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The IDF will be spread too thin to maintain the intensity of occupations in the West Bank and growing conflict along international borders
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Their rapidly crumbling international support will take a massive hit from the brutality of such an assault and could prompt direct retaliation from Hezbollah
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Many, many IDF soldiers will get fucking obliterated entering hyper dense urban combat against a million people with nothing left to lose
These three combine to create the likelihood that Israel would be utterly defeated in such an action. The IDF is a paper tiger when they aren't bombing an imprisoned civilian population.
Thoughts? Am I right or wrong with this take?
I don't know shit but from casually checking the news mega that seems to be the general sentiment. What I don't get is wouldn't this ground invasion be a completely unforced error on Israel's part? Why are they even considering it?
Netanyahu's entire network of graft and political control is now more unstable than a house of cards, and the only thing that could possibly prop it back it up is a military victory over Hamas.
Bombing refugee columns isn't enough, they need boots on the ground.
I'd say the right wing government needs, NEEDS, to play the "military strong man" role.
Yeah. Fascism is in effect. They're not necessarily making rational decisions and can't necessarily assess the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The rhetoric is gneocide - At least some Israelis in high places want to exterminate the Palestinians or drive them out of Gaza entirely. Plus, as others have mentioned, Bibi fucked up and might launch an invasion for political reasons.
similar to the invasion of the USSR by the Nazis. It was a stupid move in all metrics, but the fascism made it impossible to take any other course of action.
May this end like Stalingrad, with the fascists losing
inshallah
"I have to, he wrote me this way."
-Mouth of Madness
Does Hamas still have a bunch of hostages?
Zionists are fascists and fascists care very little for human life, even that of their fellow fascists.
Zionists have already said about hostages being killed: "You trust Hamas that they weren't already killed? They were dead as soon as they were captured." So I would guess that any captives in Palestine do not have a good chance of being returned.
Yes, but some of them have already been killed by the bombing