i dont know how many?

"Man becomes more conservative as he regains brain function"

Several attempts, zero victories.

And now we have come full circle.

You stated that the idf was the fourth (4th) greatest army in the world. Well this great army has been unable to beat stone age brutes after four months. Hamas has retaken the north (even though you proudly proclaimed is was under Israeli control) and none of its offensive capabilities have diminished.

Meanwhile just today the kiryati Brigade had to be rotated out of Khan younis and sent to the front. Israel is trying for a one month ceasefire with hamas because it doesn't want to go to war with hezbollah while Gaza STILL is not secured.

Sandal wearing stone age brutes did that.

They ain't done shit. You just report untruths.

Hamas has preformed better than most were expecting. Again this isn't a "hamas is winning in two weeks" cope post but they're still alive with the tunnels intact. Turning Gaza into stalingrad with no clear way to breach the tunnels, was always going to take a long ass time.

I don't report untruths just basic information that is easily verifiable. For example the US just took 13 casualties with three Kia in Jordan.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan/index.html

Nonsense. Plus we are talking about Hamas, not attacks in Jordan.

They are rotting in their holes like rats. Gaza is destroyed and their people are starving. Hardly a victory unless your threshold is incomparably low.

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Jan 28 2024 10:56am

You're correct: hamas conditions for victory is to literally just survive. Their goal is to try and outwait the idf in hopes it will retreat from Gaza due to external pressures like the northern front.
If Israel wants to take down hamas they basically have to take the Philadelphi line and stop the smuggling from Egypt into rafah. Then the idf has to play forever war in a guerilla setting that's gives every possible advantage to the defender.

There's a reason why even Americans never raided tunnels in vietnam; it's too deadly and tunnels are notoriously easy to boobytrap. Israel can't gas the tunnels due to the hostages (,they killed 2 israelies this way and the public outrage was significant)

Therefore we can conclude that the only feasible way to destroy hamas is to accept that the hostages can't be rescued and it will take a couple of years to starve/flush out hamas.

Or bibi gets a ceasefire with hamas in the interm and then launches a strike on beruit and drags the US against Iran. This is the situation that seems more likely at this point.

I actually agree with what you wrote.
Another option is a deal to release the hostages for a ceasefire which won’t end the war. Hamas still don’t accept but it seems that the pressure of the IDF in Khan Yunis is doing wonders to make Hamas flexible.
Either way Hamas will have to accept that they won’t be in charge in Gaza for long. The IDF will stay there as many years as necessary.

Why the link with the fact that Likud sponsorized Hamas for decades ?