaza the IDF struck another Hamas anti-tank squad, one of a half dozen such units targeted in recent days. On the Jordan border demonstrators supporting the Palestinians tried to break through the border to reach Israel and the West Bank. Israel is now facing a four-front conflict, the internal strife, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan and possibly more violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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   It all began in April as Ramadan began and attacks on Jews were filmed on Tik Tok. Then far-right rallies in Jerusalem and clashes and police closures of Damascus Gate led to further tensions. By early May the tensions grew more. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to hand back his mandate to form a government and President Reuven Rivlin handed the mandate to Yair Lapid on May 4.
   Four days later Israeli police battled with Palestinians in Al-Aqsa mosque. Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and other states expressed concern about the Al-Aqsa clashes and Israeli police actions were condemned.
   Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas coordinated messaging on Quds Day on May 8, claiming Israel could be defeated in one large tactical operation. Shooting incidents in the West Bank had increased and one Israeli died of his wounds. Israel beefed up forces in the West Bank.
   On Monday, May 10 clashes in Jerusalem took place amid Jerusalem Day and Hamas decided to launch rockets at Jerusalem in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Aqsa. This was the beginning of the Hamas rocket war which saw 2,000 rockets fired in 72 hours.
   By Friday a major conflict was developing on the border of Gaza. Israel carried out massive airstrikes. Israel said that “throughout the night [May 13-14], approximately 160 IDF aircraft from 12 squadrons struck over 150 underground targets in the northern Gaza Strip.

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   Parallel to the Air Force strikes, ground forces, artillery and armored troops deployed along the border and fired hundreds of artillery shells and dozens of tank shells against targets in the Gaza Strip.”
   In Lod the mayor said Jews faced a pogrom, synagogues were attacked and the Border police were called up and redeployed to the town from the West Bank. Suddenly the war had moved to Israel’s streets.
   Lynchings took place, route 65 and other major roads were closed as rioters from Rahat to Umm al-Fahm targeted traffic, Jews attacked an Arab driver in Bat Yam. In other cities from Haifa to Nazareth, Nahariya, Ramla and Jaffa there were. Clashes. Mobs roamed the streets. Police were unable to control the chaos. Israel’s media said anarchy had come to many towns and cities in Israel.
   Then on May 14, as Ramadan had ended, the conflict shifted to Jordan and Lebanon. In Lebanon on May 13 a Palestinian group fired several rockets, apparently out to sea, but warning Israel. In Jordan demonstrators came to the border to try to break through.
   Israel’s chilly relations with Jordan and Netanyahu’s terrible relations with the King, likely led to Jordan enabling the demonstrators. Hezbollah runs half of Lebanon and encouraged the demonstrators to target the border area. Hezbollah has long planned to attack Israeli communities and sieze them in time of war. Iran watched closely and noted that the region has now pivoted and the balance has shifted against Israel.
   A week after the IRGC head Hossein Salami had predicted Israel could be beaten in one operation, it appeared his multi-front war strategy was coming true. Airlines cancelled flights to Israel. Rockets were raining down, most intercepted by Iron Dome, but Israel’s military strategists, high command and Netanyahu had no answer to the massive and increasing rocket threat.
   Buried in the sand dunes and with longer ranges than in the past, Hamas was purposely targeting infrastructure, cities and Iron Dome, it said. Meanwhile it unleashed anti-tank teams along the border to threaten Israeli vehicles.
   By May 13 Naftali Bennett, who had claimed he would form a government with Lapid on May 4, had thrown in the towel and said no change in government was possible. Netanyahu, in power for more than a decade, was watching the borders burn with protesters assaulting the border fences, Israeli cities in flames as mobs attacked people and border police had to be called from the West Bank, clashes in the West Bank and Gaza, and calls in the US to end military aid to Israel.
   Israel’s multi-front war had exploded in its face with no strategy to confront it and years of ignoring issues, such as Jordan’s Kingdom, coming back to haunt Jerusalem.

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   Israel is under a concentrated, coordinated attack and as rockets from Lebanon show today, new fronts will open all around. And all this is happening under the “supervision” of the new American administration which Israel can’t trust, rely on. What is missing from this article is what Israel is doing. And Israel is basically doing nothing except helplessly reacting to the a seemingly surprising onslaught. And this is not surprising since the Jewish Nation had been in a fragile, transitional state for over 2 years, when even after 4 elections we can’t build a stable government that could handle the extreme pressure on the country, especially after Trump left. For the same reasons Israel also completely wasted the 4 Trump years, as probably the Abraham Accords and future such agreements will fall victims of this conflict, not to mention finalizing Israel’s borders, clearing the status of the “settlements”. We are still in a state when external threat, despair, even collective grief is necessary to remind is about the crucial need for national unity, mutual responsibility. We are still not wise enough to build and keep unity “in good times”, so they could actually prevent the “bad times”!

   IDF deception leads to massive aerial assault on Hamas’s ‘Metro’

   On Thursday night, the IDF managed to produce a vague picture of the start of a ground operation. Infantry, artillery, and tanks were moved to the border fence area and at the same time, the IDF Spokesman released the message above to the Western media. With that, the IDF led Hamas to think that a ground operation was starting, which activated the terror organization’s protocol of bringing all its fighters underground, including Nuhba, the Hamas elite special force. They were all instructed to go down to the tunnels and get ready for battle. And then, for 35 straight minutes, 160 warplanes carpet-bombed the downtown Gaza underground with 450 bombs, the equivalent of more than 80 tons of TNT. Clearly, the IDF succeeded in collapsing the array of tunnels with their occupants, and at this time both Israel and Hamas are evaluating the extent of the damage and the number of terrorists who were buried alive. The IDF believes the likely figure is in the hundreds.

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   The Palestinians in Gaza have been warmongers ever since 2006 when Hamas took control. The billions spent on tunnels, arms and rockets were a total waste. All that money could have been used to improve living conditions for the people. Their rockets are hardly more effective than their balloon incendiaries. When are these folks going to wake up and realize that Hamas is only using them. Give them a good beating this time.

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