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January 04, 2009
Operation Cast Lead
I have been wondering for a while what the meaning of the Israeli's Operation Cast Lead was. I think I have an answer. Head of IDF Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin also addressed the meeting and gave an assessment of the Gaza operation's progress.Casting lead is an old term for making bullets. In other words weapons. So Operation Cast Lead means that the central focus is the destruction of the Philistine's weapon's factories and stockpiles. And there is further confirmation of that in the linked article. Diskin also said the weapons factories used by Hamas have been wiped out in the offensive and dozens of tunnels used to smuggle arms into the coastal territory have been destroyed.And what of the brave Hamas leaders? Evidently their love of death is not near so great as they might have us believe. Hamas "has been hit like it has never been hit before," Diskin said.Dressing as women? What are they? A bunch of girly men? Evidently. And mosques off limits? I don't think so. Especially if they are full of weapons. You can see more IDF videos at IDFNA Desk. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 01.04.09 at 09:36 AM
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Greetings: In another example of media types in over their experience- head, I heard one news broadcaster pronounce it, "Cast Leed." 11B40 · January 4, 2009 07:10 PM I kept reading it as if they were talking about "casting a lead" to see how close ship was to the bottom. It didn't make much sense, but operation names shouldn't make sense. You don't want your enemies to be able to guess your intention from your code names. Imagine if Operation Overlord had been named "Operation Invade Normandy" or "Operation Reverse Battle of Hastings"? Veeshir · January 5, 2009 12:04 PM Post a comment
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This is probably why the Israelis named it 'Cast Lead':
"Israel has given its Gaza assault the codename “Operation Cast Lead.” Where did this rather poetic title come from? Well, a poem. Specifically, a classic Hanukkah poem by Israel’s national poet, H.N. Bialik.
The operation began on Saturday, the sixth day of Hanukkah. According to Eli Isaacson, a spokesman for the IDF—who spoke to The Daily Beast moments after arriving at the site of a recent Qassam rocket explosion—the codename comes from a line in “For Hanukkah” referring to “a dreidel cast of solid lead.”
http://www2.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-30/why-israel-named-its-gaza-war-after-a-hanukkah-poem-about-dreidels/