Jos Joseph
On Oct. 7, Hamas fired rockets into Israel. This wasn’t the Oct. 7 of one year ago, but rather the one this week.
Although the rocket attack was ineffective, the fact that Hamas is still firing rockets from northern Gaza into Israel should bring into question the effectiveness of Israel’s brutal response against the insurgent groups that surround its borders.
Americans, right and left, now have an aversion to the forever wars that we once took up in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. Now however, it seems that our ally is the one hell-bent on engaging in a forever war of its own, with Americans paying the bills.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now called his nation’s conflict a seven-front war. Of the fronts, only one is a politically recognized entity, Iran. The rest — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Iranian-armed militias in Syria and Iraq, and militants in the West Bank — can best be described as insurgent groups or terrorist organizations. These are not recognized governments, standing armies (although Hezbollah is very well trained and armed) or traditional militaries.
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