Israel/Palestine

Lithos

(26,471 posts)

8. Not really

Fri Nov 17, 2023, 01:27 PM

Nov 2023

...you are making the same argument that the people who are calling for a ceasefire are making?: that killing everything that moves in Gaza will not stop hamas?

Actually not - what I'm saying is the IDF is not going to win with just a purely military approach. Hamas needs to go, just as much as the extreme RW government of Israel.

However, the argument for a ceasefire is probably bolstered if you consider than any long term "break" in hostilities will result in Israel starting to do an introspection to what has been going on which will likely result in ousting of Netanyahu. Many of his settler-first policies resulted in the over-commitment into the West Bank at the expense of maintaining any focus on Gaza even to the point of ignoring repeated intelligence warnings.

"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has justified focusing on the facility by alleging that the “beating heart” of the militants’ operations lies in and under the Strip’s largest hospital,..."

Then the IDF will lose as they do not understand asymmetrical warfare. Hamas is playing a much longer game than Israel at the moment. This type of claim is exactly the same claims the US military made against the Iraqi and Afghanistan insurgencies, who somehow rose up immediately again with each decapitation. Remember back when we were killing some head of ISIS every other week and nothing changed? Hamas will simply recreate the next "beating heart" somewhere else - in a mosque, etc.