Not true. Israel does not need to commit genocide and mass murder to fight Hamas. Urban warfare was never and isn't fought like this. This is deliberately done to terrorize and displace the people of Gaza. And to level all of Gaza. It's a textbook genocide.
Look at US battle in Fallujah. Six weeks long. 600 Iraqis killed. US didn't murder 20,000 civilians to take over 25% of the city. Israel is deliberately and savagely mass murdering civilians on purpose out of hate and vengeance. There is no military purpose to that. It's political terrorism and genocide.
Not really. Urban warfare with an enemy that doesn't distinguish itself from civilians is every country's military nightmare . Look at Russia during the Chechenya wars. How many civilians were killed by Russian forces . Many documented articles estimates over 100,000(some claim close to 150,000/2000,000) chechen civilian casualties during the war and about 30,000/40,000 thousands military casualties. So in such wars civilians always suffer the most unlike two armies facing off conventionally where civilian casualties dont have to be so high for obvious reasons.
Guerilla warfare with militants blending in with civilians is a tough job for any military. There's no way to avoid civilian casualties in that case.
how to fight an insurgency: don't give the people a reason to create a fucking insurgency
If course, but easier said than done. You think all those countries (Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Morrocco, Iraq, Colombia, Syria, or Russia before etc etc ) who suffer or suffered from that don't know that? Lol knowing something theoretically and doing it in practice are 2 different things.
Most times in life we know something is wrong but we still do it.. That's what it means to be human being.
That was a stupid question , just exposes how ignorant the reporter is.
In The Shalit deal we released 1000 terrorists for one hostage,
No wonder his reaction tweet reached million of views.
The question that left Israeli Eylon Levy speechless - but only momentarily.
This is certainly a meme-worthy image watch his reaction :
Actually that's something that has always stupefied me. Not even the US, UK, France, or western powers for that matter will make such a skewed decision to trade hundreds or thousand of prisoners for one or a couple of their citizen kidnapped. This will only encourage militant, terror groups or gangs globally to result to such measures even more knowing they have far more to gain . In fact I don't see one country in the world that will agree to such a thing.
On this one I will say Israel is a special unique case. Its even crazy to think about such a thing guess its also due to Israel's history and social fabric on how their people view themselves. So the government has little choice than to take the most drastic measure secure their citizens. Not sure its the right thing to do though .but to each his own..