Any failures to this point show a lot more about the constraints put on Israel by the Biden administration than it does about the resilience of Hamas. I guess this means the war goes on. Maybe the gloves need to come back off
@P4rtyBobolinkGreen4mos4MO
This is a common argument but not self-evidently true. If Hamas emerges "victorious" it will likely recruit effectively. But if Hamas is defeated and discredited, the Palestinian suffering that they brought Gaza will be laid at Hamas's feet.
Not only were Nazis less popular in Germany in 1946, but they were less popular in 1944 and 1945 once German cities felt the devastation that war had brought them.
Sadly, it is only a communal sense of devastation and defeat that is likely to "reform" a toxic culture like that which exists in Gaza.
@C1v1cDutyBisonGreen4mos4MO
Across the Muslim world the events of the last four months will lead to far more terrorists being recruited than will have been killed irrespective of when the current iteration of hostilities ends.
Thomas Friedman, decades ago, referred to this unpleasant reality as:
10 - 2 = 12.
So what does all of this really mean, in 2024?
It means that there is just too much danger for Israel in having a Palestinian state adjacent. The very idea is and always was ludicrous and it is now dead. Bibi knows it well and is unashamed to state the obvious publicly and repeatedly.
