Israel has severely set back Hamas but will never be able to completely eliminate the group, U.S. officials said.

Israel has achieved all that it can militarily in Gaza, according to senior American officials, who say continued bombings are only increasing risks to civilians while the possibility of further weakening Hamas has diminished.

With the Biden administration racing to get cease-fire negotiations back on track, a growing number of national security officials across the government said that the Israeli military had severely set back Hamas but would never be able to completely eliminate the group.

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  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    361·
    3 months ago

    I don’t think they care about that. The difference between the US in Iraq and Israel in Palestine is that the US wasn’t trying to annex Iraq. Israel is trying to annex Palestine. They’re fine with killing every last Palestinian in Palestine. To them, that would be preferable, because then they wouldn’t have to worry about a domestic insurgency. If people elsewhere are radicalized, that’s fine, because they’d have to come to Israel, and that’s much easier to deal with, especially with Israel’s strong border defenses.

    Not to mention, Israel and AIPAC have the US by the balls, so they’d still be getting plenty of aid for defending their new territory.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      232·
      3 months ago

      Israel’s government wants to kill every person living in Gaza, it’s not that they are OK with it, it’s the whole point.