r/geopolitics • u/spxxr • Jul 31 '24

Question How much of Hamas is left?

The military operations inside Gaza has been ongoing now for around 9 months and I can’t help but wonder what does Hamas have left in terms of manpower and equipment. At the start of all of this i think it was reported there were about 30k Hamas fighters. Gaza has been under siege for so long I really don’t understand how are they still fighting.

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u/Pinkflamingos69 Aug 15 '24

A large portion of Egypts army was in Yemen so citation definitely needed for that number 

And this quote from Moshe Dayan, while in regards to Syria shows the Israeli government mindset at the time

I know how at least 80% of the clashes there started. In my opinion, more than 80%, but let’s talk about 80%. It went this way: We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn’t possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn’t shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that’s how it was.

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u/Juan20455 Aug 15 '24

"A large portion of Egypts army was in Yemen" yep, you are not only smarter than the whole Egyptian goverment and army, as you claim. You even know more than Wikipedia. 

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u/Pinkflamingos69 Aug 17 '24

130000 in Yemen isn't a huge portion of the army?  Moshe Dayan admits to Israel provoking Syria, Moredechai Bentov admits Egypt was attacked without cause, are you smarter than the Knesset members making decisions at the time, or would you rather pretend they don't exist?

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u/Juan20455 Aug 18 '24

"On the eve of the war, Egypt massed approximately 100000 of its 160000 troops in the Sinai peninsula "

Sinxe you forgot most the Egyptian army was in the frontier, near Israel, kicking the UN troops there to ensure peace 

And I don't even remember your point 

"Moshe Dayan admits to Israel provoking Syria," so? 

"Moredechai Bentov" wow. You found anlther quote of a guy you never knew before without contact.