It worked in El Salvador.
Posted on 01/20/2024 10:05:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
After more than 100 days of war, Israel’s limited progress in dismantling Hamas has raised doubts within the military’s high command about the near-term feasibility of achieving the country’s principal wartime objectives: eradicating Hamas and also liberating the Israeli hostages still in Gaza.
Israel has established control over a smaller part of Gaza at this point in the war than it originally envisaged in battle plans from the start of the invasion, which were reviewed by The New York Times. That slower than expected pace has led some commanders to privately express their frustrations over the civilian government’s strategy for Gaza, and led them to conclude that the freedom of more than 100 Israeli hostages still in Gaza can be secured only through diplomatic rather than military means.
The dual objectives of freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas are now mutually incompatible, according to interviews with four senior military leaders, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about their personal opinions.
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New York Slime
Five more Iranians involved with Hezbollah just began their long dirt naps. I believe Israel will continue to take it to the islamofascistnazis, wherever they are, for quite a while.
NYT = Bullshit
Destroy Hamas completely or there will be more hostages and murders in their future. It’s horrid but they’ve left them no other good option.
I agree. That's the only decision.
Who, except a Traitor would let the New York Slimes review Israel's battle plans?
Same traitor who told Hamas about the Israel’s fence vulnerabilities on 10/7.
Wiping out a cell-based terror organization in its native territory where it enjoys pretty significant native support is impossible. This is completely different from ISIS which was hated by pretty much everyone it ruled over.
The neocons want this war to drag on to feed the MIC
It worked in El Salvador.
This is the angle the NYT is using now - Israel is divided and the war must end so the hostages can be released.
I swear the left are complete wackos. After what Hamas did, who in the army would be calling for “diplomacy”?
It’s a terrible emotional dilemma, but there should be no strategic dilemma: Destroy Hamas now! Anything less than total annihilation will just doom future Israelis to the same or even greater horrors as occurred on October 7th.
That was the story the second day of the crisis.
Hostage takers have the upper hand and the Muslims wait for the UN and wimpy peace advocates to say “don’t be too harsh in your mean, warlike actions as you try to free the hostages. You might kill some Hamas people and the human shield children nearby.”
No win situation from the start.
The choice between losing hostages and losing the nation of Israel was made by Hamas. The sacrifice of the hostages for the sake of the nation must happen. Hamas cannot be trusted for any agreement in exchange for hostages. The hostage taking has been a tool for a strategy that is designed to defeat the West. Make that tool useless and they have no strategy.
There have been several times in my life when I have been tested. Do I save myself or do I fight to save others at the risk of my own life?
When I was caught in a rare flash flood on Long Island, I figured out how to escape my vehicle only to wade back into chest deep, black water to help an elderly man in his car.
When bullets were flying in an active shooter situation, I dashed across the lobby to lead two gentlemen trapped in the foyer to a safe room.
When I hemmoraghed with my third child, I begged the doctors to save my baby instead of me.
When a tornado was bearing down on my house, I wrapped my body over and around my young children, fully prepared to die to protect them from debris.
I’m not saying this to brag. I’m saying this because I am speaking from experience.
If I was a hostage of Hamas, I would want the Israelis to hunt down and destroy every last one of them...even if it meant I was collateral damage.
I do not hold my life cheaply, but some things are worth dying for. Making sure these savages are eradicated from the face of the earth is one of them.
After more than 100 days of war, Israel’s limited progress in dismantling HamasThat is a lie.
That photo of those pitiful prisoners needs some explanation of what is happening. Could you provide some details? Link?
Bull!
The only way the terrorists ever release any kidnap victims is even forced to do so, the defeat of the Fakestinian murder gangsters is part and parcel towards any chance (and it is only a chance, admittedly, and not a great one) of getting the hostages back from their captors.
No contradiction.
Not many have the stomach or backbone to annihilate Hamas. It involves two things
1. Kill every single person in Hamas and every known supporter including leaders, soldiers, merchants, bankers, teachers, journalists, lawyers, technicians ….. any and all who support or have favorable views of Hamas needs to be killed.
2. Instill more fear of Israel than of Hamas by destroying and killing as many people and buildings as possible in order to have the “civilian” populace snitch on any Hamas and offer NO safe place for support or training.
There won’t be peace in Gaza in Gaza until the paleostainians are vacated.
Send them home to Mecca , Tehran or Allah. Damn, send the whole works to Allah and let him sort it out.
Its from a very famous set of pictures of the El Salvador crackdown on MS-13 in 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_gang_crackdown
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