Hamas knows Israelis care about children. And so they set a trap for the IDF.
Israeli soldiers foiled “an elaborate Hamas ambush” that used dolls and children’s backpacks rigged with speakers playing sounds of crying to lure them into a terrorist tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday.
Footage released by the IDF showed the alley where the ambush would have been staged. …
The forces subsequently found children’s dolls and backpacks with speakers to imitate crying sounds and songs, the footage showed.
“The goal is to draw us in to look for, to see these things … they play voices in Hebrew so we’ll think there are hostages and missing persons here. In order to draw us into the area that’s rigged with explosives,” the soldier explained while gesturing at the pile of troubling objects.
In 2014 I wrote a post about the use – and sacrifice – of children by terrorists. In that post, I also go into how the approach was employed by the enemy in Vietnam.
It’s interesting to go back and read that post of mine, which quotes heavily from this contemporaneous article by Caroline Glick. At the time, Israel was engaged in trying to destroy some of the Hamas tunnels in Gaza. Here’s Glick on the role of the Obama administration:
As Israel has uncovered the scope of Hamas’s infrastructure of murder and terror, the US has acted with the UN, Turkey and Qatar to pressure Israel (and Egypt) to agree to a cease-fire and so end IDF operations against Hamas before the mission is completed.
To advance this goal, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday night with an aggressive plan to force on Israel a cease-fire Hamas and its state sponsors will accept. …
Rather than notice that Qatar and Turkey are playing a double game, and treat them with suspicion, the Obama administration has embraced them.
Chances that Kerry will secure a cease-fire in the near future are small. In all likelihood, the government will be able to buy the time necessary to complete the mission in whole or large part. But the fact that the US has chosen at this juncture in the operation – with Israel enjoying unprecedented support from the most important Sunni states in the region – to side with Hamas and its state sponsors in their demand for an immediate cease-fire speaks volumes about the transformation of US foreign policy under Obama’s leadership.
Glick’s essay has aged well, unfortunately. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
“…to side with Hamas and its state sponsors in their demand for an immediate cease-fire speaks volumes about the transformation of US foreign policy under Obama’s leadership.”
Well, this is Obama’s third term. Joebama is doing pretty much wheat Barack wants.
Has anyone ever heard a rational argument from anyone in the Obama/Biden admins for courting Iran and being anti-Israel? I never have. It.Makes.No.Sense.
Evil tolerates no moral barrier to its agenda.
“Has anyone ever heard a rational argument from anyone in the Obama/Biden admins for courting Iran and being anti-Israel? I never have. It.Makes.No.Sense.” JJ
When the ‘covert’ goal is to destroy Israel and then America as the foremost proponents of national sovereignty… It.Makes.Perfect.Sense.
fair is foul, and foul is fair, from the scottish play, it ties together all of the evils, we see in the various threads, from the Kangaroo court in Panem, to the sodomy in the Senate, to this exercise in resurrecting old gods, from Phoenician north and Canaan south,
Miguel, and another old god in Iowa
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/12/15/satanic-temple-iowa-christmas-decorations-free-speech/71922305007/
I am really sorry that one of the Purple Hearts that Kerry was given was not posthumous.
Has anyone ever heard a rational argument from anyone in the Obama/Biden admins for courting Iran and being anti-Israel?
J.J.:
Well aware of his geopolitical genius, Obama decided his Middle East policy would hinge upon making Iran the local hegemon. Thus Iran would be converted from a troublemaker to a mafia don … er … responsible global leader.
Sadly, with crocodile tears, Israel’s power would be reduced. And all would be well with that part of the world.
Perhaps I exaggerate.
The sentence ” Here’s Glick on the role of the Obama administration:” sparked a thought: Why is the Biden administration not being referred to as ‘Obama II”? Is it that doing so would give credit to someone whose nefarious doings are only now being recognized?
Am I banned
Here we go again…and again…and again….
” The False Narrative of ‘Indiscriminate Bombing’ “—
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-false-narrative-of-indiscriminate-bombing/The False Narrative of ‘Indiscriminate Bombing’
H/T Powerline blog.