Between this nonsense and UN officials who argue like third graders – we’re now officially on the playground:
A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees told Ynet Monday night that Palestinian groups in Gaza are preparing for the “real battle,” urging Israel to launch a ground operation in the Strip. “If Israeli soldiers are such men, they should fight on the ground, the PRC’s Abu Abir said. “The defeat they suffered on the ground in Lebanon would be even greater in Gaza… yet I know that we are dealing with cowards who ever since the 1980s have feared a face-to-face confrontation with us.”… “We are inviting the Israelis to embark on the great challenge of ground combat,” he said. The PRC spokesman added that “the entire Palestinian people understand that this is an all-out war, and that the resistance and its organizations are the only way to salvage Palestinian honor. The Israelis can continue to pulverize us from the air, and we shall continue to pulverize them with the means at our disposal… just like the Israelis trained and prepared, so did we.”
A Gaza battle will undoubtedly be brutal. At this point nobody knows what success in Gaza would look like. And – based on Israel’s last foray against a Hezbollah-style militia – it’s far from certain that the IDF could secures success even if was well-defined. That said: “we are inviting the Israelis to embark on the great challenge of ground combat.” Does that mean that anti-Israel journalists and academics have to stop saying that the Palestinians are committed to a ceasefire? Or is it genuinely a moment to moment kind of thing?
References:
* PRC spokesman urges IDF troops to ‘fight like men’ [YNet]
* UN Palestinian Stooge: “It’s Obvious” That Israeli Attack Violated 48-Hour Truce That No One Knew About Until Now [MR]
* Anti-Israel Partisans Set New Record For Decades-Old Trick Of Brazenly Rewriting History, Blaming Israel [MR]
Previously:
* Al Qaeda Misses Memo About How Sunnis And Shiites Don’t Cooperate, Thanks Iran For Critical Financing And Infrastructure
* Confirmed: Hamas Goals And Tactics Now Officially Indistinguishable From Al Qaeda
* Hamas Missile Strike Kills Israeli Construction Worker, Injures At Least 10 (Plus: Multiple West Bank Terror Attacks)
