Against Israel, that is.
Hundreds of Hamas members are being smuggled across the Rafah border terminal to Egypt to attend advanced terror training camps in Syria and Iran, senior defense officials told Ynet.
However, the delegation of European inspectors stationed at Gaza-Egypt border denied the charges and claimed Israel never warned them or filed any complaints regarding the phenomenon.
File this under: “What capitulating to the strong-arming of the U.S. State Dept. hath wrought.” Israel wanted to keep control of the Rafah crossing.
Top Israeli defense officials expressed great concern over the increased use of the Rafah crossing for terror purposes. If the EU inspectors don’t clamp down on money smuggling and the passage of terrorists, Israel may consider not renewing the agreements on Rafah crossing supervision when they expire in two months, the officials warned.
“This issue could be a stumbling block to all future agreements,†officials in Jerusalem said.
War is coming. Another war, this spring, is what I’m thinking.
According to official sources in Jerusalem, some 100 Hamas terrorists crossed the Rafah border terminal in recent weeks. Intelligence information collected by the defense establishment indicates that the terrorists make their way to special training camps in Iran and Syria, founded specially to train and coach Palestinians for terror attacks against Israel should Hamas decide to terminate its ceasefire.
Security officials in Israel said this phenomenon was part of the recent trend by which Iran and Syria have shown increasing involvement in developing Palestinian terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
Terror operatives from Gaza that train in Tehran and Damascus acquire knowledge and training in the use of advanced weapons. Terrorist elements continue to smuggle more and more advanced weapons into Gaza, including anti-tank missiles, ground-to-ground missiles (SSMs), and surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that could threaten Israeli Air Force planes that fly over Gaza.
The officials said explosives and bombs are also being smuggled, and the security establishment fears that rocket-manufacturing know-how may leak from Gaza into Israel.
And when it happens, watch for the world to rise up in unison and blame Israel for it.
There will be another war-I have no doubt about it.
Bust open the Aswan Dam and let the Egyptians be the ones pushed into the sea. Enough is enough.
That’s part of the Samson option.
As for any war started by Hamas, Israel should strt at one end of Gaza and push everybody out the other end. Let them find refuge whereever their “Arab Brothers” will let them. If they cannot live at peace with Jewish neighbors let them find neighbors with whom they can live at peace. Then turn to the West Bankers and tell them “You can stop the terrorism or you can get the same treatment. It’s up to you.” The world will denounce Israel for defending herself anyway. The only outside opinion that matters any more is that of the USA.
Why Gaza? Why not Lebanon? After all, Hizbullah already has the training, much better than the disunited Gazans.
Because Hizbullah already destroyed south Lebanon the last time they miscalculated. Israel may not have done as well as we hoped, but even that was enough to devastate Shiite civilian infrastructure, and the locals would not look kindly on a repeat.
Devastating Gaza doesn’t count — how would anyone notice the difference? That’s what “Palestinians” have been bred for since 1948 anyway: theirs is but to do and die.
I agree with Michael Lonie. Israel should start at north Gaza and push everybody out the south. We already know who can make Gaza prosperous again.