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BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police
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Serious question- and I’m
It being argumentative- this is a question I have wrestled forth myself.
What would proportionate response look like?
Probably something less than genocide and killing unaffiliated reporters
Agreed. So - what?
A well executed police raid to drag Hamas' leadership out
This is 1,000,000% corruption coming from the head, so chopping off the head will go a long way towards ending Hamas' problem causing.
Problem is that Netenyahu trying this is what got Hamas into power in the first place because he decided he wanted a replacement govt to be a hateable enemy so I'm not too hopeful
I think that sounds absolutely right. But I worry about while it sounds good from my armchair, to what extent it’s really possible given conditions on the ground and the hostages.
… How do you identify government leadership in a group that notably violates the Geneva conventions at least as often as Israel by going plain clothes and hiding in the civilian population? Do you think Israel has police forces in Gaza still?
Well we know who the literal president of Hamas is, start with him and work your way down the list of more and more obscure leaders
Additionally, Mossad is one of the most successful and widespread intelligence agencies in the planet. I don't buy anyone saying they don't already have lists a mile long and the resources to carry it out.
Others have pointed out but Mossad are a different branch of the Israeli intelligence apparatus than the folks who'd likely be handling this, but the point most likely stands either way that this whole incident represents an abject failure of intelligence ops in preventing a large scale attack.
Speaking out of my ass and for America, we would use our "intelligence" and latest spy equipment.
Edit: What did I say that is so upsetting?
It took us years to track down Osama Bin Laden.
That may have taken us years but I don't think we have an open policy of shutting down whole cities with threat of annihilation.
These quick comments are not enough to do justice to these topics but I do not mean to upset anyone.
A lot has changed since 2001.
Ground invasion to search and destroy Hamas, while securing and protecting civilians.
Well first of all military response, proportionate or not, is meaningless in such a conflict. Israel is feeding Hamas who's in turn feeding Israel etc etc, so the answer is to work on securing peace rather than radicalize the Gazan population more (because God knows after this shit they'll be out for blood), but if there needs to be a military response it should at least follow Israel's own roof knocking policy, which they're not following in these attacks, where they drops small non explosive rounds to warn civilians to evacuate before bombing their homes (which is also bad but less bad than indiscriminate murder). See also: Not using actual fucking white phorphorus, not bombing routes and locations they designated as safe, and definitely not bombing hospitals and ambulances. These are all things the IDF has been confirmed doing in the past few days. Usually the response to Hamas attacks is airstrikes, but the last time anything like what we're seeing now happened was in 2014.
I don't think I agree -- This is an awesome blog post you should totally read if you're interested in history. https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-ii-foraging/
I'd say anything post train you're going to try to capture infrastructure to make war, so saying we're sieging cities sounds more ancient to me.
If you read that post, you'll see 'foraging' really meant robbing and brutalizing local populaces for their food since anything but the smallest sized army can't feed itself for more than a few weeks. Not to mention once we are sieging a city and starving all the people out.
What are some modern examples of 'letting your army run wild on the populace'? I know that happens quite a bit but I can't think of any sanctioned ones unless we go to wwii Japan maybe? and that was more than a little wild. Seems like most of the time a platoon or w/e just goes berserker.
I don't think you can call My Lai 'sanctioned' or official even though it was done by a commissioned officer who was court martialed (but got off). Even then they gave the heli pilot that landed between US troops and a group of civilians about to get murdered a silver star -- https://www.britannica.com/event/My-Lai-Massacre
Japan wwII definitely tactical and sanctioned but that one is weird because all of the military operated so independently.
I don't know enough about your other examples. It makes sense though and I like the word you use 'retaliation'
A good modern war planner isn't going to waste energy on retaliation but when you get onto the ground and have a bunch of killers that don't think of the enemy as all the way human (so you can convince them to do so much killing) retaliation would come up often. Also if you have some crazy strong man dictator, he may need retaliation to keep the image or drive his paranoia.