if they take you by surprise then yeah you are helpless, but if you have enough time to grab a rifle then you can definitely put up a fight. these hamas guys aren't wearing heavy body armor, they're not clearing houses with flashbangs, they're basically just dudes with guns like you are, at the very least you can absolutely take some down with you
You probably won't survive in your safe room against a milita unit but you will at least take some with you. I think that alone is an improvement. And who knows maybe they go somewhere else once you gun down the first two in the doorway.
I guess the issue is that they would have difficulty curtailing the same access to weapons to terror cells or better yet, all Arabs in the country.
2003 Shock and Awe is still the Benchmark. I wonder if they'll surpass it.
Same reasons they reacted differently to Jordan occupying East Jerusalem vs Israel occupying East Jerusalem. Or Egypt fencing off their Gaza border vs Israel fencing off their Gaza border. Or Syria intervening in the Lebanese Civil War vs Israel intervening in the Lebanese Civil War. I don't know exactly what those reasons are, but they would almost certainly be at play here.
I'm talking a hypothetical case where Israel just lays siege to Gaza instead of continuing or stepping up the bombardment or even sending boots in. You're right though, Israel can carry out an invasion and they almost certainly will precisely because Hamas isn't about to give in to a siege.
Except you know, when they declared independence with the help of americans and brits and then butchered Muzzles in the worst ways possible
Israel is a literal shithole that is only able to survive with foreign help. After planting Israel in the middle of muslim countries, the west spent decades going to war and sanctioning surrounding muzzle countries just so that shithole can survive
You mean like daily israeli raids in palestine?
I guess the cameraman does die.
Here are the links in case it is removed or if you do not want to click on the Google link.
If Hamas mainly functions like different cells in a broader organization instead of a rigid hierarchical structure there is a good chance the discipline of individual units is all over the place.
I doubt it's true. I'm old enough to remember the whole Jessica Lynch thing where they acted like she'd been brutally gangraped for weeks on end in the US media only for it later to come out that Iraqi forces had just turned her over to a private doctor early on in her captivity and she was generally well treated.
That might be their usual M.O. but it seems like this time there won't be anything left to recruit for.
