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Comment by YZF

12 hours ago

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> Estimated total force is of 15,000-20,000 armed combatants.

And how many after you stop counting journalists and little kids? We've all seen what Israel is doing, no matter how they try to hide it.

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    • LOL, it seems that a lot of your posts get flagged. The one where you startet with "You hate Israel" is where I wanted to answer, but it's gone.

      And perhaps for good, because the person you claim to do that never said this.

      It's fun who critiques on tactics or people is often just blown out of propertion by people like you. Suddenly, the critique is seen as general, targeting all of Israel (e.g. the full population) and not just the current government, or the IDF.

      IMHO, it is you that hate Israel.

      By asking for escalation, or discussing existing escalation away, the conflict will never be solved. You'd need a full genocide to solve the conflict. Perhaps biblical right-wings want that again (they claim to have been ordered a genocide to the Kanaanites after the exodus by YHWH themselves).

      But if you look at terrorist conflics (North-Irelands IRA, Basques ETA, Kolumbia's Sendero Luminoso and all the others) ... then exactly zero times was the conflict by years after years of escalation.

      What you do, like many escalaters, is that you look for horrible acts of Hamas. And you find them, plenty. But you don't look at horrible acts of IDF, or the Settlers. You would find them, too. But you are not just by ignoring one conflict party totally. And thus you are totally unable to reason correctly. And then ALL of your conclusions are void.

      IMHO if we want "to protect the children of Gaza" when we need to go after ALL people responsible for e.g. bombing whole houses, the the huge fields of rubble that used to be civilian towns, too. From the lowest soldier to the highest general or defense minister. We need to go after those people that made a plan to starve them, by hindering trucks with edibles into Gaza. And we need to go after those the recruited and trained them --- and don't get me wrong: "go after" here doesn't mean "execute a death penalty without or without a court verdict". JUST going after one originators of the cruelties will do ... not create piece. it will just raise the next generation of terrorists.

> Estimated total force is of 15,000-20,000 armed combatants.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-has-added-up...

> But official U.S. figures show that prior to Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas had anywhere between 20,000 and 25,000 fighters.

All this death and destruction to leave Hamas with... roughly the same numbers? Ooof. Embarassing.

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    • > They keep recruiting.

      Yes, that’s the obvious result the rest of the world has pointed out for decades, and why this style of war is self-defeating.

      Orphans make good recruits.