Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds

Midterms are approaching

 

And I really wonder if this was the actual game plan of Hamas all along. Not that of the grunts who are doing the dirty work and dying, mind you, but the leaders who are relatively untouchable.

It would be a pretty smart plan, do a brutal hit-and-run attack that prompts Israel to take drastic action, then sit back while Israel retaliates and let their actions and social media reporting those actions turn the world against them even more than they were already.

 

Temporarily, sure, but it would’ve been a solid bet that that wouldn’t last once Israel started retaliating.

 

There are analyses that claim the response Israel/idf has unfolded has a deterrence charge in it to show enemies to what level they're prepared to go to. "Any means we have at our disposal will be used to destroy you".
The rethorics used in the in here viled social media posts might in that way play a role of psychological warfare, portraying yourself as a murderous bunch that has no moral limits, as part of that deterrence strategy.

 

Of course, the situation is complicated by Palestinian 'hostages', as many of the Palestinians refer to them, (prisoners as the Israelis call them, obviously), held by Israel, many of them in administrative detention without trial, often for years.

I think it's like a lot of things in this dispute.

If we accept the narrative from one side, (the Israelis in this instance), the position is very simple but if we're prepared to at least consider the other side, it gets more complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel

I don't know how this matter can be sorted out but I'd suggest it's not QUITE as simple as saying the hostages should be set free as a 'standalone' statement with no reference to a wider agreement.

Having said that, of course, they should be set free.

 

In all honesty I think most of the conversations in this forum were more intelligent and more enlightening than THAT exchange.

 

There are also many more that have been injured, many significantly and from which they might die and even THAT'S not including the ones that might die from malnutrition or disease.

It wouldn't surprise me if we ended up with over 100,000 dead Palestinians at the end of this. Hope I'm wrong, obviously

I wonder if we'll be allowed to call it the 'G' word then?

 

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Seems a month of bombing hasnot made any impression on the Houthi.

 

Well, how about that

Gaza conflict: Israel pressing US and others to continue funding Unrwa - report
The Irish Times|16 days ago
If Unrwa was disabled now, the Israeli army, as the occupying force, would be obliged to assume its responsibilities for Gaza's 2.3 million displaced and distressed Palestinians, 70 per cent of ...

 

I understand what you're saying and I agree to an extent but the problem is that seems to imply that the Israelis HAVE to massively overreact to any provocation.

 

https://www.voxy.co.nz/national/fam...ts-1-1-million-children-face-starvation/9892/
‘Families forced to forage food left by rats, 1.1 million children face starvation’
Families in Gaza are forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation to survive with nearly five months of war and rapidly declining aid supplies leaving all 1.1 million children in Gaza facing starvation, Save the Children said.

An aid worker for Save the Children who is currently in Rafah said her relatives in northern Gaza have been driven to desperate measures to survive.

I read a few days ago a poster claiming Israel is supplying food.
So "Save the Children" are a bunch of liars and most likely hamas friends.

 

Not HAVE to, but likely to. And the sheer brutality and depravity of the 10/7 attack made it much more likely. If it had been a simple military attack that would be one thing, but widespread rape and torture of civilians is quite another, and much more likely to result in an extreme response.

 

There was a video a few days ago where a man in Gaza found a small boy sleeping in the middle of a road at night, he picked him up and took him somewhere safe and the boy told him all his family were killed and he slept on the unlit road in the hope someone would run him over https://t.co/rXqc0vBjZe

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) February 22, 2024

 

That is a terrific article.

That won’t make a difference.

 

WATCH | Houthi missile attack targets humanitarian ship near Yemen's Aden, risking aid delivery, says US

Despite the incident, the vessel's crew proceeded to Aden and successfully delivered grain, continuing their mission to provide humanitarian aid to Yemen. pic.twitter.com/3UmGI6TqYt

— The Times Of India (@timesofindia) February 21, 2024

 

Caught a report about this the other day on TV, (although this wasn't the source)...

https://news.sky.com/story/335-rise...-uk-since-hamass-attack-on-7-october-13078030

Apparently Islamophobic attacks have increased by 335% over the same 4 month period last year.

 

Ask for the impossible and then say the other side are being unreasonable when they say no.