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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Foreign Affairs: "Hamas is winning"
URL: https://foreignaffairs.com/israel/middle-east-robert-pape
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Mehdi Hasan reposted Arnaud Bertrand Foreign Affairs: "Hamas is winning" https://foreignaffairs.com/israel/middle-east-robert-pape The article makes the obvious point that the more Palestinians Israel kills, the more their close ones want to join or otherwise support Hamas. And given that at this stage an insane "60% of Palestinians in Gaza report having a family member killed in the current war", that's a whole lot of additional support for Hamas... https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1804178814194586110 linked article, excerpt: "But thanks to Israel’s assault, Hamas’s power is actually growing. Just as the Viet Cong grew stronger during the massive “search and destroy” operations that ravaged much of South Vietnam in 1966 and 1967 when the United States poured troops into the country in an ultimately futile bid to turn the war in its favor, Hamas remains intractable and has evolved into a tenacious and deadly guerrilla force in Gaza—with lethal operations restarting in the northern regions that were supposedly cleared by Israel only a few months ago. The central flaw in Israel’s strategy is not a failure of tactics or the imposition of constraints on military force—just as the failure of the United States’ military strategy in Vietnam had little to do with the technical proficiency of its troops or political and moral limits on the uses of military power. Rather, the overarching failure has been a gross misunderstanding of the sources of Hamas’s power. To its great detriment, Israel has failed to realize that the carnage and devastation it has unleashed in Gaza has only made its enemy stronger." |
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From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Foreign Affairs: "Hamas is winning"
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