Hamas attacks Israel

jon-nyc

Kind of surprised there’s a woman in that group.

Well, I’m assuming the person in the bag is a woman.

Copper

I think there are 2 women.

Renauda

@jon-nyc

Well, I’m assuming the person in the bag is a woman.

Myself, I just assumed it was a droid.

jon-nyc

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

"Cease fire" in the works.

4 days of "reduced hostilities." Hamas will release 50 hostages and the Israelis will exchange a multiple of that number of their prisoners.

Mik

Chicken feed.

jon-nyc

Tell that to those 50 families.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Jolly

If I was the U.S., I would very quietly and very discreetly turn over every scrap of intel on Hamas leadership to the Mossad. Especially all the electronic and satellite stuff.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Jolly said in Hamas attacks Israel:

If I was the U.S., I would very quietly and very discreetly turn over every scrap of intel on Hamas leadership to the Mossad. Especially all the electronic and satellite stuff.

Yeah. What do you think the odds are that the Hamas leadership in Qatar and other countries feels safe? Israel has already told them, "We're coming for you."

Mik

This has an ice cube's chance in hell of being upheld.

Renauda

@Mik

No kidding. In a normal war situation a temporary cease fire would also include a withdrawal of belligerent forces to mutually agreed upon lines until the hour of expiration. The hope is to mitigate the chances that the cease will be broken.

No such lines exist or can exist in this conflict. The IDF and Hamas both occupy the same scattered rubble piles. This is a cease fire resting on a hair trigger that once breached cannot be recovered.

Mik

It's window dressing for Israel in the world. "See? We TOLD you Hamas could not be trusted".

Sadly they should never have been forced into this by the spineless West.

Renauda

True but there’s also a tremendous pressure inside Israel to get hostages home by means other than military force. Bibi’s governing coalition is very fragile.