Israel’s population is growing and that means more sewage to dispose of, and it would be so simple to just pipe all their sewage into those tunnels. I bet they could hold 100 years worth of it. You want to make the tunnels unusable? Well, there ya go. Just saying, I think it would be funny. But seriously…….
I thought the Big Invasion of Gaza was going to happen last night but while it was a major incursion, it’s still not the biggie. It looks like Israel’s strategy in conducting this war is to keep taking bigger and bigger bites, backing up each time to assess the situation, gather further intelligence, then plan the next moves.
This has to be driving Hamas nuts. They were bragging how they were going to erupt out of their tunnels from behind the Israeli forces that had proceeded past them and then devastate them from behind. But this morning’s report is that at least 150 tunnels have been made “unusable”. That’s a lot of tunnels and they’ve just started into Gaza so it sounds to me like the Israelis probably know right where each and every one is.
This Attack-Retreat, Attack-Retreat must also be infuriating Iran since their stated excuse for attacking Israel is a full-on invasion by Israel of Gaza. I suspect what Israel will do as they advance into Gaza is attack hard mostly overnight and then stop and fall back a little, then do it again the next night, then maybe take 2 days off, then move forward again. That would really have the Ayatollah shrieking and gibbering in rage, it would be hilarious.
Of course, Iran fully intends to attack Israel, that’s why they started this Hamas-proxy war with them in the first place, and they’re not going to let Israel’s shrewd battle tactics stop them. It will probably happen about when the IDF is halfway into Gaza City. That will give the Iranians credibility and justification with the other Islamic states that they’ll all then claim they have for “Israel’s aggression against Muslims”.
Just how these Islamic states will respond to US intervention against Iran is yet to be seen, none of them are major military threats except Turkey and Pakistan and Turkey is a NATO ally and Pakistan isn’t likely to be interested in fighting us. Turkey’s actions lately have been skating a thin edge and the only reason they’re still in NATO is because our Air Force occupies part of their Incirlik Air Base. Last I heard we had 90 A-Bombs stored there.
Most likely, we will be cut off from a lot of Mid-East oil over this. Other than that there’s little we need from that area.
As to how they’ll respond to Israel in the immediate future is a different matter. So far, Hezbollah in Lebanon with their hundreds of thousands of rockets, have kept things minimal, for them anyway, and Egypt and Jordan have made no moves. I expect all that will change.