The most shameful defeat in Israeli history
The most shameful defeat in Israeli history
Zeev Maoz wrote in Haaretz:
“The war in Gaza will forever be remembered as the most shameful defeat in our history, without taking into account the military disgrace of October 7.”
“We will start with the proportion of forces. The estimate about Hamas’ combat forces is 30-50 thousand fighters. Even if we adopt the upper limit in this estimate, the Israeli army’s force system, including the reserves, reached 300 thousand at the beginning of the fighting. That is, six times the strength of Hamas. ".
“We will continue to compare in terms of the quality and size of the equipment that the two sides have. Hamas does not have an air force, armor, or artillery. It is very limited in the field of personal and collective protection, night vision equipment, electronic information, prediction, and assistance in discovering targets, and a logistical communication system. It is true that there are men Hamas has a certain advantage: the ability to hide, know the land and help the population, but all of that is dwarfed by the gap between the two parties in terms of the ratio of strength and the quality and size of equipment.”
“In view of this, the data at the beginning of the war were greatly tilted in our favor. If the time and speed of an absolute military decision had to be predicted, it would certainly have been more likely to expect that the war would end within a week or two. Instead, now, seven months after the war, we We have not achieved any resolution, we have not liberated the kidnapped people, and we are still languishing in the Gaza mire in the face of hostile international public opinion, increasing boycotts and isolation, and causing great humanitarian harm, which has led many in the world to call what is happening in the Gaza Strip (genocide).”
A deal to exchange freedom and life...military pressure, death and failure