If Hamas could be "starved into submission" it would have already happened by now. They're basically as starved as starving people can possibly get.
If the goal is to make them no more a credible military threat, that ship sailed LONG, LONG AGO -- the idea that they're anything even close to a credible military threat is laughable.
If the goal is "surrender" or to "crush" Hamas by making the movement it represents disappear by causing everyone in Palestine to suddenly stop hating and resenting Israel and therefore no longer throw rocks at IDF vehicles or cobble together pathetic fireworks to launch in the vague direction of the border, then that just doesn't happen. The idea that you could EVER somehow neuter the hatred Palestinians feel toward Israel by starving them more, beating them into further submission, making them suffer worse is contrary to even the most rudimentary understanding of human nature.
It's nonsense. Unless your intention is to literally starve every Palestinian to death, this is no solution at all -- it is a solution guaranteed to continue the status quo by continuing to foster impotent, desperate rage on the part of all Palestinians and continuing to lead to pathetic outbreaks of token violence that will justify still-further sanctions.
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If the goal is to make them no more a credible military threat, that ship sailed LONG, LONG AGO -- the idea that they're anything even close to a credible military threat is laughable.
If the goal is "surrender" or to "crush" Hamas by making the movement it represents disappear by causing everyone in Palestine to suddenly stop hating and resenting Israel and therefore no longer throw rocks at IDF vehicles or cobble together pathetic fireworks to launch in the vague direction of the border, then that just doesn't happen. The idea that you could EVER somehow neuter the hatred Palestinians feel toward Israel by starving them more, beating them into further submission, making them suffer worse is contrary to even the most rudimentary understanding of human nature.
It's nonsense. Unless your intention is to literally starve every Palestinian to death, this is no solution at all -- it is a solution guaranteed to continue the status quo by continuing to foster impotent, desperate rage on the part of all Palestinians and continuing to lead to pathetic outbreaks of token violence that will justify still-further sanctions.