Hamas working hard, investing tremendous resources to rebuild Gaza
Why bother to rebuild when you can buy rockets instead?
Labels: European foreign aid, Fajr-5 rockets, Grad rocket, Hamas, Hamas rockets, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, J-80 rockets, Kassam rockets, M-302 rockets, M-75 rockets, US foreign aid
Shocka: Hamas already repairing terror tunnels
Hamas' priorities haven't changed. They've already started
repairing the terror tunnels.
Israel has received intelligence indicating that Hamas has begun
reconstructing the attack tunnels that were destroyed during Operation
Protective Edge, a senior Israeli official said on Sunday.
Two
weeks have passed since the cease-fire went into effect, the official
said, and Hamas has already begun preparing for the next confrontation
with Israel and is focused on replenishing its arsenals.
The
senior official said that Hamas militants have returned to arms
smuggling through several tunnels that remain intact under the
Philadelphi Route in Rafah. He said that the smuggling continues despite
the Egyptian security forces' more concentrated and effective efforts
to stamp out the tunnels.
The official added that production of
the M75 rockets – capable of reaching the Gush Dan region in central
Israel – has resumed in factories inside the Gaza Strip. He said that
even after Operation Protective Edge, 40 percent of Hamas' capability to
produce rockets locally remain intact.
So which idiot decided to accept a cease fire? And how long until we hit the terror tunnels and the rocket manufacturing facilities again? What do you mean we can't?
Labels: cease fire, Gaza, Hamas, Hamas rockets, M-75 rockets, Operation Protective Edge, terror tunnels
The difference between the 'Palestinians' and Israel
Evelyn Gordon shows that
'Palestinians' take pride in hurting Israelis while Israel takes pride in defending its citizens.
To truly understand the current fighting in Gaza, it’s important to
listen to Jamal Zakout. Zakout, a secular resident of Ramallah, is no
fan of Hamas, as Amira Hass noted in her report in Haaretz last
week (Hebrew only): He has held various positions in the Palestinian
Authority, including spokesman for former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad,
took part in the Geneva Initiative (a nongovernmental effort to draft an
Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement), and opposed the “militarization”
of the second intifada. Nevertheless, Hass writes, the fighting is
bolstering Hamas’s status even among Palestinians like him, because
“when Hamas manages, despite everything, to continue launching missiles
at Israel and disrupting normal life there, Zakout says this restores
their feeling of human dignity.”
This, in a nutshell, is why the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains unsolvable, and why it produces
spasms of violence with monotonous regularity: For too many
Palestinians, including “moderates” like Zakout, “human dignity” derives
from hurting Israelis–even knowing full well that the resultant Israeli
counterstrikes will cause far greater harm to Palestinians.
This is something you would simply never hear an Israeli say, because
Israelis see human dignity as stemming from saving life, not taking it.
This doesn’t mean they oppose using military force in self-defense.
Indeed, they overwhelmingly support the current operation: After
absorbing 13,000 rockets from Gaza over the last nine years, they want
the rockets stopped; they want children in the south to be able to grow
up normally, instead having 45 percent suffer
from post-traumatic stress disorder due to constant rocket fire, and
they want people all over Israel to be able to lead their lives without
disruption. But they would never say that dropping bombs on Gaza
enhances their “human dignity”; they view war as an unpleasant necessity
which they would much rather not have to engage in.
This difference in Palestinian and Israeli attitudes is epitomized by
two technological developments that have become the darlings of their
respective peoples: the Iron Dome anti-missile system and the M-75
rocket.
The M-75 is a technological marvel–a homemade medium-range rocket
capable of striking Tel Aviv, developed despite stringent Israeli import
restrictions aimed at preventing Hamas from doing just that. It’s a
purely offensive weapon with no defensive purpose, and Palestinians love
it. An enterprising Gaza merchant even named a perfume after it two
years ago, when it was first deployed, and Reuters reported that sales promptly soared.
Iron Dome is also a homegrown technological marvel. But it’s the
M-75’s mirror image: a purely defensive weapon with no offensive
purpose. And that’s precisely why Israelis love it: Its purpose is to
save lives rather than take them.
Read it all. It shows why for the foreseeable future there won't be peace. It's not just the fascist 'Palestinian' leadership that is only interested in offensive weapons (as Gordon goes on to show). It's the fact that developing an M-75 instead of an Iron Dome makes Hamas more popular.
Labels: Hamas, Iron Dome, M-75 rockets, Palestinian education to hatred
Hamas targets Israel's nuclear reactor
Hamas
targeted Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona on Wednesday.
Three rockets were launched at Dimona in southern Israel on Wednesday
afternoon. The Iron Dome intercepted one rocket before it could land,
while two other rockets landed in open areas.
Dimona is the location of Israel's nuclear reactor. There was no indication that rockets damaged any part of the reactor.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets, stating that it had been attempting to hit the nuclear reactor.
Militants from Hamas's Qassam Brigades said they had launched long-range M-75 rockets towards Dimona.
Minutes
later the Iron Dome intercepted rockets in Ness Tziona , Yavne and
Rehovot in central Israel as Gaza terrorists extended the range of their
rockets on Operation Protective Edge's second day.
Earlier on Wednesday, two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip were intercepted over the Greater Tel Aviv area.
Code Red rocket alert sirens sounded in Holon and Bat Yam prior to the interceptions.
No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks.
A 90% success rate for this sort of thing is never good enough and certainly not when you're defending a nuclear reactor. What could go wrong?
Labels: Dimona nuclear reactor, Hamas, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, M-75 rockets
