Mehmet Rakipoglu – Middle East Eye May 19, 2025
The genocidal war on Gaza has now surpassed 19 months, yet Israel’s military campaign has failed to achieve its strategic objective: the elimination of Palestinian resistance, particularly Hamas.
From the beginning, western powers have almost unconditionally backed Israel’s assault as a legitimate act of “self-defence”. This support has extended beyond military aid to diplomatic shielding, economic assistance and institutional cover on international platforms.
But even with this overwhelming backing and a total siege imposed on Gaza by land, sea and air, Israel has not managed to break the backbone of the Palestinian resistance.
Despite Gaza’s near-total devastation, Hamas and other Palestinian groups remain operational, continuing to launch rockets and conduct complex tactical operations, such as last month’s ambush near Beit Hanoun. After emerging from a tunnel to launch RPGs at Israeli military vehicles, injuring three soldiers, Hamas operatives detonated a bomb when rescue forces arrived, killing a warrant officer.
The operation by Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK and other countries, exposed the vulnerabilities of Israel’s buffer-zone deployments and undermined the narrative of total control.
Israel has repeatedly asserted that areas like Beit Hanoun have been neutralised. The recent ambush sent a strategic message, showing that Hamas, even under relentless bombardment and occupation, remains capable of intelligence-gathering and precision targeting, thus outmaneuvering one of the most technologically advanced armies in the world.
This is where the Vietnam comparison becomes most striking. As the United States once learned, superior firepower and external backing do not guarantee victory over an entrenched and ideologically committed resistance force.
The Gaza war has increasingly become Israel’s Vietnam – an unwinnable campaign marked by military overreach, strategic misjudgment and growing political costs.
Deflecting criticism
Israel’s failure in Gaza is not limited to the battlefield. It extends deep into its political system and intelligence apparatus.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has faced growing internal turmoil, marked by resignations of top officials and internal blame-shifting. To deflect criticism over the Gaza debacle, Netanyahu has sought scapegoats, such as former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. This erosion of political coherence has further inflamed Israel’s already fragile internal dynamics.
The most dramatic rupture, however, lies within the intelligence domain. The events of 7 October 2023 – when Hamas launched an unprecedented cross-border attack – exposed a total breakdown of Israel’s security architecture.
The failure of both the Shin Bet and the Mossad to anticipate and thwart this attack, despite surveillance operations that penetrate deep into Gaza, has sparked a broader debate about the viability of Israel’s security doctrine.
As former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned in Haaretz, Israel is now “closer to a civil war than ever before”. From this perspective, the Hamas attack did more than inflict military casualties – it fractured Israel from within.
The internal breakdown has extended to the military’s ranks. As reported by the New Arab, Israel is facing a wave of dissent within its army, with growing numbers of reservists refusing to serve, and military veterans expressing disillusionment over the war’s objectives and moral implications.
Another pillar of Israel’s vulnerability lies in the economic toll of its prolonged war on Gaza. The financial costs of sustaining military operations, maintaining the siege, and responding to regional threats has pushed the Israeli economy to a breaking point, with the government reportedly spending at least $260m a day on the war effort.
Domestically, the economic impacts are being felt across key sectors. Foreign investment has declined sharply. Tourism – once a crucial source of revenue – has plummeted amid security concerns stemming from cross-border missile attacks. Israel is no longer viewed as a stable destination for business or leisure.
While much of this burden has been temporarily offset by US and UK support, this aid is increasingly coming under scrutiny, as governments face mounting public pressure to end their complicity in the war.
Growing divisions
Indeed, growing divisions are emerging between Israel and its key backers. US President Donald Trump has pushed back against calls to cut tariffs on Israeli imports, noting that the US already provides Israel with $4bn in annual aid. Trump has also expressed frustration with Israel’s handling of the war, calling for an end to the conflict.
For decades, Israel enjoyed a kind of international exceptionalism that shielded it from accountability, allowing it to act with near-total impunity, even in the face of mounting war-crimes allegations. But the genocidal campaign in Gaza has begun to fracture this long-standing shield.
Since 7 October, global public opinion – particularly in the West – has shifted dramatically. Millions of people have mobilised to demand a ceasefire. This growing pressure from civil society has made it increasingly difficult for western governments to maintain unconditional support. Israel’s alignment with US policy has become a liability rather than an asset.
In the legal realm, Israel is facing unprecedented scrutiny. The International Court of Justice is examining whether its actions in Gaza amount to genocide. While the process will be lengthy, and some nations do not recognise the court’s rulings, the case is symbolic and its political weight is significant. A guilty verdict would not only damage Israel’s international standing, but could also implicate key leaders, including Netanyahu.
Dissent is also surging within Israel itself. Nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force personnel signed a protest letter against the war, and could now face expulsion. This level of dissent within elite military circles signals profound unease with the direction of the war.
Beyond Israel, protests across western universities have been met with institutional backlash, exposing how deeply the suppression of pro-Palestinian advocacy has penetrated academic and civic life.
All of this shows how Israel’s war on Gaza has become increasingly unsustainable. The parallels with Vietnam grow stronger by the day: a technologically superior force mired in a prolonged, morally fraught, and politically costly conflict. Israel is trapped in a campaign it cannot decisively win, facing a resilient opponent, internal dissent and mounting international isolation.
Whether the world chooses to see it or not, Gaza has become Israel’s Vietnam.
Mehmet Rakipoglu is an assistant professor at Mardin Artuklu University, Department of Political Science and International Relations and Coordinator of Turkish Studies, Mokha Center for Strategic Studies. His work focuses on Turkish foreign policy, Gulf countries, and Islamic movements
Anyone who thinks it’ll stop at gaza is a fool. They’re also running the ukraine war through their proxies, not to mention the romanian and german elections, and so on ad infinitum. That thing yesterday about the bbc director being a towel head. I almost want to hang around to see all the fools get executed by the jew.
In 1983 at bow St magistrates court Charles Lynton was fined £50 for continual pestering men in central London toilets, Charles Lynton was known at college as ‘Miranda’ a promiscuous cross dresser and psychopath, who smoked much hash while playing his guitar, Charles Lynton are Tony Blair’s middle names, Sarah Macauley was allegedly paid £140,000 to act as gay Gordon Browns fiancé, and a further £50,000 per year to stick it out, Gordon’s security file is reputed to say he spent some years courting young rent boys.
THE BRITISH CENSUS
this document is the most sinister and anti-democratic attack on the British people its culture and heritage to date. People throughout the world are resisting the dictatorial international banks taking control, the rights to speak out are being very severely controlled. Here in Britain we are watched continually on camera and if you travel through a city to work and then back home again , experts tell us you may be seen 350 times in that single day by various CCTV devices, satellite monitoring infrared watchpoints, backpack pinpointers and traffic sensors add to junction recorders in movement watching and using the MAP system ( Movements Analysis Programme ) devised by Peter Wright and combined with the Reg Moore computer triggers to your mobile phone
gives a total readout. Royal mail have always opened much mail, and hands over to special Branch and some to both intell services and the taxman to be read, recorded and put into one of several file systems, everything from people claiming benefits to political and religious groupings are all filed, even if you use alternative health methods which will soon be illegal, and if you have a criminal record correlated alongside it, in fact there is a huge amount of information the Mail people keep just on your postcode, this info is sold to junk mailers, some of which are owned by the Russian mafia and are available to the IDF,
as is allegedly the files tesco shoppers files. Local councils use small planes to photograph all houses and gardens, and if you have a new roof a loft room an extension a fish pond or a conservatory built, this will go on a list and be checked with your bank accounts, benefits office and tax office. The 2002 proceeds of crime act, is designed to confiscate after any criminal offence and is allied to the defence on terrorism acts, as all crime will be deemed domestic terror. . All telephone calls are recorded by GCHQ which is a junior partner to the American NSA, who shares everything with Israel, and it is this domination of all security and communications by Israel that is causing concern. Rupert Murdoch has a virtual monopoly on news distribution facilities whose remit is not to report news but ‘to make the news’ and nowhere is British news more distorted than the BBC and Murdoch newspapers, so important is the spin or ‘newstwisting’ in these papers, that where people have stopped buying newspapers they are given away free, the social programming incredibly, being more important than the monetary profits. Israel has as many files on British nationals as our own people, and anyone who may express an opinion that is deemed by the Shin Bet or the IDF in its operation newstwist, will go onto a backlist which is circulated to all Mossad operatives and no employment opportunities, information or financial loans etc will be available to them. So sensitive is Israel to mounting criticism that it has teams of ‘trollers’ who phone in to radio progs and write in to newspapers and internet sites with many fake identities, to muddy the waters on what is really going on, the term ‘anti-semitic’ can be thrown at any who criticise. When you control what information is released you can control what is held back, and this is not working in Britain’s interests. The reason that the government can now impound and crush your car for unpaid parking charges etc, is that the law was changed and you no longer own the car, you are legally only ‘the keeper’ the government is the legal owner and so can destroy it if it so wishes, being discussed right now is the same law applying to houses and homes, you will no longer own it but just be ‘ the keeper’ and if the government decides to let the banks have your home, it can if it so wishes, there was talk of this in the thirties when the bankers were at war with Germany, but a Mr. Hitler put a stop to it if you remember.
The third rule of Marxism, is that ‘all property is theft’ one man cannot own what belongs to the many, and defector Oleg Penkovsky told us in briefings 35 years ago that marxism was coming to Britain exactly as the traitorous Cambridge apostles told us just before W W II
They lied about the Covid crisis They lied about GM foodstuffs.
They lied about NHS care from cradle to grave. They lied about vaccinations.
They lied about swine flu killing millions.
They lied about Climate change.
They lied about WMDs
They lied about the death of Dr David Kelly
They lied about Princess Dianas death
They lied about Iraq and Afghanistan.
They lied about chemtrail poisons
They lied about Immigration and its true agenda.
They lied about the banking crisis and who was behind it
They lied about the real reasons for W W II and they are lying about the migrant swamping
Palestinians need outside help,
as in robust proper opposition to the IDF, who imo are nothing more than internationally assisted bullies.
Alas the arab world is controlled & split,
neighbouring countries who are next on the Israeli “hit list” are the ones who should be helping but seem conspicuous by their absence.
Very poor understanding: Communists control the USA and they do not try to win a war unless they are fighting Whites e.g. the Germans. They protect Moslems, as in the Europe they occupy. In Britain, Islam is coaxed along and the White Christians are marginalised and “disappeared”. There has been very little done against Palestinians overall. White South Africa, in contrast, is hammered by the Communist ANC and the USA, which faces the wrath of Commies for letting a few dozen in under Trump
UK, France and Canada unite to condemn Israel’s ‘egregious actions’
Story by Archie Mitchell
dont say egegorius tell it like it is
its a campaign of sheer murder many are dying today of sheer hunger
and starmer has the RAF from cyprus bombing arab villages
its a PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST
New memorial to homosexual victims of Nazi persecution unveiled in Paris
Under Adolf Hitlers law on the protection od animals and children, anyone who had sexually abused kids
went straight away to the work camps
Homosexuals who had persecuted children
were locked away
why cant we do that ?
because the BBC and kier starmer hid up the criminals 1400 young kids serially abused
4 stil missing
Tod Dem Juden
I have often questioned whether the West’s support of Israel is genuine? Let’s be honest, it doesn’t suit Israel’s progress, the current debacle that is, despite all the rhetoric from so called allies. IDF personnel say that a mouse couldn’t have crossed the border on Oct 7th without detection. I believe that Israel needs to seriously consider fifth columnists at work in the state. Does International Power have some other plan for Israel and indeed the whole region? Where does Netanyahu’s allegiance REALLY lie? Having said, the very same applies to any other sovereign country, not just Israel. Just look at Europe, UK and USA and I also believe to the other apparent enemies of democracy like Russia and China. We must look at the greater context, and accept that all is not as it seems.
UN warns 14,000 babies will die within 48 hours under Israel siege and starving of Gaza
The UN’s humanitarian chief has warned 14,000 babies in Gaza could die within 48 hours if aid does not enter the territory.
Tom Fletcher said five aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday, managing to avoid settlers stealing the food and medicines a “drop in the ocean” after an 11-week blockade by Israel, and were yet to reach the communities in need. There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” he said.
“We run all sorts of risks trying to get that baby food through to those mothers who cannot feed their children right now because they’re so malnourished.”
His comments come after the UK, France and Canada released a joint statement condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza, warning the allies would take “concrete actions” unless he changes course, and calling for an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.
please god help them some one
The UK, France and Canada are condemning Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza after calling them egregious. Why now? Something is changing, and as western elitists didn’t care before it must be due to the actions of western people. Probably the BDS movement is working, and the silencing of academia also likely faces pushback from many who run the universities after the students took the lead in condemnation. It seems the people who should be leading are now following, but realising so late which way the wind is blowing after this genocide and these levels of the atrocity should bring down shame on these enablers.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-france-canada-condemn-egregious-173041409.html
it is Hamas´vietnam . not the other way round .
israel has all the nukes to intimidate the nations .
all politicians dance to the tune of the jew piper .
I’d like to think Gaza/Palestine will eventually become a thriving nation just like Vietnam but somehow I doubt it.
Perhaps the just outcome is for Israel eventually to no longer be a country because of Netanyahu and his regime.
That’s a reality which might be possible…
@ Nero
Response to comment on previous thread:
Movie recommendation– ‘Parallax View’ [1974] – Spooks, political assassinations, patsies, coverups.– a classic. Warren Beatty is lead character. Perfect selection for TTS crowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRS4yhbIYE
Regarding movie ‘Alien’ [1979] — This scene specifically- 2 minute mark-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsYXHCJD54
The android referring to a parasitic alien organism that eventually wipes out the crew as “unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality” Could this be an allusion to, or metaphor for the parasitic tribe that runs the world?
Welcome to the Machine ~ AI Neural Enslavement & Diddy’s Trial Theatre ~ Techno-enslavement, 7G MESH Net-Centric Warfare ~ Token CREDIT Money & 7G Human Augmentation
EyesIsWatchin, Juxtaposition1, EarthNewspaper.com, Sabrina Wallace, Eva, 9/11_Dancing_Mossad_Jew_Scum
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/05/welcome-to-machine-ai-neural.html
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Facing the Storm: How Iran Plans to Tackle the U.S. ~ Putin Drops a Devastating Bombshell on Trump
Pepe Escobar, Larry C. Johnson, Dialogue Works
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/05/facing-storm-how-iran-plans-to-tackle.html
More Orwellian illusion for the morons. Everything is going according to plan.
NB
What these morons don’t tell you is that Vietnam was a staged coordinated war between the Commie Jews governing US & USSR/China to waste more whites in.
The Normalizing of Evil
Do the Jewish people who claim to be the wealthiest and smartest people on the planet, owning and controlling so very much, present the perfect model of the process of human corruption. For the most part they either support what the Rothschild gang is doing in Israel or they cast a blind eye to it, thinking that getting rid of the Palestinians even by slaughtering them for the Greater Israel Project is a very good thing for the Jewish people. Did not the 20th century normalize genocide? Is it not known that all wars are banker’s wars and mass killing and ethic land clearances are never really condemned or punished?
Marx and Hitler could clearly see paramount problems and privations plaguing the people in their midst. Marx saw that with the growth of industry and commerce there was a growing problem of selfishness and exploitation by the rich, which process would end up with “the people eating one another”, unless all personal ownership was cancelled by the state. Hitler blamed the Jews and the banksters for their betrayal and exploitation of the German people. They may have been right about the various causes of the social diseases inflicted upon the people in their times by the rich and powerful, but their cures were far worse than the diseases. If Jews are the smartest people in the world, have they learned nothing? If they are the richest people in the world then why do they need more?
Good people are always looking for honest and rational solutions in a crazy world run by dishonest hotshots, addicted to greed and the lust for power. They wonder why they are outsiders and have no real purchase to correct things with the truth, natural law, or the laws of God. They see the difference between being straight and being crooked, and they know that in their private lives, in their jobs, in their families, and even in running a small business that honesty and kindness is the basis of trust, happiness, and mutual prosperity, but everywhere they look they see that the very wealthy, those wielding great powers, and those running our governments are nothing but crooks and charlatans. We have the crooked people at the top who thrive on exploiting the honesty and virtue of the people below. However, as their crimes and corruption are exposed through the operation of free speech and the pursuit of truth, the process has become one of reaching down further and further into our lives to corrupt virtually everything.
Excess power and wealth have always corrupted the human spirit and those with the most of it have always hidden their crimes and proclivities from the common people, lest the people rise up against them. With the threat from the spread of information, the solution of the elites has become both to suppress its spread and to pollute it with fakery of all kinds, dividing the masses and infecting them with all manner of corruption and filth, on the false basis that there really is no truth or right or wrong, except to say what they deem those things to be. Even our legislatures, universities, courts and professions have been corrupted by that same top-down and thoroughly corrupt process.
Seeing and recognizing the evil is the first step for reform both in our own lives and in our societies, which is exactly what the rulers do no want us to do lest our scrutiny turn on them. Hence, we see our laws being changed to legalize and institutionalize even such things as drug and child trafficking. In the age of information their main protection is simply to normalize their crooked ways and proclivities and most of all their dishonesty.
Welcome to the brave new-world order where genocide is totally normal and acceptable and human life means virtually nothing (unless you are rich and powerful). It is now customary to kill those in our midst who are deemed as “unwanted” – those who are powerless but interfere with our life styles and plans, and all those whom are deemed to be inferior or a burden. How many millions of the unwanted elderly will the West and China exterminate over the next 10 years?
Lammy in parliament reminding us what an heinous terrorist attack Hamas perpetrated against Israel on October 7 2023. Whilst conveniently forgetting to tell us that there were no:
40 beheaded babies
No mass rapes
No babies baked in ovens
And
Israel deployed its disgusting Hannibal Directive which killed many Israelis which Lammy and Co have blamed on Hamas.
Israel planning its ‘final solution’ against the Palestinians…
This is the moment Israel became our Frankenstein…
Arrest the twat
Here comes that idiot nico x again:
“Emma on May 20, 2025 at 2:22 pm
@ted
you might want to consider joining the Anglo Saxon Party (ASP)”
starmer and rent boys
A third man has been arrested in connection with a series of arson attacks at two properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Another 34-year-old man was arrested on Monday morning in the Chelsea area on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life, the Met Police said. He has been taken into custody and denies being a rent boy
The sun news paper ran the story some weeks ago that witches ere working to have fires at starmers properties
@Richard Able – Chingford E 4 on May 20, 2025 at 8:03 am. Thanks for your highly informed and comprehensive comment!
Never seen such a ridiculous take on Gaza. He obviously has no idea