Israel loves Hamas. Let’s them justify their persecution of the Palestinians and the ongoing genocide. They don’t want to end Hamas until after they end the Palestinians. That way they get more land to colonize.
How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion?
Submitted 2 months ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Sundial@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Naich@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Israel funded Hamas for a while. They have always been useful to Israel.
crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s actually a myth. They didn’t “fund Hamas”, they contributed to a development fund that Hamas stole from.
istanbullu@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Because Israel’s goal is the kill all Palestinians. According to the 3000 year old fairy tales they believe in, anyone who is not an Israelite must be killed driven off from their promised land.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Currently it is very heavily run by the genocidal religious nuts. Netanyahu needs them to stay in power, which is the part that he cares about. The only part he cares about probably, though I doubt he cares about Palestinians or even believes that they’re human. Like most religions, their divided opinions. But since the nutjobs have the keys right now, Netanyahu will do absolutely everything they demand if it keeps him from being ousted (and likely arrested).
istanbullu@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
the genocide did not start with netanyahu. take this example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The goal is not to eliminate Hamas. The goal is to depopulate Gaza.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The goal is not to destroy Hamas. This is a ridiculous excuse. Their true objective is to remove all the Palestinians from their homes, so they can occupy the land. Israel is a fascist, imperialist actor that tries to manipulate everyone through propaganda distributed through international media.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wrong question and framing.
Israel’s goal is not to get rid of Hamas or their leadership.
Their real goal has been to continue the genocide of the Palestinian people so as to take 100% control of the Palestinian land and to kickout the natives.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Because the genocide is the goal.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because the genocide is the point.
Israeli leadership have admitted to funding Hamas’ displacement of the secular moderates with predictable results - the only credible explanation for this is that it was to manufacture the pretext for their current actions.
#justautocraticfascistethnostatethings
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The intention is to “liquidate” Gaza like the Wermacht liquidated the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. It is an annihilation. Hamas and the hostages are just the excuse.
CerealKiller01@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Err… did I misunderstood the question, or do (nearly?) all commenters have no idea what they’re talking about?
You’re asking why Israel doesn’t assassinate Hamas’s top leaders, right? Or did I misunderstood and you asking Israel doesn’t ONLY assassinate Hamas’s top leaders? Or are you asking why Israel responded differently to Munich?
To answer the first question, well… they are. Hamas’s top leaders according to BBC are:
- Ismail Haniyeh - Killed.
- Mohammed Deif - Probably killed.
- Marwan Issa - Killed.
- Mahmoud Zahar - Alive. is 79 years old and might not be active/influential in the leadership.
- Khaled Meshaal - Alive.
- Yahya Sinwar - Alive.
Also, keep in mind that the response to the Munich massacre took about 2 decades.
As to why Israel dosen’t ONLY assassinate Hamas’s leadership, the simple answer is that it won’t solve anything. It won’t bring the hostages home (It will probably have opposite effect as a. it will leave Israel without a centralized entity with whom to negotiate and b. Sinwar might be using hostages as human shields, which also might explain why he’s still alive), and it will still leave Israel with a terrorist entity next door. The official Israeli version is that the assassinations, among other things, serve as leverage on Hamas leaders to secure a deal. Obviously, this is only effective if there is some leadership left.
If you’re asking why Israel responded differently to Munich, it’s because the situation is totally different in numerous ways. But the question itself is also factually wrong - Israel didn’t only assassinate the leaders of Black September. Firstly, the goal was to “assassinate individuals they accused of being involved in the 1972 Munich massacre”, not just the leaders. Not only that, Israel also responded with raids and bombings (for example: 1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon).
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
None of what’s happening squares as a reasonable response. Munich is some horrible memory. Maybe someone else is obsessed with it, but the genocide occurring now is the concern.
CerealKiller01@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OK, I’ll just answer plainly, and if I misunderstood you, feel free to correct me:
OP asked about the difference in Israel’s response to Munich and Gaza. I tried answering that to the best of my ability, as it seems most other answers didn’t correct the implicit assumption that Israel doesn’t go after Hamas’s leaders. If you think someone is “obsessed with Munich”, you should respond to the OP.
However, I get the feeling some people here took the question as “let’s use this question to further convince ourselves/others that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza”. In this context, your reply makes more sense when it’s addressed to me.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Thank you! Mossad did kill Ismail haniyeh
web.archive.org/…/the-full-inside-story-of-how-is…
Interestingly this article is no longer available idk why
Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even according to Netanyahu’s own statements, the Israeli war aims are the complete destruction of hamas. That’s more than leaders. Before this began, estimates put the al-Qassam Brigades at 30-40k strong. So if we take Netanyahu at his word (which I don’t recommend) then that would be the minimum for killed/captured before he could declare victory.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
The “war” in Gaza isn’t meant to take out Hamas. It’s meant to eradicate the Palestinian people.
Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok I have seen many replies saying the same thing but the question I got if say they take Gaza what are they going to do with it? Just focus on the West Bank?
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Occupy it? Same thing they’ve been doing to all Palestinian land, piece by piece since the 40s
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Presumably. They want to kill all Palestinians or drive them out. Either is acceptable to them.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t think this one has a clear cut answer.
In other words, it’ll come down to opinions rather than facts or truths.
There’s at least three likely possibilities, in my opinion.
First is that hamas is decentralized well enough that taking out leadership only is kinda pointless.
Second, the goals of the current actions aren’t solely about hamas, and taking out leaders would weaken the goals as they appear.
Third, mossad may not be able to achieve the goal, and failing would be too risky considering how much pressure is already building against israel. If they try to assassinate people in other countries, and they fail, that’s going to make more enemies than they already have, despite those countries themselves already being less than friendly to Israel.
I suspect that the matter was considered, but discarded quickly. It just wouldn’t achieve anything useful for them, despite the purported goal of destroying hamas.
Now, there’s also the chances that the real goal is purely to destroy Palestine, and take full ownership of the land. That’s a distinct possibility, imo. If that’s the real underlying goal, doing anything to take down hamas before that’s achieved would not happen.
I don’t think that anyone can trust what a world leader engaged in a military action of any kind, so taking the stated goals as truth is a bad idea. But they could be, and if that’s the case, then using assassination as a tool would weaken their position. It’s kinda frowned on.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Further to that third point as well, there’s probably also a question simply of opportunity. You could take the Munich situation as evidence of capability, but it may also have been opportunity plus capability. Intelligence seems like it’s a pretty difficult game and perhaps the successes in the operation bayonet had to do with unlikely and fortunate intelligence scoops that they have not happened upon now and can’t rely upon. Also, while I don’t know much about the post Munich assassinations, it sounds like went on for over twenty years, didn’t really take out many of the actual important directly involved individuals and a lot of the people they would have logically wanted to target successfully went in to hiding out of their reach so if the strategic goal is to behead the organisation that carried out attacks as a defensive strategy to weaken their capacity to do it again, 20 years just to take out relatively minor unimportant figures isn’t really going to work.
That said, it also looks as so many have stated like “taking out Hamas” is more a convenient political smokescreen for a much more sinister goal so a very successful intelligence operation that rapidly took out all their leadership at once would actual run counter to their true objectives in this scenario.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You missed the key issue: Excuse for the extermination of Palestinians.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Because most of the Hamas leadership isn’t in gaza. They’re protected in other countries that are funding and arming Hamas.
Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yea but that didn’t stop Mossad from assassinating the people who were responsible for Munich all over the globe.
crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They weren’t being protected there, though; they were just there
crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Israel isn’t “bombing stuff into oblivion”, they’re doing two things:
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Attacking subterranean structures with ground-penetrating (aka “2000 pound”) bombs, and
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Clearing a one-mile cordon along the border of structures so that Hamas attackers can’t do what they did on Oct 8, which was train and amass along the border fence in secret, hidden among the buildings and blended in with the populace.
If your army has to cross a mile of open ground to attack your fence, it’s a lot more obvious when they start. One of the reasons they succeeded in “surprising” Israel is that they just were there right by the fence, for years, until it seemed “normal.” With the buildings gone, they can’t do that.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Anyone who is sane is like fuck Israel fuck Hamas. We need those buildings. Stop you fucking idiots.
gets assasinated
crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Gaza doesn’t deserve buildings after Oct 7, but the Jews of Israel offer more grace to their enemies than I would
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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
an even better question is why didn’t Bibi heed any of the warnings about the imminent operation.
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s some valuable real estate in those hills.
Furball@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A ton of the Hamas leadership have been assassinated since the war began, there’s always replacements though
sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My guess is that assassination isn’t as easy as it is made out to be in the movies. The CIA, the best funded intelligence agency in the world, tried to take out Castro hundreds of times and failed. They couldn’t find Osama for a decade, either, and even then the US used Seals, not the CIA. Sure, killing some rando is probably easy, but not a government leader who is actively avoiding assassination, as I’m sure Hamas leaders are doing.
dariusj18@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Very high risk, low reward
SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Update tou your question, though this targeted towards Hezbullah and not Hammas: Bro they just took ~2000 of them with pinpoint accuracy in one go!
SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, hammas leaders over the years were assasinated by mossad. Including just a month or so ago. Top leader Ismayil Haniya was assasinated by the mossad on Iranian Soil. Gaza is a whole different story. Though mossad is involved there as well. You cannot just go to Gaza and pretend you are gazan. There are so small subtleties as to be “gazan” that can be picked right away by any local. Its a small community where everyone knows everyone. Mostaarvim, which is a special unit of the police in Israel specializes on exactly that. Pretending to be arab gazan or arab west bank and conduct operations there. And they have presumably rescued hostages and assassinated specific hammas people. You might as well consider them a specialized unit of the mossad if you will.
Waging war on Gaza is to a. Put pressure to rescue the hostages and b. To eradicate Hammas on its people, infrastructure and weapons. So that OCT 7 will never happen again. You cant use Mossad operations to do that. You Do that with actual war and shit.
kvasir476@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Almost like the goal isn’t taking out Hamas leadership. Hmmm…
oakey66@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nor do they want to rescue the hostages. It’s all an excuse to carry out death. In Gaza and the West Bank.