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Scorpio99:
Bro or miss, I don't even know how to describe your confusion.

You said strategic victory for Israel. And still said tactical victory for Hamas.

Two people dey collect first position? 🤣🤣🤣

My brother, they are two different things

I'd like to add color to the assessments about the war, by introducing the context of the pre-War dynamic.

October 7 was not a surprise.
Between January 1 and October 6, 2023 the Israelis had killed 227 Palestinians.
Shortly before the war, the Israelis conducted a drone strike in the West Bank for the first time since 2006.
In July, the IDF launched the largest operation in the West Bank in more than two decades. They announced the operation would continue indefinitely.
In May, the IDF conducted an airstrike in Gaza against the Islamic Jihad killing three top commanders. They conducted this assassination ONE WEEK after an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire that ended an exchange following another earlier Israeli assassination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/08/israel-strike-gaza-attack-jihad/

Satanyahu had been unilaterally provoking and pushing for an escalation for a reason.
With the Abraham Accords in effect, negotiations underway with Saudi Arabia, and the Ukraine war seemingly continuing with near-zero pressure on Russia from the Global Majority, the Israelis finally became confident that the time had come to put an end to the dream of Palestinian statehood and annex and occupy West Bank and Gaza. Ideally, they needed a trigger. October 7 was that trigger.

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But why did Hamas oblige the Israelis.
Because they too had seen the direction the winds were blowing.
They watched Satanyahu give statements in September imploring Palestinians that resistance was futile and that they'll absorb Palestinian territories. Usually, these would have been interpreted as reckless, provocative statements without bite.
But Satanyahu had increasingly been biting. On the pile of evidence was the rising death count, expanding military action, and assassinations.

The Resistance could either stay in a boiling beaker and wake up one day to facts on the ground negating the possibility of a Palestinian statehood or they could launch a military campaign that would bring the Palestinian issue back to the forefront of global discussion.
Many frame this as a difficult choice, in light of the price Palestine has paid, but it wasn't.
It was a Hail Mary. There was no alternative.
Satanyahu was not going to unilaterally stop killing Palestinians, terminate military operations, or stop settlement expansion.
In war or peace time. Doesn't matter. His goal of ending Palestine statehood was proceeding without a hitch.

Even though war was inevitable, Hamas sent SOSs to verify that Israel indeed was bent on persistent escalations.
Months before the attack, in December 2022, Hamas released a video about paragliding militants.
In September, less than one month before D Day, the released a video where militants were training to blow up the border.
The Resistance intended these releases as warnings to get Israel to step back from further escalation.
But the Israelis saw the videos and rubbed their hands in glee, seeing their plan to entrap the Resistance as coming to fruition.

When Saudi Arabia and Egypt delivered warnings of an impending operation, they ignored the warnings because they looked forward to the attack. There have now been several puzzling operational decisions prior to and on D Day on the Israeli side that support the hypothesis that they either had foreknowledge of the attack or were not particularly disposed to preventing it.
They needed the attack to trigger the final war to end the Palestinian question.

All facts stated above are verifiable.

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Here we are, two years after, and Palestine is the defining global issue of this generation.
A testament to how badly the Israeli plan backfired.
This is the worst strategic defeat for Israel since the Lebanon civil war in the 80s.

Satanyahu destroyed all the preparatory work of previous PMs and intel chiefs.
The reunification of Gaza and West Bank polity that had seemed impossible has been achieved because of this war.
More than a dozen more recognitions of Palestine statehood, erosion of support in the West and particularly in the US, the complete rehabilitation of Hamas, all three were impossible without the genocide.
Abbas has finally, after more than two decades, accepted reforms. Because of the genocide.

Satanyahu anticipated that October 7 will be Israel's Pearl Harbor.
The attack that would have ended Palestine and made Israel the predominant power in the Middle East.
The list of objectives were long, from ethnic cleansing to attacking Iran to freedom of movement to conduct strikes anywhere including in Gulf Western allies. Most of them backfired hard. It's remarkable really because immediately after the attack, it did look like the plan had come together perfectly. You had politicians signing IDF bombs. Now, everyone is going out of their way to express their opposition. How far we have come.

Success has many friends and failure is an orphan.
Palestine has many friends the world over and Israel is a pariah.

-Lord

Israeli media is reporting that Hamas governmental and authoritarian apparatuses have fully resumed their duties.

We don't have to declare victory or defeat.
Facts on the ground will make everyone's status abundantly clear.

-Lord

WriterrNg:
⚡Russian media published a photo showing fragments of the first downed Flamingo missile.

Ordinary Yemen that work bear footed still have better missiles than Ukraine

Scorpio99:
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So, think again. 1.6 trillion dollars wiped off the US stock market is more of China and others loss.

I have heard some really odd things from you guys but this one takes the crown.

WriteerNg:
⚡Pakistan ministry says that Afghanistan will be 'given a befitting reply like India'.

Na you find trouble this time. Because Afghanistan was on its own before you went to bomb it.

And the speed at which the Taliban responded is shocking. No time for cho cho cho. No time for talking or bragging. They went straight into violence mode.

Looks like they have always been ready. I remember the Taliban was complaining about being bored like a year ago and saying they wanted a war. They have seen it. Pakistan will collect.

Iran rejects invitation to the Gaza summit in Egypt.
President Pezeshkian will not attend.

-Lord

shoodboi2:
Attacking a civilian population ≠ Attacking Hamas.

Bombing hospitals ≠ Bombing Hamas tunnels.

Killing children ≠ Killing Hamas fighters.

If Israel wants to win, then it should focus on fighting Hamas and not on bombing civilians.

Thank you sir.

Please suggest how the Israeli IDF should face Hamas while leaving out innocent Palestinians in a place like Gaza. How do the Israeli armed forces take out Hamas fighters when they've blended well with the civilians, making it almost impossible identifying Hamas fighters?

I'll like to read your suggestions, sir...

Kingsnairaland:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSH7xx7okTtHJ-5NSYY/


300 people dead in the explosive company blast

Russia keeps giving American company it due rewards

God bless putin God bless mother Russia

Nawa o how can you be dealing with an explosive with this much yield and you don't have bunkers where people can run to for emergencies? Nawa o some people's families just gone like that

Uprightness100:
Defense Minister Israel Katz:

The major challenge for Israel after the [first] stage of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas’s terror tunnels in Gaza, both directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism that will be established under US leadership and oversight.

This is the primary meaning of implementing the agreed principle of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip and disarming Hamas.

I have instructed the IDF to prepare to carry out the mission.

Lmao. What was the IDF now doing in Gaza all these while?

I thought they said all Hamas tunnels had been destroyed.