Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza has evolved into a prolonged battle of attrition, far from its goal of dismantling Hamas. Analysts highlight the importance of a strategy for stable governance to avoid an indefinite conflict. The buildup of the Netzarim Corridor is part of a large-scale project by the Israeli military and the IDF to reshape Gaza and entrench its presence. Comparisons are being made to America's experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Lebanese conflict of 1982, stressing the need for a postwar plan to prevent a protracted military occupation and continuing insurgency.
The Gaza war is becoming like the Lebanese quagmire that began in 1982, with whiffs of America's failures in Vietnam. But Israel still has no postwar plan / @AlonPinkas https://t.co/HtjxhOXikf
.@washingtonpost team on the "Netzarim Corridor," how Israel is reshaping Gaza's geography, and the possibility of a lasting Israeli military presence inside Gaza: https://t.co/wZ9fBN8Exu The corridor is a means of counterinsurgent population control: https://t.co/YS4423w4kC
What Israel’s strategic corridor in Gaza reveals about its postwar plans - The Washington Post — “A protracted period of military occupation appears increasingly likely, military analysts say, in the absence of other plans for governance in postwar Gaza.” https://t.co/jwFInsbIOj
America and Israel are belatedly realising what should have been clear months ago: that without a plan to secure and govern Gaza, the war could go on indefinitely https://t.co/5vDA3ix4tK 👇
Without a strategy to create stable governance in Gaza, Israel will face a continuing insurgency just as the United States did in Afghanistan and Iraq. My latest column: https://t.co/dTqi21AmPj
“Analysts say the buildup of the Netzarim Corridor is part of a large-scale project by the Israeli military to reshape Gaza and entrench its presence there.” https://t.co/j8X65JvVsC
Israel’s all-out offensive in Gaza has given way to a grinding battle of attrition, highlighting how far it remains from its stated military aim — the complete dismantling of Hamas. https://t.co/T3lMiYg8oI @LovedayM @shira_rubin @iHaZeMi.
America and the IDF are belatedly realising that without a plan to secure and govern Gaza, Israel will be fighting a war without end https://t.co/7dZNIXVEb3 https://t.co/d6hQKsW5h8