Meengla
Elite Member
Those American officials are making propaganda for Israel. First, it is true that IOF seized Rafah and Philadelphia Corridor. However, their occupation forces suffer casualties on daily basis. And it is these increasing casualties that are driving the IOF military commanders to back the ceasefire and end of the conflict.
Second, their claim of killing senior Qassam commanders, especially Mohamed Deif, is bogus. Hamas officials repeatedly repudiated all of the Israeli & Western claims of his death.
Source:
""Associated Press" on Hamas leader Osama Hamdan: Mohammed Deif, the leader of the movement's military wing in the Gaza Strip, is alive."
Hamas and other resistance factions remain intact. They seem to replenish their ranks and also adopt to the changing conditions in the battlefield. Their different military units operate independently, and their tunnel infrastructure remains mostly intact.
Another factor to measure IOF's desperations is their repeated attacks on schools & other facilities that house the civilian population after they suffer casualties in the battlefield. If an army is winning in the battlefield, they won't resort to killing innocent men, women, and children. Only an army desperate for winning would take their rage on the civilian population.
Finally, the Biden administration, the occupation entity, and their puppet regimes would not be rushing to ceasefire had Israel been on the verge of "defeating" Hamas, PIJ, and other resistance factions. The goal of the ceasefire talks is to achieve occupation entity's goals in the talks for what it couldn't achieve in the battlefield. Obviously, the Zionist occupation army can seize parts of Gaza but can they hold it indefinitely? The answer is no. The Biden administration, the occupation entity, & their puppet regimes in the region and beyond want to find other ways of disarming the Palestinian freedom fighters in Gaza. Let us hope and pray they fail in their efforts.
Very good post.
But here is an important point for not just you but others to note: What is being called by you as 'American propaganda' as such as that NY Times article, actually doesn't help the Israelis: On the contrary! The quoted NY Times article actually dents the Israeli (Netanyahu's) narrative that they can obtain military goals in Gaza. While the anti-Israel readers won't respect the biased NY Times on this conflict anyway, it is the Israelis who would pay closer attention to such articles and reading something which says that Israel can't achieve its goals in Gaza is not helpful to their morale. And you can even seen in that article that Israelis are still claiming to Americans that they can achieve their goals in Gaza within next '2-3' months; so there is subtle disagreement in that argument.
As for Deif or Shukr or Haniyeh, even the Israelis know that killing leaders won't matter much because those leaders have known in their lives they were marked for death and many others being groomed as replacements and would gladly step up.
