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It seems like the Palestinians just don’t ‘get it’ in regards to their continuing to shoot their home-made Kassam rockets into Israel, as well as smuggling all kinds of armament into Gaza. Their continuing to do these acts has once again resulted in an IDF incursion into their beloved territory; this time under an operation being called ‘Autumn Business’. And business it is with tanks, APCs, and several contingents of soldiers presently at work in several Gaza Strip locations, including Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, as well as in the southern areas, near what is known as the Philadelphia Corridor.
The Philadelphia Corridor, which runs long Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, has been the scene of numerous confrontations between IDF and Palestinian forces; many of which have resulted in many Israeli soldiers being killed – often by large explosive charges being planted in the path of approaching tanks and other armor with disastrous results. Now an even more dangerous situation has developed due to the smuggling by Palestinians of large numbers of anti-tank missiles similar to the ones that inflicted so much damage on IDF forces during last summer’s war in Lebanon. Via a network of tunnels, these weapons have been brought in, despite Egyptian promises to police their side of the border; which was one of the agreements made in order to facilitate Israel’s withdraw from Gaza in August, 2005. Though numerous tunnels have been discovered and blown up by the IDF, many more still exist; resulting in a rumor being spread that Israel would use ’smart bombs’ to blow up these tunnels.
Smart bombs, or not, the current on-going military operations are planned at reducing Palestinian ability to attack Israeli towns and settlements located near “The Strip”; in particular Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s home town of Sderot. With the entrance into the Israeli government by Avigdor Lieberman, the situation concerning Gaza and other Palestinian controlled areas may become even more interesting with Lieberman saying that he plans to treat these areas in a similar manner as Russian military forces are doing with the ‘rebel’ regions of Chechnya and Dagastan. If that’s so, then it’s ‘rock and roll’ big time, with the Palestinians being even more pressured than they have been up to now. Maybe this isn’t a bad idea as it might make them ‘believers, and force them to discontinue shooting their rockets into Israel. With all of this going on, the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit may now be even more in doubt, much to the chagrin of those close to him. Lieberman’s new position as Deputy Prime Minister and External Strategies Minister may mean new developments along Israel’s border with Lebanon as well; despite the presence of UNIFIL and Lebanese military forces.
In other words, ‘Fall Business’ may turn into ‘Winter Rains’.
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Looks like the ‘Iron Fist” clobbered the wrong people,
in regards to the Palestinian civilians killed by those
two errant artillary shells.
However, Moslims like Hamas are worse when they send human bombas
out to kill innocent people in shopping malls, buses,
restaurants, and religious events (Passover Seders).
When they call Israelies ‘animals’, who is really the worst offender,
in this brutal war.
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