Old article but most still ring true, in thisterrorwar.... including regarding Hezbollah
Extracts:
postwar political process
As the veteran Middle East observers Robert Satloff and Dennis Ross wrote in American Purpose
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“Any talk of a postwar political process is meaningless without Israel battlefield success:
There can be no serious discussion of a two-state solution or any other political objective with Hamas either still governing Gaza or commanding a coherent military force”
Finally, like pretty much every expert I, [Brooks] consulted, I’m also left with the conclusion that Israel has to completely rethink and change the humanitarian and political side of this operation
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Israel needs to supplement its military strategy with an equally powerful Palestinian welfare strategy
Israel’s core problems
Israel’s core problems today are not mostly the fault of the IDF or its self-defense strategy
Israel’s core problems flow from the growing callousness with which many of its people have viewed the Palestinians over the past decades, magnified exponentially by the trauma it has just suffered
Today, an emotionally shattered Israeli people see through the prism of October 7, 2023
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They feel existentially insecure, facing enemies on seven fronts — Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran
As Ross has noted, many often don’t see a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinians Over 80 percent of West Bank Palestinians told pollsters they supported the October 7
