havivrettiggur

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Pro tip: Don’t try credentialism if you don’t even have the guts to put your name on your account. Sinwar wrote explicit letters about the value of civilian deaths. Haniyeh praised civilian death. It is the only explanation for the sheer scale of the tunnels, their

History Speaks

History Speaks

I have criticized Hamas’ horrible atrocities—in public and private, in Arabic and English—constantly since 7 October. As a historian who knows military history, I refuse to promote ridiculous propaganda about how guerrillas in possibly the most radically asymmetric war ever—they have no tanks, no artillery pieces, and no planes, yet are up against f-35s—must be embedding among civilians and militarizing civilian infrastructure as a conspiracy to try to kill their civilians, rather than as a strategy to facilitate Guerilla tactics (Hits and run, ambushes, etc), and not be destroyed in five seconds. Ludicrous north-Korea tier propaganda is your thing, charlatan. For me I look at history and see Hamas’ conduct of the war in Gaza as analogous to what the Viet cong did against the Americans and other such cases of radically asymmetric Guerilla warfare.