Posts

Showing posts from January 17, 2009

Israel calls cease-fire, Hamas vows to keep fighting

As you have may have heard this Saturday, Israel politicians approved a cease-fire stating that accomplishments have been made. I wrote previously in what was the point of the fighting if eventually Israel would simply bow to international pressures and bow they did. You see, it is estimated that there are roughly 20,000 Hamas militants in Gaza and the latest death tolls suggest that roughly 500-600 have been killed. I am not a math whiz , but that still leaves a lot of Islamic fundamentalist J ihadists roaming around. What did Israel do in the past three weeks? Took out leadership and high command Bombed some tunnels and halted shipments Destroyed rocket launchers and crippled infrastructure. That would to be expected of course, its not reasonable to expect the IDF to kill thousands of Hamas militants - but it begs the question as to what is next!? As of now, Israel makes no plan to withdraw, which of course is the ultimate irony because Hamas justified rocket fire due to occup