Underestimating your enemy is among the quickest ways to die. Yes, a lot of them are soy bois with youthful angst as well as brawlers, but a fair amount have become armed and trained. Also note that there has always been an element of command and control in their operations. I see a well trained core with varying degrees of useful idiots at their disposable disposition.
It will be Americas Christmas gift this year.
very few homes have firearms in them, unless they are actively serving. it's tough to be able to buy a gun there. how much ammo you can have is limited. if all house holds had firearms I think the damage from Hamas would have been far far less. I hope that they change the gun laws. I would love to see having a firearm in the home mandatory, as well as training and reviewing how to use it.
So many of them have been in the military, hopefully they have retained some of their safety training.
Like dogpiling on their children?
It really astonishes me that Israel didn't follow the Swiss example and send the service weapon back home with the departing soldier when they left their mandatory military service. I mean a rifle, cleaning kit, ammo, mags and a lock box or two in every home would have gone a long way to shut this down before it got started.
There are lots of videos showing Israelis interacting with the Palestinians that would lead me to believe that the Israelis felt that they had the Palestinians beat into submission. Why protect yourself from people like that?
Uhh. Might wanna brush up on your history a bit. The Accords occurred under Carter.
Yup. Began & Sadat shared a Nobel Peace prize as a result.
I must be missing something here. I don't understand.
One word. Hamas. The group that was elected and put control of the government of Palestine (a neighboring state)…..
Ooopps I was on mobile waiting for a client and went off memory, there was a part in the Shapero video that talked about it and I posted without double checking the name.
Not saying your wrong, just that the actions of the Israelis make me think they didn't take the threat seriously anymore
They got complacent. They aren't anymore.
One might reasonably expect that given how bold they have been with new settlements recently.
This is what my Israeli friend said the other day.
Much like that video I posted on page 4, post 62
Pretty sure they were just taking back property they rightfully owned that the occupants refused to pay rent on…. It's the equivalent to being evicted. Israel passed legislation that said the occupants could stay in the property (that was owned by another) if the agreed to pay rent.
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