Your missing a critical point. First of all, HAMAS doesn’t care about Gaza, which means that HAMAS is successfully isolating Israel at little cost of anything that it values. That’s why HAMAS is portrayed as unscathed.
Israel’s problem isn’t that the IDF’s happy talk about winning against HAMAS are lies. The problem is that it is delusional.
This is a takeoff on a very old Oliphant cartoon of a right wing tiger similarly swallowing the Republican elephant. The GOP has always had an “anti-Masonic” (yes, that was the name of one of the GOP’s predecessors) wing; it just is more visible in certain eras. Like just before WW2 with Charles Lindbergh and his band of Nazi sympathizers…
Given that both Netanyahu and Haniyeh benefit from a major distraction from their poor performance, and neither seem to be much moved by Israeli and Palestinian misery and death, it is not clear what negotiations between the two would lead to.
We have swarms of refugees of climate change at our southern border and some of the nation most endangered by the change have nuclear weapons. The Pentagon is SUPPOSED to follow the science. (And the demographics – the only way the Pentagon is going to keep troop levels up is by being inclusive.)
This is the real world; nations that live in fantasy worlds don’t fare well.
Your missing a critical point. First of all, HAMAS doesn’t care about Gaza, which means that HAMAS is successfully isolating Israel at little cost of anything that it values. That’s why HAMAS is portrayed as unscathed.
Israel’s problem isn’t that the IDF’s happy talk about winning against HAMAS are lies. The problem is that it is delusional.