Channel 12 correspondent for Arab affairs Ohad Hemo explained why the battles in southern Gaza have incurred significantly heavier costs than in the northern part of the Strip.
“Gaza has been preparing for this for 16 years,” he said. “During that time, over half of Gaza’s residents were born into this reality of Hamas rule – born in a place where along with their mother’s milk, they were fed hatred of Israel and the desire for the IDF to enter the Strip and engage them in battle.”
“It’s been 16 years of Hamas preparing the Gaza Strip – turning it into the toughest battlefield in the world – with hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, bunkers, and booby-trapped homes. The IDF entered – and we see the heavy price we’re paying.”
“We have to understand that nothing different could have been done – it’s part of this arduous war. Khan Younis is a harsh place, a very perilous Hamas stronghold, and Israel operates somewhat differently there. If we saw bombing, shelling, and only then the entry of the IDF in the north of the Strip, (by the way, 72% of the north is destroyed), it’s somewhat different in the south due to the fact that two million people are there.”
“We have to understand that Israel must continue this operation until Hamas is weakened – there is no other option,” he concluded.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“…it’s somewhat different in the south due to the fact that two million people are there.”
NO, IT’S NOT! It doesn’t matter how many people live there — you have an OBLIGATION to protect OUR soldiers! Give them one of three choices:
* FLEE (to far away from us)
* SURRENDER (unconditionally)
* DIE (via bombing)
Then and ONLY THEN should you send our sons, brothers and fathers into battle.
My two cents, I totally agree with you. It’s disgusting that the soldiers lives are dispensable to the Israeli gov and generals due to their pandering to the “world opinion”.
Hmmmm, what about Israeli intelligence? All that noise and ongoing activities for “15 years” and no one asked anything or spying activities reporting ….. Hashem runs the world and that is the clear secular cognitive dissonance
2 million terrorists – or, at least, a large percentage of them – who celebrated the atrocities of Simchas Torah epitomize evil and cruelty are worth less than one person who epitomizes goodness and truth.
As Nikki Haley said, pro-Hamas countries should give these people asylum. Dump them all in Iran, whose proxies they have become. And if Iran, Qatar, Yemen et al are not willing to save this sorry lot of (in)humanity, then we shouldn’t worry about them either.
All the countries that closed their gates to Jews during WWII – innocents who posed no threat to anyone – should keep their mouths shut about “civilian” terrorists being killed in Gaza including children who have suicide belts fit to size and whose summer camps train their for the job along with their mothers’ milk.
A Satmerer once told me that the primary reason the Satmer Rebbe zl was against the state is because the amount of Jewish lives it would cost. Sadly, it has caused tens of thousands of Jewish deaths until now.
If the prime minister would be Rav Moshe Sternbuch Shlita, would he catapult to world pressure? He would open the Rambam Hilchos Melachim (or something similar) and wipe them out with a few bombs, and the world would be petrified of us.
All of our problems in the last 150 yrs are because we look up to the atheists ym”sh as our leaders.
just my not so humble opinion.
“We have to understand that nothing different could have been done”
Lots of things could have been done. Hamas could gave been annihilated the last couple of times. Israel could have taken the security briefings seriously. And lastly, what My Two cents and philosopher said.
@Fanatic, If he were the PM, there probably wouldn’t be any medina anymore, because he’d dismantle it right away, but enough with the imagine if.
Fact is, the state has not just cost tens of thousands, rather millions of deaths so far.
First of all, the undisputed facts:
1) 500,000+ Hungarian Jews (save a few buddies of Kastner ym”sh and his cronies) were let by the zionist to be killed by the nazi’s as it would serve them 3 purposes:
a) it would rid them of people who weren’t for their cause, thereby eliminating the headache of people standing to state that zionism/state of israel doesn’t speak in the name of Jewry,
b) the typical zionist tradition of רק בדם תהיה לנו הארץ/ only through blood will we get the land.
c) Save them the ‘needed’ and scarce resources they had at the time, to be able to serve the purposes of their twisted demonised politics, instead of having to ‘waist’ it [sic] on lives that won’t help them anyway.
2) They tried to play big-wig by making a protest against hitler, and even wrote an article under the big words in yiddish “Hitler and the nazi party lies in ruins after the smashing success of the anti-hitler boycott..
They stopped countless of askanus and askanim from working to save Jews, from anywhere, most famously Rav Y. B. Weissmandl ztz”l, and also others like Rabbi Dr. Jacob [Yaakov] Griffels, and others, having their indirect share in the holocaust, which they have the audacity to use as the tool to fight against THEIR enemies……
Fanatic:
The Brisker Rav and others said the same.
“We have to understand that nothing different could have been done – it’s part of this arduous war…”
Such nonsense Zionist propaganda. Of course, they could have done it very differently, both in their “withdrawal” and afterwards and going all the way back to when the Jews in then-Palestine begged the Zionists not to invade and cause them problems. But the Zionists don’t care about Jews; they care about Zionism.