Saturday, December 12, 2009
Better rockets, missiles, more tunnels, more hiding in civilian infrastructure...and why not? It works. Here are some links: Hamas preparing 'offensive' tunnels
Israel is likely to face advanced Iranian weaponry, long-range rockets, large missile silos and dozens of kilometers of underground tunnels connecting open fields with urban centers in the event of a future conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest Israeli assessments.
Since Operation Cast Lead ended almost a year ago, Hamas has increased its weapons smuggling and today operates hundreds of tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor. It has smuggled in dozens of long-range Iranian-made rockets that can reach Tel Aviv as well as advanced anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank missiles.
Hamas is believed to have a significant number of shoulder-launched anti-tank missiles and 9M113 Konkurs, which have a range of four kilometers and are capable of penetrating heavy armor.
In addition, Hamas is believed to have today a few thousand rockets, including several hundred with a range of 40 kilometers and several dozen with a range of between 60 and 80 km. Intelligence assessments are that Hamas smuggled the missiles into the Gaza Strip through tunnels, possibly in several components.
Iran already supplies Hamas with 122mm Katyusha rockets that are smuggled into Gaza in several pieces and then assembled by Hamas engineers.
One of the main lessons Hamas learned from Cast Lead was the need to reinforce its defenses and as a result has invested efforts in digging additional tunnels, which connect open fields with homes belonging to key operatives as well as command centers.
The idea is to enable freedom of movement for the operatives between different battlefields, which it found difficult during Israel's ground offensive in Gaza earlier this year.
Hamas has also increased its use of civilian infrastructure, particularly mosques, which the terror group already used quite extensively for storage and launching rockets during the operation.Hamas is believed to have taken control of almost 80 percent of the mosques in Gaza, using them to store weapons and set up command-and-control centers.
Hamas, is "padding" itself as well by setting up its command centers in large apartment buildings. This way, it believes, the IDF will not attack them by air, and will need to send ground forces deep into the population centers, where it will lose its technological advantage.
In addition, Hamas is hoping to increase the effectiveness of its rocket capability during a future conflict and has created large missile silos.
Hamas has also recently increased its efforts to dig what the IDF calls "offensive tunnels" close to the border with Israel, which the terror group could use to infiltrate into Israel and kidnap soldiers.
These tunnels are believed to be of strategic value for Hamas, which would only use them for large-scale attacks and high-value targets.
Home Front Command bracing for missiles in Tel Aviv
HDF (hamas defence force)...are not preparing for war, israeli government is preparing for bieng draged to the hague criminal war courts. and thier tribunal should be incorporated in every arabic school curriculum... so that when wafa dollar and khalied abu shiekl speack abut peace...we cut their tongues with goldman report!
isreal is a war nation.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_–_United_States_military_relations
why doesnt isrel help america in iraq and afghjanistan....or is it one why help? i guess IDF doesnt want to be buried like american army in afhanistan. good relations indeed...one why siphooning of american money. american founders fathers should be prowed of whats happening to america by israel and its lobby and news outlets.
next thing JPOST will write...tiger woods preparing for a golf tournament(at a hotel). and we should believe.
"wafa dollar and khalied abu shiekl"
Arabian cannot conceal his contempt for dissenters from the core Arab narrative, and this contempt is naturally expressed through the usual antisemitic slurs. He cannot help himself. Even when he wants to come off as a civilized human being, his upbringing bursts through the weak seams.
On my blog he referred to Jews as "slaves", slave being not a term of commiseration but of humiliation. He thought he was shaming Lieberman by calling him the son of a plumber.
One can only imagine the nightmarish existence of relentless humiliation and deprivation suffered by servants and labourers where Arabian lives, in a place like Dubai or Saudi Arabia.
I recently visited English written Arab blogs which conduct themselves in exactly the same manner, albeit in good English. The level of insane hatred boggles the mind. The Arab world seems incapable of dealing with Jews as equals. It's a pathology which is way beyond curing, in my opinion.
true haterd is better than going to the noble price and saying about a wrong war "just"
haterd is better than denying climate chnge although your countries and america caused climate change(by american dream and pursuit of self worship).
but when america is the god of israel......how can you say anything about america.!
as to labourers......we didnt bring them in ships from africa, they came alone and its our lands we dont invade or kill other countries people.
i cant understand how you think and procliam your civilized when your deeds show the opposite.
as to slaves...when someone says arabs are beduins and live in tents(houses great by its inhabitants).. tens of times...what do you expect me to say!? or you love to be treated like you treat latin workers.
arabian, OIL, MONEY, expensive cars are the god of saudi arabia and all islamofascist oil producers.
arabian lust for money, gold, wmds', will be the downfall of islam.
"arabian lust for money, gold, wmds', will be the downfall of islam. "
No. The Muslim Arabs' lust is for the respect of the world, and they are furiously frustrated that cannot get it through merit. Here is an interesting debate on the low achievement of Arab universities, with Jordanian university professor Adib Al-Zu’bi and Ahmad Al-Shater, head of the Arab Students’ Union:
"Ahmad Al-Shater: This is a great campaign against Arabism and against Islam – this campaign on our universities and scientific research, because of this classification by Ikhbish, or whatever they are called, from the end of the world.
Let me finish. This Spanish office, QS, should go to Seville and to Granada, and see the archaeological remains of Arab science, in astronomy, medicine, biology, and physics, instead of evaluating Arab universities."
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2283.htm
Do note that the person bristling with defensiveness cannot cite anything later than fifteenth century Al-Andalus as meriting world respect as far as academic achievement is concerned.
Note also how it is somehow the fault of Zionists that Arab universities do not produce scientists who can cure cancer...
"we didnt bring them in ships from africa,"
"The Arab slave trade was the practice of slavery in the Arab World, mainly West Asia, North Africa, East Africa and certain parts of Europe (such as Sicily and Iberia) during their period of domination by Arab leaders. The trade was focused on the slave markets of the Middle East and North Africa. People traded were not limited to a certain color, ethnicity, or religion and included Arabs and Berbers, especially in its early days.
Later, during the 8th and 9th centuries of the Islamic Caliphate, most of the slaves were Slavic Eastern Europeans (called Saqaliba), people from surrounding Mediterranean areas, Persians, Turks, peoples from the Caucasus mountain regions (such as Georgia, Armenia and Circassia) and parts of Central Asia and Scandinavia, Berbers from North Africa, and various other peoples of varied origins as well as those of Black African origins.
Later, toward the 18th and 19th centuries, slaves increasingly came from East Africa, until slavery was officially abolished by the end of the 19th century.It still continues today in a smaller form in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, where women and children are trafficked from the post-Soviet states, Eastern Europe, Far East, Africa, South Asia and other parts of the Middle East."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
Noga,
The Arab world seems incapable of dealing with Jews as equals. It's a pathology which is way beyond curing, in my opinion.
This pathology has come through indoctrination through their religious books, the Qur'an, Hadith and Sirra during some 1400 years where Jews are descended from pigs and apes and cannot be treated as equals.
It's about time that other cultures wake up to the characteristics of the culture they are trying to engage with.
Kumbaya was a hippy dream in time.