Article shared by Oscar Fernandez
A very incisive and objective view of the current crisis in Gaza! Is Hamas succeeding with their objectives? A conclusion that emerges from this article is that part of the solution is the removal of Netanyahu and a change in regime in Israel.
Here is one excerpt from the article.
"According to Devorah Margolin, an expert on Hamas at the center-right Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the entire point of the October 7 attack was to provoke a massive Israeli response. Handbooks and guidance sheets discovered on killed and captured Hamas fighters revealed instructions to be graphically, sadistically violent — instructions we know were fully carried out."
“The goal of that [ultraviolence] was to create a visceral response from Israel that would be seen as so disproportionate that the violence it carried out on October 7 was pushed to the side, and that Israel would be seen as the irrational actor,” she tells me. “In that sense, I think they actually succeeded.”
This has be among the most incisive and spot on take on this Israel-Gaza conflict. The Hamas playbook was the predicated on a thorough knowledge of the Israeli psyche and more so Bibi's reflexes and deeply flawed character traits. Plunging into a massive response, with nary a thought for the hostages, seems to have been a function of the fact that both the High Command of the IDF and the political actors were blindsided by Hamas and needed to over react to establish themselves. All the elements for a Classical Tragedy. Why the world could not fashion effective protection for the the children and mothers is beyond me. If neighbours did not want spillover, then hospital ships could have housed the very ill and rented cruise ships could be repurposed to serve as shelters for women and children. The US has the assets to conduct the logistical exercise, under an umbrella of US Airborne troops with Jordanian military participation -- offshore but within Gaza's 12 mile zone, so that they are still in the territory. Imagination. Something out of the box needed.
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