Israel really just cannot help themselves, can they? They're magnetically drawn to their own destruction. They are begging on their hands and knees for the swift end of an apocalypse.

The Resistance's strategy is clear:

• Hamas draws Israeli troops deep into Gaza, where their tunnel networks and guerrilla warfare tactics are at their greatest possible effect, causing thousands of casualties+deaths and destroying hundreds of vehicles.
• Hezbollah draws Israeli troops to the border and kills them gradully using attritional warfare.
• Yemen maintains an economic blockade of Israel and simultaneously forces imperialists to maintain a naval presence which then cannot be used elsewhere
• Iran provides weaponry for the whole resistance and maintains several trump cards (blocking the Strait of Hormuz; thousands of missiles that can be used on Israel)

Israel has so far proved unable to meaningfully respond to any of this militarily. The Resistance knows that this is the case. They are aware that Israel will, in their rage and impotence, instead target civilians en masse in an attempt to buoy up morale inside their country.

The problem is that killing civilians:

a) doesn't solve a single problem for Israel. Bombing civilians is not even slightly productive for them. It doesn't even reduce civilian morale; survivors are more likely to join Hamas to resist Israel than turn against the people who are fighting the people bombing your children.
b) creates entirely new problems for Israel, because these bombings aren't obscure like in the past, but captured in videos and photos that then reach the rest of the world, prompting protestors to go out and take new action against Israel.

So they're stuck in this neverending cycle. They send a new batch of troops into Gaza. Those troops get killed and/or captured by Hamas. In revenge, Israel bombs civilians. This is captured and anti-Israel sentiment around the world escalates and BDS is strengthened. This weakens Israel further. To try and look stronger, they end a new batch of troops into Gaza. Repeat until collapse. So long as Zionism is and remains the dominant ideology in Israel, there is no way out of the death spiral. Tens of billions of dollars worth of weaponry funneled into them has done nothing except kill more civilians. They're in a weaker place every single time that the US sends another package. Even the US admits that Hamas is still perfectly intact.

This is unbelievable. After 8 months of this, there hasn't been the slightest shift in strategy. They are the closest to collapse that they've been in their history, politicians and officials are threatening to leave the war-time government, the north is still depopulated of settlers and that's causing all sorts of societal mayhem, and they still aren't even attempting to get out of the death spiral. Even West-friendly global institutions are turning against them now. The Resistance really couldn't have asked for a less competent regime. You take the sense of military superiority and deterrence away from Israel on October 7th and it turns out that it was actually the singular load-bearing column of their entire society, and there's nothing else keeping it up.