Schanzer: “Some warned that this would be Israel’s “forever war” and said that thousands of Israeli soldiers would be killed. But Israel’s majority-reservist army defied those experts and their expectations”

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Two Assassinations and a Transformed War
Jonathan Schanzer
August 1, 2024

…Between the demise of the Hamas leadership and the loss of more than two-thirds of its fighting force in Gaza, Hamas is undeniably reeling. But the most meaningful development in Gaza has gone remarkably unreported. The Israelis now control the Philadelphi Corridor, which is the border area connecting Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip. More importantly, the Israelis now control the tunnels that lie beneath it. For most of the war, those tunnels enabled Hamas to bring weapons, cash, and materiel from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into the Gaza Strip. Those days are over. In the meantime, Israel continues to get the better of Hamas in virtually every clash. All of this flies in the face of the conventional wisdom touted by the so-called experts early in the war. READ MORE

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July 28, 2024 at 3:05 am

Attack ‘crossed every possible red and black line’: Israeli Druze Fury at Hezbollah
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