> On Jan 21, 2025, at 11:33 PM, RKOB via groups.io <aktiv=rkob....@groups.io>
> wrote:
>
> “Major General (res.) Eliezer (Cheney) Marom, former commander of the Navy,
> spoke today (Friday) with Ron Koffman and Aryeh Eldad on radio 103fm and
> expressed his position regarding the conduct of the war. “For 15 months, we
> have not been able to achieve the goals of the war, not one. We did not
> eliminate Hamas from a military point of view, and we did not return the
> abductees. These are the facts on the table and say that we failed to meet
> the goals of the war. Marom noted at the beginning of the conversation,
> adding: “We wanted that at the end of this war, there would be no Hamas in
> the Strip, neither military nor governmental. There is also a Hamas military
> with tens of thousands of armed men, and of course, on the day we signed the
> deal, Hamas controls the entire Strip, from Beit Hanoun to Rafah”. [v]
>
The evidence that Yossi Schwartz offers for the claim that Palestinians won the
war is nothing more than a single statement from a single Israeli General. For
over a year, most credible experts claimed that it was impossible to eliminate
Hamas owing to a variety of reasons including the nature of asymmetric warfare
and that Hamas is a social movement with more than a military wing [1]. It was
widely believed that Netanyahu's government was lying when it said it was
conducting the war with the goal to eliminate Hamas. Instead, it destroyed the
infrastructure of Gaza of essential services, e.g., 85% of the water and sewage
system has been destroyed according to one source [2], and Israel has at least
neutralized if not dismantled the international support system that supported
Hamas. Israel taught Hamas that Iran had put that system of alliances in place
to defend Iran and not to go to war for Palestine, which the Hamas leadership
(and RKOB) seemed to expect.
The real problem with this statement beyond the shoddy argument is to endorse a
failed strategy. If the 10/7 strategy of military warfare against the regional
power backed by a world power has led to this victory, it's impossible to say
what defeat would look like. It rejects alternative strategies such as proposed
by Gilbert Achcar: "The first, he [Achcar] said, is to lead a good part of
Israeli society to split from the ideology and path of Zionism. The second is
for the new Palestinian leadership to connect with the civil-rights movements
in the Arab world. The third is to expand and consolidate the international
solidarity that has been on the rise due to the horrific Israeli war on
Gaza."[3]
Mark
[1]
https://www.dw.com/en/israel-conflict-can-hamas-really-be-completely-eliminated/a-67692070
[2]
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241004-85-of-gazas-water-sewage-facilities-destroyed-by-israels-bombs/
[3] https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8702
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