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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli soldiers say they have OK to use tough tactics in Gaza
2009-01-16
ALONG THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER -- When Israeli soldiers saw a suspected suicide bomber riding a bike towards them, they moved quickly. As the man ducked into a building for safety, Israeli soldiers said they used a bulldozer to bring the walls down on top of him. When armed Palestinians popped out of a tunnel and tried to attack, Israeli troops said they used tank fire and a bulldozer to decimate the militants.
Excessive force in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved...
And I'm comfortably certain they got more than 1 out of 10 ...
In fight after fight and neighborhood after neighborhood, Israeli soldiers are bringing more aggressive tactics to the Gaza Strip battlefields. In interviews earlier in the week with embedded pool reporters and Wednesday with a McClatchy reporter along the Gaza Strip border, Israeli troops said a freer military hand has given them a decisive edge over outgunned Palestinian militants in the 19-day-old conflict. They also said they were surprised by the relatively light resistance from Hamas fighters.

"You can't compare it," he said. "Hezbollah is a much more organized army. Hamas, they usually run away."
From the hospital beds in southern Israel to an artillery unit along the Gaza border, nearly a dozen soldiers told McClatchy that Israel had to deliver an unprecedented blow to ensure that Hamas militants don't resume their rocket attacks when the fighting ends. "You can't be lenient," said O., a 29-year-old Israeli reservist who declined to give his full name because soldiers can be disciplined for talking to reporters without explicit permission. "We're using a lot more firepower, and the orders for engagement are less strict." One significant change this time is that Israeli soldiers don't have to go as far up the chain-of-command before opening fire, said O.
Posted by:tu3031

#2  "Our doctrine is to take over our assigned positions, purging any resistance and then fanning out as required, repeating the process."

Excellent word choice, as in a purging of the bowels.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-01-16 15:14  

#1  When your enemies insists on calling your every action a "holocaust", that actually expands the potential scope of your tactics. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2009-01-16 15:09  

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