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A really good post and I agree with this.They've gone for a 100% military response. They've abandoned any political response, and in the military response they've blown up all their political capital, in fact made things much, much worse.
Militarily, it's been bad for Hamas, but politically, this has done two things.
1) Exposed Israel. More people than ever understand Israel is a racist, apartheid country which doesn't want peace.
2) Isolated Israel. More countries are recognising Palestine and more will continue to. The Arab states have turned their backs on Israel and won't be able to turn back for decades.
They should have split it 50% political, 50% military.
They didn't need to invade, and even if they did, they didn't need to raze whole suburbs to the ground. Targeted strikes on leadership. Political and economic isolation, cut off the money from Qatar. Triple the size and patrols along the border fence which was ridiculously undefended. Boost an opposition faction to Hamas. Sure, the bloodlust wouldn't have been satiated.
The border fence is only 55km long, and Hamas attacked along the best-defended part of it in the north. It could easily be bolstered so that such an attack doesn't happen again.
Israel have offered no political solution, in fact the political discussions they were having they have hardened against. Nobody in Israel or even the talking heads on behalf of Israel can say what Israel's long-term peace strategy is.
They blew up Hamas and also said the Palestinian Authority wouldn't be welcome either. So they're creating the same political vacuum they created when they helped create Hamas.
They don't want a two-state solution, they've passed a law against it. So they're doubling down on apartheid and aren't even pretending not to.
Long-term, this will be a political disaster. The next generation of world leaders will not believe Israel's lies like the current leaders pretend to.
Meanwhile, the next Hamas will emerge full of traumatised young people ready to die for revenge of not just their "people", but their immediate family members. Who amongst us could say that if they saw Israel blow up their house, their friends and their parents as a child that they'd be mature and sensible enough to still seek peace?
Really dismantles a simpletons view that this thread is a hamas echo chamber. This thread is full of exceptional information.
Anyone with a brain can see through the thinly veiled propaganda attempts of those that are both siding this situation.
Arguing that people shouldn’t act because of the disproportionate response they will experience in return, is a weakling.