IAF Chief: No need for ground op, let Air Force continue attacks
IAF Chief: No need for ground op, let Air Force continue attacks – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews.
Analysis: IAF commander Eshel is trying to convince security leadership that Air Force can get job done without ground incursion.
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As rocket fire from Gaza almost completely stopped for several hours Saturday morning, the IDF completed preparations for an initial ground incursion into the Strip and now only waits for orders from the prime minister and defense minister.
It’s been revealed to Ynet that even amid the fight between senior government officials there is almost complete consensus that a ground operation in Gaza is necessary in order to deal a devastating blow to the infrastructure of terror – a blow that will have long term affects.
However, Major General Amir Eshel, commander of the IAF, is trying to convince the Chief of Staff and Defense Minister that the Air Force can accomplish the same goals itself, destroying Hamas’ rocket manufacturing capabilities and striking smuggling tunnels used by terror cells.
The Air Force commander claims that the methods of attack, quality intelligence, the ability to hit multiple targets in a short amount of time and precision guided weapons, can be effective no less that a large scale ground offensive which is bound to involve heavy losses and many errors.
Eshel’s opinion has been at least partially adopted and the prime minister, defense minister and chief of staff are giving the IAF free reign to act according to the strategy that he has presented.
Along those lines the IDF continued the full pace of attacks on Friday night and Saturday morning and even increased the attack on the houses of Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders all over the Gaza Strip.
According to the intelligence results, this strategy is, at the moment, considered to be efficient and effective on terrorists’ will to fight. Among its targets the IAF attacked a mosque in central Gaza that was being utilized as a rocket storage facility and military asset to Hamas.
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WarSclerotic 
July 12, 2014 at 3:20 PM
Not possible , the target getting more difficult , there will be more¨civilian ¨causalities and Israel will lose their tiny support !
There are more goals than only hamas and the gaza !
Get rid from hamas for a very long time , now of pay later the price again ,like the last 2 times , half work is dangerous !
July 12, 2014 at 3:45 PM
Beginning to smell like Hamas will live to fight another day.
July 12, 2014 at 4:02 PM
Would be a grave mistake !!!
July 12, 2014 at 4:16 PM
Agreed, should Netanyahu once again fail to measure up. He needs to go!
July 12, 2014 at 4:18 PM
If he screws this up, he’s toast.
July 12, 2014 at 4:27 PM
Yep !
Rejection of a Negotiated Peace Settlement:
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‘[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and
international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of
the Islamic Resistance Movement… Those conferences are no more than
a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of
Islam… There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by
Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a
waste of time, an exercise in futility.’ (Article 13)
July 12, 2014 at 4:27 PM
Goals of the HAMAS:
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‘The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian
movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is
Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of
Palestine.’ (Article 6)
On the Destruction of Israel:
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‘Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will
obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.’ (Preamble)
July 12, 2014 at 4:37 PM
Hamas: We will destroy Israel in eight years
Posted on Jan 13, 2014 at 12:06
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS – Israel will be gone in eight years, according to one Hamas official.
Fathi Hamad, Hamas’s Interior Minister, claimed in a speech honoring the anniversary of Operation Cast Lead that “Palestine” would replace the Jewish State by 2022.
Hamad noted in his speech that the Palestinian Arabs, according to Islamic prophecies, will enter the Al Aqsa Mosque “in jubilation and victory like they entered it the first time”. He said that Israel has failed in previous wars waged against the Palestinians, while the Palestinians are progressing nationally towards the stage where they are capable of conquering Jerusalem.
After the “liberation” of Al-Aqsa Mosque, said Hamad, the “Hittin” system will prevail. That statement refers to he means by which Saladin conquered the Land of Israel against the Crusaders, in particular during the Battle of Hittin/Hattin; namely, by slaughtering or enslaving the non-Muslim forces arrayed against him.
“We’ll destroy the enemy,” Hamad assured his audience, noting that achieving that goal would take “eight years.” Hamad also claimed that the Palestinians are at the stage of readiness for “jihad and martyrdom in the way of Allah”.
July 12, 2014 at 4:58 PM
That would be to late, harm is already done !