Benny Gantz New Strategy

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154558#.T34Kh_D2bH4

New IDF chief warns the duo that "independent operators" will cost them.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Which is all well anf good and frankly what anyone involved in a war would do.

However, the sticky question remains - how do they know they're hitting Hamas and not innocent bystanders?

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Which is all well anf good and frankly what anyone involved in a war would do.

However, the sticky question remains - how do they know they're hitting Hamas and not innocent bystanders?

There is no way of completely removing that risk since the Hamas and the Hizballah intentionally use civilians as shields. To refrain from retaliation due to the chance of harming innocents would effectively give Hamas and Hizballah free reign to act with impunity. No military on earth is more closely scrutinized than the IDF. If the numbers of civilians killed and injured become great enough then perhaps those civilians will make an attempt to deny this duo cover. It sounds brutal but it is the reality as it exists for Israel.

[Eldorado]

Nice.

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Nice.

No, El.....it sucks, but if someone were shooting at you and your family almost daily and then when you went to sort things out with them they answered the door with their children standing in front of them, what do you do? Buy kevlar vests and pray the crazies will some day just grow tired of it and quit?

[Eldorado]

No, El.....it sucks, but if someone were shooting at you and your family almost daily and then when you went to sort things out with them they answered the door with their children standing in front of them, what do you do? Buy kevlar vests and pray the crazies will some day just grow tired of it and quit?

Nope. I'd do them all in. I know I'm insane though.

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UPDATE

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/06/international/i024104D85.DTL

Apparently someone got the message