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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
What are the victory conditions for militarily beating Hamas though?
How can you systematically kill every member of an organisation which has the majority support of the populace and blends into the population as required? genocide?
Guerilla wars are unwinnable. The only way to resolve the situation is by mediation, to somehow put the vitriol aside and adopt a balanced attitude towards the situation.
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I quite agree that ultimately, you can't overcome guerillas without some form of negotiated arrangement being agreed, however that shouldn't detract from a couple of unfortunate pieces of misinformation in your post.
Firstly, it's misleading to say that Hamas has 'the majority support of the populace', because that's to ignore the fact that they
don't have the majority support of the Palestinian people as a whole. They may command support in Gaza, but that doesn't grant them legitimacy any more than the SNP would have the legitimacy to start creating an independent Scotland by force in Banffshire, just because they have a majority vote there.
Secondly, it's all very well saying that the vitriol must be put to one side, however, by implication your post is critical of Israel, rather than Hamas, whose founding principles include the destruction of Israel. Plenty of vitriol to be put aside there, wouldn't you agree?