Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed his goal is to completely “eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah, both politically and militarily.” That’s his impossible dream. Further, he claims that the wars — and UN declared genocide — being waged on the men, women and children living in Gaza and Lebanon won’t be over until he accomplishes that aberrant dream.
There’s more to it. The Israelis should have learned from their humiliating defeat in trying to take over Lebanon from Hezbollah in 2006. The spoiler is well memed by Col. Richard Dunn in speaking of “our” Afganistan War blunder like this – – –
“You could kill all the terrorists in Afghanistan, all the terrorists in the world. You could hang Osama bin Laden in sight of the White House. You still wouldn’t have solved the problem because you will have created a whole new generation of terrorists.” –Col. Richard Dunn, October, 2001
But of course, the terrorists are the Israelis not Hamas (or Hezbollah.)
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By the Zionist fixation on killing “leaders,” they demonstrate their amazing failure to learn from their own mistakes. They assume their adversaries’ count on hierarchical structures and presumed hierarchical leaders and that these are essential in today’s warfare.
In imagining they can wipe out Palestinian resistance with tanks, and bombs etc, when confronting Fourth Generation adversaries such as Hamas and Hezbollah, the Zionists demonstrate they’re stuck in second and third generation warfare thinking. The result is extremely destructive.
This below gives you an insight as to the actual importance of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, in fact decentralized leaders in general – – –
“There is a basic fallacy concerning Indian leadership of which nearly all are guilty. For purposes of discussion, we can refer to it as the ‘fallacy of the chief.’ Sometime in the pioneer era, we fell victim to the belief that the prevailing pattern of political organization among all American Indians was hereditary dictatorship; in other words, that a ruler from a particular lineage exercised unlimited power over a group of obedient subjects. … So ingrained is this belief that today the average tourist, when visiting an Indian reservation, is likely to ask ‘which one is the chief?’ … The North American Indians had ‘chiefs’ but often these were mere advisors and virtually never dictators. Except in emergencies, they had no power over the lives and property of their fellows.” JAIE: INFORMAL POWER STRUCTURES WITHIN INDIAN COMMUNITIES
And, from the “other” side – – –
“Before the white man came, we Indians had no chiefs. We had leaders, of course, men and women chosen by consensus for their wisdom and courage. The idea of a pyramidal hierarchy with a single person at the top was European. When whites first demanded to speak to a “chief,” my ancestors didn’t quite know how to respond. They pushed somebody out in front as spokesman–not necessarily the brightest or the bravest guy around, just someone willing to talk to the strangers and find out what they wanted in our country. But as far as the whites were concerned, he was our monarch, a sort of petty king, and therefore entitled to special privileges.”-Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread (Los Angeles, Ca: General Publishing Group December 1996) p. 222
In addition to murdering approximately 42,000+ Palestinian men, women and especially children, the Israelis assassinated many Hamas and Hezbollah leaders with little noticable effect. Just last Wednesday they killed off the latest top Hamas negotiator, Yahya Sinwar. On July 31, the Zionists assassinated top Hamas peacemaker Ismail Haniyeh while he was visiting Iran. Etc.
Despite Israelie propaganda, both were moderates and respected throughout the mid-east. Is there another Hamas peacemaker with the status and respect to speak for the Hamas fighters? If not, then what?
An excellent object lesson as to how things actually operate outside Netanyahu’s aberrant dream is the U.S./Brit experience in Iraq, particularly Basra. Even more relevant is The Battle of Algiers” called “one of the most influential political films in history” which documents the outcome of such a counter-insurgency faux pas committed by the French.
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P.S. The October 7 Hamas attack on some Israelies was just another tit-for-tat skirmish that went wrong. Hamas tries to capture Israeli soldiers to trade for the huge numbers of Palestinians kidnapped, imprisoned, and often held without charge for years by Israel.
The Palestinians, despite well-known Israeli propaganda, take good care of their captives else there is no trade value. A classic example is the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011. After being held for over 5 years, Shalit was exchanged for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
On October 7 of last years, things got out of hand, Israel invoked the Hannibal directive and, despite what media says, clearly killed its own on 7 October.
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