Palestinian resistance won't be defeated by Israel's atrocities. It will be strengthened. The resistance springs from around a century of colonisation, and an unrelenting and violent expansion into Palestinian lands by Zionist settlers. The only way this insanity will end is when the world proclaims Israel to be a rogue apartheid ethno-state, and condemns it as such.
Palestinian resistance? Do you think they are a legitimate group? You know that Hamas is an Islamist terrorist group, right? Colonisation? Why does all of the land belong to the Arabs? Does empty land in Judea or the Negev belong to the Arabs? Jews lived in Palestine long before the Arab conquests. By denying Israel's right to existence you have exposed yourself as an antisemite.
Hamas cannot win. It simply does not have the numbers or armaments to do that, even if Israel did not have US help, though Hamas could do more damage to Israel if the US had not helped Israel. The whole purpose for Hamas in this war was precisely to cause Israel to do exactly what it has been doing and to generate public attention and sympathy for Palestinians, and even sympathy for Hamas itself in the more radical elements of the left.
Hamas would win if there was a permanent ceasefire that involved Israel withdrawing from Gaza. It's just like in Vietnam. In a guerrilla war, the enemy wins by surviving.
That is utterly false. Hamas does not have the capacity to defeat Israel militarily, which is why they engage in terrorism. Hamas is threat, but not an existential one, much as they would like to be.
Hamas has maintained a presence in Gaza a long time and has been intermittently lobbing rockets at Israel for much of that time. Netanyahu enabled Hamas with financial support, to play them off against the PA. I don't mean that Israel shouldn't try to reduce the threat from Hamas, but it is not at all clear Israel can actually eliminate Hamas completely. And, even if that is possible, is doing that at the cost of many thousands more civilians lives justifiable, when Hamas are not an existential threat to Israel? Besides which, Israel would be giving Hamas more of exactly what it wants.
Did Isis have extensive tunnels under civilian areas or otherwise conduct all its operations from heavily populated civilian areas the same way Hamas does? I don't recall reading about that.
Palestinian resistance won't be defeated by Israel's atrocities. It will be strengthened. The resistance springs from around a century of colonisation, and an unrelenting and violent expansion into Palestinian lands by Zionist settlers. The only way this insanity will end is when the world proclaims Israel to be a rogue apartheid ethno-state, and condemns it as such.
Palestinian resistance? Do you think they are a legitimate group? You know that Hamas is an Islamist terrorist group, right? Colonisation? Why does all of the land belong to the Arabs? Does empty land in Judea or the Negev belong to the Arabs? Jews lived in Palestine long before the Arab conquests. By denying Israel's right to existence you have exposed yourself as an antisemite.
Hamas cannot win. It simply does not have the numbers or armaments to do that, even if Israel did not have US help, though Hamas could do more damage to Israel if the US had not helped Israel. The whole purpose for Hamas in this war was precisely to cause Israel to do exactly what it has been doing and to generate public attention and sympathy for Palestinians, and even sympathy for Hamas itself in the more radical elements of the left.
Hamas would win if there was a permanent ceasefire that involved Israel withdrawing from Gaza. It's just like in Vietnam. In a guerrilla war, the enemy wins by surviving.
That is utterly false. Hamas does not have the capacity to defeat Israel militarily, which is why they engage in terrorism. Hamas is threat, but not an existential one, much as they would like to be.
You avoided my point completely. Hamas doesn't need to defeat Israel militarily. They merely need to maintain a presence in Gaza.
Hamas has maintained a presence in Gaza a long time and has been intermittently lobbing rockets at Israel for much of that time. Netanyahu enabled Hamas with financial support, to play them off against the PA. I don't mean that Israel shouldn't try to reduce the threat from Hamas, but it is not at all clear Israel can actually eliminate Hamas completely. And, even if that is possible, is doing that at the cost of many thousands more civilians lives justifiable, when Hamas are not an existential threat to Israel? Besides which, Israel would be giving Hamas more of exactly what it wants.
Israel could defeat Hamas. The same way the Kurds defeated ISIS in Syria.
Did Isis have extensive tunnels under civilian areas or otherwise conduct all its operations from heavily populated civilian areas the same way Hamas does? I don't recall reading about that.