The IDF says it’s too soon to tell much, but that Hamas has changed its tactics due to the threat of being martyred on the IDF’s terms. (Funny how they say, over and over again, that they love death, and they can’t wait to be martyrs, and yet, when the IDF turns up the heat, Hamasniks turn chicken and run.) The money quote:
“There is no doubt that Hamas is not behaving as it did a week ago, the fact that the organization was targeted many times and the fact that they have several dozen casualties has compelled them to operate differently. The more we persist with our actions, the more results we will see. When we hit the organization hard – a deterrent that will work – then we’ll see the decision to stop the rockets. We need to bring them to the point where they need to make that decision and we are not there yet.”
Keep on keeping on, folks. Every dead terrorist is one less person to launch rockets at Israel.
You know, there’s a pattern established here with hammering the Hamas leadership, and then letting up when they start in with the phony hudna crap. Then it’s not long before the bombs and qassams start in again.
Is anyone else sick of this broken record, played out over and over again? The IDF shouldn’t stop when their behavior is changed, they should stop when all of Hamas is DEAD. Because to do otherwise will surely cost the loves of more Israelis.
Peretz, Olmert, hello? Is this thing on?
Erm, make that “lives”, not “loves”.
It will cost a few loves, too, unfortunately.
There is no reason to let up, ever. As long as they live, they will just go back to killing.
Besides, it’s not a simple process of taking a few of them out and watching the number of rockets drop. They will stop when a catastrophically significant number of them no longer exist, or have hidden themselves away.
(How come the Lebanese get to shoot up civilians in a Palestinian refugee camp?)
“How come the Lebanese get to shoot up civilians in a Palestinian refugee camp?”
They’re not Joooos. Try asking a *hard* question.
“Every dead terrorist is one less person to launch rockets at Israel.”
Amen to that!