In Gaza: The Deadliest Day Yet For Israel’s Military
Israel just suffered "one of the most difficult days since the start of the war," as Benjamin Netanyahu put it Tuesday.
Two-dozen Israeli soldiers were killed Monday, including 21 in a single incident, the military said. President Isaac Herzog described "an unbearably difficult morning."
Netanyahu promised to "learn the necessary lessons," but it wasn't immediately clear what those lessons were. The 21 reservists were in the process of clearing structures near the border when a building collap
Violence begets more violence as some supposedly very important figure once said.
On point as always
“And there are certain places Israel simply can’t conduct assassinations without severe diplomatic blowback, which means at least some of the group’s key political figures will survive.” Can someone expand on this?
Well, what is the IDF going to do? Conduct a series of drone strikes against luxury hotels and gleaming skyscrapers in Qatar?
It doesn’t have to be drones, of course, but the point is: If the leadership is hanging out in Doha or Istanbul or etc., you have to get a little more creative if you’re going to assassinate them, and it’s not going to go over well if you can pull it off. You can target people all day in Beirut and Damascus, but outside of that, the logistics get really complicated, really fast.
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, did two graves”….Confucius.
Don’t think Netanyahu’s going to get very far with demonizing Hamas for not fighting honorably outside of the tunnels and face to face against the tanks and fighter jets. If he can’t even do that, then I doubt there will much purchase for the notion that Hamas started it, so the Palestinians should just accept that “they” lost while they look for a new place to live, and maybe some of their stuff replaced, like, say, potable water.