Carpet bombing Gaza ... yet again

(Photo Credit: John Macdougall/AFP)

At least 21 people have been killed since the Israeli army restarted its war on Gaza during the early hour of 1 December, after a one-week pause that saw the release 

of dozens of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners.

Carpet bombing Gaza, designed to eliminate Hamas, will not work. It didn't work in Algeria, Nam, Iraq or Afghanistan as indigenous fighters don't have to win, just outlast. IMHO, Israel is entering into an existential crisis of their own making, something bound to happen when 800,000 Palestinians were driven out of Palestine in 1948 by Begin and significant others in an ethnic cleansing operation the Palestinians call the NAKBA. People driven off their land never forget, something the Israelis are beginning to find out in no uncertain terms as the Palestinians will not give up, no matter what the cost may be.

“Amid the return to combat, we stress the government of Israel is committed to achieving the goals of the war — releasing our hostages, eliminating Hamas, and ensuring that Gaza can never again threaten the people of Israel,” the statement adds.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir took to social media on Friday morning to say Hamas should be destroyed “without compromises, without deals,” adding that the renewed bombardment of the world's largest open-air prison must be conducted at “maximum power.”

This will not end well.