Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

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Richard Landes' examination of "news" created in Palestine

 

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[ What Islam is accomplishing. Destroying the lives of so many with the teachings of hatred for one people ]

 

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While universities refuse to fire anti-Semites, the private sector holds them accountable

Eighteen academics exposed for their anti-Semitism have not yet been fired.

www.campusreform.org

 

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I believe my question is still not answered. When does a military action become an act of vengeance?

It's in Hamas' hands and you know it. Hamas' needs to be exterminated. Who among the Palestinians has ever asked for help in removing Hamas? No one.

 

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Guest Column: Oscar-Winning Documentarian Slams Writers Guild for “Lack of Courage and Moral Clarity” in Refusing to Condemn Hamas

Richard Trank asks, "How long will it take the WGA’s current leadership on both coasts to come to a consensus that its silence in the face of the wanton slaughter of Jewish men, women and children by a terrorist organization is wrong?"

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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Israeli warplanes pounded northern Gaza overnight Friday, hitting more than 150 underground tunnels and bunkers of the Hamas terror group as tanks and other forces pushed into the Strip in a limited incursion, the military said.

Explosions from continuous airstrikes lit up the sky over Gaza City for hours after nightfall Friday. The Israel Defense Forces said a number of Hamas terrorists had been killed in the airstrikes and in several clashes with troops inside Gaza.

Among those killed was the head of Hamas’s so-called aerial array Issam Abu Rukbeh.

A statement from the IDF and Shin Bet intelligence service said that Abu Rukbeh was responsible for managing the terror group’s drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, paragliders, aerial detection systems and air defenses.

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Warplanes hit 150 Hamas tunnels, bunkers; ground forces push into northern Gaza

IDF says it killed several terrorists including head of Hamas aerial forces in intense airstrikes and in on-the-ground clashes; no Israeli casualties reported in limited incursion

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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With gut-wrenching drawings, artist Zoya Cherkassky shares Israel’s pain with world

There is no escaping the sheer horror, pain and trauma in mixed-media works on paper, in which even the brightest colors are overshadowed by the blackness of Saturday, October 7

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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The IDF invasion of Gaza has begun, you just did not hear about it, or heard about it but could not tell.

In the last couple of days, the IDF initiated three targeted and short incursions into Gaza, before withdrawing each time.

Two of the incursions were by land and a third was by sea by Shayetet 13 naval commandos.

You did not hear about it or it did not register as significant because, tactically speaking, all each incursion did was destroy a limited number of Hamas infrastructure targets and engage a small number of peripheral Gaza fighters.

Prior airstrikes for three weeks have done far more damage, so the impact was pretty limited.

The media also has not been impressed with these small incursions because the expectations had been set for three weeks of a massive ground assault – the largest ever into Gaza - drawing on the 360,000 IDF reservists who were called up.

What has happened has been minuscule compared to that and still has not even reached the 2014 Gaza war invasion level, which itself was limited.

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Guerilla warfare is almost as old as war, but traditionally it was used by the little/weaker side to hold off the larger/less agile side.

Since terrorists, whether against Israel or the US, started systematically employing guerilla warfare and human shields in urban settings, Washington, and sometimes Jerusalem, have started to figure out that being the larger and more powerful force does not mean needing to give up being agile and using the element of surprise.



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By making targeted incursions and regularly changing the spots where the incursions take place, the IDF is keeping Hamas on edge.

Put simply, Gaza’s terror rulers do not know where the IDF may jump out from next.

This is designed to make Hamas antsy to the point that it negatively impacts morale, to have it start second-guessing its defensive posture, enable the IDF drone and other surveillance platforms to observe Hamas movements adjusting that posture (which helps reveal some of its hiding places), and to get Hamas to prematurely activate boobytraps and ambushes without being able to maximize their impact on larger groups of IDF troops.

These guerilla warfare tactics, which are essentially the IDF’s own version of “hit and run” can also flip Hamas’ pre-October 7 game of luring Israel into complacency on its head.

True, Hamas is disciplined and may be able to see through a number of small incursions while maintaining readiness for the later large invasion, but it is only natural that some of its readiness will go down, as Hamas fighters get used to the incursions as being minor and “false alarms” compared to the grand invasion.

If the IDF applies the tactic properly, it will start making multiple targeted short incursions at the same time with a high enough frequency that Hamas will become more and more confused about what will happen next, about when an incursion might be larger, from where it will come – and then strike at that moment when Hamas’ guard has suddenly gone down.

This will enable the IDF to get an initial foothold in Gaza with larger troops before Hamas can fully adjust and mount a counter-offensive.

None of this means that the IDF can avoid significant casualties.

At some point, troops will need to exit their armored personnel carriers and go house to house, street corner by street corner, to root out terrorists hiding in tunnels, attics, and anywhere else small that drones and technological platforms may miss without boots on the ground up close.

Hamas will then get its chance to blow up IDF troops when they open a house door, to gun them down through hidden small holes in walls for just a tiny and impossible-to-see part of the nozzle firing part of a gun to slide through and to fire anti-tank missiles on IDF vehicles which are bogged down in an area set up for a crossfire ambush.

But fighting guerilla warfare with guerilla warfare shows respect for the adversary, forces IDF forces to maintain a greater agility and operational awareness, improves intelligence understanding of Hamas’ defensive posture, and should at least improve IDF morale at the initial stages of the invasion.

In short, the initial limited incursions are by no means a basis to significantly delay or replace a larger invasion. But when used properly, it can enhance the chances of the invasion’s success substantially.


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How the IDF is turning guerilla warfare against Hamas in Gaza - analysis

Guerilla warfare is almost as old as war, but traditionally it was used by the little/weaker side to hold off the larger/less agile side.

www.jpost.com

 

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‘Never again is now’: Netanyahu addresses the nation​

 

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The Day the Delusions Died

A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?

www.thefp.com

 

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INSIDE STORY: American Boys Share Their Experience Battling Hamas at Israeli Kibbutz | United with Israel

It is only due to the bravery of young men like these that there was not a greater disaster on Oct. 7.

unitedwithisrael.org

 

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[Surprise !!!!!! Turkey is not a friend. Neither was the Ottoman Empire before it ]

He took a more cautious line in the first days after Hamas jihadists staged a surprise attack on October 7 during which they seized more than 220 hostages and butchered over 1,400 Israelis. But he has become much more vocal as the reported death toll from Israel’s military response has grown.

Israel’s response came in a matter of hours.

“Given the grave statements coming from Turkey, I have ordered the return of diplomatic representatives there in order to conduct a reevaluation of the relations between Israel and Turkey,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

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Israel Recalls Diplomats After Erdogan’s Words at Istanbul Hate Fest - Algemeiner.com

i24 News - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday inveighed against what he termed the Israeli army's "massacre" of Palestinians in Gaza. The leader spoke at a massive pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul that he said had drawn a crowd of 1.5 million...

www.algemeiner.com

 

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