There is defeatism in this article on a major Israeli website--and even the usual bravado in the Comments section is a little less. The mightiest military power in the Middle East is facing some problems against an imprisoned militia.
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk!
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Changed goals
The Biden administration —
without whose military supplies Israel quite simply could not continue to fight, and whose representatives regularly participate in Israeli war cabinet discussions — is watching all this play out with mounting dismay.
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On his most recent visit, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, openly worried about potential escalation on other fronts, eschewed talk of destroying or dismantling Hamas and instead repeatedly
backed what he apparently unilaterally decided is now the Israeli goal of “ensuring that October 7 can never happen again.”
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If that is the formulation now guiding Washington — rather than the “legitimate objective” to “eliminate Hamas” that the president hitherto
championed —
then the US, watching Israel’s government failing to responsibly direct an immensely difficult military campaign — seems certain to keep increasing the pressure for the fighting to wind down.
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What it needs is clear-cut political direction. Otherwise, Israel faces the danger of Hamas’s leadership and fighting force surviving, partially intact, of our other enemies delighted, and of Israelis in the south, the north, and everywhere in between, remaining bereft of security. And that is both unconscionable and untenable.
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And a Comment:
"The root of the problem is the US Democrat Party, it’s media outlets and the Biden administration’s wishy-washy stance, and, for that matter, the US failure, dating to 9/11, to itself adopt and to support allied adoption of WWII rules of engagement pursuant to formal declarations of war in response to major Islamist terrorist attacks.
Weakness invites aggression; appeasement of enemies bent on conquest makes war inevitable—on the aggressor’s terms. To a large extent, Israel is being forced to fight on the enemy’s terms.
Hamas believes time is on its side; and Hezbollah and its evil sponsor, Iran, are watching and taking notes as the forces of appeasement pressure Israel to fight with one arm tied behind its back."
