There is, as Ecclesiastes reminded us, a time for war and a time for peace. In its 76-year history, Israel has rarely selected the time for war, almost always reinforcing its position and responding in self-defence to Arab attacks. The invasion of Rafah will be another such tragic chapter in the tragic history of the Jewish state. Hamas has made it a time for war.
The tanks went in after volleys of rockets were fired by Hamas
Has it started already? Last night, Israeli tanks entered the southern town after a last-ditch ceasefire proposal from Hamas was rejected as inadequate. But the operation has so far fallen short of a full invasion. The Israeli Defence Forces took control of the Gazan side of the Rafah Crossing on the Egyptian border as part of a ‘pinpoint operation’ against the terror group in ‘limited areas of eastern Rafah,’ the IDF said, after ‘intelligence information [suggested] that terrorists were using the crossing area for terror purposes.’
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