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Originally Posted by flamesfever
Okay, you are calling for a "fair fight". Everyone seems to agree that it's time to eliminate Hamas. How do you propose Israel should go about removing a 30,000 man army, embedded in the population, operating underground, with 250 hostages, and threatening to continue doing all it can to remove Israel from their land in their usual barbarous manner.
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I'm not calling for a fair fight at all.
I think Israel - in violation of generally accepted international protocols - should find Hamas leadership in any country on earth and literally kill them. Apparently they're living luxurious lives all around the world, or so I hear. Okay, let's get 'em. Israel has my full support to do that.
I think you need to write-off the 250 hostages. They're certainly not worth killing thousands of Palestinians over. It's too disproportionate.
The militants are hiding within the population because that's what militants need to do when they border a powerful and antagonistic military state that views them as sub-human. Do you expect them to build military bases lol? That's an absurd expectation. They would be destroyed in a day. Sorry, but that's just so dumb to expect them to be so dumb as to put a target on their military. They're spread out amongst the population out of necessity.
So how do you get them? Well, that requires patience, intelligence (spy craft, that is...not just a guy with a high IQ) and the support of the local population. You need to earn and build that support - it's a strategic failing on Israel's part that they have not built up that network within Gaza and now they're paying the price for it. And any goodwill they may have had there is definitely gone now because of idiotic, knee-jerk, sledgehammer tactics. But that's where we are, so what next?
Israel needs to immediately change their strategy. Stop dropping bombs on kids/families, for a start. Get down and dirty in a guerilla war is all they can do. Crawl around in tunnels, I guess. I mean, they were complicit in constructing the circumstances that have led to this point, so now they have a harder battle than could have been. I would hope they have sleeper agents and imbedded Israelis living amongst the population to aid in being more surgical and strategic - if they don't, then I guess you can add it to the pile of dumb stuff this government has(n't) done.