bonfarr said:LMCane said:
Let's think this through
the absolute best strategy would be for the Israelis to order all Palestinian civilians to leave north Gaza
then Hamas will flood the area with terrorists expecting an IDF ground assault
instead, the IAF launches 4000 bombs and flattens every single building on top of the tunnels
two days later, the Israelis order all the citizens in the south of Gaza to move to the North of Gaza
then blasts the South.
don't even launch a ground invasion just keep moving the civilians around and flattening everything behind them.
build tent cities on the rubble for the women and children
I would expect most of the Hamas fighters to mix in with evacuating Gazans. Why do they care if Israel invades and occupies the city? If I was Hamas I wouldn't fight the IDF straight up. Their strategy is probably going to be to wait it out and when the civilians go back to their homes start back up with guerrilla style tactics and try to kill IDF troops.
I agree with that but here is the sad reality
Israel can not kill their way through this- what are they supposed to do annihilate every male in Gaza?
just getting those 10,000 rocket launchers would be hugely degrading to Hamas.
they can pick off enough of the terror leaders to harm their capabilities for a decade
it's the Hamas storage, ammo and command tunnels to blow up, the missile launchers and missiles, the heavy weapons, control centers- that's the REAL objective
these terrorists are mostly just young fanatical Muslims- you can't kill every one of them.
I would rather save the lives of as many IDF soldiers as possible, save as many civilians, and still degrade Hamas so they will realize there is nothing they can really do for the next dozen years.
