Gaza War Update 2/26/2024 - Hamas Won?

Hamas Achieved "Their" Objective.

If you guys remember, at the start of our analysis of the Gaza war in October we talked about Hama’s objectives in this war. Now with one final major city remaining for Israel to capture, did Hamas achieve their strategic objectives?

A Pawn’s Double Step

In my first Gaza war article in October, I pointed out Hama’s stated reasons for starting the war:

• Israel was rampaging without accountability

• Police raids on the Aqsa Mosque

• Response to all the atrocities the Palestinians have faced over the decades

According to these objectives did they decrease or change any of it by starting the war? Obviously the answer is no, there’s a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and countless raids. For Hamas foot soldiers this war was pretty pointless and didn’t achieve anything good for them. This is an excerpt from an article of mine a week after the war began:

“No matter how you slice this pie, there is no way HAMAS can beat the Israeli military. You can try to argue, oh well terror tactics worked against the US military in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. You would be right, terror/guerrilla tactics work but in very large areas where you can hide. Iraq and Afghanistan are relatively huge countries, Afghanistan is very mountainous, Vietnam has dense jungles. The Gaza strip is none of those things… It’s blocked on 3 sides and has the sea behind it. That’s not even an egress point, the Israeli Navy has that covered. So besides the closed Egyptian border basically serving as a wall.. These guys are surrounded. So matter how you want to look at it, Tunnels, 30k Israeli soldiers dying or 20.. This is the end of the Gaza boys as we know them today.”