AdvertisementAlas, that is still more ambition than reality on the 114th day of the Gaza War. It doesn’t help that Israel has two primary goals – killing the Hamas leadership, and releasing the hostages – and those are more often than not contradictory. An Israeli senior military official confessed to the WSJ: “The question is: is there a real way to get the hostages out alive? It’s holding back the efforts to just blow up those tunnels using bunker-busting bombs. Israeli politicians like to tout the mantra about the IDF being the most moral army in the world.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 28, 2024 09:16 UTC