{"id":1017,"date":"2012-01-17T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T09:34:23","slug":"israeli-military-prepares-for-massive-gaza-invasion-%e2%80%98within-months%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Invasion \u2018Within Months\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post reports today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Defense\/Article.aspx?id=253916\"> Israel\u2019s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a \u201clarge scale\u201d invasion<\/a> of the Gaza Strip, likely to begin within the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.antiwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gaza.gif?w=640\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The revelation is hardly a surprise, as Israeli Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/01\/16\/2011\/12\/27\/in-telethon-israeli-military-chief-pushes-new-gaza-invasion\/\">repeatedly  pressed for an invasion of the Gaza Strip over the past few months,  while trumpeting the late 2008 invasion as a \u201cgreat success.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials today indicated that the next invasion would be very much  on the same model as 2008, which saw massive Palestinian civilian  casualties and destruction of considerable civilian infrastructure, much  of which remains unrepaired as an Israeli blockade has prevented  construction materials from being imported.<\/p>\n<p>The exact timing of the invasion will also be tricky, as Israel will  of course rely on the US to run interference in the UN when the ugliest  aspects of the war begin to trickle out. The last invasion came after  the 2008 US Presidential election but was virtually wrapped up before  President Obama took office. It may be that Israel will try a similar  strategy of starting the war after the vote in an effort to keep it from  being a political issue in the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/01\/16\/israeli-military-prepares-for-massive-gaza-invasion-within-months\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post reports today that Israel\u2019s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a \u201clarge scale\u201d invasion of the Gaza Strip, likely to begin within the next few months. The revelation is hardly a surprise, as Israeli &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,24,45],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":14903,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}