Military and strategic expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements to continue the war on the Gaza Strip are “arrogance and escape forward,” and he will not be able to free the prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance.
Al-Duwairi believes – during his analysis for Tel Aviv Tribune – that Netanyahu will not win the current war, and his end will be imprisonment in the end, recalling the entitlements and issues that are pursuing him inside Israel.
He pointed out that what prevents him from imprisonment is the immunity that currently protects him through his presidency of the Israeli government. “He cannot be tried now, so he will try to procrastinate.”
However, according to Al-Duwairi, Netanyahu is trying to prove to Israeli society that he is “the man of this stage capable of securing a victory, and that he is capable of preserving the existence of (the Israeli state) and keeping Zionism in place.”
Al-Duwairi’s comment came in response to Netanyahu’s statements during his visit to the armored forces camp in the southern region, where he said that Tel Aviv will continue the war “and international pressure will not stop us.”
“Chronic failure”
Regarding field developments, the military expert described the occupation army as “suffering from chronic failure at the level of leadership, battle management, and commanders of divisions, brigades, and battalions, and it also has sterility in thinking and laxity at all levels.”
The Wall Street Journal quoted Israeli military personnel as saying that the battle strategy in Gaza “is not the best, and the fighting is not going well, with the need to fight in a safer way through tanks and planes.”
In this context, Al-Duwairi said that the Merkava tanks are protected and are considered among the best in the world, and that the occupation aircraft destroyed approximately 80% of Gaza’s buildings, adding that “if this fire support had been available, the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – would have been liberated.” And the resistance factions of Palestine from the sea to the river.”
He continued by saying that the occupation army is suffering from an intelligence failure because it entered the Gaza Strip in the context of a “conventional war and not an asymmetric war,” citing the Qassam ambush of Major General Golani in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza, which left a large number of people dead and wounded, most of them officers.
He pointed out that the Golani Brigade has a chronic feud with the Shujaiya neighborhood after the heavy losses it suffered in the 2014 war, which then resulted in the capture of soldier Shaul Aaron, but “it has not learned from the mistakes of the past and is still repeating them.”
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– Tel Aviv Tribune Channel (@AJArabic) December 13, 2023
The strategic expert also cited American statements to Israel not to repeat Washington’s mistakes after the events of September 11, 2001. However, “Tel Aviv did not take them and proceeded with its ground plans in Gaza.”
He stressed that the increasing occupation losses in Gaza will negatively affect the morale of the occupation soldiers, especially with the continuing failure, such as the killing of two soldiers to free the bodies of two Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, and before that the killing of a prisoner whom an Israeli force tried to free and was killed and wounded.
He concluded his comment by concluding that the Israeli army cannot change its fighting tactics in Gaza “because it is dealing with an unknown enemy.”