Israel set to begin ground war against Hamas in Gaza - Times Online
There is also majority support for expanding it into a ground campaign, despite the dangers of high casualties in an urban battlefield against highly trained and motivated guerrillas waging war on their own turf. Almost 42 per cent of Israelis wanted the army to move in, while 39 percent favoured a continued air campaign.
Hamas has an estimated 15,000 fighters who have used the 18 months that they have controlled the strip to hone their skills and transform a militia into a small army. Hamas’s military wing has been waiting for a ground offensive to face the Israeli army in open combat, despite Israel’s vast military superiority.
Typical moronic military analysis from the clueless, Israel-hating mainstream media.
Compared to the IDF, the gangsters aren’t “highly trained,” they are a rabble of street-punk thugs armed with machines guns because they can’t hit anything without hosing it down with several dozen rounds.
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Waiting behind a wall of women and children, where they will remain. Israel’s restraint will be their downfall.