Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100

[Richard D]

159. Perhaps, perhaps not

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The general feeling now is that the war is coming to an end. The Hamas leaders are all pushing daisies, and there is an anti-Hamas movement in Gaza. The people are realizing that they have been used, and many do not want to be martyrs for a lost cause.

Total defeat means surrender and sitting down at the negotiating tables to create a new future, like Germany and Japan ending WWII, and a lot of etc. It would also mean a willingness to reform the education system there to get the Jew-hate out of the school books and curriculum.

Many of the neighboring Arab states want peace. Watch for the Abraham Accords to be expanded. According to recently found Hamas documents, the main reason they instigated the war was to stop Israel and Saudi Arabia from signing the accord.

As to the idea that this cycle will go on into the far future, I don't know. I think that is fear-based. We don't really see other defeated countries that accepted defeat, as in the case of Germany and Japan, continuing the cycle of hatred and lobbing bombs across their borders. Now they are two of the strongest economies in the world, and the lives of the people are far better than they were under fascism. Gaza could follow that pathway, and the Gazans could have a far better life than they ever had under Hamas or the PA. Many there want that and realize that Hamas is a dead-end.

BTW, every aid truck that enters Gaza that Hamas hijacks is enough to fund a brigade for a month. As of yesterday, I believe, aid trucks will be allowed in with enough protection that the food will go to the people instead of to Hamas for inflated resale to the people.

I am optimistic, very guardedly. There are no high-level Hamas leaders left alive (correction: 25%--10--remain temporarily alive out of 50), and more terror tunnels are being destroyed almost daily. Imagine what Gaza could be like today had the tens of billions of dollars in aid that entered that poor place had gone to improving the quality of life there instead of funding Hamas and making their leaders multi-billionaires? I am sure many citizens of Gaza are also imagining that.