A Fight to the Death: Can Israel Destroy HAMAS? Part 1

Gaza has 2.1 million men and women and HAMAS seems intent of sacrificing every one of them to the Gods of War. Will HAMAS survive?

Authors Note:  Sorry for the absence from writing but I went down hard for two weeks with post covid fatigue.  I’m fine now and I am back in the saddle. 

Israeli tanks enter Gaza. Ohad Zwigenberg | Credit: AP

In 2004, the United States Army, Marines and Iraqi Army carried out Operation Phantom Fury, also known as al-Fajr “Dawn”.  The Iraqi city of Fallujah had a population of 300,000.  For over a year and had become a hotbed and safe haven for the Saddam’s fedayeen, a terrorist force formed by Saddam Hussein to oppose the American invasion and al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the newest offshoot of Osama bin Laden’s franchise. At the time the US Marine Corps led force surrounded the city with 40,000 soldiers and marines, the terrorist forces a dug themselves into the heart of the city with 5000 men & women.  US Marine Corps forces had entered the city earlier in the year but did not need to have a major engagement. US commanders decided to take their time and spent over six months with the Iraq…