WILL ISRAEL NEED TO INVADE GAZA?

HEY, THAT UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL SURE WORKED OUT IN GAZA AND LEBANON. I'M SURE ANY WITHDRAWAL FROM THE WEST BANK WILL GO JUST AS SMOOTHLY.

Israel Hunts for Tunnels in Major Gaza Raid - Mehdi Lebouachera
Israeli soldiers were plowing up the ground and destroying tunnels used to smuggle arms from Egypt in their deepest incursion into the Gaza Strip in more than a year. Hundreds of troops were Thursday operating up to four km. inside Gaza on the outskirts of the southern border town of Rafah. A senior Israel Defense Ministry official said the operation was to stop "terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad from arming themselves with a view to taking control of the Gaza Strip and launching attacks on Israel."

Local Palestinian Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, 40, openly admitted that tunnels were part of everyday life in southern Gaza. "It's something normal. People aren't working so they dig tunnels to smuggle all sorts of things from Egypt," he said. ( AFP/Yahoo)

See also Israel Warns Gaza Weapons Smuggling, Rocket Attacks Will Lead to "Invasion"
"Israel is not going to count its fatalities," Israel's Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter told reporters in Washington. "Those areas in the Gaza Strip that, from there they are launching Kassam rockets, will be under Israeli attacks, and if it's needed, invasion....The depth of our invasion is going to be decided by the distance of the Kassam rockets....We've done it in the West Bank. We've done it several times in the Gaza Strip. We don't have to conquer the whole Gaza Strip." Dichter confirmed that Israeli Defense Forces are mobilizing for a possible expanded ground operation in Gaza, adding that it won't be long before the Israeli government decides whether to fully invade Gaza to stop what he called "daily" rocket attacks emanating from the area. ( Fox News)