• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Don’t know who’s down voting you, but yes, this is actually textbook strategy for insurgent warfare.

      Little guy makes a move with the goal of provoking big guy to create a security clampdown and overreact. This feeds little guy’s PR and recruitment efforts, as well as potentially overstretching big guy’s resources.

      I even have a recent and precisely on topic video that covers it:

      https://youtu.be/UKvzOF-toIA?si=ge1cJA2H7_NtDJcu

      He even references the ACTUAL DOD MANUALS that detail this strategy.

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, especially considering the initial attack was likely somewhat related to trying to stop Israel and Saudi Arabia’s growing friendship, but can anyone name a country that wouldn’t demand vengeance after the atrocities at the music festivals and overrun communities?

        The attack was designed to be brutal to force a brutal response, probably designed to be like that by Iranian religious fanatics who couldn’t care less about the Palestinian population as long as they’re a good weapon to use against Israel.

        None of that justifies Israel doing awful things but it does make it harder to think about.

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      1 year ago

      Serious question- and I’m
      It being argumentative- this is a question I have wrestled forth myself.

      What would proportionate response look like?

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Well first of all military response, proportionate or not, is meaningless in such a conflict. Israel is feeding Hamas who’s in turn feeding Israel etc etc, so the answer is to work on securing peace rather than radicalize the Gazan population more (because God knows after this shit they’ll be out for blood), but if there needs to be a military response it should at least follow Israel’s own roof knocking policy, which they’re not following in these attacks, where they drops small non explosive rounds to warn civilians to evacuate before bombing their homes (which is also bad but less bad than indiscriminate murder). See also: Not using actual fucking white phorphorus, not bombing routes and locations they designated as safe, and definitely not bombing hospitals and ambulances. These are all things the IDF has been confirmed doing in the past few days. Usually the response to Hamas attacks is airstrikes, but the last time anything like what we’re seeing now happened was in 2014.