Dirty Tricks, Hamas, Israeli

The Israelis hammered the C Phase Hamas' Metro tunnel system and also hit numerous rocket storage and launch sites. Fifty + aircraft struck dozens of targets in a 20 minute period. They assassinated a senior PIJ commander. The IAF has spent a considerable amount of time attacking Hamas naval resources. Hamas has stated they're trying to attack Israel's Tamar gas field rig. Last night the Israelis destroyed an unmanned submarine. As this blog speculated, Hamas had some surprises. What's left? Prediction, Hamas' final barrage will include rockets that can hit Haifa in the far north.

Hamas has fired 3150 rockets, 460 of which fell within Gaza. The IDF says they're intercepting 90% of rockets targeted. 

Meet Israel's unit 9900. Incredible. Weaponized autism used to be an internet joke, but the Israelis have actually weaponized autism. The Imams are right, the Jew is clever.  This blog likes how they say hi to Hezbollah at the end.

Hamas invested massive resources in Metro knowing what the Israelis did to their tunnel system in 2014.  Did Hamas believe it could keep them secret or that the tunnels were so deep the Israelis couldn't hit them? Or did Hamas build the Metro system expecting it to be destroyed?

The Jerusalem Post has a report on Hamas manufacture and importation of rockets. Check this out: 'Inbar noted a statement by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in December 2020 when he said: “Most of the weapons, missiles and facilities that Palestinian resistance groups have in Gaza are supplied by the IRGC Quds Force. The Islamic Republic used its diplomatic relationship with Sudan to establish a weapon factory for Gaza in Sudan.' JFC, it's like they read Israel Strikes, War of the Red Sea.

The Israelis have quelled the riots within Israel. There's been a lot of kumbaya between Arabs and Jews. Debka File has this troubling report: 'Most worrying, however, is the combined call of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Supreme Council of Israel Arabs to stage simultaneous “general strikes” on Tuesday in Judea, Samaria and Israel, to include staging violent confrontations with Israeli security forces and police. This is the first time the Palestinian and Israeli Arab authorities have cooperated in lining up behind the extremist Hamas. The peril posed by this development to Israel’s internal security may even surpass the menace of the Gaza rockets.'

Yesterday the cabinet said Operation Guardian of the Walls will continue. We see no reason to stop. The Israelis are winning, bigly. Readers don't suppose that Bibi wants to continue the battle because it helps him politically? Noooooo, he would never do that. 

Wither Peace

As of this writing the ceasefire in Gaza holds.

Some in Israel are not pleased:

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman announced Wednesday that he would be resigning as defense minister and called for the government to be dismantled and for new elections to be set. “I am here to announce my resignation from the government,” he said at a hastily organized press conference at the Knesset after a Yisrael Beytenu party meeting, during which he told MKs of his decision. “What happened yesterday, the ceasefire, together with the deal with Hamas, is a capitulation to terror. There is no other way of explaining it,” he told reporters on Wednesday.“What we are doing right now is buying quiet for a heavy price with no long-term plan to reduce violence toward us,” he said of the deal, which wasn’t officially confirmed by Israeli officials. He also slammed the military’s response to the rocket fire. “To put it lightly, our response was drastically lacking to the 500 rockets fired at us,” he said.

Liberman's move is political but also understandable. People in southern Israel are no doubt wondering how long they're going to have to put up with the threat of Hamas rocket fire.

As we have asked before, what is the end result of another war? With that question asked it seems large swaths of the Israeli public actually want a war. 

This is the end result of the Oslo process. Twenty-five years after the agreement with the PLO, Israel finds itself with two terrorist groups on its border and a looming existential conflict with Iran.

Also Israel has imported a million Russians in the last generation, so no wonder the best solution to problem seems to be to take problem and crush it beneath treads of tanks.

Forget the Jew being clever. The Jew is bellicose.

Gaza Peace, but not in our Time.

The incomparable Zev Chaffets writes:

Hamas is too weak to be anything but a military annoyance. And Netanyahu is focused on the threat posed by Iran and its proxies in Lebanon and Syria. He doesn’t want the IDF tied down in Gaza, even for a brief period. He needs the military budgets and personnel for the northern war.

As we have been saying, Israel has nothing to gain from a fourth Gaza War. The Israelis have used Gaza to test and show off Iron Dome and fortify the southern border. The Israelis even developed a kind of tunnel detecting technology which they're being decidedly coy about.

The Jew is, after all, clever.

Gaza can, should and must languish. The real threat lies to the north.

As we've asked before, what would victory look like, anyway?