{"id":234968,"date":"2021-05-26T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=234968"},"modified":"2021-05-28T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:13:16","slug":"palestine-hamas-defeats-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=234968","title":{"rendered":"Palestine: Hamas Defeats Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saker \u2013 The Unz Review May 25, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Just like in 2006, when both Ehud Olmert and George Bush declared that the \u201cinvincible IDF\u201d had, yet again, achieved a \u201cglorious victory\u201d and the entire Middle-East almost died laughing hearing this ridiculous claim, today both the US and Israeli propaganda machine have declared another \u201cglorious\u201d victory for the \u201cJewish state of Israel\u201d cum<\/em> \u201csole democracy in the Middle-East\u201d. And, just like in 2006, everybody in the region (and in Zone B<\/a>) knows that the truth is that the Zionist entity suffered a huge, humiliated, defeat. Let\u2019s try to unpack this.<\/p>\n

First, a few numbers. The combat operations lasted two weeks. All other missile numbers are in dispute. Rather than trust this or that source, I will simply say that Hamas fired many thousands of missiles into Israel. Some, probably less than 50%, were truly intercepted by the Israeli air defenses, others hit in no man\u2019s land, and some actually landed and caused plenty of destruction and at least 12 deaths. The Israelis executed hundreds of artillery and airstrikes causing massive destruction in the Gaza strip and killing about 250 Palestinians. Again, these numbers are guesstimates and they don\u2019t really tell the full story. To understand the story, we need to forget about these numbers and look at what each side was hoping for and what each side achieved. Let\u2019s begin with the Israelis:<\/p>\n

The Israeli scorecard<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To understand Israel\u2019s goals in this war, we first need to place this latest war in its context, and that context is that Israel was comprehensively defeated in Syria. To substantiate this thesis, let\u2019s remember the goals of the Zionists when they unleashed a major international war against Syria. These objectives, as listed in my July 2019 article \u201cDebunking the Rumors About Russia Caving in to Israel<\/a>\u201d were:<\/p>\n

The initial AngloZionist plan was to overthrow Assad and replace him with the Takfiri crazies (Daesh, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS \u2013 call them whatever you want). Doing this would achieve the following goals:<\/p>\n

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  1. Bring down a strong secular Arab state along with its political structure, armed forces, and security services.<\/li>\n
  2. Create total chaos and horror in Syria justifying the creation of a \u201csecurity zone\u201d by Israel not only in the Golan but further north.<\/li>\n
  3. Trigger a civil war in Lebanon by unleashing the Takfiri crazies against Hezbollah.<\/li>\n
  4. Let the Takfiris and Hezbollah bleed each other to death, then create a \u201csecurity zone,\u201d but this time in Lebanon.<\/li>\n
  5. Prevent the creation of a Shia axis Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon.<\/li>\n
  6. Break up Syria along ethnic and religious lines.<\/li>\n
  7. Create a Kurdistan which could then be used against Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.<\/li>\n
  8. Make it possible for Israel to become the uncontested power broker in the Middle-East and force the KSA, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and all others to have to go to Israel for any gas or oil pipeline project.<\/li>\n
  9. Gradually isolate, threaten, subvert, and eventually attack Iran with a broad regional coalition of forces.<\/li>\n
  10. Eliminate all centers of Shia power in the Middle-East.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As we all know, this is what actually happened:<\/p>\n

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    1. The Syrian state has survived, and its armed and security forces are now far more capable than they were before the war started (remember how they almost<\/strong> lost the war initially? The Syrians bounced back while learning some very hard lessons. By all reports, they improved tremendously, while at critical moments Iran and Hezbollah were literally \u201cplugging holes\u201d in the Syrian frontlines and \u201cextinguishing fires\u201d on local flashpoints. Now the Syrians are doing a very good job of liberating large chunks of their country, including every single city in Syria).<\/li>\n
    2. Not only is Syria stronger, but the Iranians and Hezbollah are all over the country now, which is driving the Israelis into a state of panic and rage.<\/li>\n
    3. Lebanon is rock solid; even the latest Saudi attempt to kidnap Hariri is backfiring. (2021 update: in spite of the explosion in Beirut, Hezbollah is still in charge)<\/li>\n
    4. Syria will remain unitary, and Kurdistan is not happening. Millions of displaced refugees are returning home.<\/li>\n
    5. Israel and the US look like total idiots and, even worse, as losers with no credibility left.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Seeing their defeat in Syria, the Zionists did what they always do: they used their propaganda machine to list an apparently neverending victorious strikes on supposed \u201cIranian targets\u201d in Syria. While a few civilian simpletons with zero military experience did buy into this nonsense, the truth about Israeli operations in Syria is simple: the Syrian air defenses have successfully prevented the Israelis from striking at important, sensitive, targets, and they Israelis have been forced to declare as major victories the destruction of empty barns as \u201cdestruction of important IRGC headquarters\u201d thereby \u201cproving\u201d to a few naive folks in Zone A<\/a> and to themselves (!) that the IDF is still as \u201cinvincible\u201d as it \u201calways was\u201d. As for the Neocons, they doubled-up on that and declared that 1) Russian air defenses are useless 2) that Russia and Israel work hand in hand and 3) that the Israelis are still invincible. Yet if any of that was true, why has Israel failed to achieve a single one of its goals? And why are both the Russians and the Iranians still in Syria were the Russians just finished a 2nd runway at Khmeimim and they have just deployed a group of Tu-22M3 at that air base<\/a> from where they can now threaten any ship sailing in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. In their otherwise \u201cfree time\u201d they can deliver tons of bombs and missiles to the remaining Takfiri forces in Syria.<\/p>\n

      As I have been saying for many years now, the truth is that the IDF is a poor fighting force. Why? First, they have the exact same problem as the USA (and the KSA, for that matter): they rely on expensive technology, but don\u2019t have good combat-capable \u201cboots on the ground\u201d. That is now how modern wars are won (see here for a list<\/a> of popular misconceptions about modern wars).<\/p>\n

      In its recent history, the entire gamut of Israeli \u201celite\u201d forces (including the air force, the navy, the artillery and even the Golani Brigade) got its collective butt handed to them by about 1000 and only lightly armed regular Hezbollah fighters in 2006: keep in mind that the elite Hezbollah forces were deployed only north of the Litani river to protect Beirut against a possible land invasion by Israel. Instead of taking Beirut or \u201cdisarming Hezbollah\u201d (that was an official goal!), the Israelis could not even control the small town of Bint Jbeil located right across the official Israeli border! So much for being \u201cinvincible\u201d!<\/p>\n

      What the IDF is very experienced at is terrorising Palestinian civilians and executing what could be called a slow-motion genocide of the Palestinian people. The problem with Gaza now is the same that the failed invasion of Lebanon in 2006 has revealed: just like the Lebanese in 2006, the Palestinians of 2021 are not afraid of the Zionists anymore. Furthermore, with a great deal of help from Iran and others, Hamas in Gaza is now much, much better armed than in the past. True, some of its missiles are decidedly low tech and not very effective (low accuracy, small warheads, simple trajectory, limited range), but Hamas also has shown some pretty decent UAVs too. Most importantly, from now on for Hamas it is only one way: up the \u201cquality ladder\u201d (just like the Houthis did in Yemen, starting with modest drones but eventually getting very capable ones).<\/p>\n

      The other major goal of the Israelis in this war was to prove to the world (and, even more importantly for the always narcissistic self-worshipping Israeli cowards, to themselves!) that their \u201cIron Dome\u201d air defense network was the \u201csuper-dooper most bestest\u201d in the world (no doubt, due to the famed \u201cJewish genius\u201d!). It now appears that at best, the Israelis intercepted somewhere around 30-40% of the Hamas missiles. The way the Israeli hid this is by claiming that their fancy shmancy Iron Drone did not even try to engage missiles which were not deemed dangerous. But in the age of the ubiquitous smartphone, that kind of silly nonsense can easily be debunked (including by showing the total chaos in the Israeli skies or, for that matter, the missile strikes on Israeli military objectives). While the full Iron Dome air defense system probably works marginally better than the quasi-useless US Patriot, the Israeli air defenses are clearly at least a generation behind the Russian ones, including the S-300s the Russians sold to Syria (again, in the age of of the ubiquitous smartphone, this is not hard to prove).<\/p>\n

      It is crucial to remember that Hamas\u2019 missiles are much inferior to those of the Houthis and the Syrians, and even more inferior when compared to Hezbollah or Iranian drones and missiles! In other words, the \u201cinvincible\u201d IDF can\u2019t deal with even its weakest, least sophisticated enemies (Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad<\/a>) and the grotesquely expensive Iron Done cannot protect the Zionists from any determined missile attacks by the Resistance coalition (Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Russia).<\/p>\n

      In their utter despair, the Zionist entity did what the AngloZionists always do when they fail to defeat a military forces: they will turn their wrath on the civilian infrastructure and murder as many as they can. They will also strike highly symbolic targets such as the International Press Center in Gaza or a Red Crescent hospital (under the pretext that Hamas, which is the democratically elected local government) has offices there (this is clearly a F-you to those who condemn Israel for violating international law). To a normal human being, this sounds both obscene and ridiculous. But remember, the Israelis are first and foremost narcissists and they have no means of imagining how normal human beings think or feel<\/strong>. All these guys can feel is self-worship and hatred for all \u201cothers\u201d.<\/p>\n

      We could say that in this war, the Palestinians defeated both military high tech and truly medieval type of genocidal hatred.<\/p>\n

      In other words, far from showing how \u201cinvincible\u201d the Zionist entity is, this latest war against the Palestinians has shown beyond reasonable doubt that the IDF cannot deal with any of its enemies.<\/p>\n

      Besides missiles and bombs, the Israelis love to use terror, as their ideology has convinced them of two things: the Arabs only understand force and we, the Israelis, are invincible. But this begs the question of why the Israelis did not dare to move into Gaza, not even symbolically. Yeah, I know, the official doxa of Zone A<\/a> is that \u201cBiden called Netanyahu and told him to stop<\/em>\u201d. As if \u201cBiden\u201d could give orders to the Israelis!<\/p>\n

      The truth is that even with a casualty rate of 10:1 in the IDF\u2019s advantage and no armor or artillery, the Palestinians are much more willing to engage in street battles than the IDF. Would the IDF eventually win a ground battle against Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad? Maybe, probably, the objective advantages in everything (except courage!) for the Israelis is so huge that no amount of skills and courage can forever negate the immense superiority in means of the Israelis.<\/p>\n

      However, as most people in the West tend to forget, wars are but means towards a political goal. If the IDF decided to basically flatten Gaza and kill many thousands of Palestinians at the cost of casualties probably in the hundereds, then this would be politically suicidal for the Zionist regime. This is why I offer this very basic conclusion:<\/p>\n

      During the latest Gaza war, deterrence did work. But only in the sense that the Palestinians successfully deterred the Israelis from launching a ground attack against Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      There is another crucial political development which should also be noted: while both Iran and Hezbollah did give their full political support to Hamas+Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the latter did not request any assistance. In other words, not only did the Palestinians defeat the Israelis, but they did so absolutely alone, with no help from the other Resistance members.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Again, those Zone A<\/a> civilians who believe that Israel is scoring huge victories in Syria on a quasi daily basis won\u2019t get it, which is par for the course. But you can be darn sure that at least most of the IDF top commanders know the true score and for them it is yet another huge disaster.<\/p>\n

      There is also a political factor to consider. While there have been coordination resistance actions by the Palestinians in Israel (proper, as defined by the UN), this is the first time when the Palestinians from Gaza, those from the Occupied Territories and those in \u201cIsrael\u201d truly fought, if not side by side (yet!), then at least at the same time and in a common cause. This is a major political victory for Hamas+Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a major problem for Fatah and the Zionists. Now let\u2019s look at the rest of the Palestinian scorecard:<\/p>\n

      The Palestinian scorecard:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

      Let\u2019s start by the obvious one: the Palestinians were not defeated. This victory can be further subdivided in the following:<\/p>\n