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Hezbollah hasn't kept a foot of land they took on Oct 7. Meanwhile most of Gaza has Israeli flags flying from Israeli tanks and on patches of Israeli troops. Gaza is not Vietnam. It is an extremely small piece of land backed onto the sea that on a good day could barely provide for its people. It's all but occupied now and then the real sweeps can begin.
I’m not going to mock you for not knowing the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah.
Others can do that.
I’m just here to point out the retardation of your post.
October 7th was never meant to “hold land”.
It was meant to be the kind of chess move that goes beyond check mate, more akin to kicking all the pieces off the chess board and forcing the opponent into a totally different game.
Kinda like the 67 war for Israel.
And it worked brilliantly.
Arab-Israeli big ol’ peace deal? Gone. For at least the rest of the decade.
Palestine becoming a UN member? Closer than ever.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis still can’t go home in the North and in the South.
Divisions in Israel increased.
Israel’s reputation internationally? Has taken significant damage between Europe, the global south, the international criminal court and even the US.
Economic damage to Israel? Significant. And that’s before the long term costs of taking tens of thousands of reservists away from the job market and have them play soldier in Gaza. For possibly years.
The internal political costs of having to permanently post soldiers in Gaza and regularly see them come home in corpses (aka Vietnam) is also significant the longer it goes on. It was that kind of pressure that led to the Oslo accords.
It’s a little early to call Oct 7th a strategic Palestinian victory, but in a few years we may just see it that way.
Tactically of course, it’s already an Israeli defeat, given that Israel had TWO objectives with the war: Destroy Hamas and bring back the hostages. The first one has failed, though it’s way too early to call. The second one has failed miserably.
