Israel Matzav: Hamas holding out for one 'quality' terror attack; American Left complains no Israelis killed

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Hamas holding out for one 'quality' terror attack; American Left complains no Israelis killed

Hamas is sustaining heavy casualties in Operation Protective Edge according to a key official in Israel's defense ministry. Nevertheless, it is holding out for one 'quality' terror attack after which it will declare both a cease fire and 'victory.' That result would please certain commentators from the American Left (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). This is from the first link.

Top Defense Ministry Amos Gilad said Thursday that Hamas has been “badly damaged” by the IDF's campaign in response to the terror organizations unending attacks on Israeli civilians.

Gilad, Head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomacy-Security Department, said that Hamas was working very hard to keep up its “victorious image,” but was finding it much more difficult now than in the past.

“Hamas is trying very hard to make headlines,” said Gilad. “They issue proclamations of 'victory' and time their major rocket attacks to coincide with 'high pressure' periods,” such as Thursday morning's attack on Tel Aviv at the height of rush hour. As tens of thousands of commuters were driving into the Tel Aviv area Thursday morning, Hamas terrorists fired at least four rockets at the Dan area. All four were shot down by the Iron Dome defensive system.

Hamas also times its heavy rocket attacks for the early evening hours, in the hope of making headlines on the evening TV broadcasts and thus sowing panic among Israelis.

According to Gilad, Hamas is more than ready to end this round of fighting. “They are hoping for a 'high-quality' attack that they can point to and pronounce as a victory, and when that happens they will immediately call a cease-fire. They are sustaining grave losses and cannot continue at this rate,” he said.

Okay, we knew on Tuesday that Hamas wanted a cease fire. The problem was that they had preconditions.... They just didn't mention was that one of those preconditions was to murder a few Israelis.

The American Leftists at Fire Dog Lake would be thrilled if Hamas would kill a few Israelis. They've been keeping score and the score doesn't look so good for Hamas right now.

The Guardian reports that the U.S., which means Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama, supports without reservation the air war on a largely defenseless population:

The White House condemned the rocket attacks against Israel. ‘No country can accept rocket fire aimed at civilians and we support Israel’s right to defend itself against these vicious attacks,’ said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Oh of course, the Gazans are vicious for killing no one, but ‘no comment’ on the Israeli air strikes that have killed 29 civilians according to Reuters.

Israel is targeting Hamas facilities and leadership. The fact that Hamas uses civilians as (all-too-often willing) human shields is Hamas' responsibility, not Israel's. And as to the fact that no Israelis have been killed, we thank God for that every day.

Labels: American Left, Gaza, Geneva Convention, Hamas, Operation Protective Edge, Palestinian terrorism