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11/1/2009
Hamas In Gaza – Urban Warfare Strategy
Jonathan Fighel
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Urban warfare is the most difficult battlefield, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad have a relative advantage, with local knowledge and prepared positions. Israeli Army has also come prepared for a battle both sides knew was inevitable. The asymmetric urban battle is waged among civilians and between enemies, who had long prepared for this fight, is now a slow, nasty business within the most difficult ground operation, the urban warfare. The most important strategic decision the Israelis have made so far, based on the lesson from the second Lebanon war, is to approach the incursion as a war, not a police style operation.
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9/1/2009
For Israel, the safety of its own people must come first
Amos N. Guiora
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War is terrible. It causes undue suffering and death to many. It has lasting impact on its victims. It must not--under any circumstances--be conducted in vain. Human life is too valuable. There are, however, just wars predicated on self-defense, such as Israel's war on Hamas.
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8/1/2009
Gaza -The Humanitarian Aspect and the Propaganda War
Ely Karmon
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It is a clear and known fact that Hamas deliberately uses the strategy of human shields in its operational terrorist and guerrilla activities. This commentary provides an elucidated review of the Hamas' usage of Palestinian civilians as human shields in their efforts to exploit the IDF's core values of avoiding civilian casualties and to wage a propaganda war against Israel.
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7/1/2009
Give Israel a Chance
Rafael L. Bardají
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While Israel is fighting to defend the peace and calm of the neighboring towns around Gaza, the defeat of Hamas not only will bring new opportunities for stable peace to the area, but will be a serious setback for Iran in the region. In this sense we must not forget that Israel is not only fighting for its security but also it is fighting for the security of Europe and the West.
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1/1/2009
We must reshuffle the deck
Ophir Falk
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With the recent unraveling of events in Gaza, Israel and the international community have an opportunity to reshuffle the deck in this terror-riddled region. This opportunity must not be wavered.
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29/12/2008
Fighting and Defeating Hamas
Ely Karmon
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In my previous op-ed of December 23, "Needed, A strategy against Hamas", I advocated that Israel's main strategic goal in a future military operation, should be the prevention of Hamas' increased military and political strength and the shattering of the organization's exclusive control of the Gaza Strip. A secondary critical goal of the operation should be to stop the shelling of citizens in southern Israel, which was potentially spreading from Shderot to Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beeer Sheva and threatening Tel Aviv and Israel's most populated area. The bombing of our cities by Hamas rockets since the operation begun clearly show that this threat is immediate and was on the way to multiply
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23/12/2008
Needed, a strategy against Hamas
Ely Karmon
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Hamas' show of strength during its mass rally on December 14, 2008, celebrating its 21 anniversary, and the threatening declarations of its leaders in Gaza and Damascus, culminated in the cancellation of the six-month cease-fire (tahidyeh) with Israel. This stands in contrast to the lack of decisiveness and leadership on the Israeli side, which plays according to the rules of the game imposed by Hamas.
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22/12/2008
Terrorism in Pakistan and Mumbai attacks follow-up - December 2008
Ely Karmon
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Cited from South Asia Intelligence Review [SAIR], Volume 7, No. 24, December 22, 2008
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9/12/2008
Pakistan Detains LET's Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?
B. Raman
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Pakistani media and some foreign news agencies, including the Associated Press, reported on December 8, 2008, that helicopter-borne Pakistani security forces raided a camp of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) located at a place called Shawai, on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), on December 7 and detained 12 inmates of the camp, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, reportedly the operational chief of the LET.
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8/12/2008
The Lebanese “Osbat al-Ansar” Terror Organization issues Fatwa outlawing fighting with LAF
Jonathan Fighel
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According to the Lebanese Daily Star Newspaper web site , the Islamist Osbat al-Ansar group based in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ein al-Hilweh issued a Fatwa forbidding its members against fighting the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). "It is against our religion to fight the Lebanese Army ... The daily details of life in the camp should not distract us from the events in the Gaza Strip” declared the group's spokesman, Abu Sharif Akel, said during a rally at the camp on Friday, 5 December 2008. According to the report, the Islamist Hamas movement in solidarity with Gaza organized the rally.
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