I did suggest that, hence the use of special forces going in and carrying out surgical, strategic objectives. My issue (and indeed the issue of many others) was how and why they had decided to bomb Gaza with such unrelenting and indiscriminate fervour, unapologetically killing 7000 people in the process, with absolutely no remorse nor condemnation. Thats not a op, thats a cold-blooded massacre.
And you're keen to keep drawing parallels with Hamas and the likes of ISIS, but last I checked the US and Iraqi armed forces didn't opt to simply bomb Mosul to the ground, but rather it involved security forces going door to door, and securing sector by sector, protecting civilians and ensuring they were given the appropriate aid and refuge. That's hardly the play here and we can all see it.
if it is a regional group, then they will have to annex the region.
Provocation, existential threat, or perhaps from the point of view of some Israeli, a perfect excuse.
It would also make no sense to go in, take down Hamas and leave, risking the problem repeating itself.
Total occupation and parasitization of the land or government managed by various actors on the region and parasitization of the land a posteriori with more subtlety, and from there managing threats from a different type of border.
I don't think they have declared war after 50 years to carry out a "special military operation" and if they bomb, and using an unpleasant term repeated these days, it is to soften the ground, because obviously they are not going to send their own army to the slaughterhouse.
Clinical military operations and special forces seem like something that would be done against a command, not against thousands of combatants who, from what I understand, have their headquarters under a hospital.
Yes, all of what you wrote up to that point is true. But as long that there's no search for a political solution to this issue, you're condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past and you'll never solve the issue.
From your posts on the matter, I take that you are a believer in the military solution, including the extra-judiciary executions (please, correct me if I am wrong). There's a litany of powerful countries that militarily won, but ultimately lost this kind of wars because they bet on the very solution you're advocating for. History will tell you that you're dead wrong unless you take it upon you to literally eradicate the rebelling populations.
Hamas is an ugly symptom, but not the cause of the disease.
"Just because we have the best hammer doesn't mean that every problem is a nail."
- Barack Obama.
They lost them because the military presence was like a group of watchtowers in the middle of the immensity, thousands of kilometers from their capital. The United States (if that's what you mean) did not intend to send settlers to Kabul and occupy the land, Israel does intend to, now or in 20 years
