Superfly smart guy Michael Oren (Oh! He got game!) and fellow brainiac Yossi Halevi from Natan Sharansky's Think tank in Little Satan have hooked up and presented probably the best piece about Little Satan's wicked Strip blitz that has actually cut the Strip into smaller, easier to shape the battle, bite sized pieces.
Tactically, cutting off and surrounding rowdy HAMAS rocketeers and their newly enchanced home grown army in Gaza City from illicit underground supply lines in is a significant development.
Despite conflicting signals about what the heck Little Satan's actual goal is, Strategically it may help to zoom out of the Strip and take in the big pic.
"Until now, the Iranian revolution has appeared unstoppable. The
Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s ended with Iranian troops occupying Iraqi territory. Iranian influence then spread to Saudi Arabia's heavily Shiite and oil-rich Eastern province, and to Lebanon through Hezbollah. Since the fall of their long-standing enemy, Saddam Hussein, Iranians have deeply infiltrated Iraq.
Syria has been drawn into Iran's sphere, and even the Sunni sheikdoms
of the gulf now defer to Iran, dispatching foreign ministers to Tehran and defying international sanctions against it. Iran has co-opted Hamas, a Sunni organization closely linked to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, transforming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a jihad against the Jewish state.
But Iran's boldest achievement has been to thwart world pressure and
approach the nuclear threshold. Once fortified with nuclear weapons, Iranian hegemony in the Middle East would be complete."
"All of which helps explain the public statements from moderate ArabThose leaders understand what many in the West have yet to grasp: The Middle East conflict is no longer just about creating a magical makebelieve NakBah free Palestinian state but about preventing the region's takeover by radical mohammedism. Indeed, Palestinian statehood is impossible without neutralizing (or annihilating ) the creepy time traveling intolerants who oppose any negotiated solution.
leaders, such as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, who have blamed the end of the tenuous Israel-Hamas cease-fire on Hamas. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has even called on the Arab world to stop using the U.N. as a forum for blaming Israel alone for the fighting, surely a first.
Essentially - if Little Satan is successful in her Strip blitz, Persian prestige will have been given a severe check.
"It would strengthen anti-Iranian forces throughout the Mideast and signal the region that Iranian momentum can be reversed. The Israeli military operation could begin the process that topples a terrorist regime that seized power in the Gaza Stripin 2007 and has fired thousands of rockets and mortar shells into Israeli neighborhoods.
Above all, the goal is to ensure that HAMAS is unable to cry victory and enhance Iranian prestige in the Arab world in other words - avoid a repeat of the PR war during the Rocket War of '06 betwixt Little Satan and Hiz'B'Allah.And whether or not Hamas is ultimately overthrown, Israel can achieve
substantial goals. The first is an absolute cease-fire. Previous cease-fires allowed Hamas to launch two or three rockets a week into Israel and to smuggle weapons into Gaza through tunnels. To obtain a cease-fire now, the international community should recognize Israel's right to respond to any aggression over its international border and monitor the closure of Hamas' weapons-smuggling tunnels."
Though the Israeli army killed a quarter of Hezbollah's troops and destroyed its headquarters, Israel was widely perceived as the loser. The winner was Iran.
The PR war is a big part of this and it is spilling over to the web. Little Satan and HAMAS' sites are being attacked and knocked off line for short periods of time - Ynet and Gloir's "Worst Case Scenerio Site" (debkafile) as well as HAMAS' Voice of Palestine and the Strip's homegrown militia the infamous Izze Deen al K'Ssam's site have all been hit.
Yes, yes. Innocent civilians have, tragically, been injured and killed, hold up though - about three-quarters (75% for statistically challenged) of the 400 Palestinians killed (so far) have been armed enemies of a democratic member of the UN."Hamas is attempting to portray the Israeli invasion as a war against
the Palestinian people. Television viewers are being presented with
heartbreaking images of dead and injured children and supposedly indiscriminate devastation. Palestinian doctors claim that Israel has blocked the supply of vital medicines, and humanitarian organizations warn of imminent starvation. In fact, many of those claims are exaggerated."
Pretty dang impressive and a testament to the fact that democracies value life and those values xfer to their militaries with intelligent weaponry, night vision gear and battlefield meds.
Especially impressive since HAMAS routinely fires off missiles and mortors from innocent civilian rich environs like apartments, mosques and schools, uses hospitals as hide-outs and enjoys innocent, intelligent human shielding.
"It is in Israel's urgent interest to minimize civilian suffering and
forestall international criticism. For that same reason, Hamas welcomes the suffering of Palestinian civilians. According to a BBC report on Dec. 30, dozens of ambulances were dispatched by Egypt to its border with Gaza, only to remain empty because, according to Egyptian authorities, Hamas wasn't allowing wounded Palestinians to leave."
"The international community must not be duped again. If Hamas isThat would mean another triumph for Iran.
successful in manipulating world opinion into the imposition of a premature cease-fire, it will proclaim victory and continue to stockpile long-range missiles for the next round of fighting. "
If, ideally, Great Satan is to engage and confront Iran on some sunny day with diplomacy, that trek would prob best be served in the sweet sexyful afterglow of the total defeat and marginalization of Iranian minions and their fully crunk missile base in the Strip.
"If Israel is allowed to achieve its goals in Gaza, the Obama administration will be better poised to achieve its goals in Iran. "
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Can't say what, if anything useful, the Obama Admin will do in foreign policy (other than bollix it up, Clintonista-style, like they did in the '90s, bringing us September 11, 2001, courtesy of Carter/Clintonthink); but for now, I say to Israel: POUND THEM, ISRAEL, POUND THEM TO HELL! Hamas has been asking for this; give them a full measure of just what they've asked for. And ignore the whining from the UN and those other Islamofascist appeasing voices out there. POUND HAMAS TO HELL!
Israel has cut Gaza in half, has surrounded Gaza City, and has taken minimum causalities. So far Hamas isn't fighting the way they claimed they would before Operation Cast Lead's ground ops started.
How much are you willing to bet that they will scream for a truce louder than a rock band at full volume?
You rightly say, "Those leaders understand what many in the West have yet to grasp: The Middle East conflict is no longer just about creating a magical makebelieve NakBah free Palestinian state but about preventing the region's takeover by radical mohammedism. Indeed, Palestinian statehood is impossible without neutralizing (or annihilating ) the creepy time traveling intolerants who oppose any negotiated solution. "
Too bad many in the West, specifically America, do not get that yet and may never, until it's too late.
Iran will have to be dealt with eventually, by either Israel or the US, hopefully both together.
DEBKAfile and YNET were both taken down, but not for long and we know precisely who did it. Hacks will continue, but they don't disrupt the flow of propaganda or truth for very long.
Without the web, the truth would not be getting out Courtney.
Debbie Hamilton
Right Truth
Findalis, Shalom! I have no doubt Hamaz will "scream for a truce louder than a rock band at full volume"; I also believe the silence from Israel will be deafening. They learned their lesson two years ago in Lebanon.
This will lead to a worsening of the war: If the analysis quoted by Courtney happens, then as Hamas gets decimated Iran will feel the need to expand the pressure by expanding the area of operation. As Hamas operatives fade into the civilian background and stop answering their cellphones ("Sorry, Achmed doesn't live here anymore"), they can't send Hiz'B'Allah into Gaza. Instead, they'll have to start attacking northern Israel from Lebanon, aided by Syrian attacks on the Golan Heights. Pretty soon, Jordan and Egypt knuckle under -- either join the attack or suffer the wrath of the Islamic world for failing to help their Palestinian brothers. Saudi Arabia will send a token force, too, just to say they were there.
And Israel will blow them all away.
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Yeah. It's good news that Israel will finally triumph, isn't it?
Thank goodness we will no longer have to worry about Palestine. One more check off the to do list.
It's amazing, really, isn't it, that 80 years of this did not finally do the trick? Must be the rogaine.
All I know is that I feel relieved that Israel has finally routed this bunch once and for all. I know, I know. Don't count your chickens, etc., etc.
But, come on, could someone really ever question the wisdom, here? It's kind of a slam dunk, isn't it?
It's so nice to know that you were right all along, isn't it?
Hi Ben, ease up. It gives me no pleasure. If anyone cares, I had always hoped Palestine would be more like Little Satan, with all the trappings of a successful, secular, tolerant, egalitarian society like free press, independent judiciary, military
under civie command and actually prep for this life instead of racing to the next.
Time for HAMAS to split. They are a spectacular failure in any endeavor - Peace, government and war.Events tend to give my
"2 State Illusion" dossier a new meaning.
Doesn't it?
http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2008/12/2-state-illusion.html
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