You can split hairs here as much as you want, but this isn't a classic war—more precisely, it’s a high-intensity asymmetric Non-International Armed Conflict. And next month, it marks its third anniversary. Which is truly mind-boggling when you actually look at the weapons: Hamas: RPG-7s (including those homemade, cutting-edge "Yassin" tandem-charge warheads) Small Arms & Insurgent Gear: Standard assault rifles like the AK-47 and Chinese Norinco Type 56-1 Crude, short-range Qassam rockets (locally manufactured from plumbing pipes, brilliant) Israel: Air Power: Fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters, alongside F-15 and F-16 jets, and Apache attack helicopters Air Defense Systems: Iron Dome (for short-range rockets), David's Sling (medium-range), and Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems (for long-range ballistic missiles) Armor and Ground Vehicles: Merkava IV main battle tanks, Namer and Eitan armored personnel carriers Precision Munitions & Drones: Suicide drones, advanced surveillance UAVs, and Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) for "precision-guided" airstrikes 76 billion in military spending, plus an extra 26 billion from the US Tech Giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon performing data processing, mass surveillance, and target identification during the mass murder in Gaza (Project Nimbus) Despite all that money, all those weapons, all that technology, and all that international backing, Israel still hasn't managed to win this conflict in 3 years. With those kinds of prerequisites, even a horde of monkeys would have been victorious within a few weeks. Despite all their intelligence, their IQ doesn't seem to exceed room temperature. Instead of eliminating the enemy once and for all, they prefer destroying buildings, killing aid workers, journalists and medics, and playing target practice with children—presumably because the adults are too fast for them. And on social media, they proudly parade around in women's clothes looted during their raids, when they aren't busy raping defenseless prisoners. a war hero and his trophies Will this conflict go down in history as the greatest military embarrassment of all time? Could it possibly get any more pathetic?
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