Kansas Crimson

The Biden administration fears Israel is disastrously squandering its opportunity for victory against Hamas, losing its best chance to eliminate the group’s hold on Gaza and threat to the Israeli people.

Top officials are publicly calling Israel’s strategy in Gaza self-defeating and likely to open the door to Hamas’ return — a level of criticism of the Middle East ally not seen since the war began in October.

The officials say Israel’s government has failed to hold parts of Gaza after clearing them, has turned the civilian population and the rest of the world against it with widespread bombing and inadequate humanitarian aid, and enabled Hamas to recruit more fighters.
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Although Hamas’ communications and military abilities have been degraded, only 30 to 35 percent of its fighters — those who were a part of Hamas before the Oct. 7 attack — have been killed and about 65 percent of its tunnels are still intact, U.S. intelligence indicates.

Biden officials have also become increasingly concerned that Hamas has been able to recruit during wartime — thousands over the last several months. That has allowed the group to withstand months of Israeli offensives, according to a person familiar with U.S. intelligence.

Dana Stroul, a former top Middle East official in the Pentagon who stepped down in January, recently wrote that the U.S. shared lessons of its failures in Iraq with Israel — namely how an insurgency grew out of the botched American occupation — but that Israel has not heeded those warnings.

“Not only has Israel declined to learn from this body of knowledge and experience on the sequencing of activities to prevent worst outcomes for postconflict societies, but it also appears that Israel is on track to repeat the same mistakes,” she lamented in a Foreign Affairs essay published Monday.
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“Israel has a right and responsibility to defeat Hamas, but its current strategy of large-scale, conventional military operations will backfire and undermine that goal,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said in an interview. “The U.S. learned over decades that unless you center humanitarian needs and the protection of civilians in conflict that your military goals will fail. We are seeing this first hand as Hamas rapidly resurfaces after IDF operations and retains capabilities despite months of fighting.”

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 9:22 pm well, forgive me. I certainly don't mean to be ignorant.

Would you like to discuss the article?

Sparko wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 9:45 pm Hobson's choice. As planned. If there were easy moves, Bibi would have already been jailed and Putin would fall out of a window.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 7:12 am Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims

uniquely depraved

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:57 am BIG factor and problem I have in regards to Bibi is the increase in anti-Semitism in this country and across the world.
The thing that is mind blowing to me is how the racist ignorant fucks in this country choose to decide if they are going to be strong supporters of Israel or strong supporters of "Palestine". Shouldn't they be hating both, if they truly are the racist fucks they want to be and actually take pride in being?
Yes, I am the one who points out Israel has a lot of citizens who are NOT Jewish and people hate "A-Rabs, and "Mooslums" (as much if not more than "Jooze") but come on man, why do they pick sides and not just say, fuck 'em all!
Right MICH?

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 7:12 am Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims

uniquely depraved

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 10:01 am

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 7:12 am Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims

uniquely depraved

I have been told that Ukraine asked for it.