ISRAEL CANNOT LEAVE IT AT THAT BECAUSE SHE IS NOT SURE WHAT TO DO. MY ADVICE, DESTROY ASSAD. THAT WAY IRAN PAYS THE PRICE AS DOES HEZBOLLAH.
Mofaz, Chairman of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and former IDF chief Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) said Sunday that
“Israel must decide – will we continue with this intolerable reality of a war of attrition, or will we strive for an unequivocal decision with regards to Hamas, including targeting its leaders and infrastructure, with aim of toppling its reign in Gaza.”
Why not do both.Egypt will have to decide if they will interfer since she is the one gaining influence over Hamas. Iran would be happy to prevent this. That’s why they are backing different terrorists.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 21, 2011, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
The role of Iran and Hizballah in manipulating the ongoing Palestinian war on Israel from Gaza is manifest, debkafile’s military sources report. They planned, orchestrated and funded the coordinated attacks on the Eilat Highway Thursday, Aug. 18 – in which gunmen shot dead eight Israelis and injured 40 – and its sequel: volleys of 90 missiles launched day and night from Gaza against a million Israeli civilians since then.
Yossi Ben-Shoshan, 38, from Ofakim, was killed by one of the dozen Grad missiles hitting Beersheba and his home town Saturday night. More than a dozen people were injured, at least one critically.
The prime mover in the missile blitz is Tehran’s Palestinian arm, the Jihad Islami, which is responsible for 90 percent of the launches. Hamas is left on the sidelines, cut off for the first time from top levels of authority in Tehran and Damascus.
The IDF is held back from substantive action to snuff out the Iran-backed offensive by the indecision at the policy-making level of the Israeli government, which is still feeling its way toward determining the dimensions and potential thrust of the military crisis landing on Israel out of the blue.
Under Egyptian, Israeli and US noses, Tehran managed to transfer to its Palestinian arm in Gaza, the Jihad Islami, more than 10,000 missiles well in advance of the violence launched three days ago. Most of them are heavy Grads bringing Beersheba, capital of the Negev and Israel’s 7th largest town (pop. 200,000), within their 30-kilometer range for a sustained, massive missile offensive.
Tehran has now launched the hardware smuggled into the Gaza Strip ready for a Middle East war offensive for five objectives:
1. To leave Syrian President Bashar Assad free to continue brutalizing his population and ignoring President Barack Obama’s demand backed by Europe that he step down.
2. To manufacture a direct military threat on the Jewish state, whose destruction is a fundamental of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ideology.
3. To thwart the Egyptian military junta’s operation last week for regaining control of the lawless Sinai Peninsula and destroying the vast weapons smuggling network serving Iran in its capacity as the leading international sponsor of terror.
4. To render the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his bid for UN recognition of an independent state on Sept. 20 irrelevant. His isolation was brought home to him last Thursday by the coordinated Palestinian terrorist attacks near Eilat last Thursday.
5. To plant ticking bombs around Israel for potential detonation and explosion into a full-blown regional war.
debkafile’s Washington sources disclose that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined this peril to Egypt’s military ruler, Field Marshall Muhammad Tantawi, Saturday night, Aug. 20, to dissuade him from recalling the Egyptian ambassador to Israel over the deaths of three or five Egyptian police in the melee over the Palestinian terror attack near the Sinai border.
This danger was on the table of Israel’s inner cabinet of eight ministers when they met early Sunday to decide on IDF action for terminating the Palestinian missile war.
However, just as Cairo discovered that its operation for eradicating al Qaeda and other Islamist radical groups’ grip on Sinai would give Iran the pretext for aggression, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the IDF high command found themselves at a loss to determine whom to attack.
Up until now, Israel declared the Hamas rulers of Gaza accountable for all attacks originating in the enclave.
That formula is no longer valid. The Eilat Highway attacks were planned and executed behind Hamas’s back and so was the missile offensive – until Saturday night, when Hamas decided to try and step in. Both Hamas and Cairo are in fact out of the picture.
Israel’s leaders are stuck for solutions because no one in Washington, Jerusalem or Cairo can be sure of the outcome of any military steps they might take. They can’t be sure whether they will douse the violence or just play into the hands of Hizballah and Tehran who may have more shockers in their quivers ready to loose.
Only three facts stand out from the fog of uncertainty:
First, the security crisis besetting Israel has the dangerous potential for dragging the Middle East into a regional war.
Second, America and Israel are paying in full the price of their quiescence in the face of Iranian, Hizballah and extremist Palestinian belligerence and active preparations for war, including the stockpiling of thousands of increasingly sophisticated weaponry on Israel’s borders.
Third, the first step an Israeli soldier or tank takes into the Gaza Strip to silence Jihad Islami’s missile fire is more likely than not to precipitate a second Iranian-orchestrated assault on another of Israel’s borders.
Sunday morning, no one in any of the capitals concerned was ready to risk guesstimating how far Tehran was ready to go in its current offensive and what orders Hizballah and its Palestinian puppets had received.
I suppose the good news is that Egypt does not want to be infected by the Shi’a or Iran.
If something can’t go on, then it won’t. The intolerable trap that Israel finds itself in cannot last much longer. Iran’s proxies are going to slip up and give Israel a reason to use nuclear weapons. A solution will present itself in one night.
yamit82 Said:
By all means, keep putting your faith in the U.S. government.
@ BlandOatmeal:
BlandOatmeal Said:
They are only there as observers to ensure that Egypt does not move unauthorized troops into Sinai. Since America is the guarantor of the Camp David Accords they are responsible for the peace and tranquility of the Sinai. They aren’t and never were. Since BB has allowed the Egyptians to send in 2 crack battalions up to and close to our border this is their version of the classic Arab version of cutting the salami, breaking the accords piece by piece. Before Camp David when Israel felt it necessary they entered Sinai and did the job ourselves. Now we have contracted and outsourced our security to Egypt and Hamas.
drjb Said:
It’s not that they’re incapable it’s because they are hindered by fear of world opinion. Jews are psychologically pre-disposed to accept persecution.
Thanks drjb for your clarification.
One of our problems in Israel appears to be taking to much notice of public opinion.The u.n. security council failed to condemn the Eilat attack on civillians,why beause the representative from Lebanon would not agree unless Israel was condemned for killing the terrorists who perpetrated this vile act.
One could be forgiven for thinking all the lunatics are not in mental hospitals.
If common sence and decency prevailed a terrorist governed country like Lebanon should not even be at the U.N.,and as for Iran,perhaps the only reason they are their is to point out to the civilised world what a joke that place now is.
I recall a story from “War and Peace” about the time Napoleon was retreating from Moscow and the Russians were attacking the rear guard. It seems some French prisoners were presented to a Russian Officer and asked what to do with them, his reply “shoot them, this is not a game and I don’t play at war. If fewer people would do that then we would go to war less!” Israel should take a much stronger position and quit “pussy-footing” around. Like the Russian officer said “this is not a game” and Israel should quit acting like it is.
Ed Katz Said:
Exactly my point. Do you think this same government (or the last few) could defeat Hamas, Hizbullah, free Gilad Shalit, defend Israel???? It can’t. Not because it lacks technology or know how. It lacks the will.
g.man Said:
My agenda is: Israel comes first. Israel is a Jewish country that looks after the interest of its Jewish population first and foremost, and when necessary, at the expense of any of its Arab neighbors. I’m sick and tired of listening to the old IDF bs that “we put our soldiers in grave danger in order to protect Arab civilian casualties”. I’d rather they said “we won’t spare an Arab casualty in order to protect the lives of our soldiers and our citizens” and then let the chips fall wherever they may.
This whole fiasco is the fault of the Israeli Government for not taking and occupying the Philadelphia Corridor. There would not be any 10,000 rockets in Gaza. Same mistake they made in leaving Lebanon.
drjb makes a number of errors in his comments,clearly to fit in with his agenda.
Tonights events are typical.Those kind people in Gaza,after attacking innocent civilians, and then shooting around 100 missiles into civillian populations in Israel ask for a cease fire.(One can only assume they want to change their daipers as they have become soiled at the thought of Israeli retribution, and besides dirty daipers in a confined space underground is rather unpleasent)so they get a cease fire,lets face it if you are with Hammas you don’t want to kiss a smelly hizbullshit ass,o.k.so they are hinding (they think)safe underground kissy kissy, and give the order to some numb nuts to commence firing rockets again.This is history repeating itself.Scene 2,they smell defeat(a change from butt) and ask the Arab league to petition the u.n. for a ceasefire.The u.n. with around 57 Muslim nations agrees.
I find it almost amusing that most commentary on this site always makes reference to Israel’s military power and capabilities to attack and destroy anybody. Has anyone noticed how Israel cannot defeat Hamas, cannot defeat Hizbullah, cannot control its own borders against hordes of civilians who constantly cross them? Are all of you blind??????
The constant suggestion that Israel should bomb Iran, that Israel should re-take Gaza, or Sinai, or invade Lebanon or depose Assad, is dreaming in technicolor. Israel cannot do any of these things because it doesn’t have the guts, the will or the resolution. It doesn’t have the leaders, it doesn’t have the vision and it doesn’t have the belief. The only thing that saves Israel is the ineptitude of the Palestinians/Arabs.
I’m constantly reminded of this when I speak to the multitude of Yordim who embody all these shortcomings. So many of them quickly assimilate, intermarry and disappear as Jews.
@ Bill Levinson:
I’ve always wondered why Israel didn’t supply arms to the Green Movement in Iran two years ago, and last year. I think this movement is the only real democratic–non Muslim Brotherhood–rebellion in the enire Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lybia could all end up worse. But Iran really does hold hope. Israel should be supplying those folks with today’s equivalent of the mass-produced .45’s.
This is the Miyamoto Musashi (Book of Five Rings) way: You must cut down your enemy at exactly the same moment as you defend yourself from him. Continuous defence without attack will assuredly result in defeat, because it can’t be successfully sustained indefinitely. In other words, at one time or other, you will slip up, and that will be the end of you.
Israel needs to have bases in Sinai; The Americans are supposed to be policing the place, but they have proved themselves incapable.
it is no surprise that Hizbullshit are behind this attack.They are trying to provoke a response to justify opening up another front.This is classic ‘Sun Tzu(the art of war) never let your enemy choose the time and place of battle, well they clearly have complied with this’.Maybe Iran,as the parent of this world wide terrorist organisation really should be the focus of the attention of the Israeli military establishment.The Israeli concept of hitting back with a blow harder than the one we were struck with should not be lost at this point in time.It takes the initiative back from our attackers,and puts Hizbullshit into the catagory of an orphan in financial and logistic terms.The bonus being it sends a clear message to those in our neighbourhood who wish us harm, and may encourage those neighbours to rise to the surfice who want to live in peace with us.
This morning there were three Grad attacks on Beer Sheva . The real question is why does Israel have to be the only exception in history when we who are an overwhelming military power are not using it to stop rocket attacks on our own civilian population. We invent Iron Domes, build shelters and safe rooms and at the same time provide electricity and send supplies to the Gaza Strip from where the Grad rockets originate. It is quite bizarre to say the least.
This of course does not mean that Israel has to react the way Britain did during the Blitz and the V1 and V2 attacks and create another Dresden, but surely the number of targeted Hamas terror infrastructure targets could be increased by an order of magnitude. So the question still remains WHY does Israel constantly behave like no other country would? This has really become ridiculous and lethal.
This is probably the last time the safe rooms will be of use. When it comes to Iran the threat is existential and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction is dead since the mullahs cannot be deterred and are actually looking forward to a nuclear confrontation , but no one bothers to discuss that. Mad is Dead http://madisdead.blogspot.com/