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It is day 10, and I am becoming pessimistic that there is any way to destroy Hamas without destroying Gaza. Also, how to destroy all the 'Gaza subway' system without destroying Gaza? Once Gaza is destroyed, where will 2 million people live? Even Without a single person being killed by a bomb...

Isn't a standing six Storey structure very convenient to use to rain down RPGs etc.? Once it is demolished, you can always wait for some time and use drones and thermal imaging at night to see if there is any activity on the ground. Also, without water, how long can anyone stay under the rubble?

They are not bombing to destroy tunnels or Hamas. They want to remove structures above that may be used to attack them during ground phase. If they were not pumped up on adrenaline, they could have done it more humanely. Once that is resolved, they will figure a way to destroy tunnels.

I see this theme repeated ad nauseum. My guess is, Israel does not want to annex or take over Gaza. They just want to make it unliveable enough that Hamas can't be there. That means, no ability to erect structures. A landscape largely resembling Sinai desert.

War stopped being a Gladiator fight even before 20th Century. War is now a large corporate activity with considerable division of labor, application of technology and brainpower. Being nostalgic about man-to-man fight is like being nostalgic about handmade clothes.

This strikes a nerve because, for decades, Israel played a central role in facilitating a genocide against the Colombian people. Sir, we have mastered the subject. We consider paying tuition for continued enrolment a waste.

I am living in U.S. which has been having a very divisive government for about 7 years now. But the complete lack of difference of opinion in both parties regarding how to respond to these attacks surprised me. Not a single Congressman or Senator murmured about sending two Carrier Groups and...

On a lighter note, I remembered a solution to Middle East problem by Dr. Cooper AKA Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory.

But if you dump a million new phones on the network at the edge of Sinai, what will happen to the network? That is like all Gazans trying to get into a bus.

Thank you. I was thinking about diesel generators stopping after a few days. Secondly, if the phones are provisioned for Gaza network, they can't automatically work on Egyptian network unless they are all provisioned. The networks have even different country codes: 20 for Egypt and 970 for Gaza...

What were they? I read that Pakistan has been handling the situation with the tenderness of walking on eggshells.

But how does the phone network function without power?

That type of moral argument might have worked 50 years back if there was a leader like Martin Luther king Jr. or Nelson Mandela. But they never got such a leader.

Goes to show this war is being waged by adrenalin as much as jet fuel. If they had thought this through earlier, they could have avoided the civilian deaths by all the heavy bombing in the north by first getting the people to move south before removing the structures.

Pakistan has too much to lose from even the remotest hint of 'terrorist sympathizer' label. That leprosy should be left as far away as possible.

My guess is, they wanted to upset the apple cart of Arab-Israeli rapprochement, which is understandable, as they felt they may be left out. But while doing so, they way overshot the runway and forced Israel towards complete annihilation of Gaza for fear of future copycat attacks if left...

I want to tell Daniel that Western governments usually have stronger constitutional protection against such funny business. What he should be more worried is that in some non_Western governments, where such protections are missing, any funny business causes 'disappearance', not some namby-pamby...

He IS reading from a script. Imagine him saying: "We have spoken to Israelis, they said if we have to vaporize Gaza to destroy Hamas, we will do it, we don't care what the world thinks". What will happen to the image of this administration? They have to save face by dishing out standard bromides.

Why go for an expensive armored car when you can outrun the machine guns of well-trained terrorists.

Also see https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/top-secret-hamas-documents-show-terrorists-intentionally-targeted-elem-rcna120310