"I have not entered one civilian home that did not have weapons, suicide belts, or booby traps in it,"
In an otherwise excellent article on the Hamas terror tunnel network in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post buries the lede. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier in the field told the Post that
while Hamas fighters offered fierce resistance when the ground
operation began, now Hamas operatives are fleeing, abandoning their
positions, leaving behind weapons and other material that the IDF is
using to expand its assault on the terror group.
The source added that in recent days, a recognizable wave of
demoralization has washed over Hamas's combat battalions. "They simply
escape, leaving behind weapons and suicide bomb vests that were laid out
for battle. This morning we stormed a position, and they just weren't
there. I don't see a determined enemy. We have encountered stronger
pockets of fighting in the past. But now, I would not give them a high
grade for fighting spirit."
"Israel is not coming to the discussion with clean hands. Its prestate undergrounds - Hashomer, Haganah, Etzel (the Irgun ) and Lehi (the Stern Gang ) - which operated against the British government and the Arabs in Palestine, used similar tactics..."
ReplyDelete"He found that toward the end of the British Mandate in Palestine, there were more 1,500 weapons caches here, in kibbutzim, moshavim, cities and towns. The book demonstrates the wide variety of caches, which were constructed with a great deal of ingenuity, both above and below ground, and even at the bottom of reservoirs."
"The leftist socialist Mapam party kept weapons in the caches of the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutzim as part of Operation Leviathan, preparation for the possibility of seizing power and fomenting a socialist revolution in Israel. To this day, caches are being discovered in kibbutzim that were simply forgotten, or it happened that those in charge took their oath of secrecy with them to the grave."
""The point of departure for those in the Jewish Yishuv who hatched the idea of building weapons caches in places such as synagogues, women's rooms, children's houses," explains Kitron, "was that British officers and troops were gentlemen who wouldn't dare to search in such places."
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/jews-just-like-arabs-hid-weapons-in-immoral-places-1.339432
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