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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (797532)	7/27/2014 6:51:15 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

Looks like it just did - they agreed to a cease fire. Israel has broken their will to fight and their capability. Israel and Gaza Fight On, in the Field and Over a Cease-Fire

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (797532)	8/10/2014 3:19:36 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

Hi d[-_-]b; Re: "Looks like it just did - they agreed to a cease fire. Israel has broken their will to fight and their capability."; Looks like, on this subject, you're a complete idiot who is unable to read the lessons of history. Here, let me give you some hints. Neither of the following is an objective of Hamas or the Palestinian people or ever has been: (1) Kill lots of Israelis (2) Keep Israel from killing Palestinians Their objective is to weaken Israel. They do that by making it unpleasant. Raining glorified fireworks on them is how they're doing it. And they're not going to stop. The rocketing didn't begin just recently. This has been going on for years and will continue years into the future. Israel does not have the manpower needed to stop it. You want to prove to yourself that Israel doesn't have the manpower? Go do some searches on the .mil websites for official US estimates on the amount of soldiers needed to succeed against guerrilla insurgents. Now compare that to the size of the professional Israeli army. I say "professional" because most of their army has other jobs to do. So long as those jobs don't get done, Hamas is winning; life in Israel is unpleasant. -- Carl P.S. The US and allies did break the German and Japanese will to fight during WW2. Go look up the figures and find out how many of them we killed. Now do the math and figure out what percentage of their populations we killed. Now use math to tell me how many Palestinians Israel will have to kill in order to reach the German or Japanese kill rates. From that, and the casualty rate in Palestine so far, compute how long it will take Israel to "break the will to fight" among the Palestinians. Now admit that the Palestinian will to fight is highly unlikely to be broken. Go look at the numbers! Quit thinking emotionally like a f'ing liberal. Remember the US military slogan "hope is not a plan". And tell me, would the US surrender to an enemy after the Palestinian percentage of their population had been killed? Compare the Palestinian figures to the US death rate due to our Civil War (which actually did break the will of the South to fight). Now admit that you learned something about the limitations of the use of military force. Fireworks don't break anyone's will to fight.