Re: [Marxism] Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground operation

[Nestor Gorojovsky <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

And terrain would help an invasion across the longest border. It may 
well become a downhill cavalcade of rumbling and death-spitting tanks, 
in the most classic fashion set by the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe. Only 
that this time the target would be a ghetto.

I know the place, lived many months near Sderot. Eventual swollen wadis 
would even be of help (it is rain season there now, isn´t it). It has 
just come to my mind: won´t the Israelis use Gaza as a Grenada surrogate 
for another failed invasion (Cuba)? But perhaps muddy soil in Gaza Strip 
proper would make the Israeli commanders think it twice.

There´s also a L`Humanité analysis that may be useful. Will try to send 
it to the list ASAP. They touch on topics we have not been commenting 
here in Marxmail.

Lüko Willms escribió:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:12:53 +0100, Jeff wrote:
> 
>> However I am not as optimistic about the outcome 
>> as in the case of Lebanon. 
>> Hamas does not have the military sophistication of Hizbollah, and more 
>> importantly, they are very poorly supplied. In particular, with Gaza 
>> essentially surrounded and blockaded by Israel, they can attempt to "starve 
>> out" the Gazans (as they have been doing anyway!) and that might be 
>> successful if there is not a sufficient international response.
> 
>   Well, they are effectively living in a huge free air prison camp, 
> completely 
> closed on all four sides, with the tunnels under the southern border to Egypt 
> as the only relatively independent routes of supply, and a few drops of 
> charity delivered from time to time by trucks from the state of Israel. 
> 
>   I just hope t> 

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