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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Hamas is pretty damn tarnished already. I hope to hell many of them are still alive, and it seems like they are from Barak Ravid's reporting today on US negotiations trying to free them.
I have to say, my son's experience of college is quite different, he's seen more of the cancel culture and attempts to silence people, especially at two of the four colleges in their cluster. He's especially seen it targeted at one of his apartment mates who is active in Jewish Voice for Peace.
But none of this answers my question: what is Israel's military strategy here? I spent the day today in the hospital reading MSF's dispatches from a hospital under siege - what is that accomplishing?
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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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