In Vietnam the military tried to fight a conventional war against an unconventional enemy. Israel is making a similar mistake. You can’t fight people who strap bombs to children and blow them up with tanks or planes. You fight them by ruthlessly hunting down their leaders, eliminating them, then when the next batch steps up do the same until nobody wants to be the next guy on the list. You make it to costly for those who support them to keep doing so. You will get your hands dirty and there will be a lot of blood but what they’re doing now only strengthens hamas’s position. Even now the evening news spends more time on the damage Israel is doing to Gaza than on what hamas has and will do.
In Vietnam the military tried to fight a conventional war against an unconventional enemy. Israel is making a similar mistake. You can’t fight people who strap bombs to children and blow them up with tanks or planes. You fight them by ruthlessly hunting down their leaders, eliminating them, then when the next batch steps up do the same until nobody wants to be the next guy on the list. You make it to costly for those who support them to keep doing so. You will get your hands dirty and there will be a lot of blood but what they’re doing now only strengthens hamas’s position. Even now the evening news spends more time on the damage Israel is doing to Gaza than on what hamas has and will do.