So Hamas is playing the World War II Japanese tactics card? Remind me how that ended up?
You think Israel is going to nuke their own territory?
“So Hamas is playing the World War II Japanese tactics card? Remind me how that ended up?”
This isn’t World War 2. Then the opinion of the public only counted in England and America. That opinion was solidly behind their respective governments. Now imagine the impact that instant worldwide communications and cell phone videos of British or American sailors machine-gunning Japanese sailors and airmen in the water would have today. To put those events in context, frequently those Japanese stabbed the sailors trying to rescue them. So, shooting them was the safest and kindest thing that could be done for them. But imagine an out-of-context youtube video of each incident. Public opinion would shift as surely as the Earth turns. Hamas knows that and regularly sacrifices innocent people as well as their own fighters to win the propaganda war.
In the negotiations to end the Viet Nam war and American told a Vietnamese delegate, (approximately) “we’ve won every military engagement.” The delegate responded, “And, it doesn’t matter does it. We’re here and you’re leaving.”