re: Israel–Hamas War Discussion Thread: News Links On First Page

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According to the Jtimes link, Israel is ending its active invasion and occupation of southern Gaza.

Beginning of the end for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran appears to be off for the time being.

I hope this is the beginning of the end of the war. The US experience after 9/11 largely proves you can’t exterminate extreme ideology with bombs and occupations.

Netanyahu has weakened Israel by falling asleep on October 6 and losing crucial support for Israel as a result of its post October 7 conduct. Hopefully he is gone soon. His time and utility for Israel has come and gone.

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I'm more pessimistic than I was a while back too. I don't think Hamas will be destroyed by this war anymore than Hezbollah was destroyed in 2006. They've taken a beating but according to Israeli media they've already returned to parts of Gaza City and Khan Younis, only about a third of the tunnels have been destroyed and their rocket stockpile is apparently still in the thousands. The reason the blockade of northern Gaza is still going on is because Hamas is there and are distributing the aid that comes in, just as they are in Rafah.

Netanyahu has to know his career is over as soon as the war ends. The same way Israel had major political and military changes with the Winograd Commission after the 06 war, this one will be even worse. The amount of political/IDF/Mossad/Shin Bet firings and resignations over 10/7 is sure to be high.