It's been nearly 2 weeks since Hamas attacked Israel, and the Israelis still haven't committed their ground troops into Gaza. This mere fact by itself has exposed the weakness of Israel.

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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The goal of Israel isn't military/political though, it's genocidal. All they want to do is make civilian life insufferable for the Palestinians, Hamas is none of their concern.

If/when their neighbours try something for real America will be brought in, Israel has nukes and such, and they'll actually be using their military rather than just dropping bombs on civilians. Your post is assuming Israel is 'trying their best' militarily and is inept militarily, but this is just an assumption. I think jews are more than happy to just terrorise Palestinians without doing any real fighting against combatants because this is what they've been doing forever.

The idea that this should inspire Hezbollah or something I think is a bit fantastical, it seems more like what you want to believe rather than an actual sober analysis. Not saying it's wrong and Israel are actually strong, just that it's not really right either it's just an unknown.

[–]IslamofascistDeath to America, Death to Israel, Death to The Ukraine[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course Israel has a military/political goal. It needs to destroy Hamas, if for no other reason than to show that it is strong and can retaliate against a direct attack on its soil. This is what Israel said it was going to do soon after the attacks, and Israel mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, which is very expensive and taxing on Israel's economy. Everyone assumed that there will be a large-scale Israeli ground operation in Gaza, but that has not been forthcoming.

I don't know how much you know about life in Gaza, but civilian life has already been insufferable before this war. Gaza was basically cut off from the rest of the world. The unemployment rate among young people (under 30) was over 60%. The vast majority of people had no real prospects in life. If the Jews just want to terrorize Palestinians through air strikes, it's not going to solve anything. They can't commit a "genocide" unless they use chemical weapons or something (which I wouldn't totally put past them, but if they do that things will escalate very drastically). Hamas won't be eliminated through mere air strikes. And if Hamas is not totally eliminated, Israel will look very weak, especially after the damage that Hamas managed to inflict on the Israelis.