Back to "The Jews have gone insane",

The so-called "Iranian Unit" of Hamas has been destroyed, according to Gaza sources cited Thursday by the Haaretz daily. The sources said most of the unit's 100 members were killed in fighting in the Zeytun neighborhood of Gaza City.

The terrorists had been trained in infantry tactics, the use of anti-tank missiles and the detonation of explosives, among other skills, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Hizbullah camps in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley, as well as sites in Iran.
Gee, there's that Ahmadogcrap fellow in Iran causing problems again. And his people getting whacked.
Two captured terrorists interviewed by Maariv/NRG say that Hamas was not expecting Israel's response to the escalation in missile attacks on Israeli targets that preceded Operation Cast Lead. One of them, a 52-year-old victim of a premature detonation who had already done time in an Israeli jail, said, "Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at worst Israel will come and do something from the air - something superficial. They'll come in and go out. We never thought that we would reach the point where fear will swallow the heart and the feet will want to flee. You [Israel] are fighting like you fought in '48. What got into you all of a sudden?"

The second terrorist, a 21-year-old, said Hamas brought order to Gaza, but also brought fear. He noted that it was dangerous in Gaza for non-Hamas members, citing an instance of his being beaten and another in which he saw a friend killed when he went to get gas. "Now they're all gone," he said. "There have been no Hamasniks in the streets since the start of the campaign."
Probably because the Hamasniks are hidden as far behind their wives and kids as possible.

"What got into you all of a sudden?" A pretty good summation of why Hamas & Co. kept doing what they did; they thought Israel was too crippled by politicians or by international opinion(or both) to actually fight to win. To go in and do what needed doing. And when they did...We never thought that we would reach the point where fear will swallow the heart and the feet will want to flee.

Here's hoping the Israelis keep to it and finish the damn job.