There can be no explanation for Israel’s behavior. Like the West, it is a neutered giant whose great military and technical advantage is nullified by moral weakness.

The closest the victorious Allies came to the nonsense of providing their enemies with food came when Operation Market-Garden went sideways, and most of the food, ammunition, and supplies dropped near Arnhem were captured by the Germans. At least that was unintentional. It came out this week that top Hamas leaders hijacked the original humanitarian aid delivered by Israel after the war started. Underlings who complained received free knuckle sandwiches. I wonder if Israel took orders like Uber-Eats or not.

Israel cannot and will not win unless it is willing to break the taboos that have hamstrung Western armies since the Korean War. The bottom line is if you want to win a war, you need to be ruthless. You need to destroy your enemy to the point that he begs and grovels for mercy. Until World War 2, this point was obvious. Patton: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” Israel is at the cutting edge of modern high-tech warfare: sending warnings via SMS and phone calls, dropping maps and providing instructions via drones, using hyper-accurate munitions to kill a target and avoid collateral........

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