Hamas is the epitome of abject evil. The contrast with the Israelis couldn’t be more profound. When the pos Sinwar was in Israeli prison as a convicted murderer he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Israel treated him and saved his life via Israeli medical ingenuity. The thank you is October 7th. There’s a certain lesson for Israel in this debacle.
"Hamas has basically accomplished what it set out to do on October 7th" is an exaggeration. Hamas were counting on their own story that the IDF is deterred from fighting them in Gaza. Self-delusion can be deadly - it's not just military "experts" that promised the IDF can't possibly survive the trap Hamas is planning for it - Hamas believed their own propaganda. So now the tunnels are where Hamas must stay if it wants to survive, because Israel is dominating the urban warfare terrain, and 400 of those tunnel piers have been blown up and flooded with sea water already. This will continue any time Hamas doesn't release hostages. The IDF will move into more of Gaza city, smashing Hamas garrisons and exposing its terrorist infrastructure underground, in mosques, schools, homes, hospitals. So that is what comes next. People around the world can imagine what comes next, despite Israel being clear that it will continue to destroy the terrorist capability of Hamas to launch another invasion and massacre, and more mass rocket attacks.
Thanks for the comment. Agreed that IDF power can change the next steps considerably but at some point that means risking the lives of the remaining hostages. Hamas and whoever else is holding them will retain a certain number of them unfortunately.
The price of holding them will keep rising. Any rescue is a miracle, considering the savages holding those abducted civilians. Hamas can surrender to stand crimes against humanity trials or die. There is no alternative for them after October 7. That was a choice and they don’t get to walk away from that atrocity.
Hamas is the epitome of abject evil. The contrast with the Israelis couldn’t be more profound. When the pos Sinwar was in Israeli prison as a convicted murderer he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Israel treated him and saved his life via Israeli medical ingenuity. The thank you is October 7th. There’s a certain lesson for Israel in this debacle.
"Hamas has basically accomplished what it set out to do on October 7th" is an exaggeration. Hamas were counting on their own story that the IDF is deterred from fighting them in Gaza. Self-delusion can be deadly - it's not just military "experts" that promised the IDF can't possibly survive the trap Hamas is planning for it - Hamas believed their own propaganda. So now the tunnels are where Hamas must stay if it wants to survive, because Israel is dominating the urban warfare terrain, and 400 of those tunnel piers have been blown up and flooded with sea water already. This will continue any time Hamas doesn't release hostages. The IDF will move into more of Gaza city, smashing Hamas garrisons and exposing its terrorist infrastructure underground, in mosques, schools, homes, hospitals. So that is what comes next. People around the world can imagine what comes next, despite Israel being clear that it will continue to destroy the terrorist capability of Hamas to launch another invasion and massacre, and more mass rocket attacks.
Thanks for the comment. Agreed that IDF power can change the next steps considerably but at some point that means risking the lives of the remaining hostages. Hamas and whoever else is holding them will retain a certain number of them unfortunately.
The price of holding them will keep rising. Any rescue is a miracle, considering the savages holding those abducted civilians. Hamas can surrender to stand crimes against humanity trials or die. There is no alternative for them after October 7. That was a choice and they don’t get to walk away from that atrocity.