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The IDF has been relentlessly killing Hamas’ top leaders and commanders with surgical strikes. On July 13, the long-sought military commander of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammed Deif, was assassinated. On July 31, the head of Hamas’ political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed when a bomb exploded in his room at a heavily-guarded guesthouse in Tehran. Another dozen Hamas commanders, just below the top level, have been killed during the Gaza campaign. Only Yahya Sinwar, the man mainly responsible for the October 7 attacks, has still managed to stay alive, slithering from tunnel to tunnel underneath Gaza, bringing with him Israeli hostages whose proximity, he assumes, will preserve him from an IDF attack.
Hamas fighters are being kept constantly on the run, defeated in one city after another, and forced to keep moving, if they can, from cities that the IDF has announced it has targeted to the “safe” areas it has warned civilians to move to. The pressure never ends. The IDF sometimes will clear an area, and then returns if it detects Hamas operatives have been regrouping there. Many of the Hamas operatives appear to be living in squalor in the tunnels underneath Gaza. The IDF can rotate out its troops for rest and recuperation, but the Hamas combatants don’t have that luxury. They must continue to fight, from their hideouts in civilian apartments, schools, and mosques, or emerging from the network of tunnels in attempts to ambush IDF soldiers. Their morale is low; after all, they have seen half of their original number killed, and an unknown number of wounded operatives are being treated in wretched conditions. Hundreds of the tunnels have been destroyed. Their weapons hideouts have been uncovered and are being systematically destroyed; every day they lose more weapons that are found and seized by the IDF. The IDF has also taken control of the Philadelphi Corridor, a strip of land inside southern Gaza on the border with Egypt, and has ended all smuggling of weapons into Gaza both above ground and through the tunnels, now destroyed, that formerly snaked underground from Egypt into Gaza.
Of the 35,000 operatives Hamas had in Gaza before October 7, almost half — 17,000 — have been killed, and many (no one has publicly speculated as to how many, but ordinarily in wars the wounded far outnumber the dead) have been wounded and are now hors de combat. Hamas has seen hundreds of its tunnels blown up, along with the weapons hidden in them. And a great many of the weapons hidden by Hamas above ground, in schools, mosques, hospitals, and apartments, have either been blown up or seized. Every day brings fresh news of more weapons, being discovered, and seized or destroyed, by the IDF.
Hamas is on the ropes. Will the Bidenites, eager to see a ceasefire deal before November’s election that they can promote as a great diplomatic accomplishment, manage to pressure Israel into agreeing to a permanent ceasefire that will mean Hamas operatives can declare a victory because “we are still standing,” allowing the terrorists to regroup in Gaza, while also recruiting new members and training them to take the places of those who have been killed? Will Netanyahu agree to give up control of the Philadelphi Corridor, as Egypt so insistently demands, which would mean a reprise of the weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza? Or will Prime Minister Netanyahu hold fast, despite terrific pressure from Washington and from hostage families, and continue to insist on a limited, not a permanent ceasefire, of a month or two, so that Hamas hasn’t the time to reconstitute some military units? I’m betting on Netanyahu’s stubborn determination, that so infuriates the Bidenites, as when, despite Biden’s dire warnings not to, the IDF entered Rafah and killed thousands of Hamas operatives in the city.
Meanwhile, the Presidential election in the U.S., the anti-mass migration protests in the U.K. that the government has tried to crush by demonizing and arresting hundreds of protesters, the continuing governmental crisis in France, Ukraine’s surprising push into the Kursk region of Russia, and the 26 million people now facing famine in war-torn Sudan have all been taking attention away from the Gaza War, to the great dismay of Hamas. It’s hard to see how Hamas can make itself again, as it was for the first several months of the Gaza war, the cynosure of all eyes. The world’s media are on to other, much more riveting subjects. And there is nothing Yahya Sinwar can do about this, unless he turns himself in to the IDF, or is captured or killed, which should be good for a few days of stories. But not more.
Excellent analysis. The attention span of the world is short and if the IDF can hold out till after the elections and if Trump wins then we can get a better deal.
To kill a snake go for the head that’s a sure want to stop them from Biting
As you state, Hamas has been defeated. No doubt. But will the US allow Israel to have a victory? This is the question.
As I’ve said for decades, since the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Israel is never allowed to win, and the Arabs are never allowed to lose. So if the US allows a victory in Gaza, including the right to set the terms, it will be a first,
I have heard of plans to flood the tunnels with sea water. Sounds good, but they should also consider diverting sewers into them as well.
They already tried. It was not a great success
Since Hamas has been stealing all drainage pipes sent to Gaza to transform into rockets I doubt that there is very much of a modern sewage system to make diversion of sewage into the tunnels effective. Even in major cities in the Middle East outside of Israel many “modern” building flush their toilets into cesspools that have to be manually evacuated every few years. Even the toilets of the Burj al Khalifa in Dubai empty into fleets of dump trucks who unload their cargo who knows where.
“cynosure of all eyes” The author like everyone else forgot to mention the 100,000 Armenian Christians that were thrown out of their homes last September. I have not seen any articles here about them. Sadly the omission is standard across the industry.
Just a Matter of Time. Yahya.
After those horrendous bloody murderous jihadist attacks by Muslim terrorists of Hamas on October 7th.2023 , an Israeli government official said “They made a big mistake.”
The jihadists of Hamas did ,indeed, did make a “big mistake.” For it’s very fitting and even necessary that the Israeli military and police need to and have to engage in extensive measures of retribution for those Hamas terror /murder attacks.
For it’s very obvious that the jihadists who make up Hamas only understand the language of violent brutal force, therefore that’s exactly they should be dealt with.
Since that hostile jihad entity, Hamas struck Israel first, on October7th, 2023, the use of the military force against Hamas is an very important and fitting response of self-defense.
The former US President James Monroe, had rightly and wisely, in a speech declared, “The right of self -defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and individuals.”
Furthermore, the way to defeat that murderous jihad terror entity ,Hamas , is by a use of a very strong force of the power of military might. For the sad and tragic reality is that this is the only language that the jihadists will understand, because they will not and cannot respond to reason and logic.
Therefore Israeli military air strikes are both appropriate and necessary actions against the jihadists of Hamas.
As Thomas Jefferson has ,so rightly , written ‘With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Being on the receiving end of a strong power of the force of military might is the only language that the jihadists of Hamas will understand. Therefore, that how they need to be dealt with. Therefore, it’s impotent to hit it hard , hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly , vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
As it had been ,so rightly, said “Half –measures in was is both folly and madness.”
The jihadists of Hamas are always very action in their underground tunnels. They are very comparable to mole rats.
It still should be noted that if any four-legged mole rats happen to be offended by my comparing them to those brutal cruel vicious vile and heinous as well as malicious and murderous Hamas jihadists then it do apologize to those four-legged mole rats.
Track Sinwar down and exterminate him like the diseased vermin he is. Give no quarter.
I suggest that if you have a chance, watch the 3 episodes of Hezbollah INC, and learn what Obama and Whitehouse did in the end. It is one of the most riveting documentary series I’ve watched for years. Plus the whole truth about Hezbollah that most people don’t know. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26696093/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_0_in_0_q_hezbollah%2520inc
Sinwar seems to have forgotten that most improbable of Muslim boasts to love death more than life.
I wonder just how low he will sink to save his own skin?
Reports say he doesn’t sleep in the same place more than two nights and he’s disguising himself as a woman.
Netanyahu is channeling the defiant spirit of previous Likud PM Menachem Begin who, in no uncertain terms, informed then Delaware Senator Biden (when he threatened to withhold arms from Israel) that ” I am not a Jew with bended knee…….but with 3500 years of…….we will defeat our enemies with or without your help.”
If Israel has learned anything in the last 10 months, it is that it is imperative that we ramp up our endogenous weapons production industry and not rely on the USA which has proven itself to be an inconsistent ally in this regard. All Israelis are (or should be) praying for a Trump victory and subsequent Pompeo- style support from a new WH administration come Jan 2025. Nevertheless, the above applies even if Trump is reelected.
You will find this hard to believe that Australia is a country that welcomes Hamas as ‘refugees’ even when they spout slogans. Police in NSW stood by when huge crowd chanted slogans like “kill the Jews”
Yay, Bibi…”betting on Netanyahu’s stubborn determination…”
This is my favorite thing in the whole article. I love that he is going ahead despite fierce and relentless opposition.
If they leave any Arabs alive in gaza they will be sorry because this will all happen again in 10-15 years. They need to ship them to Yemen to live with their Houthi brothers.