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Source: https://www.jns.org/no-israels-war-against-hamas-not-floundering/
No, Israel's War Against Hamas Is Not Floundering
(JNS) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - The London Times' Middle East Editor Richard Spencer describes Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza as floundering. The opposite is the reality. In almost a year of fighting on the most complex battlefield in the history of war, the Israel Defense Forces has taken Hamas apart to the extent it no longer presents a serious threat to the Israeli population. I have met hundreds of Israeli soldiers and commanders in headquarters as well as inside Gaza and on the border with Lebanon as recently as last week. Everywhere morale was high and conviction in the fight absolute. There exists a unity I have never before witnessed between the most seasoned generals and the teenagers on the battlefront. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.