Hamas is known to have redundancies in place for cases like this. What is the goal of this? It seems like this is just going to create a Martyr, and won't materially benefit Israel, just sour peace talks (unless that's their aim).

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think the goal is to provoke a war with Iran. Netanyahu just got back from US where he presumably got the green light for it.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

Would make sense, sadly. We will see.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That sounds like a terrible decision to make considering 50% of Israelis live in the 30 most populated cities, cities which are all clustered together and very bombable... then again, I don't think jets from the late 70s would fare well against Israel's very modern air defenses. An ancient F-14 or a MiG-29 would probably spontaneously collapse at the sight of a Patriot SAM operated by Israel.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

What gave you the idea that Netanyahu cares about Israelis?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Iran already defeated said defences pretty easily with not even their best missiles just few months ago.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

He was suing for a ceasefire. Can't have that.