What Will Happen if Iran Retaliates Against Israel?

[RTM58]

Mossad

 

[CloydWebb]

They fired a bunch of crap. I've set off better for the 4th (mild hyperbole alert). Bad behavior, no doubt, but barely threatening, since most couldn't and didn't reach "population centers."

A comparison of body counts would be more informative.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...-and-drones-a-look-at-hamas-arsenal-1.7061438

You must have quite the 4th of July celebration at your place!

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...-and-drones-a-look-at-hamas-arsenal-1.7061438

You must have quite the 4th of July celebration at your place!

Good link, thanks.

Hamas has clearly upgraded since I last paid attention.

But the body count comparison remains relevant - since it still seems the case that only one side is in a position to inflict serious harm on the other.

 

[Nat Algren]

My bad for the typo......accidentally typed 40,000 rather than 4,000, and that number is just from the 2016 clash.

Actually, since Israel handed over Gaza to the Palestinian Authority in 2005 (later seized from them by Hamas), over 15,000 rockets have been indiscriminately fired into Israel population centers. And then of course there are also the numerous arson attacks.

Can you show me the pics of Israeli cities looking similar to Gaza pictured below?

From WaPo:

Hamas regularly fires unguided rockets into nearby areas of southern Israel. Though they rarely kill Israelis, they terrorize the largely civilian neighborhoods and generally make life unpleasant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ou-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/?noredirect=on

Operation Cast Lead (Israel's name for it) culminated in a January 2009 Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, which resulted in 13 Israeli deaths and either 1,417 or 1,166 Palestinian deaths, depending on Palestinian or Israeli sources. Some analysts describe Israel's strategy toward Hamas as "mowing the grass": instead of finding a long-term solution, in this thinking, Israel would attack Gaza every few years or so to cut down their ability to terrorize Israelis.

 

[Nat Algren]

I don't know.....the same place it was when Hamas launched 40,000 rockets into Israel?

Then maybe Israel should NOT have created Hamas.

Israel and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda
Posted on November 18, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

Creating the Enemies We Now Fight Against
We’ve extensively documented that the U.S. and Israel created Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in an attempt to fight other enemies.

Larry Johnson – a counterterrorism official at the U.S. State Department – says:

The Israelis are their own worst enemies when it comes to fighting terrorism. They are like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb it.

As one example, Israel helped create Hamas.

United Press International reported in 2002:

According to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years.Israel “aided Hamas directly — the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization),” said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.

Israel’s support for Hamas “was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative,” said a former senior CIA official.

balance:


https://washingtonsblog.com/2012/11...bollah-and-other-terrorists-via-blowback.html