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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Netanyahu was on a Sunday morning news show earlier and just kept repeating “the destruction of Hamas” as its objective.
It looks a lot like what we did in Afghanistan right after 9/11. A cathartic display of might and ruthlessness, but ultimately of dubious effectiveness.
A better angle, IMO, is a policy of assassination of all Hamas members. Deem their lives forfeit and start killing then, regardless of whether they’ve done anything, from this day forward. And start assassinating them in Doha as well. Pre-emptive murder. That’s the only way to even attempt to “destroy Hamas” w/o mass innocent casualties like what we’re seeing now.
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The long term slow process of killing off terrorists through special ops and police action is how we got rid of the Islamic State. It works.
The strategy Israel is using looks more like what the Russians and Syrians are doing in Syria. Not sure it ever works to meet its objective, but it can certainly leave a local population terrorized and careful.
I don't know if you saw the leaked memo from the Dutch Defense ministry, but apparently the Dutch at least believe they have info from the IDF suggesting that they have explicitly targeted Gaza infrastructure, making Gaza into an unlivable place for a long time to come and resulting in many more civilian deaths than if they were targeting Hamas.
