yeah the idea that the Israeli govt would sacrifice ~1500 Israelis (plus impending war casualties), severely damage the air of invincibility it cultivates as part of deterrence, initiate a massive callup, start a multifront war that might drag in Iran, and virtually ensure its own downfall in order to annex half of Gaza makes about as much sense as 9/11 truth claims. I would not be surprised at all they ignored warnings from Egypt or whoever else. as with the intelligence failures iof 9/11, don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. they got complacent and Hamas leadership took advantage of it.
I have been wondering that myself but they're so publicly committed to destroying Hamas that it's very difficult to see them backing off. They haven't demobilized any of the 300k reservists. They've made an effort, however half-hearted, to clear people out of the battlespace.
Well, there's footage of a ground launched rocket arcing back towards the area it was launched from, so it's not impossible.
Hezbollah would invade from the North, they've said as much and Israel doesn't have the resources to handle both with the overwhelming force they think they'll need for either.
In any conflict it's good to blanket assume fog of war for any incident until evidence firms up. I'm sure a lot of that is bad faith, but you can reasonably say you're not sure about something happened hours ago. Could well have been an Israeli strike, ofc.
This I don't buy for a second. A Hezbollah invasion is not a serious existential threat. It's proved that it's very good at defending prepared positions on its own turf, but invasion and maneuver warfare etc? With its handful of old Soviet tanks and total lack of an air force? Come on. Hezbollah coming out en masse into the open would be a gift for the Israelis.
Given the long history here, literally thousands of examples of Israeli atrocities followed by obfuscation and denial, and then eventual disclosure, plus the fact that no Hamas rocket is capable of such destruction, I think we can assume it was an Israeli strike unless convincing evidence emerges to say otherwise.
Yeah, I was going by initial reports. An airstrike on a Christian hospital in a so-called safe zone, coming after several hospital and ambulance strikes in the last fews days. Things kicking off now in Jenin, Ramallah and Tunis.
This is where we, due respect, have to disagree
And obv it's extremely fucking grim, even by the standards of the last extremely grim 10 daysQuite the press conference
