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This is very good, but I can tell that this script is over a month old. A lot has changed. Unfortunately, your ending about Israel doesn't have an endgame for Gazs is still relevant.
I think it's funny anyone claiming the tunnel system is working to hamas advantage is an idiot. This isn't Vietnam. Vietnam was huge. Meanwhile idf has eyes in sky on almost all of gaza and on average it takes 6 minutes from the time hamas are spotted until some type of bombs come dropping on them. The idf, fighting these tunnels, has lost 116 personnel since ground operations have started. That is nothing as for the butt kicking hamas has taken. Why didn't you mention the mass surrenders by hamas? The loss of half of gaza and having eliminated the command and control of hamas. Why didn't you mention hamas political wing is breaking from its military wing by saying they will recognize isreal to end the war? You can't live I a tunnel forever. That clock gets faster as idf takes the land above the tunnels and eliminates the equipment needed to stay I the tunnels. My guess is hamas higher-ups go hitler and commit suicide
"We are not fighting people but ideologies. You can't kill an ideology. You can only make it irrelevant. " - Soldier Veteran of the Marawi Siege, Philippines.
Approximately 30% of the Philippine landmass has a deep historical connection with the indigenous Moro people, also known as the Bangsamoro people. These individuals, however, find themselves as victims of a disturbing past, having been forcibly and unlawfully integrated into the present-day political structure. This appalling state of affairs can be traced back to the abhorrent Spanish colonization, marked by criminal acts, and the subsequent era of American colonialism. Under the guise of supposedly granting independence, the American colonization era cunningly perpetuated the existing circumstances, denying the rightful owners their land and preventing them from attaining an independent homeland. This situation stands in stark contrast to the case of East Timor, where a distinct and self-governing nation was allowed to thrive. The heart-wrenching truth is that the Moro people, who are inherently tied to this significant portion of Philippine land, have been stripped of their rights throughout history. Their struggles and illegal annexation demand attention and call into question the integrity of the political forces at play. As the spotlight shines on this unresolved predicament, it is crucial that the international community and key stakeholders take notice, acknowledging the justified claims of the Moro people. A just resolution, one that returns the land to its original owners and grants them the autonomy they rightfully deserve, is imperative for true justice to prevail.
@galacticknight5718 wall text but ok. Certainly, the Isis extremism is the representative of all Moros rather than just an outside force capitalising on regional squabbles.
A slight correction is in order. At 6:25 The title says "Gaza city population 2.3 million". The city of Gaza had a population of 590 thousand people before the war. The entire Gaza strip has a population of 2.3million. The Gaza strip is an area containing 8 cities: Gaza, Khan Yunis, Jabalia, Rafah, Beit Lahiya, Deir al Balah, Beit Hanoun and Bani Suheila. Roughly half the area of the Gaza strip is agricultural farmland.
@@RosscoAW Completely wrong, he's making it sound like it's even denser. "Roughly half of the area is farmland" while the other half is made up of 8 cities, all of which are respectably large by themselves. This goes to show you even though Gaza is small, where the people actually live is even smaller.
@RosscoAW "One of the most densely populated places on Earth" is one of the stranger titles that are too often bestowed on the Gaza strip without actually thinking what it actually means, as it's not clear what constitutes a place to compare with. The Gaza strip has about 6300 people per square km. *(edited from 5500) If you draw a 1 square meter around yourself, the 'place' you have just imagined has a density of 1,000,000 people per square km. (2m if you happen to be holding a baby at the time) Kowloon Walled City was famously super dense at 1,890,000/km^2 I guess it comes out of comparing the Gaza strip to countries. The Netherlands has about 440 people per square km. If you compare it to a city: Paris and Cairo each have about 20,000 people per square km. The city of Gaza had about 13,000. Baghdad is incredibly dense at 43,000 people per square km. Manhatten's at 72,918.
It is the duty of the non-Muslim world to assist all Muslims who are impatient to reach paradiise to get there as soon as possible. The jihadis of Hamas, Hizbullah, ISIS and extreme Islam must be helped on their way without weak Christian morality turning the other cheek.
Where do ppl get this notion that the World is all of a sudden going to a dark place? Ah yes, social media, politicians and mass media repeatedly telling them it is. It's almost as if it's in their interests to keep us in a state of fear and anxiety.
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@@ymtzlgnI am a Yemeni, and I tell you that, I will say just don't worry about us, we will always stand with the opporessed, if Palestinians are fine we will be fine, and I hope that we continue until the rightful people of the land wins In Sha'a Allah
Not to mention Al-Qaeda whose ability to commit acts of terror was reduced to near nothing. Or ISIS who went from controlling large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq to mere tiny pockets. Ideas most definitely can be eradicated by force.
In this case the idea is zionism. Palestinians have no ideas, they just try to survive the oppression that's all. If you are displaced and then oppressed for generations by outside military force, what would you do?
Germany still has a far right party of neo nazis in AFD, and they just won more elections than they have before. Japan still has a large ultranationalist presence who still deny genocide.
The Nazis and Imperial Japan were defeated militarily yes, but what really killed their ideologies was the unprecedented foreign aid provided to them by the US after the war to rebuild. If the US hadn't given that aid, its just as likely that these ideologies would have remained or morphed into something even more destructive, just as German imperialism did after WWI. Similarly, the only way that Israel can prevent Hamas's ideology from continuing is by providing an alternative, i.e. stop blockading Gaza, stop slowly annexing the West Bank, end apartheid laws, and allow the Palestinians to build their own state. When given the option between a prosperous peace or destructive ideology, people will choose peace 100% of the time, the issue is that Israel does not give Palestinians that option.
@@TheObiareusby international law all the former mandate of British Palestine belongs legally to Israel we gave up claim over Gaza in 2005 & no we never gonna give up Judea it’s our homeland & these Arab colonizer are occupying it and wanna create Islamic fascist state educate yourself.
"Ideas are impervious to physical force" Today's conventional wisdom is so out of touch with reality that it's frightening how everybody accepts it without even an after thought.
@@daveyhansen Well played, but it's not a consolation. By the the comments here the percentages of skeptics is less than the percentage of flat earthers. Had a video trying to explain astronomy, mentioned in passing, that the earth is flat, I would have expected more salt in the discussion calling the entire video to question. Yet...
You don't need to kill an idea (which is extremely difficult), but you can destroy an organization almost completely, you can destroy its power, arsenal and regime. That's how ISIS was defeated in Syria and Iraq, despite the group is technically still around.
@@ferdinanddaratenas3447 every war, without exception, that ended with a one sided victory marked the death of at least one idea (WW2, American civil war, ISIS... you name it) That's why I made the original comment, frustrated that all other commentators accept the conventional "wisdom" without a pause.
@@anchormax3597 You can kill an idea by giving it no attention. Not repressing it, not avoiding it, not attacking it. Just by letting it be and not feeding it.
@@alonzy989cause: A. There are still hostages in the tunnels B. Flooding the tunnels can cause severe damage to the soil in the area making impossible to build and sustain inferstructure C.the waters can leak into aquifer in the Israeli territory thus damaging their agriculture Hope it was enough
@@The_saint_of_chuds Egypt has been doing it for years. The tunnels from rafah into the Sinai peninsula are found and flooded. And it’s now a fact that Israel started flooding the tunnels.
I'm not sure what has happened recently with your audio setup, but it's been distorted (clipping or overly compressed?) for a while now. i'm a sound tech so i'm very sensitive to stuff like his. According to YT your content loudness is 7.1dB so it's ABOVE the reference... thus, too loud? This would indicate it being pure clipping. If you've enabled some sort of auto gain or similar by accident, or you've changed your compressor configuration too much, that could be the reason? If there's too much compression, it can cause the same sonic issue as any clipping but without the sound actually going over 0dBFS and thus you can't see any clipping in your meters. Clipping could also happen before the digital domain at the microphone pre-amp or it might be that you're using these new fangled 32bit interfaces and then when you post process it in 24/16bit, that introduced clipping.. Please check that, because it's a bit tiring to listen to :( There are free tools to check your levels like Youlean Loudness meter, that'll tell you your loudness level and if you're clipping etc. very reliably. Your content has always been great, so I'm just giving you some constructive feedback :)
The ground news segues are getting more and more annoying. Several other channels I visit are doing them also,, but usually at the end or as chapters at least. It's less a criticism of the channel, and more a hint to the Ground News markerters that they are getting to be obnoxious. I try to take the things being said seriously, so when a sponsor isn't clearly defined and marked from the start, I feel betrayed. Ground News doesn't need to resort to such petty tactics; they have a product that can sell itself without segues.
I always respect a content creator having to make $ when they put in sponsor adds, and with that said I think you're constructive critique is really fair and well formulated =) Good to read a respectful comment that isn't shy to share a concern. It's a hard thing for many to do in 2023, myself included at times hehe =)
Ground News is just propaganda seeing as the left/right false dichotomy doesn't represent actual informed voters. All voters who would actually think for themselves and not seek media arbitration on the matter are unrepresented by the left and right. Not even Independent party candidates are beyond the vetting system that keeps out people with interests for individual citizens from getting in to politics. I don't expect anybody still using these news outlets like this one to understand that though.
Israeli soldiers are excellent fighters, but for the vulnerable. .. they are fighting an incredible battle with children, women and the elderly congratulations. 👏👏👏👏👏
No. The israeli army does well at open country mobile warfare. It has never performed well in other environment. On the whole, its soldiers on average are not particularly skilled. They rely on superior technology, weapons, numbers and volume of ordnance. Their soldiers really aren't that good for the most part
The IDF have already been told by ex Iraq and Afghanistan operatives that they cannot defeat Hamas this way, this only leads to even greater radicalization.
I cannot imagine greater radicalization than the one that already exists in Gaza, this is not comparable to USA and Iraq/Afghanistan. Children in Gaza are being taught and trained in schools that Allah wants the death of all jews, and the greatness of being a martyr, for the past 20 years. It cannot get worse than it is..
@@AdastraRecordingsSpeaking from a humanity standpoint they obviously should but whether they stick to it or not makes no difference in terms of their ability to defeat Hamas.
With the rise of drone technologies i believe tunnels will become huge in regards to war tactics. The technology needed to deal with such tasks are being developed rapidly.
Mostly for defense, attack tunnels can only be reliably used to cross close borders and are expensive. You also need the right soil or depth to build the tunnels. Also the tunnels are more reliable in urban warfare where the enemy isn't inclined to detroy all of it.
Netanyahu is on record saying that Hamas is necessary to everything the two state solution never succeeds. Furthermore, Israel seems to be flattening the city before sending their ground force in.
@@jeckjeck3119that was a very long time ago most people don’t exit from that time And nenthanhy rejected a ceasefire with all hostages back But they denied
My great uncle was a tunnel rat in the Vietnam war. He crawled in with a flashlight and a pistol and never once was captured. He said that he and the other men crawling in kept others safe and the tunnels were annoying but not really a hindrance.
I saw a reply from a Hamas leader. this is me paraprahsing. "We have prepared for all types of scenarious with our tunnels, be it pumping of water and or other method of targeting our tunnels." Plus even thinking about it they had so many years to prepare I am sure someone thought of this
@@servant74 Idk if you saw but on telegram there was a video of a tunnel getting filled with water. It likely had its initial success in flooding parts of it. But I would think that Hamas would then coordinate the other tunnels to prepare for such measures. So likely small- medium success (in my opinion) And you're welcome!
@@Ali-fx6jd if they will have energy for puming out water all the time then ok. Israelis has the advantage of getting access to the infrastructure with bigger capacity in terms of electric enegry, fuel etc. Flooding the tunnels is not THAT stupid of idea as long as Hamas won't be able to sustain water pumping out machines.
Peace would mean negotiating 2 states, something the more powerful Israelis don't want. Israel wants to ethnically cleanse gaza and the west bank for a 1 state solution where the native Muslims and Christians are gone. I'm sure Palestinians deep down realize how futile getting their land back is, but they publicly talk about 1 state where the immigrant jews are gone. Left wing Israelis might be more willing for a peace deal, peace would choke out Hamas as well
@@FirstnameLastname-pt5ss I guess you don't realize how vast that tunnel system is. When Egypt tried flooding the tunnels, it only destroyed a small portion by the Sinai. It didn't prevent Hamas at all from continuing their smuggling operation. What Egypt did at that time was to say "Hey, look what we're doing Israel, we don't support Hamas." All it really did was destroy the agriculture in that area.
@@firstbinguser Aside from the fact we're talking about a complex tunnel system that spans an area the size of Las Vegas and has been around for decades. Do you really think all those tunnels are interconnected and that they wouldn't take preventative measures constructing these tunnels for flooding being that they're underground. Now, with that in mind, please explain how much time and fuel it will take to pump in enough seawater to flood these tunnels? Nevermind. All this is just Israel grasping at straws. Smoking mirrors for the gullible Western public because they got caught with their pants down Oct 7th.
What came first? The chicken or the egg? The gazans used to live in much better conditions before hamas rose to power and started targeting israeli civilians
@@ykaflaloif you consider still being occupied a better situation, you may be correct. Hamas was put there to give Israel an excuse to go in and killed or scare away as many Palestinians as possible until they're done stealing every inch of the territory.
@@ykaflalo for ethics it does not matter who began it at this point. Matters if the current guys are doing anything to improve things or just half assing it as they have so far. One couldn’t integrate and give rights to Palestinians or secure their own safety, and the other one couldn’t make Palestine into an actual independent government or secure their own safety, and both couldn’t prevent the current war or turmoil. And the bigger problem is that even if the war ended in a genocide or a peaceful reunification, there’s still tons of issues in national politics that aren’t going to go away just if the war stops.
You can't. Especially by increasing support for that idea on the ground while not doing anything to touch its leadership, which is in an entirely different country. This is all a very pretty presentation but support for Hamas increases every day Isreal attacks, and with every civilian killed. The numbers dont lie.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree on the “ideology” point. Hamas is first and foremost a product of decades of brutal colonial occupation on southern Palestine. Though times make men bitter and their methods harsh. But still, they embody a *necessity* of the Arab people who live in the Strip: that of not being enslaved and humiliated. That, in my opinion, is their primary political goal and the aim of oct7. To break the siege of Gaza. Any solution on Palestine proper would come later and be mediated, far removed from the “cleansing Palestine from the Jews” ideology you attribute to them.
Israel left Gaza. Hamas are Islamic terrorists. There is no "Palestine." They are violent Arab Muslim refugees which Arab Muslim nations have thrown out thru war. Do some research before regurgitating lies.
Identifying civilians is problematic? Gee i wonder how difficult it is to identify hospitals, mosques, churches, pediatric units, school, refugee camps, journalism offices and NGOs.
It is EXTREMELY difficult when they are being used as command centers, military bases, and armories. You have Hamas terrorists in civilian clothes embedding themselves in the civilian population, executing attacks, and then returning to shelters and refugee camps. How on earth can you differentiate these in real-time?
@@RonFilm Before making statements justifying the killing of civilians in UN schools, hospitals, churches etc .. you need to come up with solid evidence and let UN investigation do their job! Until then, what the IOF is doing are was crimes!
Funny how being one of the poorest areas in the world they have more hospitals, 42 which is 18.26 per million people. More than most of the countries in the OECD developed countries. Gaza would be placed in the middle. They keep having more and more hospitals but the health is not getting better. Maybe they use those hospitals for something else. Very strange
Israel would kill us all if it could. So many members of my family including women and children have been killed by Israel because they want a Jewish state and us Christians don't belong
Temporarily. The physical force has to end at some point, then the ideology will begin to rise again. Sustaining physical force indefinitely is not feasible, just look at how the US was unable to defeat the Taliban.
@@denisl2760 its easily to killed ideologies but to do so requires massive amounts of ruthlessness. US is not ruthless which is why the US has not had lots of success in its overseas adventures.
@@MrChickennugget360so lol Israel gonna use that as an excuse to go into every Arab country ? Arabs want to end Israel . They best not depend on us because this isn’t our problem.
Israel can't win. I live in Australia and I know people in Canada and the USA. We live in a settler colony that will continue because we committed such a complete genocide. Indigenous people make up around 3% of our current population in Australia. That should be a source of public shame for Australia, the USA and Canada, but it also allows people to be magnanimous about the indigenous population and continue on because they are not a genuine threat. However, you can see that despite African and South Asian nations having long-term poverty and corruption problems to work through (with differing levels of success) resulting from European colonialism, they have been able to end the colonies and it is just a matter of time before they are empowered and successful nations. They have self-determination and over the next few centuries geopolitical power shifts we see them have a period of power. Palestine is more like Africa. If you count Palestinians living in all areas of Palestine/Israel and surrounding nations as refugees, there are more of them than Israelis. Despite the ethnic cleansing and genocide that Israel is committing, they can't raise the intensity that would overcome the high birthrate that you would expect from impoverished people. Therefore, despite the atrocities that Israel has been committing since its inception it can not win. The global south, as victims of colonisation and ethnic cleansing, has been able to see what Israel is. The center-left and left of all nations outside of the US have seen Israel for what it is for a generation now. However, it is completely reliant on politics in the USA. Israel can not exist without the US gifting Israel 1% of its GDP per year. Any polling of people under the age of 40 makes it clear that that support will dry up in a generation. That means no money and no encouragement for Arab nations to play nice with them. If Israel does not allow for Palestinian self-determination, or a single secular state with all Palestinians having the right of return, there will be sanctions as well. Sanctions against enemies can be devastating but are not often successful. However, sanctions against allies who are economically intertwined with those putting the sanctions are game-changing. Especially if it is a nation that has very little natural resources like Israel. If Israelis had any foresight they would be planning for this. Despite being formed as a European settler colony, it is now true that the majority of Jews in Israel descend from populations from the Middle East. Zionism has destroyed as many Jewish communities as it has Palestinian communities. This means that one secular nation is the best solution. It will bring sustainable peace for the Jews there and overcome the fact that Israeli aggression has decapitated Palestinian leadership and left the vacuum that has allowed groups like Hamas to flourish. The singular state will need to provide justice for Palestinians, it can't be an empty gesture. This means the return of refugees and the return of property that was stolen as people were cleansed, starting in 1947-48.
The birth rate for Palestine in 2022 was 27.633 births per 1000 people, a 1.6% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Palestine in 2021 was 28.081 births per 1000 people, a 1.57% decline from 2020. Arabs also dont Help them so they will Not exist anymore ! Israel will Take palestine and then No palestinian Here ! Israel is a very powerful Nation they never loose a war 😅!
The birth rate for Palestine in 2022 was 27.633 births per 1000 people, a 1.6% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Palestine in 2021 was 28.081 births per 1000 people, a 1.57% decline from 2020. Arabs also dont Help them so they will Not exist anymore ! Israel will Take palestine and then No palestinian Here ! Israel is a very powerful Nation they never loose a war 😅!
Excellent reporting and storytelling. One critique: the gain on your mic seems to be creeping up (or the compression/limiter is over cooking) causing your voice to be a bit distorted. This makes it a little hard to listen to, at least for me.
I didn't really notice until I read this comment. Now that it's pointed out I can't help but be aware of the crackling on the voice. Music comes through fine.
Very good. It would be nice to talk about the impact of new technologies on tunnel warfare, particularly the remotely controlled drone vehicles that might be used to explore the tunnels, detecting fighters, ambushes and hostages within the tunnels, as well as ambushes that emerge out of the tunnels.
Why do you assume they would be operated from above ground? The type of drones were talking about are operated by personnel physically present where the drones are - in other words, the operators will be below ground with the drones...@@quochuyhoang9764
Not entirely, but it's still true in certain aspects. Israel has always lost the propaganda war. And that's been a far more central part of the strategy of Arab nationalists since the first Intifada.
Pls report how many civilian killed in gaza and how many schools، mousque and cherches , hospital destroyed Also the starvation strategy And cutting electricity and water for palstainan and the the daily killing and violations by settller at West bank
@@jayeshiyer2347 it's beyond relevant, this isn't a video game! I'm deeply offended by your attitude. Civilian deaths sway political opinions and public support. Beyond that, humanitarian law must be respected for both ethical and strategic reasons. Otherwise we'll see this blow up. This isn't a game of risk.
They have a boarder with Egypt, which Israel doesn’t control, and a coast line. Plus what they produce and have stored. Why does Israel need to supply food and fuel to a region that attacked them? Hamas could release all the hostages they took and surrender. Egypt could have not closed the border.
the tunnels are not level and it is unknown where the hostages are. once the tunnels are drained and refitted against a repeat the cycle will go again. flooding may be effective in the short term but it strikes me as a scooby-doo plan that looks good in print but may run into problems in practice. i am happy to be wrong on this, that is just my observation as someone with an engineering background
This will permanently salt the ground. No crops can grow in this soil for hundreds of years. literally salting the earth. Beside, the US force in Vietnam did tried this before. Tunnel that is well designed can survive this.
@@realpolitics527 lol, im juat talking about since 1940's when Muslims killed over 300k+ Hindus just in Kashmir amd took over. You know the Quran tells them to kill, conquer, and convert. Since people like you don't know history or facts. You're welcome
It's the fact they think they are gods chosen people and can do whatever they want with impunity.... seems odd to me that when you think God is on your side it makes you think you are allowed to do horrendous shit. Such a strange way of thinking
@@bengalloway6812that’s funny because Muslims also think they are gods chosen people. Except you are allowed to leave Judaism without being killed, and Jewish women can show their face and walk outside without a man’s supervision… people say “free Palestine”, I agree, it needs to be freed from Islam.
What I know is around 70% of Gaza population were evacuated from their homes between 1948 and 1967 , instead of trying to push them out to Egypt, why they don’t let them go back home (Israel) as international law said R 242 , and those civilians will be more safe than being human shields in another country
Although Israel's plan seems solid there are many factors affecting it, First, International pressure to stop the war. Second, Hezbollah involvement. A country like Iran is not going to watch their proxies get destroyed like this.
for that reason, Hezbollah cannot interfere as it was mentioned in the video both Hamas and Hezbollah really on gorilla warfare which only works in an area that is known to the organization
Iran's supreme leader has pretty much told Haniyeh he is on his own and Nasrallah - has said in his first speech that this is 100% a Palestinian issue. Iran won't risk its nuclear program for Hamas and Nasrallah won't risk having Hezbollah and Lebanon flattened like Gaza. So sure - Hezbollah is engaging the IDF on a daily basis but very low key and is suffering heavy losses, whereas Iran is mostly making threats one day and then denying any involvement the next. The Houthi's are getting too adventurous but there will come a point where they will be dealt with - probably a mix of US and allied forces in the red sea, some Israeli retaliation and opposition within Yemen - aided by Western arms and support.
America is virulently pro-Israel, even most liberals. If Iran and Hezbollah attacked the neocons will attack Iran and Lebanon. Which is why they wont attack Israel.
@@Niv_nav the pulled out for like 3rd time within two decades. They can keep carpet bombing Gaza but but nothing they do is killing the Palestinian spirit. Kinda similar to how the USA lost in Vietnam when they were carpet bombing the hell out of South Asia due to the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare. Israel is trying to wipe out Palestinians off their land and they know they’re running out of resources quick. The situation is a lot different this time around since everyone is focused on what’s going on. Years prior everyone was being fed Zionist propaganda now they can see for themselves via social media. Israel lost the war when they lied about their intentions, it was always genocide. They were aware of the October 7th attack more than a year in advanced. Killed their own citizens and continue bomb Gaza killing their own civilians.
@@Niv_nav they have been in gaza for three months and hamas is still intact, sending rockets towards israel and are still have intense clashes in gaza.
Your voice in the audio seems to be a bit 'scratchy'. I think it might be time for a new mic? Sounds raggedy. It used to be a lot smoother/high quality!
I read about huge pumps being ready. The problem is, they would only have enough salt water, which would contaminate the sparse ground water for a long time.
They have been testing systems to pump water into the tunnels. Everything seems to be going well, but may not work with every tunnel system. They are also using other technologies, such as underground drones.
I disagree with your assessment that the IDFs methods will determine world opinion for years to come. The truth is that people already chose sides in this conflict on Oct 8th..... long before military operations began.
so many people saying they should just flood the tunnels, i guess anything is possible when you don't care about the collateral damage. but again, they already flattened the place to the ground, didn't they?
@@ashishhembrom3905 are you for real? It's already difficult enough to have 2 million people above ground let alone underground 🤦 maybe you just want them all underground in their graves already
It’s hard to tell the civilian kill rate, when Hamas fighters dress as civilians. And Hamas does not differentiate between civilians and fighters when releasing casualty numbers.
Oh true , that’s why 42% of the kill rate are children , who knows they might be soldiers as well . oh and how about the 98 dead journalists they were for sure undercover Hamas soldiers . Wait lemme guess those 3 Israeli hostages were undercover Hamas soldiers as well . Israel is a joke and you guys justifying that right extreme government r such ignorants it’s actually sad
@@yassirhallami6737 Hamas is currently use children as a solders. A few days ago in Jenin 2 underage militants accidentally blew themselves wile carrying an improvised explosive device
The problem with Gaza is that no one is actually looking out for them they're just like free Palestine and C-Spire as an attack on Israel but if you actually wanted these people to have like economic opportunity you would want them in the country with more economic opportunity right now they're the enemy of the country is looking after them
You made it sound like Iran was the sole financier of the tunnels, however I am aware that international aid money was also used by Hamas to construct the underground infrastructure. I think it would be even more 'In-integrity' as a journalist to note that so much of the money originally earmarked for civilian infrastructure [quality of life for Palestinians] was instead channeled into the subterranean defense network.
While there is no evidence for what you say, there are evidence that Qatar has financed Hamas with Israeli help (as admitted by Netenyaho). And that was not money for civilians, but money assigned to the military org Hamas
So you’re saying you agree with the terrorists that there should be no Israel. Are you for murdering the Israelis, dispersing them globally, or a mix of both?
@@PrintProfessor This idea that Israelis can’t exist without Palestinians being wiped cuz you guys are scared to be subjugated to the same oppressive conditions that Palestinians people had to live through is reminiscent of when white people in America thought that if they freed the slaves that slaves would in slave or kill them in revenge. That never happened. Palestinians just want live in peace but Zionist state of Israel sees that as a attack.
I don’t care if it’s free or even buy one get one free, it’s populated by religious zealots and terrorists who aptly elected a terrorist regime to lead them. Until things change dramatically in their methods and goals there will never be a Palestine. Your little chant may rhyme but at this point and for the last 75 years it’s been the mantra of a group of people who refused to accept the UN resolution and who have dedicated most of their energy and resources to an Israeli genocide agenda. Your chant implies that Israel will be wiped from the earth, so basically you have decided to side with terrorists. All that does is make you antisemitic which is hardly original or interesting.
You forgot that Israel left Gaza and offered 95% of the West Bank but they refused they don’t want peace so don’t fill bad losing a war doesn’t make you the good side also Israel doesn’t kills civilians they get nothing from killing them dose who do die are 1. Getting used them as human shield or are military personnel that dress like a civilian so they can say that Israel killing civilians
As an observer, with no particular connection with Israel or Hamas, I would simply point out the obvious. As bad as things are, things can always get worse. To better understand their position, I recently read the Hamas Covenant of 1988. It is essentially their mission statement. No spin. To sum up their position, it is essentially no compromise. Fight and never give up. The kind of attitude that keeps you at war for 35 years. For the past 35 years, the devotion to fighting probably caused the people to miss out on other opportunities. Maybe Hamas will win someday. Maybe it will lose. However, fighting without compromise does not always turn out well when fighting a larger force. Consider the zeal expressed by Japan (WWII) and Paraguay in the war of the triple alliance. The problem with "Never Surrender" is that this approach literally compels the other side to take extreme measures to end the war. The U.S. dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan. In the war of the triple alliance, 90 % of Paraguay's males were killed. In those cases, was to the battle cry of never surrender really worth it? Or did the ego of their leaders needlessly cause the people to suffer?
I often wonder what it will take, if at all possible, for an idealized future vision to be pursued by both Israel and Palestinians. To get anywhere near such an idea will require an enormous and simultaneous leap of faith. Are these two combatants too weighed down by a combined history of failure to even entertain such thinking?
@@gershommaes902 Empathy, as one of human beings’ basic tools, enables people who look, speak, act differently to live side by side, in peace. I believe humanity’s aspirations writ large both depend on and lead to the practice of empathy. Our modern, tightly woven society would be doomed without it, and it takes a concerted effort to dissuade us from a learned practice that enhances our survival. It’s no surprise then that our ambition of hope faces a losing battle with the dark side of religious faith, its most formidable enemy. That we cede so much authority to those with a message of hate is frankly hard for me to accept.
@@gershommaes902 As a Jew, why don't you stop praying for the .3% of "innocent civilians" and start praying for the hostages and the brave jewish soliders of the IDF? Perhaps we could end the war and save your precious "poor brown people" if you adjusted your perspective.
@@artysanmobile It's not the "dark side of religious faith" as you call it. It's the horrible darkness of antisemitic hatred. Don't blame perfectly good religiously observant Muslims for the ISIS-like hatred of Hamas.
@@stolenhandleI give you a hint dont trust any government whatever hé Say , and answer violance with violence it just to make thing escalate éven more poeple learn from the past mistake to make a better attack , last you israeli are brainwashed its not religion issue or arab vs jews its a colonial issue if your poeple Aknowledge those things and and a least know Palestine History without judjment because your narrative and sorry to Say this its not Logic and defy common sense and last its not antisemitic to critisize your country
Just one note on gazza being one of the densest places on the planet... It's simply not true, it is not even in the top 100 in density. Gazza city itself might be in the 90th place or so. Alot of cities in Israel are denser, not to mention europe or asia.
True. The Gaza Strip, at about 15,000 people per square mile, is as dense as London and Tel Aviv. Many countries have a far greater population density.
You are missing the point , you are just comparing two cities , the problem is that in order to have a sustainable state a state must have a place to build homes and for other purposes as well like agriculture , industry etc. The problem here is that there is no space in gaza for anything its a concrete jungle. London is dense but its not dense as a whole country. London can not sustain as an isolated entity. Look at it from this angle as well
London has a whole country to grow crops , build factories , sports stadiums , airports sea ports , universities school and everything else , where can people of gaza do all this? The whole comparison is wrong.
A huge amount of Israelis are fighting I or have fought in Gaza by being drafted and seen, filmed, etc. Even many journalists have been in them - CNN itself published video footage of their own journalists in there. Furthermore, Hamas officials openly speak about their large investment in the tunnels - see interviews with Ghazi Hamad on major networks. Coincidentally, Ghazi Hamad also says that Hamas bears no responsibility for Gaza civilians and that the UN is responsible for their needs. Satisfied?
it's ironic that Caspian report is sponsored by ground news, and speaks highly of them yet has a very obnoxious and clear agenda. echoing the 'human shield' rhetoric of the genocide apologists.
Israel tried the "diplomatic way" for too many years with the Gaza strip. If it's long term permission to deliver millions of dollars from Qatar to Hamas monthly, work permits to work in Israel for hundreds of thousands of workers from Gaza, medical services in Israel for a limited amount for Gaza residents and the supply of elementary equipment, electricity and water when Israel doesn't have to. It didn't work and the result was 07/10. So force unfortunately now is the right answer to the situation.
7:51 @CaspianReport you made a conflicting mistake. Either intentionally or otherwise.You said Hamas uses civillian house as human shield. The sentence is very misleading if you actually intented to say tgeyoperate out of it. Human shielding is a complete diffrent concept by definition. All in all intresting piece of work.
For info about conditions in Israel-Palestine before October I recommend people read the Human Rights Watch report "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution". You can't understand anything without context.
You've got it backwards. Hamas was not born out of violence or indignities against Palestinians, nor is it a backlash to there not being a path to political resolution through compromise. Hamas is the violent backlash explicitly organized around opposition to compromise and peace and a two state solution. Hamas wants a one state solution and is actively pursuing genocide to get it. They're willing to sacrifice their own population in a futile fight because they think it's what allah wants them to do. You're right, you can't destroy any idea, not even a bad one. You can only destroy the people who won't to stop acting as if it's a good one worth pursuing. That's the definition of war "politics by other means". An ideology immune to compromise will always cause violence. And if that ideology includes the explicit denial of my right to exist, let alone live in peace, then I guess we're going to fight until you decide to give up that evil idea, or are destroyed.
...from pushing the Israelites into the sea to flooding Hamas in their tunnels with sea water... the more things change, the more they stay the same really...
IDF are flooding them or collapsing tunnels. air campaign was a prelude to ground attack, ground attack would come in any case, and still ground forces use a lot of CAS
Lack of honesty in this report. Lack of reality. This means loss of credibility for the channel. You don't mention that IDF blew up the AP journalists building. You don't talk about the realities that all hospitals are now non functioning. That the hospitals are bombed by the IDF. Even mainstream British media talks of this and shows the videos. And everyone knows which side British power is behind. Yet they still show more of the realties than this video does. Caspian Report has damaged it's credibility.
Power reorganised to accommodate a new purpose reacting to a power vacuum within the changing circumstances in a ever changing environment, accelerating yourself to a new purpose by changing the organisation, goals, purpose and balance of power and organisation of authority will simply allow you to achieve all of the above. Allow your enemy to achieve for you not just the purpose of you defeating them but the virtue of doing so being the virtue of inspiring the inspiration of ones values towards the commitment of your journey to victory.🤯
Your report is still one sided. This is not a correct narration of the actual things happening with the Palestinians. You dont know the magnitude of the free killings of the Palestinians by the Israeli Offensive Force even if there is no war. Very often, Muslim freedom fighters are called terrorrists,and those Israeli killings at their whims and fancies are called defending themselves. Imagine the hipocrisy when Israeli soldiers with sophisticated weapons are trying to defend themselves from UNARMED WOMEN AND CHILDREN who doesnt know anything. These had been going on everyday for as long as I can remember from when I started to follow what was going on over there when I was still schooling at the age of 14 way back in the early seventies until now. I was very familiar with what happened during the Camp David summit. Each time there was hope of peace, its always Israel who broke the ceasefire by started to bomb the Palestinian civilians indiscriminately. Israel never wanted peace. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, HAMAS WAS CREATED AND FUNDED BY ISRAEL TO FIGHT AGAINST THE PLO, because ISRAEL NEVER WANTED ANY PEACE. Please DO MORE RESEARCH IF YOU WANT THE ACTUAL TRUTH.
The fact that it's hard for the IDF to distinguish between civilians and combatants would only be relevant if Israel was trying to minimise civilian casualties (which it's not)
According to the Hamas ‘Health Authority’, there have been zero terrorists killed so far in this war … 😏 In the Hamas propaganda, they claim 16,000 civilians killed, but not a single terrorist or ‘militant’. It seems that Hamas is invulnerable, while the civilians suffer the most from the war. How convenient! 16,000 civilians have been killed, but 0 Hamas terrorists have been killed? Really? Israel can’t seem to kill even ONE terrorist? Hamas must be invincible! Hamas terrorists are cowards who hide behind civilians and dress like them. They have their own uniforms, but they only wear them in their rallies. When they face the Israeli army, they switch to jeans, t-shirts and sneakers. Why? Because they know that Israel respects human life and tries to avoid harming innocent people. They abuse this by mingling with the civilians, shooting from behind cover, and then running away. And when they are killed in combat, the Hamas-controlled ‘Ministry of Health’ can label them as martyrs and inflate the civilian death toll. But the truth is that Hamas is responsible for all the Gazan civilians killed in this war, because they use their area to launch deadly attacks on innocent people in Israel. If a man hides behind a nursery, and fires a rocket at a nursery with your children inside, killing them, you do NOT let him go. You do NOT let the killer walk free, because he hides behind the innocent. You do NOT let the killer go free, to kill again, and again, and again. No, you stop him, and harm as few others as possible. But sometimes, it’s not possible to stop the killer who is hiding under a hospital or under a town of people, without also harming the innocent. But this does NOT mean that we let the killers go free, because they hide under a baby carriage. Article 19 of the Geneva Convention: "The protection to which civilian hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming, in all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded."
I don't usually argue with people online, but I need to point out some glaring ignorance in some of your points. You define Hamas as "using human shields" through creating these tunnel systems under urban areas, but if you take ONE look at a map of israeli settlements in the Gaza strip, those settlements exist everywhere that the overwhelming majority of the tunnels don't. The tunnels are where they are because Hamas quite literally cannot build them anywhere else without facing IDF pushback. You talk a lot about how the assymetric aspect of this war is and will play out, which you articulated very well, but I think it's imperative to mention why it's assymetrical: Palestinians have been forced into smaller and smaller urban areas, they are constantly (not only within recent events) being deprived of electricity, weapons, any sort of legitimacy as a country. They are severely underprivileged people, and that is ONLY because of Israel's restrictions on land that is not Israel's. Not mentioning this context is incredibly harmful--it is not a matter of political opinion that Israel has been colonizing Palestine for 75 years and displacing/murdering their people. If you only look at history from Oct 7 on, of course this reads as a war, and not as the genocide that it is. Not to mention you say Hamas wants to eradicate all jewish people from Palestine. Hamas has, as of December 1, killed 1,300 Israelis. Israel has killed 19 THOUSAND Palestinians--so who wants to eradicate who here, really? You also define Hamas as posing a hierarchy over Gaza--this group was democratically elected by Palestinians to represent their liberation movement in 2006. And although they were booted from that political stance, I still struggle to understand how Hamas is some hierarchical organization. Nearly all of its members are people who were orphaned, their parents martyred by Israel, or have experienced other losses so great it moved them to join. This is not some exclusive group of elites, these are civilians joining one of the only resistance groups that targets the people that killed their families and are robbing them of peace, water, food, medical aid, their children to live, internet access, and electricity. This is why you cannot be pro palestine but anti hamas. These people have had everything stolen from them and fight not only to represent their loved ones, but other non-Hamas Palestinians that have lost their home and family. I hope this helps anyone that is still on the fence about all of this. This is not the unbiased video you claim it to be, and I am disappointed, You have to talk about both sides of this issue in depth to be unbiased, and that is not happening. Please stop spreading disinformation.
This comment is a great explanation of why this video is not objective.. Gazans and Hamas fighters ARE Palestinians, their concerns and motives to fight is what happens in the Westbank, East Jerusalem in addition to the blockade on Gaza. If those are not mentioned and explained then this video is a greatly missinformative.
Coming from an Israeli commander in Gaza. That’s the most accurate video I have seen regarding to this war. Don’t know where you got all this information from but it’s right on point.
Has Hamas publicly said anything about wanting a two-state solution or talks of peace since this has started? Are these just ideas that outsiders espouse?
They reject Israel's terms for a 2 state solution aka ratifying their current borders and legitimising settler occupied land. However, they have stated as recently as 2017 they would agree to a 2 state based on 1967 borders, this fell apart due to Trump in 2017 recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and they reverted back to rejection of 2 state solution. What's more important is that Hamas only represents the region of Gaza, not the whole of Palestinian territory. As recently as Dec 14 (thursday), the Palestinian Prime minister has told the USA to put its money where its mouth is and take steps towards the 2 state solution. Most important of all, as they are the occupying force, is that the Israeli government has now flipped and is saying what everyone suspected they believed all along, that there will never be a free Palestinian state.
@@lzrdwzrd999the 1967 borders are a foolish dream. It's never going to happen. Even to open Israel up again to any Palestinian independence whatsoever would require a mighty shift in local attitudes and geopolitics. The longer Hamas or others like them exist, the more reluctant Israel will be to give up an inch of control over its security.
@@lzrdwzrd999 Correction, Hamas (the governing body in Gaza) has never accepted a 2 state solution. It is the PA in Westbank who wants the 1967 borders. Either of these options are dead, as they refused them. Israel no longer wants a 2 state solution and no longer will work with PA or Hamas in Gaza. 10/7/2023 changed everything. enough is enough.
Obviously no and it will never, but Hamas is the only interlocutor just because Israel itself made it so, if you refuse any diplomatic resolution than you leave the weapons to talk... Once Israel will open to the idea of two country, than an interlocutor for peace will make his way. To talk there must be two people, in this moment the room is empty...
And they would even have the technology to be precise they just don't want to be that. + IDF doesn't fight on the ground not because of the tunnels but just because their army is not enough competent to do so, despite the billions of $ US has invested
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please consider making a video on the Assyrian autonomy/independence movement
Bro fix your mic
shirvan the azerijud getting paid well
A video on a hypothetical take of Gaza by Israel and future consequences.
ZIONISM = TERRORISM
ANTI ZIONISM IS NOT ANTI SEMITISM
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This is very good, but I can tell that this script is over a month old. A lot has changed. Unfortunately, your ending about Israel doesn't have an endgame for Gazs is still relevant.
There is no Endgame. Israel stood down while Hamaz attacked. This is all the work of the Illumin*ti Bankers to start WWIII..
Yeah I felt like he repeated a bunch of things from his other videos. We need a December update.
No, that's not true. Israelis said that they will install military rule over Gaza, like it was before 2005. End of story.
I think it's funny anyone claiming the tunnel system is working to hamas advantage is an idiot. This isn't Vietnam. Vietnam was huge. Meanwhile idf has eyes in sky on almost all of gaza and on average it takes 6 minutes from the time hamas are spotted until some type of bombs come dropping on them. The idf, fighting these tunnels, has lost 116 personnel since ground operations have started. That is nothing as for the butt kicking hamas has taken. Why didn't you mention the mass surrenders by hamas? The loss of half of gaza and having eliminated the command and control of hamas. Why didn't you mention hamas political wing is breaking from its military wing by saying they will recognize isreal to end the war? You can't live I a tunnel forever. That clock gets faster as idf takes the land above the tunnels and eliminates the equipment needed to stay I the tunnels.
My guess is hamas higher-ups go hitler and commit suicide
My thoughts exactly.
"We are not fighting people but ideologies. You can't kill an ideology. You can only make it irrelevant. "
- Soldier Veteran of the Marawi Siege, Philippines.
You don't have to kill the ideology. Ideologies are ran by people and people can be killed. See: ISIS
Thats where we're at as a species and tensions just keep going up and up.
@@postpwnmaloneYou’re on a geopolitics channel bro it’s more logical than that.
Approximately 30% of the Philippine landmass has a deep historical connection with the indigenous Moro people, also known as the Bangsamoro people. These individuals, however, find themselves as victims of a disturbing past, having been forcibly and unlawfully integrated into the present-day political structure. This appalling state of affairs can be traced back to the abhorrent Spanish colonization, marked by criminal acts, and the subsequent era of American colonialism. Under the guise of supposedly granting independence, the American colonization era cunningly perpetuated the existing circumstances, denying the rightful owners their land and preventing them from attaining an independent homeland. This situation stands in stark contrast to the case of East Timor, where a distinct and self-governing nation was allowed to thrive. The heart-wrenching truth is that the Moro people, who are inherently tied to this significant portion of Philippine land, have been stripped of their rights throughout history. Their struggles and illegal annexation demand attention and call into question the integrity of the political forces at play. As the spotlight shines on this unresolved predicament, it is crucial that the international community and key stakeholders take notice, acknowledging the justified claims of the Moro people. A just resolution, one that returns the land to its original owners and grants them the autonomy they rightfully deserve, is imperative for true justice to prevail.
@galacticknight5718 wall text but ok. Certainly, the Isis extremism is the representative of all Moros rather than just an outside force capitalising on regional squabbles.
A slight correction is in order.
At 6:25 The title says "Gaza city population 2.3 million". The city of Gaza had a population of 590 thousand people before the war. The entire Gaza strip has a population of 2.3million. The Gaza strip is an area containing 8 cities: Gaza, Khan Yunis, Jabalia, Rafah, Beit Lahiya, Deir al Balah, Beit Hanoun and Bani Suheila. Roughly half the area of the Gaza strip is agricultural farmland.
You're making it sound like Gaza isn't one of the most densely populated places on the face of the planet. It is.
@@RosscoAW Completely wrong, he's making it sound like it's even denser. "Roughly half of the area is farmland" while the other half is made up of 8 cities, all of which are respectably large by themselves. This goes to show you even though Gaza is small, where the people actually live is even smaller.
@@RosscoAWwhere is the genocide then?
@RosscoAW "One of the most densely populated places on Earth" is one of the stranger titles that are too often bestowed on the Gaza strip without actually thinking what it actually means, as it's not clear what constitutes a place to compare with.
The Gaza strip has about 6300 people per square km. *(edited from 5500)
If you draw a 1 square meter around yourself, the 'place' you have just imagined has a density of 1,000,000 people per square km. (2m if you happen to be holding a baby at the time)
Kowloon Walled City was famously super dense at 1,890,000/km^2
I guess it comes out of comparing the Gaza strip to countries. The Netherlands has about 440 people per square km.
If you compare it to a city: Paris and Cairo each have about 20,000 people per square km. The city of Gaza had about 13,000. Baghdad is incredibly dense at 43,000 people per square km. Manhatten's at 72,918.
🤔 You make it sound like the IDF would have to intentionally seek out those ~18,000 Palestinians.
"The world seems to be heading towards very dark place" - well, yes, but we're kinda used to it after last 5 years.
5000 years
5 years? More like 78 years.
It is the duty of the non-Muslim world to assist all Muslims who are impatient to reach paradiise to get there as soon as possible. The jihadis of Hamas, Hizbullah, ISIS and extreme Islam must be helped on their way without weak Christian morality turning the other cheek.
Try the last 100 years
Where do ppl get this notion that the World is all of a sudden going to a dark place? Ah yes, social media, politicians and mass media repeatedly telling them it is. It's almost as if it's in their interests to keep us in a state of fear and anxiety.
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Edit: Okay, so a timestamp is my moment of glory on TH-cam.. Thanks for all the positivity, let me just say that I fully support Shirvan and his work, in fact, if you also do, I recommend you ring the bell and like the vid, but I just started getting into this timestamping since he advertised "Masterwork", which is a lowkey sc@m imho, nothing but respect for the creator though. Cheers and love to all you amazing people!
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@@abody499 perhaps you need to be evaluated by a professional. You are above my pay grade. ;)
u have zero clue what I mean
@@abody499 apparently, I just don't like adverts tbh, don't see what's the problem with that ?
@@karzan995 theres an extention which does that for you automatically: sponsorbock
“War is politics by other means.”
-Carl von Clausewitz
Interesting quote
Louis XIV had "ultima ratio regum" (Last argument of kings) written on his cannons
oh you are so vague and sooo profound
War is politics with blood shed. Politics is war without blood shed. -- Mao Zedong
@@barzillaiconcorde685 lol, I bet Mr Zedong, made it a point to change all that by killing tens of millions of his subjects.
Please cover what Yemen is doing in a Full Video
What the Houthis are doing is making the price of diesel more expensive..
GOOD!!! @@donkhan1593
Yemen is making their starvation problem a lot worse
@@ymtzlgn the houthis belong to Israel actually, they are a part of the set-up...
@@ymtzlgnI am a Yemeni, and I tell you that, I will say just don't worry about us, we will always stand with the opporessed, if Palestinians are fine we will be fine, and I hope that we continue until the rightful people of the land wins In Sha'a Allah
Ideas are not impervious to force. Germany and Japan are a testament to that.
Not to mention Al-Qaeda whose ability to commit acts of terror was reduced to near nothing. Or ISIS who went from controlling large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq to mere tiny pockets. Ideas most definitely can be eradicated by force.
In this case the idea is zionism. Palestinians have no ideas, they just try to survive the oppression that's all.
If you are displaced and then oppressed for generations by outside military force, what would you do?
Germany still has a far right party of neo nazis in AFD, and they just won more elections than they have before. Japan still has a large ultranationalist presence who still deny genocide.
The Nazis and Imperial Japan were defeated militarily yes, but what really killed their ideologies was the unprecedented foreign aid provided to them by the US after the war to rebuild. If the US hadn't given that aid, its just as likely that these ideologies would have remained or morphed into something even more destructive, just as German imperialism did after WWI. Similarly, the only way that Israel can prevent Hamas's ideology from continuing is by providing an alternative, i.e. stop blockading Gaza, stop slowly annexing the West Bank, end apartheid laws, and allow the Palestinians to build their own state. When given the option between a prosperous peace or destructive ideology, people will choose peace 100% of the time, the issue is that Israel does not give Palestinians that option.
@@TheObiareusby international law all the former mandate of British Palestine belongs legally to Israel we gave up claim over Gaza in 2005 & no we never gonna give up Judea it’s our homeland & these Arab colonizer are occupying it and wanna create Islamic fascist state educate yourself.
"Ideas are impervious to physical force"
Today's conventional wisdom is so out of touch with reality that it's frightening how everybody accepts it without even an after thought.
Well, you don't accept it, and there are probably others, so, no not everybody accepts it.
@@daveyhansen Well played, but it's not a consolation.
By the the comments here the percentages of skeptics is less than the percentage of flat earthers.
Had a video trying to explain astronomy, mentioned in passing, that the earth is flat, I would have expected more salt in the discussion calling the entire video to question.
Yet...
You don't need to kill an idea (which is extremely difficult), but you can destroy an organization almost completely, you can destroy its power, arsenal and regime. That's how ISIS was defeated in Syria and Iraq, despite the group is technically still around.
@@ferdinanddaratenas3447 every war, without exception, that ended with a one sided victory marked the death of at least one idea (WW2, American civil war, ISIS... you name it)
That's why I made the original comment, frustrated that all other commentators accept the conventional "wisdom" without a pause.
@@anchormax3597 You can kill an idea by giving it no attention. Not repressing it, not avoiding it, not attacking it. Just by letting it be and not feeding it.
The best analysis I have seen on this topic. Saying well done would be an understatement.
I'm surprised you didn't discuss plans to flood the tunnels.
Bc it’s a stupid idea😂
@yaser62412 what's so stupid about it?
@@alonzy989cause:
A. There are still hostages in the tunnels
B. Flooding the tunnels can cause severe damage to the soil in the area making impossible to build and sustain inferstructure
C.the waters can leak into aquifer in the Israeli territory thus damaging their agriculture
Hope it was enough
@@alonzy989the tunnels aren’t connected and they are equipped with drainage mechanisms
@@The_saint_of_chuds Egypt has been doing it for years.
The tunnels from rafah into the Sinai peninsula are found and flooded.
And it’s now a fact that Israel started flooding the tunnels.
I'm not sure what has happened recently with your audio setup, but it's been distorted (clipping or overly compressed?) for a while now.
i'm a sound tech so i'm very sensitive to stuff like his.
According to YT your content loudness is 7.1dB so it's ABOVE the reference... thus, too loud? This would indicate it being pure clipping.
If you've enabled some sort of auto gain or similar by accident, or you've changed your compressor configuration too much, that could be the reason?
If there's too much compression, it can cause the same sonic issue as any clipping but without the sound actually going over 0dBFS and thus you can't see any clipping in your meters.
Clipping could also happen before the digital domain at the microphone pre-amp or it might be that you're using these new fangled 32bit interfaces and then when you post process it in 24/16bit, that introduced clipping..
Please check that, because it's a bit tiring to listen to :(
There are free tools to check your levels like Youlean Loudness meter, that'll tell you your loudness level and if you're clipping etc. very reliably.
Your content has always been great, so I'm just giving you some constructive feedback :)
you should email them, they may miss this comment
The ground news segues are getting more and more annoying. Several other channels I visit are doing them also,, but usually at the end or as chapters at least. It's less a criticism of the channel, and more a hint to the Ground News markerters that they are getting to be obnoxious. I try to take the things being said seriously, so when a sponsor isn't clearly defined and marked from the start, I feel betrayed. Ground News doesn't need to resort to such petty tactics; they have a product that can sell itself without segues.
Absolutely agree with you! I hate how they make it sound like it part of the actual topic of the video. He can do it at the end of the video
I always respect a content creator having to make $ when they put in sponsor adds, and with that said I think you're constructive critique is really fair and well formulated =)
Good to read a respectful comment that isn't shy to share a concern. It's a hard thing for many to do in 2023, myself included at times hehe =)
Ground News is just propaganda seeing as the left/right false dichotomy doesn't represent actual informed voters. All voters who would actually think for themselves and not seek media arbitration on the matter are unrepresented by the left and right. Not even Independent party candidates are beyond the vetting system that keeps out people with interests for individual citizens from getting in to politics. I don't expect anybody still using these news outlets like this one to understand that though.
"segue" not "segway"
@@JonMartinYXD Thank you. corrected.
Israeli soldiers are excellent fighters, but for the vulnerable. .. they are fighting an incredible battle with children, women and the elderly congratulations.
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Israhelli diaper forces
Izrahel pampers force
I would like to see you in their place.
No. The israeli army does well at open country mobile warfare. It has never performed well in other environment. On the whole, its soldiers on average are not particularly skilled. They rely on superior technology, weapons, numbers and volume of ordnance. Their soldiers really aren't that good for the most part
The IDF have already been told by ex Iraq and Afghanistan operatives that they cannot defeat Hamas this way, this only leads to even greater radicalization.
I cannot imagine greater radicalization than the one that already exists in Gaza, this is not comparable to USA and Iraq/Afghanistan. Children in Gaza are being taught and trained in schools that Allah wants the death of all jews, and the greatness of being a martyr, for the past 20 years. It cannot get worse than it is..
@@omermo Then I'm afraid you lack imagination.
@@huberticusrex Sticking to the Geneva Convention would be a start.
@@omermo they dont give a shit about all the juice they just want their land back.
@@AdastraRecordingsSpeaking from a humanity standpoint they obviously should but whether they stick to it or not makes no difference in terms of their ability to defeat Hamas.
With the rise of drone technologies i believe tunnels will become huge in regards to war tactics. The technology needed to deal with such tasks are being developed rapidly.
Mostly for defense, attack tunnels can only be reliably used to cross close borders and are expensive.
You also need the right soil or depth to build the tunnels.
Also the tunnels are more reliable in urban warfare where the enemy isn't inclined to detroy all of it.
Tunneling was used extensively in WW1
there are many strategies to combat it.
most involve poison gas, which Israel isn't above deploying @@whazzat8015
Netanyahu is on record saying that Hamas is necessary to everything the two state solution never succeeds.
Furthermore, Israel seems to be flattening the city before sending their ground force in.
Paloostine already rejected 2 state solution.
Cry harder.
@@jeckjeck3119that was a very long time ago most people don’t exit from that time
And nenthanhy rejected a ceasefire with all hostages back
But they denied
They accepted it many times and every year in the UN charter but Israel and the US keep rejecting it.@@jeckjeck3119
My great uncle was a tunnel rat in the Vietnam war. He crawled in with a flashlight and a pistol and never once was captured. He said that he and the other men crawling in kept others safe and the tunnels were annoying but not really a hindrance.
Did your "great" uncle talk about US war crimes? Did he get in any rapes and murders in between his rat work?
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Tunneling was used extensively in WW1
there are many strategies to combat it.
There are two types of fighters.. one who's afraid to die for their goal and one who's ready to die for for their goal. From what you see you decide!
Yet Vietnam won the war.
We heard that many tunnels are being flooded with sea water. Is that causing an issue for Hamas? Or is that a small issue?
I saw a reply from a Hamas leader. this is me paraprahsing. "We have prepared for all types of scenarious with our tunnels, be it pumping of water and or other method of targeting our tunnels." Plus even thinking about it they had so many years to prepare I am sure someone thought of this
@@Ali-fx6jd Agreed, just wondered if it seemed to be successful or to what extent. Thanks for the response!
@@servant74 Idk if you saw but on telegram there was a video of a tunnel getting filled with water. It likely had its initial success in flooding parts of it. But I would think that Hamas would then coordinate the other tunnels to prepare for such measures. So likely small- medium success (in my opinion) And you're welcome!
At worst, it may turn into a sewer down there
@@Ali-fx6jd if they will have energy for puming out water all the time then ok. Israelis has the advantage of getting access to the infrastructure with bigger capacity in terms of electric enegry, fuel etc. Flooding the tunnels is not THAT stupid of idea as long as Hamas won't be able to sustain water pumping out machines.
May peace prevail.
Not possible whilst the Jihadists still draw breath.
Pacifism is never successful. And that's how WWII started. But people never learn, do they?
@@infidelheretic923love thy neighbour
Peace would mean negotiating 2 states, something the more powerful Israelis don't want. Israel wants to ethnically cleanse gaza and the west bank for a 1 state solution where the native Muslims and Christians are gone. I'm sure Palestinians deep down realize how futile getting their land back is, but they publicly talk about 1 state where the immigrant jews are gone. Left wing Israelis might be more willing for a peace deal, peace would choke out Hamas as well
@@infidelheretic923 The irony... :D
If the Israelis really want to protect the Palestinians who fled to the South, why aren't they dropping humanitarian relief packs for them?
Because they want the to die, because they are exactly what they accuse Hamas of being
Prolly because Hamas gets firsts on them.
Hamas steals it all
@@whazzat8015 ridiculous
Another great video but I think the audio has too much gain on it, it's clipping and full of noise. Maybe your compressor settings need adjustment.
Nothing about flooding tunnels!?
It's a stupid idea.
@@cealy76Egypt did t and it worked
@@FirstnameLastname-pt5ss I guess you don't realize how vast that tunnel system is. When Egypt tried flooding the tunnels, it only destroyed a small portion by the Sinai. It didn't prevent Hamas at all from continuing their smuggling operation. What Egypt did at that time was to say "Hey, look what we're doing Israel, we don't support Hamas." All it really did was destroy the agriculture in that area.
@@cealy76its already working tho
@@firstbinguser Aside from the fact we're talking about a complex tunnel system that spans an area the size of Las Vegas and has been around for decades. Do you really think all those tunnels are interconnected and that they wouldn't take preventative measures constructing these tunnels for flooding being that they're underground. Now, with that in mind, please explain how much time and fuel it will take to pump in enough seawater to flood these tunnels? Nevermind. All this is just Israel grasping at straws.
Smoking mirrors for the gullible Western public because they got caught with their pants down Oct 7th.
Great video, as long as apartheid and poverty is all that is promised in Gaza the fight will never end.
What came first? The chicken or the egg? The gazans used to live in much better conditions before hamas rose to power and started targeting israeli civilians
@@ykaflalo israel has no right to exist and those "civilians" were armed settlers living in illegal settlements
@@ykaflaloif you consider still being occupied a better situation, you may be correct. Hamas was put there to give Israel an excuse to go in and killed or scare away as many Palestinians as possible until they're done stealing every inch of the territory.
What apartheid? By whom?
@@ykaflalo for ethics it does not matter who began it at this point. Matters if the current guys are doing anything to improve things or just half assing it as they have so far. One couldn’t integrate and give rights to Palestinians or secure their own safety, and the other one couldn’t make Palestine into an actual independent government or secure their own safety, and both couldn’t prevent the current war or turmoil. And the bigger problem is that even if the war ended in a genocide or a peaceful reunification, there’s still tons of issues in national politics that aren’t going to go away just if the war stops.
You can't. Especially by increasing support for that idea on the ground while not doing anything to touch its leadership, which is in an entirely different country.
This is all a very pretty presentation but support for Hamas increases every day Isreal attacks, and with every civilian killed. The numbers dont lie.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree on the “ideology” point.
Hamas is first and foremost a product of decades of brutal colonial occupation on southern Palestine.
Though times make men bitter and their methods harsh. But still, they embody a *necessity* of the Arab people who live in the Strip: that of not being enslaved and humiliated.
That, in my opinion, is their primary political goal and the aim of oct7.
To break the siege of Gaza.
Any solution on Palestine proper would come later and be mediated, far removed from the “cleansing Palestine from the Jews” ideology you attribute to them.
Israel left Gaza. Hamas are Islamic terrorists. There is no "Palestine." They are violent Arab Muslim refugees which Arab Muslim nations have thrown out thru war. Do some research before regurgitating lies.
Well said
War is the smoke. The real battle is economical.
Nothing economical about what palestinian are fighting for . They are fighting to gain back their land and homes.
The plot, situations and truths have changed a lot between you writing this script and publishing this video brother.
mordern history a bitch aint it
Why what happened
I'm pretty sure Israel is in Khan Younis, too, now
Not much really. Israel gets attacked even today in Beit Hanun.
Was thinking the same thing-- parts of this script are far out of date
Identifying civilians is problematic? Gee i wonder how difficult it is to identify hospitals, mosques, churches, pediatric units, school, refugee camps, journalism offices and NGOs.
Shirvan sounds biased on the matter and I guess he received a nice paycheque from the Nazi Zionists!
It is EXTREMELY difficult when they are being used as command centers, military bases, and armories.
You have Hamas terrorists in civilian clothes embedding themselves in the civilian population, executing attacks, and then returning to shelters and refugee camps. How on earth can you differentiate these in real-time?
This Channel comes from azerbaijan and the channel is controlled by pro Zionist groups
@@RonFilm Before making statements justifying the killing of civilians in UN schools, hospitals, churches etc .. you need to come up with solid evidence and let UN investigation do their job! Until then, what the IOF is doing are was crimes!
Funny how being one of the poorest areas in the world they have more hospitals, 42 which is 18.26 per million people. More than most of the countries in the OECD developed countries. Gaza would be placed in the middle.
They keep having more and more hospitals but the health is not getting better. Maybe they use those hospitals for something else. Very strange
It's interesting to see where a lot of that humanitarian aid money went isn't it?
Israel would kill us all if it could. So many members of my family including women and children have been killed by Israel because they want a Jewish state and us Christians don't belong
The only tax dollars I don’t regret spending
@@Userhasbeenbanned0 You are a sick man.
@@Userhasbeenbanned0 Imagine being proud of funding literal terrorism.
@@Userhasbeenbanned0God bless Israel 🇮🇱. Israel will win as always.
'sadly', ideologies ARE vulerable to physical force.
Temporarily. The physical force has to end at some point, then the ideology will begin to rise again. Sustaining physical force indefinitely is not feasible, just look at how the US was unable to defeat the Taliban.
@@denisl2760 its easily to killed ideologies but to do so requires massive amounts of ruthlessness. US is not ruthless which is why the US has not had lots of success in its overseas adventures.
@MrChickennugget360 ruthless as eradicating the natives people ?! US has it's share of ruthlessness brother .
physical force can snuff out candles, but it can be relit if not replaced with a different fire
@@MrChickennugget360so lol Israel gonna use that as an excuse to go into every Arab country ? Arabs want to end Israel . They best not depend on us because this isn’t our problem.
Great video and channel. I recommend you get a new high quality microphone to match the quality of the video. Audio is distorted
While this particular video is relatively balanced, this channel in general is very biased towards neo-liberal propaganda.
Israel can't win. I live in Australia and I know people in Canada and the USA. We live in a settler colony that will continue because we committed such a complete genocide. Indigenous people make up around 3% of our current population in Australia. That should be a source of public shame for Australia, the USA and Canada, but it also allows people to be magnanimous about the indigenous population and continue on because they are not a genuine threat.
However, you can see that despite African and South Asian nations having long-term poverty and corruption problems to work through (with differing levels of success) resulting from European colonialism, they have been able to end the colonies and it is just a matter of time before they are empowered and successful nations. They have self-determination and over the next few centuries geopolitical power shifts we see them have a period of power.
Palestine is more like Africa. If you count Palestinians living in all areas of Palestine/Israel and surrounding nations as refugees, there are more of them than Israelis. Despite the ethnic cleansing and genocide that Israel is committing, they can't raise the intensity that would overcome the high birthrate that you would expect from impoverished people. Therefore, despite the atrocities that Israel has been committing since its inception it can not win.
The global south, as victims of colonisation and ethnic cleansing, has been able to see what Israel is. The center-left and left of all nations outside of the US have seen Israel for what it is for a generation now. However, it is completely reliant on politics in the USA. Israel can not exist without the US gifting Israel 1% of its GDP per year.
Any polling of people under the age of 40 makes it clear that that support will dry up in a generation. That means no money and no encouragement for Arab nations to play nice with them. If Israel does not allow for Palestinian self-determination, or a single secular state with all Palestinians having the right of return, there will be sanctions as well. Sanctions against enemies can be devastating but are not often successful. However, sanctions against allies who are economically intertwined with those putting the sanctions are game-changing. Especially if it is a nation that has very little natural resources like Israel.
If Israelis had any foresight they would be planning for this. Despite being formed as a European settler colony, it is now true that the majority of Jews in Israel descend from populations from the Middle East. Zionism has destroyed as many Jewish communities as it has Palestinian communities. This means that one secular nation is the best solution. It will bring sustainable peace for the Jews there and overcome the fact that Israeli aggression has decapitated Palestinian leadership and left the vacuum that has allowed groups like Hamas to flourish.
The singular state will need to provide justice for Palestinians, it can't be an empty gesture. This means the return of refugees and the return of property that was stolen as people were cleansed, starting in 1947-48.
The birth rate for Palestine in 2022 was 27.633 births per 1000 people, a 1.6% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Palestine in 2021 was 28.081 births per 1000 people, a 1.57% decline from 2020.
Arabs also dont Help them so they will Not exist anymore ! Israel will Take palestine and then No palestinian Here ! Israel is a very powerful Nation they never loose a war 😅!
The birth rate for Palestine in 2022 was 27.633 births per 1000 people, a 1.6% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Palestine in 2021 was 28.081 births per 1000 people, a 1.57% decline from 2020.
Arabs also dont Help them so they will Not exist anymore ! Israel will Take palestine and then No palestinian Here ! Israel is a very powerful Nation they never loose a war 😅!
Excellent reporting and storytelling. One critique: the gain on your mic seems to be creeping up (or the compression/limiter is over cooking) causing your voice to be a bit distorted. This makes it a little hard to listen to, at least for me.
I didn't really notice until I read this comment. Now that it's pointed out I can't help but be aware of the crackling on the voice. Music comes through fine.
This voiceover error is consistent across all videos, it really ruins the content.
Very good. It would be nice to talk about the impact of new technologies on tunnel warfare, particularly the remotely controlled drone vehicles that might be used to explore the tunnels, detecting fighters, ambushes and hostages within the tunnels, as well as ambushes that emerge out of the tunnels.
My exact thought, a swarm of even a dozen drones could move in front of soldiers as better scouts than any human could be...
drones do not work in tunnels because the earth would just block the signal
Why do you assume they would be operated from above ground? The type of drones were talking about are operated by personnel physically present where the drones are - in other words, the operators will be below ground with the drones...@@quochuyhoang9764
@@quochuyhoang9764 not every drone needs GPS to navigate and IDF certainly has drones for gps denied environments
Hard to control drones underground. You'd need to set up relay stations underground to strengthen the signal.
16:30 The capital of Jordan is spelled wrong.
*spelt wrong 🤓
@@Sajid19Ali Spelt is British, Spelled is American. Spelt is also a type of flour.
@@ilikedota5 😄👏🏼
please consider making a video on the Assyrian Independence Movement and on the Assyrian genocide (Seyfo).
You look very biased
I second this
@@magma9000 "Im sure there are two sides to this genocide"
No one cares about assyrians stop dividing the divided
@@magma9000 how do I look biased?
This video did not age well. Israel has not fought the enemy on the enemies terms.....
Not entirely, but it's still true in certain aspects. Israel has always lost the propaganda war. And that's been a far more central part of the strategy of Arab nationalists since the first Intifada.
@@Robespierre-lIIt is a war of existence. The Enemy does not CARE about their people.
Love the videos - was wondering if you had a list of sources you could share?
Hey caspian report i wanted to known from where do you get your photage from and also animation software required to make good map video please.
CIA, Mi6, DGSE, BND, and Shin Bet are all highly likely sources.
Yep seems like a plugin or template
Pls report how many civilian killed in gaza and how many schools، mousque and cherches , hospital destroyed
Also the starvation strategy
And cutting electricity and water for palstainan and the the daily killing and violations by settller at West bank
Not relevant to a strategy discussion.
@@jayeshiyer2347 it's beyond relevant, this isn't a video game! I'm deeply offended by your attitude. Civilian deaths sway political opinions and public support. Beyond that, humanitarian law must be respected for both ethical and strategic reasons. Otherwise we'll see this blow up. This isn't a game of risk.
Caspianreport is biased and it's been revealed in these last videos.
@@Cecil_Augus ...part of a psy-op
Just want to let you know there is a typo in the link to ground news, it appears to be "caspain" instead of "caspian". Thanks.
so the war crime of cutting food and fuel is a strategy with drawbacks? is that what you think Mister neutral?
They have a boarder with Egypt, which Israel doesn’t control, and a coast line. Plus what they produce and have stored.
Why does Israel need to supply food and fuel to a region that attacked them?
Hamas could release all the hostages they took and surrender. Egypt could have not closed the border.
The initiative might support HAMAS due to their tunnel networks, unless Israel floods the tunnels with Sea Water... Too soon?
the tunnels are not level and it is unknown where the hostages are. once the tunnels are drained and refitted against a repeat the cycle will go again. flooding may be effective in the short term but it strikes me as a scooby-doo plan that looks good in print but may run into problems in practice. i am happy to be wrong on this, that is just my observation as someone with an engineering background
tunnels are not interconnected... they are for logistics... not for fighting. much of the fighting is in the streets
So Hamas got a river from the Sea… Too soon?
@@AutoMattOnIsreal cares for the hostages is like saying the US was in Iraq for democracy
This will permanently salt the ground. No crops can grow in this soil for hundreds of years. literally salting the earth. Beside, the US force in Vietnam did tried this before. Tunnel that is well designed can survive this.
Love your videos. Your mic is pretty hot in this video, just a heads up.
Can u do a video on Hindu Genocide in Kashmir also India.
That happened 1300 years ago. Why not covers all the other genocides that happened during that time?
How about one about Iran killing innocent women.
@@realpolitics527 lol, im juat talking about since 1940's when Muslims killed over 300k+ Hindus just in Kashmir amd took over. You know the Quran tells them to kill, conquer, and convert. Since people like you don't know history or facts. You're welcome
Israeli forces are missing one thing? Is it morality? A conscience? Soul? Humanity?
No? That’s what Muslims tend to lack. If we’re being impartial, that is.
It's the fact they think they are gods chosen people and can do whatever they want with impunity.... seems odd to me that when you think God is on your side it makes you think you are allowed to do horrendous shit. Such a strange way of thinking
@@bengalloway6812that’s funny because Muslims also think they are gods chosen people. Except you are allowed to leave Judaism without being killed, and Jewish women can show their face and walk outside without a man’s supervision… people say “free Palestine”, I agree, it needs to be freed from Islam.
What I know is around 70% of Gaza population were evacuated from their homes between 1948 and 1967 , instead of trying to push them out to Egypt, why they don’t let them go back home (Israel) as international law said R 242 , and those civilians will be more safe than being human shields in another country
because israel dosn't let them in
Although Israel's plan seems solid there are many factors affecting it,
First, International pressure to stop the war.
Second, Hezbollah involvement.
A country like Iran is not going to watch their proxies get destroyed like this.
for that reason, Hezbollah cannot interfere as it was mentioned in the video both Hamas and Hezbollah really on gorilla warfare which only works in an area that is known to the organization
Iran's supreme leader has pretty much told Haniyeh he is on his own and Nasrallah - has said in his first speech that this is 100% a Palestinian issue. Iran won't risk its nuclear program for Hamas and Nasrallah won't risk having Hezbollah and Lebanon flattened like Gaza. So sure - Hezbollah is engaging the IDF on a daily basis but very low key and is suffering heavy losses, whereas Iran is mostly making threats one day and then denying any involvement the next. The Houthi's are getting too adventurous but there will come a point where they will be dealt with - probably a mix of US and allied forces in the red sea, some Israeli retaliation and opposition within Yemen - aided by Western arms and support.
@shtroizn either way I hope it doesn't get uglier than this.
America is virulently pro-Israel, even most liberals. If Iran and Hezbollah attacked the neocons will attack Iran and Lebanon. Which is why they wont attack Israel.
@@shtroiznYou are dreaming 😂
can you do a video now as to why the IDF is losing in Gaza
How is the idf losing?
@@Niv_nav the pulled out for like 3rd time within two decades. They can keep carpet bombing Gaza but but nothing they do is killing the Palestinian spirit.
Kinda similar to how the USA lost in Vietnam when they were carpet bombing the hell out of South Asia due to the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare.
Israel is trying to wipe out Palestinians off their land and they know they’re running out of resources quick. The situation is a lot different this time around since everyone is focused on what’s going on. Years prior everyone was being fed Zionist propaganda now they can see for themselves via social media.
Israel lost the war when they lied about their intentions, it was always genocide. They were aware of the October 7th attack more than a year in advanced. Killed their own citizens and continue bomb Gaza killing their own civilians.
@@Niv_navthey are
@@Niv_nav they have been in gaza for three months and hamas is still intact, sending rockets towards israel and are still have intense clashes in gaza.
Your voice in the audio seems to be a bit 'scratchy'. I think it might be time for a new mic? Sounds raggedy. It used to be a lot smoother/high quality!
“A man can be killed or destroyed. But if he makes himself more than just a man and becomes an ideal. He becomes immortal.” Ras Al Ghul
The people of Gaza need to be given hope for the future. That is the only way to stop Hamas.
If they give up hope, they'll have nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, Israel is just flooding the Tunnels with sea water. Advantage nullified 😂😂😂
They can close of tunnels from each other so no help flooding them.
Will they Flood the tunnels .. 🤔🤔 if so how will they do that .... Like will they make a canal to the ocean ...
They can't
I read about huge pumps being ready. The problem is, they would only have enough salt water, which would contaminate the sparse ground water for a long time.
Israel already does that (ones that there is confirm no hostages or civilian refugees in aka most )
@@chimera9818 it takes years + the tunnels are not related 😂
They have been testing systems to pump water into the tunnels. Everything seems to be going well, but may not work with every tunnel system.
They are also using other technologies, such as underground drones.
I disagree with your assessment that the IDFs methods will determine world opinion for years to come. The truth is that people already chose sides in this conflict on Oct 8th..... long before military operations began.
Where you stand is governed by where you sit.
At 12:05 is that a remote control car?
💪🇺🇸👍
so many people saying they should just flood the tunnels, i guess anything is possible when you don't care about the collateral damage. but again, they already flattened the place to the ground, didn't they?
Same as Hamas who could have built underground civilian shelters instead of underground war tunnels.
@@ashishhembrom3905for 2 million people?
@@87mhd yeup. Have you looked at the underground tunnels? The larger ones are quite large and sophisticated.
@@ashishhembrom3905 are you for real? It's already difficult enough to have 2 million people above ground let alone underground 🤦 maybe you just want them all underground in their graves already
@@87mhd bruh, any idiotic plan would have been better than the HAMAS attacks. Maybe you want to see them under rubble. 🤡
forgot to mention the kill rate of civilians by israel while trying to erase hamas
It’s hard to tell the civilian kill rate, when Hamas fighters dress as civilians. And Hamas does not differentiate between civilians and fighters when releasing casualty numbers.
Oh true , that’s why 42% of the kill rate are children , who knows they might be soldiers as well . oh and how about the 98 dead journalists they were for sure undercover Hamas soldiers . Wait lemme guess those 3 Israeli hostages were undercover Hamas soldiers as well . Israel is a joke and you guys justifying that right extreme government r such ignorants it’s actually sad
@@MehWhatever99doesn’t justify Israel’s action
@@yassirhallami6737 Hamas is currently use children as a solders. A few days ago in Jenin 2 underage militants accidentally blew themselves wile carrying an improvised explosive device
The problem with Gaza is that no one is actually looking out for them they're just like free Palestine and C-Spire as an attack on Israel but if you actually wanted these people to have like economic opportunity you would want them in the country with more economic opportunity right now they're the enemy of the country is looking after them
You made it sound like Iran was the sole financier of the tunnels, however I am aware that international aid money was also used by Hamas to construct the underground infrastructure. I think it would be even more 'In-integrity' as a journalist to note that so much of the money originally earmarked for civilian infrastructure [quality of life for Palestinians] was instead channeled into the subterranean defense network.
While there is no evidence for what you say, there are evidence that Qatar has financed Hamas with Israeli help (as admitted by Netenyaho). And that was not money for civilians, but money assigned to the military org Hamas
lemme guess. Israel said so?
From the river to the sea palestine will be free.
So you’re saying you agree with the terrorists that there should be no Israel. Are you for murdering the Israelis, dispersing them globally, or a mix of both?
@@PrintProfessorIsrael shouldn't exist . Why you all love it so much?
@@PrintProfessor This idea that Israelis can’t exist without Palestinians being wiped cuz you guys are scared to be subjugated to the same oppressive conditions that Palestinians people had to live through is reminiscent of when white people in America thought that if they freed the slaves that slaves would in slave or kill them in revenge. That never happened.
Palestinians just want live in peace but Zionist state of Israel sees that as a attack.
lol sure
I don’t care if it’s free or even buy one get one free, it’s populated by religious zealots and terrorists who aptly elected a terrorist regime to lead them. Until things change dramatically in their methods and goals there will never be a Palestine. Your little chant may rhyme but at this point and for the last 75 years it’s been the mantra of a group of people who refused to accept the UN resolution and who have dedicated most of their energy and resources to an Israeli genocide agenda. Your chant implies that Israel will be wiped from the earth, so basically you have decided to side with terrorists. All that does is make you antisemitic which is hardly original or interesting.
Fighting for freedom, equality, justice, land and sovereignty is not terrorism at all free illegally oppressed occupied Palestine 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤
You forgot that Israel left Gaza and offered 95% of the West Bank but they refused they don’t want peace so don’t fill bad losing a war doesn’t make you the good side also Israel doesn’t kills civilians they get nothing from killing them dose who do die are 1. Getting used them as human shield or are military personnel that dress like a civilian so they can say that Israel killing civilians
Ideas can be defeated, not in war per se, but in the humiliation of defeat.
This episode has your accent sounding much more english! Not particularly any country though. Its neat
Practice makes progress 👍🏽
He sounded more like a zio lapdog
Lol. Thought I was alone in hearing the big change.
As an observer, with no particular connection with Israel or Hamas, I would simply point out the obvious.
As bad as things are, things can always get worse.
To better understand their position, I recently read the Hamas Covenant of 1988. It is essentially their mission statement. No spin. To sum up their position, it is essentially no compromise. Fight and never give up. The kind of attitude that keeps you at war for 35 years.
For the past 35 years, the devotion to fighting probably caused the people to miss out on other opportunities. Maybe Hamas will win someday. Maybe it will lose. However, fighting without compromise does not always turn out well when fighting a larger force.
Consider the zeal expressed by Japan (WWII) and Paraguay in the war of the triple alliance. The problem with "Never Surrender" is that this approach literally compels the other side to take extreme measures to end the war. The U.S. dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan. In the war of the triple alliance, 90 % of Paraguay's males were killed. In those cases, was to the battle cry of never surrender really worth it? Or did the ego of their leaders needlessly cause the people to suffer?
Bro fix your mic
Damn, Egypt sure knows how to keep a grudge
Egypts history w Palestinian immigration. They're not taking that chance again
Egypt knows what happened to Jordan and Lebanon
Egypt doesn’t accept Hamas methods or ideology but Egypt also knows letting Palestinians in only works out for Israel not for the Palestinian cause.
i think the gain is too loud on the mic
I often wonder what it will take, if at all possible, for an idealized future vision to be pursued by both Israel and Palestinians. To get anywhere near such an idea will require an enormous and simultaneous leap of faith. Are these two combatants too weighed down by a combined history of failure to even entertain such thinking?
It all starts with jews and palestinians acknowledging each others' pain - as a jew, I pray every day for the innocent civilians of gaza.
@@gershommaes902 Empathy, as one of human beings’ basic tools, enables people who look, speak, act differently to live side by side, in peace. I believe humanity’s aspirations writ large both depend on and lead to the practice of empathy. Our modern, tightly woven society would be doomed without it, and it takes a concerted effort to dissuade us from a learned practice that enhances our survival. It’s no surprise then that our ambition of hope faces a losing battle with the dark side of religious faith, its most formidable enemy. That we cede so much authority to those with a message of hate is frankly hard for me to accept.
@@gershommaes902 As a Jew, why don't you stop praying for the .3% of "innocent civilians" and start praying for the hostages and the brave jewish soliders of the IDF? Perhaps we could end the war and save your precious "poor brown people" if you adjusted your perspective.
@@artysanmobile It's not the "dark side of religious faith" as you call it. It's the horrible darkness of antisemitic hatred. Don't blame perfectly good religiously observant Muslims for the ISIS-like hatred of Hamas.
@@stolenhandleI give you a hint dont trust any government whatever hé Say , and answer violance with violence it just to make thing escalate éven more poeple learn from the past mistake to make a better attack , last you israeli are brainwashed its not religion issue or arab vs jews its a colonial issue if your poeple Aknowledge those things and and a least know Palestine History without judjment because your narrative and sorry to Say this its not Logic and defy common sense and last its not antisemitic to critisize your country
Just one note on gazza being one of the densest places on the planet... It's simply not true, it is not even in the top 100 in density. Gazza city itself might be in the 90th place or so. Alot of cities in Israel are denser, not to mention europe or asia.
True. The Gaza Strip, at about 15,000 people per square mile, is as dense as London and Tel Aviv. Many countries have a far greater population density.
You are missing the point , you are just comparing two cities , the problem is that in order to have a sustainable state a state must have a place to build homes and for other purposes as well like agriculture , industry etc.
The problem here is that there is no space in gaza for anything its a concrete jungle.
London is dense but its not dense as a whole country.
London can not sustain as an isolated entity.
Look at it from this angle as well
London has a whole country to grow crops , build factories , sports stadiums , airports sea ports , universities school and everything else , where can people of gaza do all this?
The whole comparison is wrong.
Who corroborated the existence of the tunnels, aside from the IOF exactly?
A huge amount of Israelis are fighting I or have fought in Gaza by being drafted and seen, filmed, etc. Even many journalists have been in them - CNN itself published video footage of their own journalists in there.
Furthermore, Hamas officials openly speak about their large investment in the tunnels - see interviews with Ghazi Hamad on major networks.
Coincidentally, Ghazi Hamad also says that Hamas bears no responsibility for Gaza civilians and that the UN is responsible for their needs.
Satisfied?
Any time I hear "meticulously crafted," I can't help but think ChatGPT was involved.
bingo
Got no horses in the race but this was unmistakably biased towards Israel
Sound is still clipping, and has been this way for years. Does nobody else notice? Is it supposed to be that way? Makes it harder to listen to.
It’s shocking how people create their own talking points, when the world can clearly hear what the leaders of the IDF and Isreal are saying
it's ironic that Caspian report is sponsored by ground news, and speaks highly of them yet has a very obnoxious and clear agenda.
echoing the 'human shield' rhetoric of the genocide apologists.
History. Repeats. Itself. Solving a problem with force only plants the seeds for the next problem. Crazy times we live in...
That’s why the allies didn’t invade German occupied territory. They didn’t want to radicalize the Germans more and create more Nazis. Oh wait…
Israel tried the "diplomatic way" for too many years with the Gaza strip. If it's long term permission to deliver millions of dollars from Qatar to Hamas monthly, work permits to work in Israel for hundreds of thousands of workers from Gaza, medical services in Israel for a limited amount for Gaza residents and the supply of elementary equipment, electricity and water when Israel doesn't have to. It didn't work and the result was 07/10. So force unfortunately now is the right answer to the situation.
Give me your solution than@@shaisegal7922
You could say that for HAMAS too. Why should they use force?
If by using force you still have problem, that means you are not using enough force.
7:51 @CaspianReport you made a conflicting mistake. Either intentionally or otherwise.You said Hamas uses civillian house as human shield. The sentence is very misleading if you actually intented to say tgeyoperate out of it. Human shielding is a complete diffrent concept by definition. All in all intresting piece of work.
Palestine are freedoms fighters,they will win
High quality and politically balanced report, something that's increasingly rare nowadays
BS Zionist
Just so you know - there's a typo in you Ground News referral link!
The most balanced, unemotional reporting of all. Keep informing us
For info about conditions in Israel-Palestine before October I recommend people read the Human Rights Watch report "A Threshold Crossed:
Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution". You can't understand anything without context.
You've got it backwards. Hamas was not born out of violence or indignities against Palestinians, nor is it a backlash to there not being a path to political resolution through compromise. Hamas is the violent backlash explicitly organized around opposition to compromise and peace and a two state solution. Hamas wants a one state solution and is actively pursuing genocide to get it. They're willing to sacrifice their own population in a futile fight because they think it's what allah wants them to do. You're right, you can't destroy any idea, not even a bad one. You can only destroy the people who won't to stop acting as if it's a good one worth pursuing. That's the definition of war "politics by other means". An ideology immune to compromise will always cause violence. And if that ideology includes the explicit denial of my right to exist, let alone live in peace, then I guess we're going to fight until you decide to give up that evil idea, or are destroyed.
...from pushing the Israelites into the sea to flooding Hamas in their tunnels with sea water... the more things change, the more they stay the same really...
Good job covering it, but please refer to Hamas Terrorists as Terrorists and not Fighters 🙏🏻
IDF are flooding them or collapsing tunnels. air campaign was a prelude to ground attack, ground attack would come in any case, and still ground forces use a lot of CAS
Lack of honesty in this report. Lack of reality. This means loss of credibility for the channel.
You don't mention that IDF blew up the AP journalists building.
You don't talk about the realities that all hospitals are now non functioning. That the hospitals are bombed by the IDF.
Even mainstream British media talks of this and shows the videos. And everyone knows which side British power is behind. Yet they still show more of the realties than this video does.
Caspian Report has damaged it's credibility.
It is no secret that IDF cares not about civilians ..
Power reorganised to accommodate a new purpose reacting to a power vacuum within the changing circumstances in a ever changing environment, accelerating yourself to a new purpose by changing the organisation, goals, purpose and balance of power and organisation of authority will simply allow you to achieve all of the above. Allow your enemy to achieve for you not just the purpose of you defeating them but the virtue of doing so being the virtue of inspiring the inspiration of ones values towards the commitment of your journey to victory.🤯
Your report is still one sided. This is not a correct narration of the actual things happening with the Palestinians.
You dont know the magnitude of the free killings of the Palestinians by the Israeli Offensive Force even if there is no war. Very often, Muslim freedom fighters are called terrorrists,and those Israeli killings at their whims and fancies are called defending themselves.
Imagine the hipocrisy when Israeli soldiers with sophisticated weapons are trying to defend themselves from UNARMED WOMEN AND CHILDREN who doesnt know anything.
These had been going on everyday for as long as I can remember from when I started to follow what was going on over there when I was still schooling at the age of 14 way back in the early seventies until now. I was very familiar with what happened during the Camp David summit.
Each time there was hope of peace, its always Israel who broke the ceasefire by started to bomb the Palestinian civilians indiscriminately.
Israel never wanted peace.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION, HAMAS WAS CREATED AND FUNDED BY ISRAEL TO FIGHT AGAINST THE PLO, because ISRAEL NEVER WANTED ANY PEACE.
Please DO MORE RESEARCH IF YOU WANT THE ACTUAL TRUTH.
The fact that it's hard for the IDF to distinguish between civilians and combatants would only be relevant if Israel was trying to minimise civilian casualties (which it's not)
According to the Hamas ‘Health Authority’, there have been zero terrorists killed so far in this war … 😏
In the Hamas propaganda, they claim 16,000 civilians killed, but not a single terrorist or ‘militant’. It seems that Hamas is invulnerable, while the civilians suffer the most from the war. How convenient!
16,000 civilians have been killed, but 0 Hamas terrorists have been killed? Really? Israel can’t seem to kill even ONE terrorist? Hamas must be invincible!
Hamas terrorists are cowards who hide behind civilians and dress like them. They have their own uniforms, but they only wear them in their rallies. When they face the Israeli army, they switch to jeans, t-shirts and sneakers. Why? Because they know that Israel respects human life and tries to avoid harming innocent people. They abuse this by mingling with the civilians, shooting from behind cover, and then running away. And when they are killed in combat, the Hamas-controlled ‘Ministry of Health’ can label them as martyrs and inflate the civilian death toll.
But the truth is that Hamas is responsible for all the Gazan civilians killed in this war, because they use their area to launch deadly attacks on innocent people in Israel.
If a man hides behind a nursery, and fires a rocket at a nursery with your children inside, killing them, you do NOT let him go. You do NOT let the killer walk free, because he hides behind the innocent. You do NOT let the killer go free, to kill again, and again, and again. No, you stop him, and harm as few others as possible. But sometimes, it’s not possible to stop the killer who is hiding under a hospital or under a town of people, without also harming the innocent.
But this does NOT mean that we let the killers go free, because they hide under a baby carriage.
Article 19 of the Geneva Convention:
"The protection to which civilian hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming, in all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded."
@@samuelross9884 Got em
So why do the IDF guard civilian convoys heading out of the combat zone while Hamas tries to attack them to keep the civilians as human shields?
There’s no such thing as a civilian in Gaza.
@@moroteseoinagegenocidal rhetoric
Gaza shouldn't exist to begin with ... everyone should just live together and get on with their lives
I don't usually argue with people online, but I need to point out some glaring ignorance in some of your points. You define Hamas as "using human shields" through creating these tunnel systems under urban areas, but if you take ONE look at a map of israeli settlements in the Gaza strip, those settlements exist everywhere that the overwhelming majority of the tunnels don't. The tunnels are where they are because Hamas quite literally cannot build them anywhere else without facing IDF pushback. You talk a lot about how the assymetric aspect of this war is and will play out, which you articulated very well, but I think it's imperative to mention why it's assymetrical: Palestinians have been forced into smaller and smaller urban areas, they are constantly (not only within recent events) being deprived of electricity, weapons, any sort of legitimacy as a country. They are severely underprivileged people, and that is ONLY because of Israel's restrictions on land that is not Israel's. Not mentioning this context is incredibly harmful--it is not a matter of political opinion that Israel has been colonizing Palestine for 75 years and displacing/murdering their people. If you only look at history from Oct 7 on, of course this reads as a war, and not as the genocide that it is.
Not to mention you say Hamas wants to eradicate all jewish people from Palestine. Hamas has, as of December 1, killed 1,300 Israelis. Israel has killed 19 THOUSAND Palestinians--so who wants to eradicate who here, really?
You also define Hamas as posing a hierarchy over Gaza--this group was democratically elected by Palestinians to represent their liberation movement in 2006. And although they were booted from that political stance, I still struggle to understand how Hamas is some hierarchical organization. Nearly all of its members are people who were orphaned, their parents martyred by Israel, or have experienced other losses so great it moved them to join. This is not some exclusive group of elites, these are civilians joining one of the only resistance groups that targets the people that killed their families and are robbing them of peace, water, food, medical aid, their children to live, internet access, and electricity. This is why you cannot be pro palestine but anti hamas. These people have had everything stolen from them and fight not only to represent their loved ones, but other non-Hamas Palestinians that have lost their home and family. I hope this helps anyone that is still on the fence about all of this.
This is not the unbiased video you claim it to be, and I am disappointed, You have to talk about both sides of this issue in depth to be unbiased, and that is not happening. Please stop spreading disinformation.
This comment is a great explanation of why this video is not objective.. Gazans and Hamas fighters ARE Palestinians, their concerns and motives to fight is what happens in the Westbank, East Jerusalem in addition to the blockade on Gaza. If those are not mentioned and explained then this video is a greatly missinformative.
I stopped where you mentioned 'genocide'. Just regurgitating Al Jazeera gibberish.
Coming from an Israeli commander in Gaza. That’s the most accurate video I have seen regarding to this war. Don’t know where you got all this information from but it’s right on point.
Wait really?
@@navneetnair3314 I'm an Israeli General and can confirm that everything in this video is correct.
@23strawbale Israeli lieutenant general here, this info is consistent with facts on the ground.
I think you slightly blew out your audio-levels when recording on this one. There is a faint but noticeable crackle on the tracks.
Thank you for your work.
Has Hamas publicly said anything about wanting a two-state solution or talks of peace since this has started? Are these just ideas that outsiders espouse?
They reject Israel's terms for a 2 state solution aka ratifying their current borders and legitimising settler occupied land. However, they have stated as recently as 2017 they would agree to a 2 state based on 1967 borders, this fell apart due to Trump in 2017 recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and they reverted back to rejection of 2 state solution.
What's more important is that Hamas only represents the region of Gaza, not the whole of Palestinian territory. As recently as Dec 14 (thursday), the Palestinian Prime minister has told the USA to put its money where its mouth is and take steps towards the 2 state solution.
Most important of all, as they are the occupying force, is that the Israeli government has now flipped and is saying what everyone suspected they believed all along, that there will never be a free Palestinian state.
@@lzrdwzrd999the 1967 borders are a foolish dream. It's never going to happen. Even to open Israel up again to any Palestinian independence whatsoever would require a mighty shift in local attitudes and geopolitics. The longer Hamas or others like them exist, the more reluctant Israel will be to give up an inch of control over its security.
@@lzrdwzrd999 Correction, Hamas (the governing body in Gaza) has never accepted a 2 state solution. It is the PA in Westbank who wants the 1967 borders. Either of these options are dead, as they refused them. Israel no longer wants a 2 state solution and no longer will work with PA or Hamas in Gaza. 10/7/2023 changed everything. enough is enough.
Obviously no and it will never, but Hamas is the only interlocutor just because Israel itself made it so, if you refuse any diplomatic resolution than you leave the weapons to talk... Once Israel will open to the idea of two country, than an interlocutor for peace will make his way.
To talk there must be two people, in this moment the room is empty...
Israel should not exist
@10:12 How can you say "is characterized by precision" .🤦♂ That's very inaccurate same like IDF's precision
And they would even have the technology to be precise they just don't want to be that. + IDF doesn't fight on the ground not because of the tunnels but just because their army is not enough competent to do so, despite the billions of $ US has invested