GUEST SOEREN KERN Geopolitical Analyst and Writing Fellow for Middle East ForumIn what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others are calling Israel's Hamas a militant Islamist group based in Gaza a small but densely populated Palestinian territory in southwest Israel launched a deadly attack this past Saturday which has killed more than Israelis Israel immediately declared war clearing Israeli towns of Hamas and bombarding Gaza Now Israel Defense Forces IDF are staging massive numbers of troops for a potential ground invasion of Gaza which would present a very difficult urban battle that would include clearing hundreds of miles of underground [... more]