Pre-emptive attack on Hamas eyed

The Chief has posted on the movement towards the next round of combat for the IDF a couple of times before. This is another brick in that wall.

Applying a lesson from the recent war against Hezbollah, Israeli leaders are increasingly talking about staging a pre-emptive military offensive in the Gaza Strip in order to avert a Hamas buildup of improved missiles.

Israeli forces already operating in the Gaza Strip Monday killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded 20. But officials and politicians say a broader operation against Hamas is necessary if Israel wants to deny it the ability to stockpile weapons like the Shi’ite militia Hezbollah, which was able to build up its arsenal during six years of relative calm.

Maybe they DID learn something useful from the bloody noxe the IDF got in Lebanon earlier this year.