"Hamas is irrelevant" — Gen. (Res.)Yaakov Amidror on the IDF's battlefield success
The recent assassinations of key terrorists — Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammad Deif of Hamas, Fuad Shukr of Hezbollah — have pushed tensions to their highest point since October 7. While Iran has assumed a greater direct role, the two original fronts, Gaza and the Lebanese border, still pose a clear and present danger. And now to the grief for the dead and the despair over the hostages must be added the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who cannot return to their homes.
Yaakov Amidror, Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, is a career military man. He fought in the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War, attained the rank of major general, and served as the head of the research department of Israeli military intelligence, as well as national security advisor to Prime Minister Netanyahu and chairman of the National Security Council.
Major General (res.) Amidror spoke with Mishpacha and offered his evaluation of the performance of Israel’s security forces in the war, assessing that, “Hamas in Gaza is already militarily irrelevant.”
Let me offer an example that will help illustrate the situation. When Deif or Haniyeh were eliminated, no one in the world asked how Gaza responded to the attacks. Why is that? Because Hamas in Gaza, in terms of its military capabilities, is practically irrelevant. They killed Hamas’s number two, killed the person considered the leader of Hamas in Tehran, we were supposedly responsible, and what was the response from Gaza?
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