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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
There is a type of warfare that you can call “postcolonial war” that remains the dominant mode of fighting a more powerful enemy in much of the world. During the colonial period, armed movements were much weaker than the imperial powers they were facing off against. They had two advantages however: demography, and time. Due to the power differential these groups would try to avoid direct confrontation with their adversaries. Instead, they would engage in low-level antagonism over a very long period aimed at making life uncomfortable for the occupier. At the same time they’d keep growing their numerical advantage over decades. The belief was that eventually the foreigners would get exhausted and despair of the challenge of living as a ruling minority in a distant land. This is what the FLN did in Algeria, the Vietcong did in Vietnam, and what the Taliban recently did in Afghanistan. It is a style of fighting that inevitably means great losses, but remains widely endorsed around much of the world.
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Snibb123.eth
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something that Hamas has tried to replicate too. Unfortunately for them, they lack the hinterland necessary to do so. They do have the tunnel network and this has kept their leadership from collapsing, but there’s few other places to hide.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Exactly, that is their thesis of the conflict and also other groups like Hezbollah as well. That’s also why they explicitly compare themselves to the VC and FLN and say they’re doing whatever they had done and with similar costs. I think there is a big flaw though which is that most Israelis do not view themselves like pied-noirs who have somewhere to “return” to and are more likely to continue fighting forever or using nuclear weapons before they got annoyed and left. This is why some sort of compromise is necessary although it’s hard to see in this generation.
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