During Operation Cast Lead in 2009, Hamas militants more often than not simply scattered when they met with the IDF advance guard. They simply fled. When Gaza civilians complained that retreating Hamas gunmen were preventing them from leaving their homes and thus putting them at risk, the gunmen reassured them, “we are all destined for paradise, are you not happy to die together?” Also, while busy fleeing the IDF and exhorting the populace to the glories of martyrdom, Hamas gunmen did, however, find the time to manfully torture and gouge out the eyes of some 70 suspected Fatah informers–a typical Hamas touch. In November of 2012, during Operation Pillar of Cloud, I argued: If this conflict ends without any significant weakening of Hamas as a military and political organization, and a way to prevent them from replenishing their arsenal and war waging potential in the future, then both the Palestinians of Gaza and Israelis living in the south will both endlessly be held to ransom by Hamas’ ravenous and insatiable lust for blood and violent Jihad. blogs.timesofisrael/the-fire-this-time-how-the-idf-must-avoid-the-pitfalls-of-the-2006-and-2008-campaigns/
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