Big props for keeping us up to date on the events and happenings in Gaza and beyond. The usual suspects, who for two long years didn't have any qualms to share the most outlandish and retarded clickbait turdworldist nonsense and were aggressively tonepolicing anyone that didn't participate in the ideological circlewank, are missing. Totally did not see that coming bytheway, and it's never happened before either. Therefore thank you, again, for stepping up and stepping in. If it hadn't been for you one might have still had the idea that, you know, Israel was decisively losing in Gaza and in general on its last legs or whatever.
From the start yours truly told y'all how this would end. And it ended exactly like that, barring a few yet to be decided details. Hamas was never going to have a role in Gaza's future post October 7. Once Hamas' initial push failed and the Arab states made it clear they'd sit this out/ side with Israel that option just wasn't feasible anymore. Hamas' 'Flood of al Aqsa' + the calculated Israeli reprisals were meant to set in motion a domino effect, create overall chaos, revigorate pro Palestine attitudes amongst Arab leadership, and in general magnify perceptions of Israeli weakness+ barbarism. After which the Arab world, most notably Saudi Arabia, would have felt the moral obligation+ domestic pressure to abandon any budding initiatives with the Israelis and instead move back to Islamic solidarity, Pan-Arabism and pro-Palestina positions.
None of that happened of course, because Arabs are divided and not high on morality anyway. Current Gaza treatment is par for the course in the Middle East, intentionally targeting civilians is common playbook work over there. Barring a few long dead Baathists the Arabs never really gave a shit about Palestinians anyway, if you are willing to look beyond rhetorics at least. Post 1970s it is not too much of a stretch to say that 'Palestine' has become a burden for both ordinary Arabs and Arab leaders, and they prefer to pretend it doesn't exist.
Hilariously enough in the wake of October 7 only Tehran was somewhat prepared to step up through its proxies. The Iranians are, and this is common knowledge, the most hated entity in the Middle East and the but of many jokes, theories and actual attacks. We know how the limited Iranian interference ended, the Axis of Resistance was dismantled with the ease of changing a car tire, Hamas ditched Tehran as soon as it saw a feasible opportunity and as a cherry on the cake the ayatollahs also had their nuclear program trashed. Yet another example of that Shia Battle of Karbala inspired sado masochism. Not exactly great longterm thinking on the part of Sinwar and Deif!
