Monday, February 24, 2025
WWII Rules
This calls the entire strategy into question -- as should have happened after October 7. The Israelis set a high store on getting hostages back, and they pay a high price to do so. All that does is incentivize hostage-taking, and now the Israelis are paying for it with these spectacles intended to humiliate them. At some point, the Israelis have to make the price for hostaging the permanent and total defeat of Gaza and the destruction of its infrastructure until capitulation. That is the only way to end wars when one side insists on fighting for annihilation.
Also:
It's time to deal finally and forcefully with Hamas' billionaire boys club in Doha. No more 'safe zones,' and no more cheap talk. These people run the Iranian proxy army that killed dozens of Americans on October 7 and kidnapped several more, using them as leverage against Israel and the US. The only message Hamas and all of the other Iranian toadies will understand is utter destruction. So let's quit pussyfooting around and give them a demonstration that they will never forget.
And:
Enough is enough. This war won't end without the utter annihilation of one of the belligerents, because the belligerent most likely to lose an all-out war keeps trying to annihilate the one who keeps cutting deals. After twenty years of this, the game should really be over, and WWII rules should apply -- utter destruction or complete capitulation. The Gazans have to be forced to choose, since they keep choosing war.
