Popular Resistance Committees Urges Israelis To 'Fight Like Men'.

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Remember that comment. For the PalArabs are crying not fair. Israel is attacking us from the air, we can only fire rockets in return.

A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees told Ynet Monday night that Palestinian groups in Gaza are preparing for the "real battle," urging Israel to launch a ground operation in the Strip.

"If Israeli soldiers are such men, they should fight on the ground, the PRC's Abu Abir said. "The defeat they suffered on the ground in Lebanon would be even greater in Gaza…yet I know that we are dealing with cowards who ever since the 1980s have feared a face-to-face confrontation with us."

While admitting that the first day of Israel's operation was not an easy one, the spokesman said the clash was now entering a new phase, "where we jump at the enemy, pursue it, and invite it to engage in battle."

Meanwhile, the death toll in the Gaza Strip topped 350, yet Palestinian armed groups are undeterred said Abu Abir, claiming that they were not hurt at all.

"We are inviting the Israelis to embark on the great challenge of ground combat," he said.

The PRC spokesman added that "the entire Palestinian people understand that this is an all-out war, and that the resistance and its organizations are the only way to salvage Palestinian honor. The Israelis can continue to pulverize us from the air, and we shall continue to pulverize them with the means at our disposal….just like the Israelis trained and prepared, so did we."

Addressing Israeli phone message and leaflets aimed at influencing Gaza residents, Abu Abir said that those behind the move "do not hear the Allahu Akbar ("God is great" in Arabic) calls emerging from homes when rockets are fired."

"We are inviting the Israelis to embark on the great challenge of ground combat," he said.

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Remember these phrases:

...yet I know that we are dealing with cowards who ever since the 1980s have feared a face-to-face confrontation with us.

...where we jump at the enemy, pursue it, and invite it to engage in battle.

Do you think you will hear them when the ground war finally begins? Or do you think you will hear:

They are killing innocent children. They are destroying our homes. We want an immediate cease-fire.

This time, unlike 2006, Israel will not be leaving Hamas in power. Israel will not allow rockets to fall upon their citizens. Israel will have peace.

Such bravado from them. They cry that they want war. But only the one-sided war of rocket attacks not the retaliation of the IDF.

I realize that Hamas and their allies have to talk big. They have to make the bravado statements, they have to dream that they can survive this war. For the reality is, if Israel wanted to, had the inclination to, they could easily wipe all human life from Gaza. But the reality is that war is not what they want now or ever. Israel just wants to live in peace. For 60 years they have only wanted peace. Now they just have to convince the people of Gaza to want peace too. And I fear that will take the lives of many people in Gaza.