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| By Avi Issacharoff and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents and Haaretz Service: Grad missile, 5 Qassams strike Negev as IDF readies to hit back |
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| Hamas is betting on a ground war. They have been prepping for years and it would be playing into hamas strength. What they have relied upon is the change in the rules of return fire from targeting a rockets origin to only targeting the more out of the way launching areas. Israeli courts have ruled that Israel can not fire in civilian areas even if fire originates from those araes. What the courts have left Israel is a grinding ground war. Barak knows that Israel will take losses in such a war. It will take the public to change leadership and get the courts off the battlefield. The IAF could easily do the job, just don`t hold your breath with Kadima/Labor in power. All that being said when hamas has faced down the IDF they have fared very poorly. Hamas has never been rational and they could very well go down. |
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