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2016-10-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
What IDF should learn from battle for Mosul
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Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 The ISIS military modus operandi in Iraq, which consists of offensive tunnels, snipers and special forces designed to take over communities and hinder coalition aerial bombardments, will likely be emulated by Hezbollah and Hamas during their next conflict with Israel.

This staff was invented by Hizbollah & Hamas. "Palestine" has been a lab where Muslims try out staff before carrying it out on a larger scale since 1921.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-27 01:42||   2016-10-27 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 They depend on the humanity of their enemies in the plight of human shields. Remove that and they're just as dead. Wars are meant to be ugly and should be fought to win. Decisively
Posted by Frank G 2016-10-27 11:03||   2016-10-27 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 hilary helped create this mess

but so did we all - by not insisting and demanding our rulers stop their alliance with ANY Islamist theocrats

sometimes the most effective policy is also the morally corect one

we should have ditched Saudi and when Erdogan turned Islamist, kicked Turkey out of NATO

Obama should have given no money to Iran

Islamists are NOT our allies whatever their sect so we should have STOPPED pandering to them, censoring our news, letting Saudi pay our politicians and fund Islamist propaganda at our universities, schools, starting mosques and think tanks all round the Western world unhindered

our rulers opened the door to this and we let them

when the saudi king died, flags in britain flew at half staff!


unbelievable

the only reason we have a Caliphate now is because thousands of Islamists travelled to fight and gave money - from OUR OWN COUNTRIES
Posted by anon1 2016-10-27 13:22||   2016-10-27 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Islamic State will beat us (unless Trump gets in) and i will tell you why

in my country it is now illegal for me to make fun of Mohammad with a satirical cartoon if it offends a Muslim

i can be dragged through the courts

you are not able to criticise Islamist theocratic fascism or you will be called "racist Islamophobe" and ostracised, maybe lose your job and friends


now what environment does this create?

a safe space for Islamists to base themselves, lobby for more friendly policies and send fighters and $ to the Caliphate

and saudi money keeps pouring in to the universities here, the schools etc

and this will continue until we STOP IT

and when will that be? when we either get a leader who isn't bought (Trump) or we have significant civil unrest
Posted by anon1 2016-10-27 13:28||   2016-10-27 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 sorry TW that last accidentally posted twice
Posted by anon1 2016-10-27 13:29||   2016-10-27 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Extra now deleted, dear anon1.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-27 14:30||   2016-10-27 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 This staff was invented by Hizbollah & Hamas

Perhaps. The North Vietnamese used a variant of the strategy. The Russians Soviets also used variants of this 'stuff'. The (Russian Soviet-trained) Baathist Iraqis, the Chechens, et cetera, been refining it.
Posted by Pappy 2016-10-27 17:09||   2016-10-27 17:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Next you be talking about Roman sudes, Pater.
The point is, nothing in Mosul would be a surprise for you, if you'd bothered to pay attention to Tzuk Eytan.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-27 17:35||   2016-10-27 17:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Tzuk Eytan, which we here at Rantburg call Operation Protective Edge.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-27 20:15||   2016-10-27 20:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing in Mosul is a surprise to me. Comes from studying War for 40+ years.
Posted by Pappy 2016-10-27 22:43||   2016-10-27 22:43|| Front Page Top

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