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2018-03-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Memri reveals Muslim call to arms to form joint ISLAMIC ARMY to invade Israel!

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-14 07:06|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 If one was formed and attacked, it would fair about as well as the other massed Arab attacks against Israel.

Poorly with lots and lots of losses.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-03-14 09:02|| 2018-03-14 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm okay with exterminating Turkey and any other country helping this army and giving the land to Israel. There needs to be a price for evil actions

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-03-14 10:41|| 2018-03-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 invading Israel worked so well the last time

Posted by 746 2018-03-14 13:53|| 2018-03-14 13:53|| Front Page Top

#4 What DarthVader, Silentbrick, and 746 said.

So many ways to approach this Turkish hashish-dream occur to me, and I lack the military backgrond to really do this properly:

1) Recall how the vaunted Arab armies of Iraq and Syria responded to the ISIS expansion in 2014-15 — and the Iraqis even had years of American training and weapons. Then there was what a few American advisors recently did to the hundreds of Russian mercenaries who intended to embarrass President Trump by overrunning their position...

2) As a comment on the Turkish army’s ability to execute battle plans, wasn’t the conquest of Afrin supposed to be a walk in the park for the Turkish army and its Syrian irregulars? After all, the foe is a just a bunch of poorly armed amateurs trying to defend a large number of civilians, much like the Juices in 1948. So how is that going, Turkey?

3) What on earth leads this clever Turkish military advisor to think that President Trump would sit idly by while the military build up was occurring? Perhaps a nice table of American military might versus the Ummah is in order. Then compare and contrast the performance of the mighty Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein versus Iran and then versus either President George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush.

4) Tactics, strategy, logistics. All those terrifying numbers of men and material — how are they to be transported to the battlefield across multiple countries and terrains, not to mention through unpacified or only partly pacified territory in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, Libya, Mali, etc... does anyone believe Iran will open its borders for Sunni armies to flow through? Not to mention that most of those Muslim nations need their armies at home to face serious local problems.

5) Israel and American would be ideally positioned to execute a hammer and anvil thingy against the Muslim forces.

tl;dr. The ISLAMIC ARMY is a pipe dream.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-14 13:56|| 2018-03-14 13:56|| Front Page Top

#5 ISLAMIC ARMY replies, "Here! Hold my ~~beer~~ hashish pipe!"

Posted by Roth LaDoad 2018-03-14 19:20|| 2018-03-14 19:20|| Front Page Top

#6 :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-14 19:50|| 2018-03-14 19:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Israel and American would be ideally positioned to execute a hammer and anvil thingy against the Muslim forces.

Like beach landings and tunnel clearing?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-14 23:45|| 2018-03-14 23:45|| Front Page Top

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