haaretz.com - 12/27/2008
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Approximately 15,000 armed Palestinians. That's the size of the military force the Israel Defense Forces will face if a major operation in the Gaza Strip goes forward. These militants, from various Hamas factions, will presumably be aided by a few thousand militants from other Palestinian ...
prospect.org - 12/28/2008
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prospect.org —
This is the paragraph that I can't get
out of my head: Hamas had in recent weeks...
let it be known that it doubted Israel would engage in a major military undertaking because of its coming elections. But in some ways the elections have made it ...
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ISRAEL, WRONG.
israellycool.com - 12/27/2008
lennybendavid.com - 12/28/2008
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lennybendavid.com —
The humanitarian assistance also served to lull Hamas
into believing that Israel was going soft. The attack...
on the Jewish Sabbath was also unexpected by Hamas. Israeli intelligence was tracking, following, and marking the Hamas leadership, terrorist ...
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I*Consult: Israel Attacks Hamas -- Here Comes the Hamas ...
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Israel-Palestine, Again
The Reality-Based Community —
... activities due to incentives: they did so because they were in jail. Israel claims that it is doing the same thing with these air strikes, targeting Hamas command and control. That seems to be wishful thinking: you can't really do disruption and incapacitation from the air. Israel has far better intelligence on Hamas than it has on Hizbullah, and so we might see some sort of commando operations designed to disrupt the Hamas network, but it hard to imagine that working, either: Hamas has enough units that have good enough training that they can launch attacks for quite a while ...
The Effects of an Israeli Ground Incursion Into Gaza
Firedoglake —
... Hamas has spent the last two years preparing for a ground incursion. According to Ha'aretz, there are about 15,000 armed Palestinians in Gaza, not all under Hamas's control, though most are, at least nominally. The core of Hamas's military is the 1,000 strong, Iz al-Din al-Qassam, which is trained in the Hezbollah fashion. There is a bunker and tunnel network, though how extensive it is remains to be seen. Because of Israeli snipers, Hamas has not been able to place as many open field defenses such as minefields and roadside bombs as it would doubtless like to. Hamas also ...
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