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Hamas and Israel Try To Surprise Each Other
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Jan 12, 2009 09:27am |
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| Category | General |
| News Date | Monday, January 12, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Both Hamas and Israel spent over a year preparing for the ground war they are currently involved in. Hamas based its tactics on those use by Hezbollah during 2006, which the Israelis refined the techniques that had proved successful against Palestinians in the past, and built a new training center, and infantry training program, that several brigades of troops have gone through. These are the troops now in Gaza, or headed there.
The Hamas tactics are not exactly like those used by Hezbollah, because the battleground is different (built up areas, not the open country of southern Lebanon). Moreover, while most civilians fled southern Lebanon before the ground fighting got to them, the civilians in Gaza have nowhere to go. Unlike Hezbollah, Hamas seeks to get as many Palestinian civilians killed (by Israelis, preferably) as possible, so they can claim to be the victims of an Israeli genocide, and cause a sufficiently powerful diplomatic response from the West to force a ceasefire. Otherwise, the Israelis will capture or kill most of the key Hamas personnel.
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