Freed Israeli hostages erupted in anger during a tense meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that they were terrified they would be killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza instead of their Hamas captors.
“We were in tunnels, terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel, that would kill us, and then they would say Hamas killed you,” the woman from the southern Israeli village of Nir Oz near the Gaza border said
This whole narrative I keep seeing that says Hamas hides amongst civilians is really fucking dumb because quite honestly that’s how 99% of wars against a larger, more powerful force have been fought.
It’s what the Jews did themselves in Prague in the ghettos
And if you know they hide amongst civilians, you would assume they hide their hostages in the same places.
So if you just go off and bomb and kill 17000 people indiscriminately, you are yourself proving you don’t give a fuck about the hostages
Guerilla warfare being an established concept doesn’t make it immune to criticism. You can still criticize Hamas even if their tactics are similar to your example about the Jews in Prague.
I’m not siding with IDF I just don’t think this argument holds a lot of weight.
And the vietnamese…
If there’s anything to learn from history, it’s that if a group is doing guerilla warfare, the ones fighting them are the bad guys.