{"id":35857,"date":"2024-08-21T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/?p=35857"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:17:29","slug":"how-israel-lost-the-war-in-gaza-thomas-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/how-israel-lost-the-war-in-gaza-thomas-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel Lost The War In Gaza | Thomas Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s simple: they mistook destroying for winning<\/span><\/h2>\n

Gaza might not survive, but Palestine surely will<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\nI closed my last piece by observing that the Israelis are making the mistake that the Americans made in Vietnam: believing that by destroying villages and killing NVA and VC at a pace greater than the rate of replacement, victory was inevitable: it\u2019s math, after all. The Americans mistook destroying for winning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israelis, too, are bringing destruction on an apocalyptic scale, with no victory in sight and no will to stop. Destroying Gaza is another example of not winning – ostentatiously and at tremendous expense. You\u2019d think people might have learned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s destruction is a terrible truth: the IDF air force has got some serious bandwidth and has therefore been doing most of the heavy lifting. And the power they can unleash on stationary targets is spectacular and horrifying. But they\u2019re only capable of destroying Gaza, which will not suffice to break the will of the Palestinians to resist alien domination.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Americans learned this the hard way during the Vietnam war, with a memorable, sustained, futile bombing campaign. It was ordered by President Johnson, and it was called Operation Rolling Thunder. Its purpose was to demoralize the NVA, destroy industrial targets and air defenses, and interrupt transportation and supply lines. It lasted more than three years, during which an astonishing 864,000 tons of American bombs would be dropped. It accomplished none of its goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

We might recall the grotesquely destructive bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, Hamburg, and London \u2014 and probably the worst of them all, the siege of Malta (four times the tonnage used against Dresden). No one was broken by these atrocities. No one surrendered because of them. Yet the myth that strategic bombing can bring victory persists. Perhaps because the atomic bombs that the Americans dropped in Japan did compel a surrender, but there we\u2019re talking about another order of magnitude in destructive power. That attack was literally supernatural.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Malta, not Gaza; and no surrender here, either<\/span><\/p>\n

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The only way Israel can win in Gaza is by actually fighting, but it doesn\u2019t dare. Instead, the IDF army are running amok in armored vehicles and tanks, shelling and machinegunning their way to eternal infamy. They\u2019re certainly not beating Hamas. IDF troops are poorly trained, poorly led conscripts and reservists, and they do not want to die. So they cower in their vehicles, which they haven\u2019t got the courage to defend with support troops.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bombing is not a path to victory because destruction is not a strategy. Bibi wants to continue this military farce because it keeps him out of prison, where he no doubt belongs, but it will do Israel no good. The only way Israel could defeat Hamas would be to head into the tunnels and fight. And that would, quite simply, result in an intolerable number of Israeli casualties. So it\u2019s not on the menu. It was never on the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s precedence here, too. The Americans steered well clear of the tunnels in Vietnam, although they did bomb them, hoping that they might collapse, but without success. Going in was a rare show of bravado; they contained not only armed fighters, but booby traps. The mortality rate among tunnel rats was notoriously high.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely the Israelis have been hoping to destroy tunnels in Gaza on the cheap, with their big fat American bombs, but that\u2019s guaranteed to fail. They\u2019re certainly not going to enter the tunnels to fight, which is the only way to achieve their stated goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

So they do the next best thing; they bomb everything, including residences, refugee camps, hospitals, schools, and mosques. They motor about in their tanks, shelling and shooting women and children at long range, enacting the pretense that they\u2019re professional soldiers and real tough hombres at that.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s really just a performance. Israelis say they\u2019re forced to target civilians because Hamas fighters hide among them, but that\u2019s a lie. They know exactly how to find Qassam volunteers; they\u2019re simply unwilling to meet them face to face in the dark. Going after Hamas is a cover story for the true purpose driving this extravaganza of sadism: ethnic cleansing. What\u2019s happening in Gaza is not a war, a hunt, or a fight; it\u2019s a siege.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we should understand this: however long this demonic shitshow goes on, it must end at some point, and Hamas will be there to take a bow after the final act, quite undefeated. And Bibi will at last be in handcuffs and on his way to prison. God willing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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