Israel is losing the war against Hamas – but Netanyahu and his government will never admit it | Paul Rogers
www.theguardian.com
The official narrative has been that Hamas is weakened, but in reality the IDF’s doctrine of massive force is failing, says academic Paul Rogers
  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    6 个月前

    Paul Rogers is emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford University

    Damn that must be the only academic discipline as consistently depressing as climatology.

    I've been reading from some sources (not sure how accurate they are) that every published Israeli loss has been an officer or NCO, which is really sus because there's no plausible way to lose a bunch of those ranks without also losing at least some rank and file troops too.

    Can only imagine that Netanyahu is downplaying casualties because the Israeli public are ultra-sensitive to them.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      6 个月前

      I honestly don't understand this narrative that Israel is fighting Hamas. They are doing that but incidentally, the point is to destroy Gaza and cause a humanitarian crisis so bad Egypt will let everyone into the Sinai desert. If that doesn't work they plan on making Gaza unlivable which from all reports is either done or close to done in the north.

    • dinoirl [he/him]
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      6 个月前

      I assume it's a search and rescue dog with a microphone. It found the hostages and they told it they had snuck out, hoping the army would be on the lookout for them, but either nobody listened to the recording or nobody gave a shit about rescuing hostages.