It seems inevitable that the Palestinian-Israel conflict will blossom all over the Middle East. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Gaza is today’s Stalingrad, with Israel’s army as unprepared against Gaza’s tunnel rats as their German predecessors were against their nemeses.
After again marvelling at the Israeli Sixth Army’s ongoing push into Gaza, we’ll pan out and give mention to World War Three’s other key fronts.
Gaza is today’s Stalingrad, with Israel’s Sixth Army being as unprepared against Gaza’s tunnel rats as their German predecessors were against their Stalingrad nemeses. However, Israel will prevail there due, in part, to how they have changed the rules of engagement which will allow them and their Yankee partners in crime level the entire area and all therein in any way they see fit.
We still talk of Guernica, one of the curtain raisers for the bombing of civilian targets by both the RAF and the Luftwaffe. But Guernica had a maximum of 1,600 fatalities, which would be a quiet body bag count for any day in Gaza where Israel, like their Wehrmacht idols before them, believe they have the right to defend their plundering and pillage by yet more plundering and pillage.
Having accused the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army of attacking phantom, non-existent hospitals, the Israelis, backed to the hilt by America, are blowing up Gazan hospitals and strafing those trying to flee them. Journalists, genuine journalists, UN staff and anyone else caught up in Gaza are fair game for Israel’s Luftwaffe. And America is with them all the way.
Alas, in our attempts to “see through” government bullshit, we fail to so see through the bullshit of their supporters!
It’s the news/information side of Progressivism. Since the media is utterly dominated by Progressives, all of that narrative you read is through their lenses for viewing the world. And that means that even if Hamas lies, what Hamas tells them is “truthy” – it sounds good because it fits the narrative. They’re sure that even if it isn’t say, 10,000 deaths to purge Hamas from Gaza, it’s got to be a LOT, so that number works for now.
It’s the same reason they simply report the economic numbers the White House gives them when it’s occupied by a Democrat – even though it’s been shown every quarter for almost 3 years now that those numbers will be heavily revised to the administration’s detriment within 3-6 months. Sure, they’ll get revised, but those numbers are “truthy” because they support the narrative.
It’s the same reason you can’t believe a lot of what comes out of the Ukraine war. Here the media struggles, because “Putin is an outsized threat to all of civilization!” is one part of their worldview, while “Poor oppressed Ukraine is winning” is another part. (Because, like the assumptions about how hard the “urban combat” would be, the oppressed underdog has near-superpowers.)
BTW, this belief system is also why they contract for stringers in Gaza. “Well, they’re journalists, and journalists would never out and out lie. Right?” They didn’t so much hire Hamas propagandists as they simply refused to see the conflict of interest because, Journalists!
The Right and the Wrong for Progressives is so twisted from reality and human nature, it’s amazing they can even tie their own shoes, much less make predictions about warfare.
On the other hand, minding the business of others – as we have been doing now, for over 100 years, never “ends” well. Until it does end, however, the brutality, carnage, and injustice of war, mercilessly marches on!