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The Iron Swords War: The Strategic Balance So Far and What’s Next

14 Jul 2024

The achievements of Hamas and the resistance axis Hamas managed to take advantage of the crisis in Israeli society in the months before the war to prepare and carry out a surprise attack that shocked and 2 traumatized Israeli society to a degree comparable to the Yom Kippur War. [...] It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the achievement of the axis of resistance in forcing the evacuation of entire swaths of land and shrinking sovereign Israel, something that has not happened since the declaration of the state. [...] Another arm of this campaign is the mobilization of students in the United States and Europe for anti-Israel protests the likes of which have not been seen since the protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. [...] To the previous issues of controversy has been added the issue of the hostages and the cessation of the war against continuation of the war and military pressure. [...] The withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip and the release of thousands of terrorists would in fact be an Israeli surrender and a relinquishment of most of the gains of the war.

Authors

Judith Levy

Pages
8
Published in
Israel

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