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Originally Posted by dammage79
A floating city with a support fleet of the meanest war tech in world showing up on your doorstep doesn't scare you Hamas? Okay.
I'm probably talking out my ass a bit here but this flare up feels like the rules are different this time. The meat shield isn't going to work. If Syria. Lebanon want to to kick in against Israel, you should at least expect some of Israel's friends to show up. The Gerald R. Ford is the ultimate expression of " F*** around and find out".
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You're making the assumption that Hamas cares anything for its own civilians. Hamas, economically, is funded by external powers, so they don't even need their own people to produce funds or weapons for them.
Hamas has purposely imbedded themselves, as much as possible, amongst civilian targets. So they know that they will survive any kind of military operation.
Israel should switch up their strategy. The current strategy of a large strike followed by breathing room for Hamas to restock isn't working. Israel would be much better off never calling a cease fire. Instead of hitting Hamas all at once, take a prolonged strategy. Anytime an Hamas member goes out in public, they strike. No more letting Hamas regroup and restock.
The issue would be that external powers have always stepped in to stop Israel. As bad as this massacre has been, the international community may have forgotten all about it, if Israel is hitting a Hamas member a year from now.